May 2020
Opinion
The dangers of the dengue virus
here have been few days without rain this April and May in Kathmandu. That means more disease for Kathmandu. Not […]
May 30, 2020
History of Disease
Viruses past, present and future
lthough smallpox is now ‘unfamiliar to the world today’ historian Elizabeth Fenn has written that it was ‘a misery commonplace […]
May 20, 2020
Opinion
How Nepal eradicated the smallpox virus
In 1966, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox. The aim was ‘zeropox’ — not just control of […]
May 5, 2020
Opinion
Smallpox, politics and power in Kathmandu
A woman in Kathmandu carrying her child infected by small pox in 1964. Photo: WHO he smallpox virus plagued Nepali […]
May 2, 2020
April 2020
Opinion
The smallpox virus in British India
Irish-born painter Thomas Hickey’s painting in 1806 of three queens of Mysore where the royal woman on the right is […]
April 30, 2020
History of Disease
Big story of small pox in Nepal
hen we think of Nepal’s history, mostly political events jump to mind: the expansion of the Gorkhali state, Jang Bahadur’s […]
April 28, 2020
March 2020
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Kathmandu in the time of cholera
Patan Darbar Square Photograph taken by Bourne and Sheperd in 1870. Photo: The British Library athmandu in the 1880s was […]
March 21, 2020
July 2019
African Americans in Cold War Nepal
George Brooks inspecting vegetable farm in the early 1950s. Photo: US NATIONAL ARCHIVES ace formed a contentious part of the […]
July 16, 2019
March 2018
The insect that changed Nepal’s history
Our sense of the country’s history expands when we think beyond the political OUTBREAK: Experimental spraying for mosquitos on inner […]
March 28, 2018
February 2018
Land reform in cold war nepal
The first US Ambassador came to Nepal 65 years ago this week to push for socio-economic reform All Photos: Chester […]
February 18, 2018