Recovering Nepal’s stolen art and restoring its culture
Send us Fan Mail I’ve lived in Nepal for over a decade now, and I’m still astonished to see where, and what, Nepalis worship. Temples and shrines are mostly obvious—sometimes because roads or sidewal...
12 Okt 202129min
Women start leading local climate adaptation work
Send us Fan Mail In less than a month COP26 will have begun. Because of the shocking and destructive fires, floods, droughts and other climate disasters worldwide in the past year, it’s a good guess t...
4 Okt 202131min
Maximize mask wearing
Send us Fan Mail Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines. This is what I’m talking and reading about these days when the subject is Covid-19. I’ve had my jab, and so has my wife, but my daughter, who’s under 18,...
22 Sep 202127min
New university taking liberal arts approach
Send us Fan Mail Unfortunately, Nepal’s universities do not, in general, enjoy good reputations. Politicization is a main reason for that. But a new institution, University of Nepal, plans to avoid th...
5 Sep 202128min
A climate campaign for the Himalaya
Send us Fan Mail Hi. This is Marty Logan. I wanted to let you know that I’m hosting a new podcast for IPS News. It’s called Strive: Toward a more just, sustainable world. It’s about people everywhere ...
16 Aug 202132min
We're all online—But who's in control?
Send us Fan Mail Nepalis are online. Full stop. We can no longer say that Nepalis in cities are online, or that educated Nepalis are online. In a 2020 survey, 89% of Nepalis said that they used Facebo...
30 Jul 202139min
Reading, writing, arithmetic—and radio
Send us Fan Mail Room to Read works with more than 4,400 high school-age girls in three districts in Nepal. During the Covid-19 lockdown from April to July 2020, 53% of those girls were unsure about r...
19 Jul 202131min
Climate change's cloud over health
Send us Fan Mail It’s monsoon season here in Nepal. And every time it pours rain, as it’s doing now, I start worrying about flooding. It can happen here in Kathmandu but usually the worst occurs in th...
8 Jul 202130min
