Photo Essays
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated worldwide on March 8.The annual calendar event, according to United Nations, “is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.
This year International Women’s Day is being celebrated with the special 2020 theme, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. Like many other countries, Nepal has announced a public holiday and has organized various events to mark the day.
Brickklin worker in outskrits of Kathmandu valley.
Women workers carry sand in a doko- kind of basket made from bamboo at a construction site in Pokhara.
Women walking down trial with their dokos in Pokhara
Children play along with their grand mother at a front yard in Sarangkot, Pokhara.
Perspectives
Opinions
6 min read
The principles of a fair trial are severely undermined in CK Raut’s case
Perspectives
Opinions
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On April 24, 2016, exactly a year after the 2015 earthquake, Prime Minister K.P. Shama Oli launched the reconstruction campaign by laying the foundation stone for the house of Sarita Tamang in Chautara, Sindhupalchok. Sarita Tamang talks about the media spectacle that surrounded Oli laying the foundation stone, and the subsequent absence of government support during the actual construction work
Opinions
6 min read
The upper-caste resistance to the term ‘dalit’ shows a refusal to let go of long-standing Hindu caste-based hierarchy
Features
11 min read
Nepal’s Department of Tourism has come under fire for awarding summit certificates to climbers who never made it to the top of Everest
Features
18 min read
A personal account of the Surma Saravor Jatra, a six day-long festival celebrated every even year of the Nepali calendar by the people of Darchula’s Ghajir and Chetti villages.
Features
6 min read
First they trafficked in misinformation. Now, they’re peddling dubious medicine
COVID19
Features
8 min read
While journalists suffered through pay cuts and layoffs, media houses lost billions in revenue, financially squeezing the media industry.
