Talking about life after menopause
After watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving space to a female...
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Welcome to suburbia
Meet Jyoti, the leader of a group of children who live on the outskirts of Kathmandu
Pandemic deepens period poverty
Period stigma has long blighted the lives of young women and girls in Nepal, but the pandemic is making things worse. If...
“Menstruation is not private business, it is everyone’s business”
Menstruation in Nepal has become synonymous with chhaupadi, the tradition of banishing women to cowsheds for five days during their periods. The...
Communicating to remove menstrual taboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took weeks to walk there,...
Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition
Media reports of the practice of chhaupadi are full of harrowing tales of suffering, and women dying of cold or suffocation during...
That time of the month
The practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a lot of media...
Bloody period
If you ask people what they know about menstruation in Nepal, the first answer will be the practice of chhaupadi, the menstruation...
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