Anita Bhetwal

Guerrilla-turned-Member of Parliament

Urmila Majhi wants her former commander, now prime minister, to work for the people for a change

Anita Bhetwal

Earthquake vacates villages in Nepal

Almost every household in western Nepal has a family member working in India, and the 6.6 magnitude earthquake that shook the region...

Anita Bhetwal

Dejected voters reject polls

Chinimaya Lama, 30, cannot walk up the slope to fetch water for her livestock. Her lower abdomen hurts and she has difficulty...

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Sisters carry on slain brother’s fight

Sangam and Laxmi Mahato were very happy that their only brother, 24-year-old Om Prakash (Dilip) Mahato, was coming home after graduating from...

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Baby on her back, Dalit mother on campaign trail

With just a week to go for Nepal’s local elections, 28-year-old Mina Biswakarama is on the campaign trail with a three-year-old son strapped...

Anita Bhetwal

How art empowers Nepal’s women

Manjula Thakur was married at age 12. By the time she was 20, she had three children. At 32, she still did...

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Nepal’s precious electricity going waste

While almost 10% of the Nepali population continues to live without power, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has begun to export surplus...

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Nepal’s ‘missing girls’

The spread of ultrasound clinics to detect the sex of babies is leading to a slaughter of daughters in Nepal, sharply skewing the country’s...

Anita Bhetwal

I’m down, but not out

In early April, the coronavirus cases were at an all-time low and we were reporting from Janakpur, and the surrounding border region...

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We knew the tsunami was approaching

A month ago, Nepal was reporting an average of only 300 Covid-19 cases daily, and the number of deaths was zero for...

Anita Bhetwal

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