A whole generation of Nepalis has grown up with no knowledge of the decade-long war
Nearly three decades after the Maoists launched their armed struggle on 13 February 1996, Nepal is still haunted by the violence
One month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fallout of the war on global fuel prices threatens to derail Nepal’s aviation and tourism…
Ukrainian refugee, Valia, recalls the ‘terrible conditions’ during her 1000 km journey to safety with her 13-year-old son. Photo: ED HOLT/IPS“I…
Bhakta Bahadur Regmi with Rabin and Rabina in Kathmandu last week speaking about a traumatic tragedy 20 years ago that changed their lives. All…
The then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and rebel leader 'Prachanda' Pushpa Kamal Dahal signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in…
The forest around Khalanga fort in Nalapani, the site of the first major battle that pitted the Gorkhali troops against the East India Company…
The Malaun Fort stands forlorn in what is now India’s Himachal Pradesh. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a…
Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state…
View of the Gorkhali fort at Subathu. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALATwo years ago after going through a bad relationship, a 36-year-old Kathmandu-based doctor started getting suicidal…
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJWhy is Nepal in a state of perpetual revolution? Why do leaders who have suffered and sacrificed so much for the cause of…
A narrow ridge that served as a helipad in Kalikot district back in 2004 when the Maoist War was on its peak. Photo: KUNDA DIXITTwenty-five…
The letter Kiran Chaudhary got last year from the NHRC informing her about compensation for torture and rape by the security forces during the…
14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing after the…
The dusty overland vans were parked between rickshaws, tiger taxis, lounging bulls and grazing goats
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
BRAVE MAN: Bal Bahadur Basnet (centre) who is now 98 shared his memories of fighting in World War II with Iuliia Androsova, First Secretary…
EXHUMING ACCOUNTABILITY: Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.South…
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIChildren sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week.…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
REMOTE SENSING: A NASA satellite image of Nepal taken in 2002 at the height of the conflict shows extent of green cover.The advent of peace in…
'Comrade Pratista, 14, dances to the tune of a revolutionary song at a Maoist mass rally in Dang in 2001 during a Dasain ceasefire. Photo:…
A potential conflict in the Persian Gulf between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran could have worldwide repercussions on energy prices, and…
