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The south wind blows

Nepal’s Hindu right is climbing on to a train without knowing which way it is headed

Chandra Kishore

Crimson, saffron and green

An ideological vacuum is turning the Madhes into fertile ground for the religious right

Chandra Kishore

Voters cynical about electoral alliances

As Nepal enters the last lap in federal and provincial races, candidates and their cadres seem more excited than voters. Across the...

Safeguarding the soul of sal

It was sunny afternoon in December in 2018, I was sitting on a pile of logs at the Janakalyan Community Forest Office...

Hiding their head in the sand

Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape

Death by drowning on the rise

The death of five children by drowning last month in Dhanusha made headlines. A week later, two boys drowned in a pit...

Nepal braces for monsoon-pandemic double hit

By any measure, the past year has been disastrous for Nepal. The Covid-19 lockdowns devastated the economy, the 2020 monsoon killed a...

Sonia Awale

The nature of pandemics

Over 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is still a matter of...

Sonia Awale

The nature of pandemics

Over 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is still a matter of...

In Nepal, virus climbs from plains to mountains

The B.1.617.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2 that started entering Nepal from India in early April first affected the border cities and districts in...