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.
Opinions
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Angira’s death is one more example of brutality against Dalit bodies
Books
11 min read
Nepal’s history, as documented in Dalit: A Quest for Dignity, shows how entwined Hinduism and caste are.
The Wire
7 min read
Navigating Nepali citizenship, Tibetan heritage, and a dependence on China
Perspectives
4 min read
Taking all means to retain power, Oli has indicated that he is heading down an authoritarian path
COVID19
Features
5 min read
Recruitment of volunteers to enforce the lockdown has had mixed results
Features
4 min read
The biology of same-sex attraction seems to involve a host of genes.
Perspectives
5 min read
The last thing the Buddha said to his followers was: ‘Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence!’
Writing journeys
13 min read
This week, reporter and writer Janak Raj Sapkota writes about how his experimentation with colors and his habit of keeping a journal have helped his writing.
