Baby on her back, Dalit mother on campaign trail
With just a week to go for Nepal’s local elections, 28-year-old Mina Biswakarama is on the campaign trail with a three-year-old son strapped...
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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...
How the climate crisis adds to child marriage in Nepal
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
Race against time
The great Nepali linguist वल्लभ मणि दाहाल Ballabh Maṇi Dāhāl was the driving force behind the monumental dictionary नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश Nepālī Br̥hat Śabdakoś, the most authoritative edition of...
Black lives matter but Dalit lives don't?
On 23 May, Angira Pasi, a 12-year-old Dalit girl, was found hanging after being forcibly married to a 25-year-old ‘upper-caste’ man who...
Caste aside
On 26 May, six young men were killed in a mob attack and their bodies dumped into the river in the village...
“I never thought I would be alone this early in life”
Much of the attention after the murder of six young men in Jajarkot on 24 May centred on Nabaraj BK and his relationship with a teenage...
Love's victory over racial hatred
On 23 May, Nabaraj BK of Jajarkot and five friends were reportedly killed because he had fallen in love with a young...
Nepal’s new Davos man
The World Economic Forum’s annual list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) has featured very few Nepalis so far. The 2015 batch included Nepali...
Pancha Kumari Pariyar: Still She Rises
“When the stalks of rice grow taller, you must come back here again,” she says. “They move in the wind like waves...
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