How Nepal can develop ‘herd immunity’ against disinformation, lies and propaganda on social media
Lavkant ChaudharyAs they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to…
Rinadevi Mahara from Dhanusha, abandoned at Godavari Modern Hospital in Janakpur for lack of money to pay hospital chargesAjaya Anuragi in Himal…
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November, let us pledge to help end gender-based violence.
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIChildren sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week.…
Rautahat MP Mohammad Aftab Alam, currently in police custody charged with murder, has refused to take a polygraph test, angering the police and…
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…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
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…
After being lampooned for extravagant, but empty, promises and criticised for having nothing concrete to show for his first year as prime…
Bikram RaiJust as the government was defusing one crisis by getting Madhesi activist CK Raut to renounce separatism last Sunday, it was faced…
Journalists and activists including Namrata Sharma met in Jakarta recently to discuss gender discrimination.“My alcoholic father used to beat me…
Photo: SETOPATIThe terror attack on the Ncell head office in Lalitpur that cost the life of Sing Prasad Gurung and seriously injured three…
Photo: NAGARIKEditorial in Nagarik, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has resorted to violence in…
Photo: SETOPATIKantipur, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has been sending letters to all rural…
Photo: SETOPATIInterview in BBC Nepali service, 24 FebruaryThe Nepali Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) hs owned up to…
At International Alert, as a global peacebuilding organisation, we often point to Nepal alongside South Africa or Northern Ireland as a country…
STAGE FRIGHT: On the popular tv show Nepal Idol, guest Sandip Chhetri, the comedian, hugs host Reema Bishwokarma as she cries out "Me Too!"…
Mohammed Daoud's family paid an agent $6,000 to get to Kathmandu. Photos: GOPAL GARTAULAWhen Mohammed Daoud fled Afghanistan in 2014, he did not…
TWITTERThere is growing public outrage about the recent rise in reported rape cases across the country. The victims of these appalling crimes…
Is it time for Nepali women to also learn jiu-jitsu like the Sufragettes?
NAKED TRUTH: Sabitri Subedi (standing with mike) and Diya Bhandari struggle with police during a demonstration last week in Kathmandu against…
