Tag: #dalit
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Baby on her back, Dalit mother on campaign trail
Mina Biswakarma is going door to door campaigning for chair of Raghuganga Rural Municipality with her 3-year-old son strapped to her back. When…
Power to the periphery
Takam village (above) in Dhaulagiri Municipality is a model for how federalism should function. Photos: JOY STEPHENSBal Bir Biswakarma from the…
How the climate crisis adds to child marriage in Nepal
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
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…
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…
Caste aside
The scenic Bheri River between Jajarkot and Rukum districts where the six were dumped after being killed by villagers.On 26 May, six young men…
“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…
Love's victory over racial hatred
Mildred and Richard Loving were sentenced to jail for their inter-ethnic marriage. They took the case to the Supreme Court, and won on 12 June,…
Nepal’s new Davos man
The World Economic Forum’s annual list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) has featured very few Nepalis so far. The 2015 batch included Nepali…
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…
Nothing to lose but their chains
https://youtu.be/W4CZxpM1mrITen years after the government finally abolished bonded debt labour, tens of thousands of Haliyas in western Nepal…
Daughter Slaughter
https://youtu.be/7NAkdUC4j7oIt was raining hard that Tuesday night on 11 September in Chandrapur of Rautahat. In the Das family home, teenage…
Life and livelihood in remote Nepal
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
CORROSIVE CONDUCT
https://youtu.be/7NAkdUC4j7oThere is an argument that there has not been an abrupt rise in the number of rape cases in Nepal, it is just being…