Be kind to buffaloes
Nepal cracks down on cruelty to livestock during transportation, but more compassion is needed
animal-rights
Saving Chari
Among the many street protests that followed Prime Minister K P Oli’s dissolution of the Lower House on 20 December was one by students...
Set the elephants free
Humans and elephants have shared environments for thousands of years, but what might surprise readers is that a quarter of the world’s...
Speaking for elephants
Lisa Choegyal’s column ‘The Elephant Dilemma’, 4 October 2020 elicited many comments from readers, some of which are excerpted here:As a group...
Killing field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4YTxDqg2lA&feature=youtu.beDespite national and international outrage and a Supreme Court ruling against the cruel ritual, Nepal’s Gadimai Mela, the world’s largest mass sacrifice...
Sharpening the knives
Gadimai mela is going ahead on Tuesday as scheduled in the village of Bariyapur in Bara district of Nepal.Monday night saw locals...
Night before the slaughter
The village of Bariyapur in Nepal’s plains is getting ready for the Gadimai Mela despite national and international outrage against the mass...
Goodbye Jan and Christine
Jan Salter, 82The artist and animal welfare crusader Jan Salter made famous for her book of portraits, Faces of Nepal, and who...
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