Me, the Interpreter
Trials and tribulations of the job while learning the language myself
maoist-insurgency
Nepal’s Transitional Justice and the West’s recalibration
Global geopolitical changes and the rise of China means the West has gone cold on transitional justice and its humanitarian agenda
Still looking for Dad missing in Nepal
On 22 June 2004, Nandagopal Mali left home in Thecho, Lalitpur as usual for his workshop where he was casting a bronze...
13 February
This week it will be 26 years since the Maoists took up arms against the state, and 16 years since the war...
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
The lingering trauma of war
Last October, a letter came for Kiran Chaudhary from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). It was Dasain, so the letter took...
Mother on 25th day of hunger strike
A mother who is on the 25th day of a hunger strike in Kathmandu demanding justice against the murderers of her son...
Nepal stalls on war crime probes
When a Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended a ten-year war between the Nepal government and the erstwhile Maoist rebels in 2006, both sides...
Only memories remain
14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing...
Life and livelihood in remote Nepal
“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali regions of Nepal, and is a way to wish each other success in...
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