Negatively stereotyping Dalit and disadvantaged students perpetuates caste discrimination in Nepal
Why Nepal’s schools perform poorly year after year
Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Rana (left) with King George V (right) during a 1911 hunting expedition in the Tarai. Ten years later, he hosted…
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
International mountain guide Lhakpa Rangdu Sherpa of Happy Feet Mountaineers agency. Photo: HAPPY FEET MOUNTAINEERSFor decades, foreigners have…
One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide…
Changing Stories Nepal Fellow Sangeeta Basnet teaching at Amar Secondary School in Urhari of Dang.When I taught in a Nepali government school,…
Charge d' Affaires L. Douglas welcomes BP Koirala to the US Embassy inaguration in 1959.On 15 December 1960 (पुस १) exactly 60 years ago, King…
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Nepal’s history shows that nature matters in dealing with epidemics but, social differences do, too
The fourth in a series about what it took for the scourge of smallpox to be finally eradicated from Nepal in 1975.
The third in a series about how epidemics in the past determined the course of Nepal’s history
Second instalment in a series tracking the chronic epidemic as it ravaged the subcontinent
Recurring epidemics shaped the course of history in the Himalaya in unexpected and important ways
