Tag: #caste system
Articles tagged with #caste system
Race against time
The great Nepali linguist वल्लभ मणि दाहाल Ballabh Maṇi Dāhāl was the driving force behind the monumental dictionary नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश Nepālī…
COVID-19 sharpens caste discrimination in Nepal
Kalpana Nagari and Kalawati Auji from Godavari Municipality who face double discrimination from society for being Dalit and because their…
“I never thought I would be alone this early in life”
Sunita Sunar is a widow at 20 after her husband, Tikaram was killed in the murders of six young men in Rukum on 24 May. Much of the attention…
Atrocities against Tharu expressed in art
Lavkant ChaudharyAs they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to…
Pancha Kumari Pariyar: Still She Rises
Photos: SIKUMA RAI“When the stalks of rice grow taller, you must come back here again,” she says. “They move in the wind like waves in the…
Nepal is turning into a nation of hybrid identities
Increase in inter-ethnic marriages blurs cultural distinctions, complicating job quotas