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Muktikot still waiting for liberation

Muktikot still waiting for liberation

Two decades after Maoists promised prosperity, this Dalit village in Nepal has been forgotten

Nepal’s ‘long-Covid’ impact on children

Nepal’s ‘long-Covid’ impact on children

Photo: UNICEF NEPALWhile ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the…

Toilet-trained in Nepal

Toilet-trained in Nepal

Newly constructed public toilet in Patan Dhoka is being inagurated on 19 November, World Toilet Day. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe tactile pavement…

Hunger for governance

Hunger for governance

Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…

Too little, too much, or too polluted

Too little, too much, or too polluted

All photos: KARUN DEWANWhen NASA explores other planets, the test of whether there is life, is to detect the presence of water. Here on Earth,…

Lockdown may be over, but pandemic is not

Lockdown may be over, but pandemic is not

It's business as usual at the Behaliya checkpoint in Rupandeni district near the Indian border. Photo: MUKESH POKHRELAs the number of cases and…

Keeping nose and throat clean

Keeping nose and throat clean

Nepal has had three months of lead time to study the coronavirus pandemic and behaviours that have been associated with flattening the curve of…

Nepali ultra-marathoner’s anti-litter drive

Nepali ultra-marathoner’s anti-litter drive

One of the best and nearest hiking trails from Kathmandu is the Champadevi-Chandragiri walk – it offers a splendid view of the Himalaya as well…

Do not fail students in WASH

Do not fail students in WASH

Nepal must ensure progress in water, sanitation and health continues, so children stay in school

Survey is wakeup call for Nepal government

Survey is wakeup call for Nepal government

Pic: Sneha KCThere was great hope among Nepalis that the first local government elections in two decades, in 2017, would finally improve…

Can't get no satisfaction

Can't get no satisfaction

On the face of it, when 41% of Nepalis in a public opinion poll say the country is headed in the right direction it could be taken as a decent…

Toilet trained expert

Toilet trained expert

Photo: SONIA AWALEFor someone who jet sets around the world, hobnobbing with governments and scientists to promote affordable and ecological…

Communicating to remove menstrual taboo

Communicating to remove menstrual taboo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took…

Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition

Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition

DEFYING TRADITION: This cow shed in Kailali used for menstural banishment. It has now been turned into a store room for rice husk.Media reports…

That time of the month

That time of the month

Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIThe practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a…

Love and Loo

Love and Loo

It is a sight repeated tens of millions of times every morning across northern India: groups of women carrying water lota making their way to…

Nature calls

Nature calls

RAW FOOTAGE: A drainage pipe emptying raw sewage into the Manohara River in Kathmandu on Thursday morning. Swollen with overnight rain, the…

Toilet trained

Toilet trained

As Nepal reaches the goal of sanitation for all, the next health challenge is to make latrines…

Getting our shit together

Getting our shit together

Bikram RaiAt personal, family, community or national levels, we Nepalis are generally not given to maintaining high hygienic standards. Waste…

Where to take a dump

Where to take a dump

LOADS OF CRAP: Asmin Lama came back from the Gulf to start a septic tank emptying venture. He has been so busy servicing clients, he hasn’t even…