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Articles tagged with #war
Delay, dilute, deny
A whole generation of Nepalis has grown up with no knowledge of the decade-long war
Ghosts of war
Nearly three decades after the Maoists launched their armed struggle on 13 February 1996, Nepal is still haunted by the violence
Sky high fuel price hits Nepal’s tourism, airlines
One month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fallout of the war on global fuel prices threatens to derail Nepal’s aviation and tourism…
Harrowing escape from Ukraine
Ukrainian refugee, Valia, recalls the ‘terrible conditions’ during her 1000 km journey to safety with her 13-year-old son. Photo: ED HOLT/IPS“I…
The scars of war
Bhakta Bahadur Regmi with Rabin and Rabina in Kathmandu last week speaking about a traumatic tragedy 20 years ago that changed their lives. All…
Toothless Commissions
The then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and rebel leader 'Prachanda' Pushpa Kamal Dahal signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in…
From Nalapani to Kalapani
The forest around Khalanga fort in Nalapani, the site of the first major battle that pitted the Gorkhali troops against the East India Company…
Where Nepal’s banner once waved
The Malaun Fort stands forlorn in what is now India’s Himachal Pradesh. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a…
The statelessness pandemic
Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state…
The start of the Anglo-Gorkha war
View of the Gorkhali fort at Subathu. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion…
Nepal sees spike in suicides during pandemic
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALATwo years ago after going through a bad relationship, a 36-year-old Kathmandu-based doctor started getting suicidal…
Nepal’s cycles of revolution
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJWhy is Nepal in a state of perpetual revolution? Why do leaders who have suffered and sacrificed so much for the cause of…
From the frontlines of Nepal’s war
A narrow ridge that served as a helipad in Kalikot district back in 2004 when the Maoist War was on its peak. Photo: KUNDA DIXITTwenty-five…
The lingering trauma of war
The letter Kiran Chaudhary got last year from the NHRC informing her about compensation for torture and rape by the security forces during the…
Only memories remain
14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing after the…
Hippie Trail nostalgia in Kathmandu
The dusty overland vans were parked between rickshaws, tiger taxis, lounging bulls and grazing goats
A millennium challenge
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Russia, Nepal to mark 75 years since end of WWII
BRAVE MAN: Bal Bahadur Basnet (centre) who is now 98 shared his memories of fighting in World War II with Iuliia Androsova, First Secretary…
Torture systematic in South Asia: ICJ
EXHUMING ACCOUNTABILITY: Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.South…
The mental scars of violence
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIChildren sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week.…
Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
The cost of peace in post-conflict countries: forest cover
REMOTE SENSING: A NASA satellite image of Nepal taken in 2002 at the height of the conflict shows extent of green cover.The advent of peace in…
Still dancing and singing for Nepal revolution
'Comrade Pratista, 14, dances to the tune of a revolutionary song at a Maoist mass rally in Dang in 2001 during a Dasain ceasefire. Photo:…
War in Gulf would hit Nepal economy hard
A potential conflict in the Persian Gulf between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran could have worldwide repercussions on energy prices, and…