Kathmandu, June 30 -- Bhumika Shrestha's last three months have, by any measure, been historic. Shrestha has fought for the rights of sexual and gender minorities for the past two decades. Now she is ... Read More
Kathmandu, June 24 -- Uma Prasai was scrolling through TikTok one evening when she paused on a video featuring her son. He was in a swimming pool, and the camera followed him closely, while music blar... Read More
Kathmandu, June 24 -- Uma Prasai was scrolling through TikTok one evening when she paused on a video featuring her son. He was in a swimming pool, and the camera followed him closely, while music blar... Read More
Kathmandu, June 7 -- On Saturday morning, filmmaker Prasuna Dongol posted a heartfelt status on Facebook, describing her experience attending a film pitch programme in Kathmandu. She reported what she... Read More
Kathmandu, May 31 -- Dil Kumari BK, a resident of Madi Municipality's ward 3, had watched enough of her community's men leave for foreign employment to know that if Dalit women in Gulmeli Tole were go... Read More
Kathmandu, May 24 -- When Resham Neupane came across the news, they couldn't believe it. A photo of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen's new name-explicitly including the words 'Gender... Read More
Kathmandu, May 20 -- When Padma was 22, she was diagnosed with cancer. What followed were three brutal cycles of chemotherapy-each necessary, each taking something from her. Doctors warned that the ra... Read More
Kathmandu, May 9 -- When the Nepal government announced a two-day weekend on April 5, it had one primary goal: save fuel. Whether it is actually working is a different question altogether. According t... Read More
Kathmandu, May 8 -- The rain had been falling on and off all afternoon over the Balkhu riverbank. What remained of the settlement-broken walls, scattered debris, patches of open ground where homes had... Read More
Kathmandu, May 1 -- There is a particular cruelty in being promised something, watching it be written into law, and then being told, not through any official announcement, but through silence, unretur... Read More