Nepal Now

We're talking with the people migrating from, to, and within this Himalayan country located between China and India. You'll hear from a wide range of Nepali men and women who have chosen to leave the country for better work or education opportunities. Their stories will help you understand what drives people — in Nepal and worldwide — to mortgage their property or borrow huge sums of money to go abroad, often leaving their loved ones behind.

Despite many predictions, migration from Nepal has not slowed in recent years, except briefly during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. About 1 million Nepalis leave every year to work at jobs outside the country. Tens of thousands go abroad to study. Far fewer return to Nepal to settle. The money ('remittances') that workers send home to their families accounts for 25% of the country's GDP, but migration impacts Nepal in many other ways. We'll be learning from migrants, experts and others about the many cultural, social, economic and political impacts of migration.

Your host is Marty Logan, a Canadian journalist who has lived in Nepal's capital Kathmandu off and on since 2005. Marty started the show in 2020 as Nepal Now.

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Episoder(116)

Spotlighting Tharu, and Madheshi, food and culture in Nepal

Spotlighting Tharu, and Madheshi, food and culture in Nepal

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and approaches to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. I hope you don’t mind a slight digression to start. ...

21 Sep 202224min

How Nepal’s future journalists will do things differently

How Nepal’s future journalists will do things differently

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Nepal Now. My name is Marty Logan. I’m back after a long break – thanks for joining me. Today we’re doing something different. On Aug 21st I was at St. Xavier’s College in ...

1 Sep 202210min

Activists put menstrual health on the agenda in Nepal

Activists put menstrual health on the agenda in Nepal

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and initiatives to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. A lot has happened around menstrual health issues in...

12 Jul 202224min

Desperate farmers hijack smuggled fertilizer: agriculture in Nepal today

Desperate farmers hijack smuggled fertilizer: agriculture in Nepal today

Send us Fan Mail Last Saturday two trucks carrying smuggled fertilizer across the southern border between India and Nepal were seized at Nepal customs. Police took charge and were escorting the trucks...

21 Jun 202229min

Putting value-based politics to the test in Nepal — Karma Tamang

Putting value-based politics to the test in Nepal — Karma Tamang

Send us Fan Mail This is another episode in our series Nepal Then and Now, where we catch up with former guests. Before we do that, I have a request. We know that the show has some dedicated listeners...

7 Jun 202217min

The real-world impact of online violence and continuing to speak out — Pallavi Payal

The real-world impact of online violence and continuing to speak out — Pallavi Payal

Send us Fan Mail Today is the second instalment in our series Nepal Then and Now, where we catch up with former guests. We first spoke with Pallavi Payal in mid-2020 about the situation of women in th...

23 Mai 202217min

Nepal bites into ambitious school meals programme

Nepal bites into ambitious school meals programme

Send us Fan Mail That is the sound of hundreds of students at Tilingatar High School in Tokha Municipality lining up for their midday meal of rice and veggies. This still unfinished concrete school of...

11 Mai 202210min

Filmmaking in uncertain times—Deepak Rauniyar

Filmmaking in uncertain times—Deepak Rauniyar

Send us Fan Mail Today is the first episode in our new series, Nepal Then and Now, where we’ll talk with former guests and catch up on their work and lives. We created the series partly in response to...

25 Apr 202217min

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