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Nepal’s unequal marriages

Men cheat and get away with it, while women are blamed for shaming the family

Anjana Rajbhandary

Too young to marry

Mohan and Sarita (name changed) studied together in the same school from Grade 6 onwards. They were friends initially, but fell in...

The prolonged trauma of acid attack survivors

Teenage survivors of acid attacks, nearly all of them young women, say regulating the over-the-counter sale of acid and life imprisonment for...

Malaysian police says Nepali beat Nepali

After a video of a Nepali security guard being mercilessly beaten by his Malaysian supervisor went viral on 2 August, police there...

Children are collateral damage in Nepal lockdown

On Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of  SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain...

Sonia Awale

Trafficked Nepali woman’s testimony

I used to live with my father and stepmother, and never knew who my real mother was. Since my father was poor,...

Alarming rise in violence against women

Ajaya Anuragi in Himal Khabarpatrika, 24-30 NovemberBrutality against women exists in families across Nepal, but nowhere more so than in Province 2,...

Replaying male machismo

Lee and Austin are brothers who don’t seem to have much in common. Austin is a cultured man with an Ivy League...

Ill-fitting in Nepali society

Buying a bouquet for a friend’s wedding the other day, I got really involved in the process of choosing the flowers, arranging...

Private is political

The Vagina Monologues is being performed in Nepal for the fourth time, and this rendition at the Kausi Theater does not adher to Eve Ensler's...