The stone-breaker’s daughter
Six-year-old Hima Tamata used to look at her reflection in a pool on the banks of a river near Surkhet. The still...
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Nepali activist shortlisted for nature award
Sonam Tashi Lama, a Nepali grassroots conservationist working to protect the country’s endangered red panda is among 15 activists shortlisted for the prestigious...
Agroecology, Nepal’s answer to climate change
As a farmer and educator living in Nepal, I was not part of the dialogue at the UN climate summit (COP26) that just concluded...
Federalism's birth pangs or death rattle?
May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives...
Grassroots democracy is delivering development
In the three decades after 1960 when political parties were banned, there were Village Panchayats. After the democratic changes in 1990, they...
Super Six
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZq9PMPzTrg&feature=youtu.beIt has been one year since Nepal wrapped up all three rounds of local elections. There was great hope that devolution would take governance...
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