Filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar (condensed)
Send us Fan Mail This is a shortened version of our episode with filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar, from Season 1. It was a great interview but, admittedly, quite long. We hope this 'bonus' episode will make ...
29 Okt 202043min
Leading the fight for transgender rights
Send us Fan Mail Rukshana Kapali is a firebrand. At 21 she is leading efforts to change Nepal’s laws so they include transgender men and women, and spearheading work to develop terminology in Nepali, ...
20 Okt 202036min
Mithila painting gets an update
Send us Fan Mail I liked Mithila painting the very first time that I saw it. The bright colours and village scenes amid lush jungles and bountiful nature really appealed to me, although nostalgically ...
11 Okt 202029min
Dalit lives matter — but to who?
Send us Fan Mail Anyone who lives in Nepal knows about caste and untouchability — the social rules that slot people into rigid groups from which they can rarely escape. At the bottom of the caste hier...
1 Okt 202035min
Ethics and the accidental journalist
Send us Fan Mail I’ve been following the work of Chandan Kumar Mandal carefully during the pandemic. He’s the labour reporter with the Kathmandu Post and has been writing daily about the millions of m...
24 Sep 202037min
Coming home to give back
Send us Fan Mail 5 to 6 million Nepalis live outside of Nepal today, excluding India and other South Asian countries. That’s according to the non-resident Nepali association. Nepal’s total population ...
14 Sep 202043min
Climate action — an Indigenous view
Send us Fan Mail As a developing country Nepal has few resources to devote to climate change. But as of late last year it has started to receive money from something called the Green Climate Fund to b...
30 Aug 202053min
Women in the age of COVID-19
Send us Fan Mail I obviously don’t know if it’s harder to be a woman in Nepal than in other places, but often it seems like it must be. Around 1,200 women here die each year giving birth, many from a...
14 Aug 20201h
