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The Record has a brand new newsletter! Written by yours truly, Off the Record provides an in-depth look at a story of the week, along with other miscellany for weekly roundup of all that's happening in Nepal. Subscribe and share!
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It's no wonder most of Nepal's media has been eerily quiet about the great human cost of the Qatar World Cup. This photo and everyone it encompasses speaks a lot louder than the silence of our editor sirs (and one ma'am).
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Yesterday was my last day at
@kathmandupost
. It pains me to leave a newsroom where under
@AnupKaphle
and
@SanjeevSatgainy
, we did stories that I never would've thought possible.
Below, some of the great work that I had the honor to be a part of, as reporter or editor.
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My sister-in-law is on
@NBCTheVoice
and she blew all four judges away with her audition! Her performance, her voice and her poise were all just amazing. I still can't believe she's just 17 and has a voice like this. She's going to win this!
@Pri_ttygood
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Now that Jack Ma has pledged to help Nepal, I wonder what it will take for our own resident billionaire, his massive company, and all the other massively wealthy individuals to emerge from their hiding holes and do something, anything.
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It all began with hair length but then spiralled into a discussion about St Mary's School's problems with sexism, homophobia and body shaming.
Read our in-depth report on the saga unfolding at one of Nepal's most prestigious schools. Click link please:
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This message would land better if UN officials in Nepal didn't travel everywhere in massive fuel-guzzling SUVs.
We must end the fossil fuel age.
We must act now to protect people on the frontline.
.
@antonioguterres
's message on glaciers from the Mount Everest Region:
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On one side is the American Embassy where the guards yell at you if you so much as touch your phone and on the other is Salesberry, which has turned the entire footpath into a private parking lot. Kathmandu is no city for pedestrians.
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While we're talking about Nepali heritage in foreign museums, perhaps London's British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum could also return the hundreds of Nepali objects that they hold. I took a picture of this stunning headdress, apparently from 1677, when I visited the V&A.
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A new year comes with a new job. Officially joined
@recordnepal
today as an editor. Here's our first story of the year, reported by
@sedhairoshan
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Life update: two weeks ago, I got married to
@Pri_ttygood
.
Was waiting for a more appropriate moment to do this but things might just get worse from here, so here you go:
I married
@inkthink
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Since Mich*el K*b*old seems to have kicked up a hornet's nest by attacking
@shrinkhalak_
, now's a good time as any to replug
@Tsering_
and my reports on this conman with a history of fraud.
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Make no mistake, this is a crony capitalist state. We blame politicians because they're the public faces but businesspeople with their untold billions have hollowed out the state and continue to do so. The prime minister and his donors are all culpable.
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If you allow the government to ban one distasteful thing, it will eventually ban anything that it deems distasteful. Remember the ban on porn? The government tested the waters with a morally ambiguous topic and realised that no one really cares.
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@NeilNevins
I loved this show growing up. I thought it was great how it showed that there isn't just one type of genius. All of the boys are extremely smart in their own way. Reese is a fantastic chef, Dewey is a musical genius and Francis can basically talk his way out of anything.
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Apropos my tweet yesterday regarding our resident billionaire, I take everything back. Mr Chaudhary has been beseeching the gods on our behalf. His yagya might singlehandedly turn the tide against Covid-19. Let's give him a hand folks ( or a finger if that's more appropriate).
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हिँड्न को लागी फुटपाथ छैन, खेल्न को लागी पार्क छैन, पढ्न को लागी पुस्तकालय छैन, प्रदूषणले गर्दा सास फेर्न गाह्रो छ, फोहोर थुप्रिएर अब वरिपरी का लाई typhoid पनि लाग्न थालेछ, कसरी बाँच्ने हौ यो काठमाडौं मा? केइ त गर्नुस
@ShahBalen
मेयर साब, बिन्ती छ 🙏
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A young actor tells her story of harassment without naming anyone. Bhuwan KC takes offence and files a libel case. He's the one who gets featured in a half page interview, as if he isn't the veteran here with a much bigger platform. Says a lot about who
@thehimalayan
believes.
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I've made roughly INR 30,000 from my book. I think I'm in the third print run now so I've sold at least 2000 copies, which isn't much, I know. But it's better than nothing I guess. Just glad to have a book out.
#PublishingPaidMe
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Nepali uber driver gets harassed by a bunch of entitled women who try to snatch his phone, get physically abusive and end up pepper spraying him. My man kept his composure better than I would've when confronted with this kind of appaling behavior.
⚠️ 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘 ⚠️ Uber driver Subhakar told me he picked up 3 women in the Bayview yesterday & after asking one to wear a mask was subject to slurs, taunting & one grabbing his phone.
He’s taking a few days off.
SFPD is investigating.
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On father's day, here's a photo of my dead father posing in front of the
@airfrance
Concorde when it first came to Kathmandu in 1987, the year I was born.
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Supreme Court verdict sets a precedent but not sure it's the right kind. Lamichhane's Nepali citizenship is invalid and he's renounced his American citizenship so he is basically stateless, meaning SC's decision contravenes Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Back in 2020, when I interviewed Samba, she proclaimed, "No South Asian defence can keep up with me." She's pretty much proving herself right.
Nepal 🇳🇵 Women’s football star Sabitra Bhandari who scored 30 goals in
#IndianWomensLeague
in this season..,
What A Player She Is., 👏
Congratulations Sabitra 🎈🎉 !
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Of course RONB has paid $8 to get its blue tick. I'll be losing mine tomorrow and will be happily giving it up. I'd rather quit this site completely than give its man-child owner any of my hard-earned money.
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Did no one in the Nepal Army rethink the optics of conducting an armored vehicle circumambulation of the Ring Road on the day that there's a military coup in Myanmar and at a time when Nepal's Parliament has been dissolved and the prime minister is seeking to seize power?
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My 90-year-old grandfather finally got the Covishield vaccine today. Happy to say that the doctors and medical personnel were friendly, open and responsive to all kinds of queries.
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While we beat our nationalist chests for coming up with a new map, the people of Darchula need to pass through India to get to their villages because Nepal hasn't even built a road. If you provide for the people, they'll safeguard the border.
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Nepal reported over 7,000 new cases today, the highest since the pandemic began. The government has thrown up its hands and given up. We're now past the point of no return.
The best time to act was yesterday; the second-best time is now.
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While we are all stuck at home with the lockdown, who's interested in a short story club? No books, just stories. We read one every day and then discuss publicly the next day. Comment if you're in.
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Just a reminder that
@recordnepal
is always looking for opinions, features, story ideas, and anonymous tips. We're independent, ad-free, reader-supported. If you've got something to say, shoot us an email at connect [at] recordnepal [dot] com. My DMs always open.
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Today at Alka Hospital, large SUVs full of people allowed to go in while people wait in line all day. A bunch of kids pass their phone to the cops who open the gate and let them in in front of everyone. Employees from
@GlobalIME_bank
flash their ID cards and jump the line.
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Very disappointed to hear that a promising young candidate has tied up with a Keshav Sthapit, a man accused of sexual harassment by at least two women.
Our (
@itisha
@bbhrikuti
and mine) 2018 story where he called the accusations 'rape of men's rights'
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While I'm glad young people are protesting, it's important to recognise our own positionality vis-a-vis young, urban, English-speaking with access to the corridors of power.
In Kathmandu, they use water cannons. In the Madhes, they shoot to kill.
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"Nijgad is not an airport project, it is a scam to log thousands of hectares of hardwood forests. Even as an airport, it presents risks to the economy, ecology, food and water security."
@kashishds
writes in a very important piece for
@NepaliTimes
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Now is a good time as any to remind people that Everest wasn't called Sagarmatha until the 60s when the Nepal government scrambled to come up with a local name, even though it was already called Qomolangma in Tibetan. Everest was also supposed to be pronounced EEV-RIST.
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Pedestrianize New Road! Streets for people, not cars and motorbikes.
Are your streets for cars or for people? This Tel Aviv transformation between 2016 and 2021 well documented by
@schlijper
’s great photography.
#StreetsForPeople
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This week's Brunch with the Post is with Dr Sanduk Ruit, doctor extraordinaire and all-round wonderful human being. It was a pleasure and privilege to sit down with him, have lunch and listen to him speak. Truly a hero for our times.
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For your weekend read, I try my best to respond to
@RabindraMishra
's discussion paper on
@recordnepal
's weekly newsletter. No name-calling, just an open critique. I'm no scholar of federalism but here's my argument.
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हो हो, एकदम सही। एसिड प्रहारका कारण प्रेम नै हो, महिला विरुद्ध हिंसा हुँदै होइन। Porn त ban गरिनै हालियो, एसिड प्रहार बन्द भएन, महिला विरुद्ध हिंसा बन्द भएन। अब प्रेमलाई नै ban गर्नु पर्यो।
एसिड प्रहारका अधिकांश घटनामा प्रेम सम्बन्ध कारक
तत्काल चिसोपानी हाले क्षति कम गर्न सकिन्छ : चिकित्सक
@gauravpkh
काे रिपोर्टिङ
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Got a notification that someone followed me but I can't see who it is.
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There's an argument to be made for reporters in the field and photojournalists to get the vaccine early but editors too? Most editors barely leave their offices. Come on, man. Some shame for once would be nice.
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Never have I read a thousand-year-old poem that's so apt for Nepal.
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Fuck firecrackers. One of my dogs ran away two years ago, a day before Kukkur Puja, because of goddamned neighborhood kids throwing explosive firecrackers out on the streets. And no, firecrackers are not part of your "culture".
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There was absolutely no reason to 'both sides' this story. It's pretty clear that what
@SumanaShrestha
was wearing was not inappropriate, at all. The more attention you give to trolls, esp in a national paper, the more vindicated they feel to keep doing this.
Was she inappropriate or a victim of misogyny?
While some saw Sumana Shrestha’s dress as unseemly for MP, others thought she was unfairly targeted as a woman. — by
@AnupOjha7
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Would've been great if the
@gatesfoundation
had not awarded over $700,000 to Nepal's resident billionaire to promote nutrition when said billionaire's Wai Wai is basically junk food and promoting mass malnutrition.
Thanks,
@melindagates
for your emphasis on the importance of nutrition to meeting the
#SDGs
& the
@gatesfoundation
's commitment to support catalytic nutrition interventions.
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I'm not going to link the article but let's break down the major beats of the offending piece in question.
First point, quoting BP (tried and tested for the Nepali oped columnist) to call out "neo-elites", god knows what that means because no explanation is forthcoming. 1/9
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On
#IWD2020
meet Sabitra 'Samba' Bhandari, one of the best footballers in Nepal, and possibly South Asia. Read, share and support women in sports.
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You know what might be better? Hold a mock Parliament and assign students to play the roles of certain party leaders and discuss Nepali issues.
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This electricity issue is getting ridiculous. Nepal is going to sell electricity when parts of Kathmandu haven't had electricity for over two days now. Every day, they cut off power for six to eight hours during prime working hours. काम चै कसरी गर्ने हो? 🤦♂️
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The publisher of a large media house openly hosts two politicians and posts pictures on social media as if it's no big deal. And no one bats an eye because of course, some publishers are basically proxies for political parties.
हेल्लो
@ThapaCaptain
एमालेको विवाद मिलाउन यत्तिको भूमिका खेलेकोमा धन्यवाद छ । अब तपाईंको मिडियामा काम गर्नेहरूलाई पनि तलब दिएर विवाद मिलाउनु हुन अनुरोध छ ।
@Annapurna_Post
मा मैले काम गरेको ८ महिनाको आधा तलब कहिले आउँछ ?
@BishnuSubedi10
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We all carry post-traumatic stress from 2015. Every time something shakes, my legs tremble, my heartbeat rises and my body reacts before my mind knows what's happening.
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Confused about what happened last night? Let me try to explain. TL;DR: Oli and Bhandari have selectively interpreted the constitution to suit their needs. The pandemic is an afterthought. Elections in November, if they happen, will be a disaster.
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The Alchemist is a terrible book. Pride and Prejudice is horribly boring. All self help books are a con and you're falling for it.
Bookish opinion(s) that makes you feel like this?
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Here's our comprehensive report on how a woman was killed by a drink driver on Saturday morning.
@journo_shuvam
reports for
@kathmandupost
.
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Happy birthday to
@Pri_ttygood
, lover, best friend and soon-to-be life partner. My life's so much better because you are in it. All love to you on your 28th year on this earth. Can't do this life thing without you.
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Just because you've allowed your shitty children to listen to rap and now they're spouting Vten lyrics is not on society or on Vten. It's on you, the shitty parent. It's not the government's job to decide what your kids should or shouldn't listen to.
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For this week's Brunch with the Post, I sit down with former deputy speaker Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe to hear her tell the whole sordid story behind the speaker election. She's outspoken, fierce and has stood up for her what she wants. Read our conversation
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What an apt illustration of the charade that is politicians visiting earthquake victims.
राष्ट्रपतिको हेलिकोप्टरले धुलाम्मे बन्यो भूकम्पपीडितको आश्रयस्थल
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I've always wondered why the English-language media in Nepal calls every politician a "leader"? Explanations from veterans welcome.
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There's a special place in hell for drivers who speed up when they see a pedestrian waiting at a zebra crossing.
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@shrinkhalak_
It's not just about infrastructure but a change in priority. Urban planning must prioritize pedestrians and cyclists over motorized traffic. Each year, the road gets wider while the footpath gets smaller. If you make it difficult to drive and easier to walk, people will walk.
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Astha Raut alleged that the police misbehaved and then security footage was coincidentally leaked to select online media. When the police's name is on the line, footage is apparently always available. Wonder what happened to that 33 kilo gold?
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There is something deeply suspicious about Himalaya Jet and the guy who's promoting it. This article is a start but we need a deeper investigative piece.
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The Dalit Panthers were directly inspired by the Black Panthers of the US. The founders of the Dalit Panthers admired the Black Panthers' emphasis on militant revolution in order to achieve radical equality. By any means necessary, as brother Malcolm used to say.
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This article is really quite astounding. It's one thing to write about a Rana cookbook but another to try to wholly whitewash the many, many Rana excesses. Yes, the Rana era gets bad press because it was a really, really, really bad time for most of Nepal.
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Going bald was the best thing that happened to my look. I never knew what to do with my hair. Now, I'm rocking that bald head and beard combo and I never have to buy shampoo again.
First Hair Transplanted at CMH And many more to come!
Now time for “Say No to Bald”!
Don’t waste time to blame your gene when You have the solution!
Congratulation Team Derma lead by Dr Pravin Baniya
#saynotobald
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We can work from home but there are many who can't. If there is a bailout package for the private sector, it needs to be accompanied by a support package for daily wage workers. Protect the most vulnerable, not just the rent seekers.
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@AnupOjha7
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All the young boys running Dank Gorkhe Memes and the rest of those misogynist, racist, sexist, classist social media pages are part of this. There might not be an alt-right but the hate against feminists and all kinds activists is growing in Nepal, especially among young men.
Do you have white teenage sons?
Listen up.
I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists.
Here's how:
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Everyone who has read, liked and quoted Rumi must read this thread.
Thread: The Orientalizing of Moulana Rumi
Many of you may be familiar with the 'Rumi quotes' that circulate the internet. What if I told you the vast majority of them are fake and they are part of a project to secularize Rumi? This isn't a whatsapp conspiracy.
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Matthew Smith, who worked at The British School in Nepal 2016-2022, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for soliciting sexual images of children as young as seven. Parents whose children went to
@TbsKathmandu
at that time should seek answers.
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Glad to see my story on the Himal shortlist. Looking forward to reading all of these stories.
The Himal short story competition 2019 shortlist has been announced!
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Stood in line for four hours at Alka Hospital. No tokens, no registration. Then, they tell us that they have a limited number of vaccines and that the rest of us should go home. What piss poor management. Afraid I might've caught covid standing in line.
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We are once again debating citizenship through the mother. In this day and age. It should be ridiculous, it should be a no-brainer. And yet, here we are. Again. Plugging a piece I wrote in 2014, asking the same incredulous questions we are asking now.
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Some say remittance is making Nepalis lazy. Here's an entire village where the women have put their remittance into businesses so their husbands won't have to migrate again.
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@TseringNgodupL1
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"In the dark times,
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times."
- Bertolt Brecht
A man takes his child outside of his flooded home after a heavy rainfall in Kathmandu, Nepal on Tuesday, August 8, 2023.
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I had lunch with
@thapagk
where we spoke about a whole range of things. Gagan ji has always been a passionate and thoughtful speaker. Here's a distilled version of our conversation.
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First they came for Pashupati, then Durgesh and now Samir. Pretty soon all we'll be allowed to listen to will be Krishna bhajans. No Shiva because, you know, he promotes samajik bikriti. Important story by
@TKPSamu
and
@bbhrikuti
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A poem to begin the new year with, to know that things outside of the things we know we want are the things that keep us whole.
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Elections in Nepal:
"I do not believe that things will turn out well, but the idea that they might is of decisive importance."
— Max Horkheimer
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Disturbing news coming out of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment (KAT) Center alleging embezzlement of at least $40,000 in donations by Nepali board members. Legal action is reportedly being taken in Nepal and the UK.
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Congratulations to
@bbhrikuti
@AbhaLal2
@pitaarji
for being shortlisted for the
@truestoryaward
from Nepal.
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Bhutan's National Day is a good time as any to remind the world of its expulsion of 100,000 ethnic Nepali lhotsampas in the early 90s. Some 7,000 remain in refugee camps in Nepal while many are in jail in Bhutan.
Read this piece by
@registandiary
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This is just so good.
This hopeful poem is by Mukahang, proud son of a Nepalese housekeeper, currently a student at Queen's College, Oxford.
#PrideMonth
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A confrontation with APF at the border led to Abinash Rajbhar being shot below the waist. He died on the way to the hospital. The question as always is, why are security forces so quick to use guns in the Madhes?
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A
@cijnepal
investigation takes a dive into how one of Nepal's richest men made over $400 million and quite possibly paid almost no taxes on it. Reported by
@rudrapang
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@DeepakAdk
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More power to you
@himabista
. ✊
बृहत् नागरिक प्रदर्शनका अभियन्ता भन्छन्- हामीलाई निरंकुश शासन चाहिएको छैन् ।
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Nothing says man of the people like having a billion dollars in a country as poor as Nepal.
If I was in Nepal, my vote would go to
@binodkchaudhary
, Nepal needs to come to the forefront on the global stage and
@binodkchaudhary
is the forward-thinking, innovator and man of the people to do it.
#NepalElections2022
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