Early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and efforts to eliminate discrimination must continue even as Covid-19 threatens to undo past gains against leprosy
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
Flood impacted Dalit house in Rajapur, Bardiya, in 2010. Last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA)…
Durga Sob, politicianDurga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste…
Mildred and Richard Loving were sentenced to jail for their inter-ethnic marriage. They took the case to the Supreme Court, and won on 12 June,…
As they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to one particular…
Swiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also serving as assistant director of the Swiss…
Nepal’s 2016 Constitution may be seen as the preeminent in the world by its framers, but there are still some design defects in it that need to…
“My alcoholic father used to beat me and my mother, and I always protected my mother. After treatment my father is sober now, but my mother has…
Nepal’s Maoists fought a decade-long war for equality and inclusion. They have been in power off and on for the past 13 years after the conflict…
Ten years after the government finally abolished bonded debt labour, tens of thousands of Haliyas in western Nepal continue to suffer from this…
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
After staging plays by foreign writers, Mandala Theatre has forayed into an original Nepali folktale, with a sharp contemporary socio-political…
Female environmentalists struggle against gender stereotypes as they work to save Nepal’s nature Mukesh Pokhrel in Himal Khabarpatrika 13-19…
