Tag: #activism
Articles tagged with #activism
Driving young Nepalis up the wall
Kalpana Maharjan combines her passion for sports climbing with activism
The most controversial pronoun is ‘we’, not ‘they’
Alok Vaid-Menon, the gender non-conforming poet, is performing live in Kathmandu this week
Nepali artist’s butterfly effect
All photos: Milan RaiMilan Rai has come a long way since his project to stick white butterflies to trees in Nepal went viral worldwide. His art…
Govinda KC treats patients in remote Nepal
Govinda KC, Nepal’s crusading surgeon and health activist, plastering a patient's ankle at the Mugu District Hospital on Sunday. He saw 177…
Air-brushing history by toppling statues
Statue of Jang Bahadur Rana in Tundikhel in the 1972. Photo: Daniel W EdwardsFor thousands of years, adulatory statues have been installed and,…
Black lives matter but Dalit lives don't?
Photo: BignewskhabarOn 23 May, Angira Pasi, a 12-year-old Dalit girl, was found hanging after being forcibly married to a 25-year-old…
COVID-19 shrinks civic space
A glimpse of enough Is Enough campaign in Kathmandu. Photo: MONIKA DEUPALACivil society around the world faces serious restrictions on its…
Let Tundikhel be what Tundikhel was
Since the government is too slow to act, it is the public that needs to be vigilant
Think locally, act locally
Local activists goad local governments to deliver services
#BalanceforBetter
Journalists and activists including Namrata Sharma met in Jakarta recently to discuss gender discrimination.“My alcoholic father used to beat me…
RED RICE
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. This one spoke billions — of rupees. A lavish lunch is laid out with curry, dal and plates of…