Men cheat and get away with it, while women are blamed for shaming the family
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAMohan and Sarita (name changed) studied together in the same school from Grade 6 onwards. They were friends initially, but…
Sangita Thapa Magar, Jenny Khadka and Muskaan Khatun at a Parliament hearing last week to lobby for stricter punishment for perpetrators of acid…
Stills from the video of the Nepali guard being beaten mercilessly by someone identified as a Malaysian Tamil supervisor of the firm, Allied…
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
I used to live with my father and stepmother, and never knew who my real mother was. Since my father was poor, I did not get to go to school. So…
Rinadevi Mahara from Dhanusha, abandoned at Godavari Modern Hospital in Janakpur for lack of money to pay hospital chargesAjaya Anuragi in Himal…
Lee and Austin are brothers who don’t seem to have much in common. Austin is a cultured man with an Ivy League degree trying to make it as a…
Pic: DIWARKAR CHETTRIBuying a bouquet for a friend’s wedding the other day, I got really involved in the process of choosing the flowers,…
The Vagina Monologues is being performed in Nepal for the fourth time, and this rendition at the Kausi Theater does not adher to Eve Ensler's…
Photo: NAMRATA SHARMA A Helsingin Sanomat follow-up series this week of a human trafficking ring operated by some Nepali restaurant owners in…
It is a sight repeated tens of millions of times every morning across northern India: groups of women carrying water lota making their way to…
Photo: OM ASTHA RAIWhat is it about labour migration that keeps drawing hundreds of thousands of people every year away from their homes and…
Photo: PHOTO KATHMANDU/CHEMI DORJEInside a darkened room at the Chhaya Centre, eight screens switch on simultaneously to depict images of sexual…
The number of reported rapes in Nepal has shot up by 30% in the past year. It has multiplied four times in ten years. There are at least three…
Shalini Kumari, 15, was coming home from a wedding when she saw a man waiting at her gate. Before she could resist, he had tied her shawl around…
