Articles
15 March 2010
Bad Behaviour
Khushbu Agrawal

“I was forced to quit my job because of constant harassment from my boss,” says Reena (name changed), a young woman working for an international organization. Reena decided to quit her stable job after her employer started sexually...

Articles
27 February 2010
Op-Ed: Upstairs, Downstairs
Sujana Upadhyay

The problem with living in a country with so many diverse ethnic groups is that every other face looks different. It makes it easy to feel alienated, and to alienate. Santosh Shah recently discovered this. The news of the ‘airport incident’ first came to me through Facebook, and it both angered...

Moments in Pixels
15 February 2010
Laws of Intimacy
Moments in Pixels
8 February 2010
Tales from Everest
Faces
28 January 2010
Karma Catches Up: Tsering Choden

In 2009, the Obama administration launched programs to give America's unpopular Bush era image a much-needed facelift. Among them was the Democracy Video Challenge, which asked inspiring moviemakers to complete the phrase...

Articles
18 January 2010
Op-Ed: Homeowners, Take a Stand
by Yuko Maskay

The mad beast of 7.0 magnitude that is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 people in Haiti and injured tens of thousands last week, hits home. Not only because Haiti, like Nepal, is one of the poorest countries in the world, but because according to BCPR's...

Making a Difference
9 January 2010
De-Rooting Education

At 19, Nimesh Ghimire is the founder of Minimally Invasive Education, an education project supported by Save the Children-USA, Global Changemakers and the Nepal Government. He recently graduated from Budhanilkantha School and has taken a year off...

Articles
1 January 2010
End of Year Memoir

What does the new year mean to you? For some, it may mean once and for all, dropping the old you and starting anew, to others it may mean partying, music and booze and others may have lost a loved one and lost a part of themselves or gained a new member of a family. And for some, it may just mean another day...

Moments in Pixels
27 December 2009
The Spirit of Christmas
Articles
14 December 2009
Op-Ed: Can Peace Hold in Nepal?
by Siddhartha Thapa

Can peace hold in Nepal? The answer to this question will draw mixed reactions from different quarters. But, whatever the reactions may be, there is a subtle consensus among Nepali politicians that the peace in Nepal is slowly but surely faltering...

Moments in Pixels
8 December 2009
Gadhimai Mela (Warning: Contains graphic images)
Articles
2 December 2009
Op-Ed: Ménage à trois with China – Can Nepal handle it?
by Prabhat Lamichhane

I have some serious apprehension and grave concern about Maoists leaders desperately trying to get China as much involved as possible in Nepal’s political developments especially after the establishment of Republican Nepal. Given Nepal’s geopolitical setting and with India’s blatant and outright intervention...

Book Review
28 November 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders: Pakistan’s turn to be read
by Sanjana Shrestha

“…nothing works here!”  - Exasperated words of an American woman who marries a Pakistani guy and tries to sow some meaning into her life in Islamabad. Those words...

Articles
21 November 2009
Op-Ed: The Primacy of Sex
by Pranaya SJB Rana

There is a furor in the Nepali press. Namrata Shrestha, well-known model and actress, has the ignoble honour of starring in a sex-tape. The man, and principal photographer, in the video is DJ Tantric, says the press. Tantrik, a married man, is not facially present but Namrata sure is, and caught in some pretty...

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