Power to the periphery
Bal Bir Biswakarma from the village of Lulang at the lap of Mt Dhaulagiri in Central Nepal is a 68-year-old subsistence farmer, descendants...
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Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Drowning in sorrow
Despite protests, defiant sand mining and quarry contractors have continued to leave large abandoned pits along Nepal’s rivers in which children drown...
No shame
Just when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even worse. The idea that ‘corruption’...
A KLEPTO REPUBLIC
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get...
Dozers and Nepal’s development
One of the most prominent changes we see while travelling across Nepal these days is the presence of earth movers, bulldozers, tipper...
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