January 2022
SUBURBAN TALES
A letter to a sister
ear Y, You must have heard by now— Aji is no more. They took her to hospital in the middle of the night after she […]
January 4, 2022
December 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Of anger and love
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR ara wanted to understand why she had been so angry all the time. But she could make […]
December 5, 2021
November 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
A walk in the memory
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR hen the two first met, one was a two-month-old orphaned pup and the other was a twenty-eight-year-old […]
November 5, 2021
October 2021
Wine and women during Yenya
Women-only night at Indra Jatra festival where participants drink rice wine from Swet Bhairav’s mouth as a blessing. Photos: MONIKA […]
October 4, 2021
September 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Toilet encounters
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR r K was every girl’s heart-throb. Yes. Heart-throb. We used the word for guys who made our […]
September 5, 2021
August 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Sita
Photos: PRATIBHA TULADHAR he towered over me like a lone poplar tree. She was four years older than I was […]
August 1, 2021
July 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
No direction
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR ver the years, it has become harder and harder to write about Katuwal. I have thought of […]
July 4, 2021
May 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
“Be safe”
Photos: PRATIBHA TULADHAR hen I say, “Be safe”, I am asking you to be kind to yourself. I am asking […]
May 30, 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
The economics of masks
ani pulls the elastic band tucked behind her ear and tugs off the mask from her face. It is pink. […]
May 2, 2021
April 2021
SUBURBAN TALES
Write fearlessly, she said
Photo: PRATIBHA TULADHAR yoti was standing just outside the gate when I stepped out. I walked past her hurriedly, on […]
April 2, 2021