Women and water
The climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and...
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Challenge of the millennium
The most tangible collateral damage of Nepal’s chronic political instability is going to be the effort to streamline Nepal’s electricity grid. Politicians have weaponised...
From the fire into the frying pan
So, this is the price Nepalis had to pay for two leaders of the ruling party not being able to sort out their...
Manpower and hydropower
For centuries, Nepalis have been migrating to seek their fortune. Poverty, indebtedness, discrimination and disasters drove them out in droves. Even while young...
Outside, looking in
For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able...
Some silver linings
It has become a cliché to say that every crisis comes with opportunities. But that does not mean it is not true. It is...
Newswomen
Sahina Shrestha, Digital Products StrategistAs the results of the Sharecast Initiative Nepal Survey 2020 featured in this issue show, Nepal is going digital in...
Everest Postmortem
Ever since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on the border between...
LABOUR PAINS
Nepal’s politicians are prone to hyperbole, and every decade or so they have a habit of declaring that no Nepali will have...
Daughter Slaughter
https://youtu.be/7NAkdUC4j7oIt was raining hard that Tuesday night on 11 September in Chandrapur of Rautahat. In the Das family home, teenage sisters Samjhana...
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