Dancers from the Nepali Army perform during the celebration of the 75th National Democracy Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Sulav Shrestha/Xinhua) Members of the Nepali Army music band perform during the celebration of the 75th National Democracy Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb....
WOMEN’S DAY RALLY IN KARACHI:Thousands of working class women, many of them home based women workers, with red flags in their hands marched on roads of Karachi, chanting slogans against ‘mullahism’, religious extremism and for their democratic rights. The march started from Karachi Press Clu...
A new constitution that ushered in a federal democratic republic with a highly devolved power structure was a direct result of the conflict. The peace agreement was its implicit foundation. The constitution and subsequent elections offered hope and unleashed Nepali aspirations across...
A senior leader of the Nepali Congress Democratic Party, Minendra Rijal, says a popular movement is building against King Gyanendra. "If you look at the number of people who are coming in the streets, people are coming out, common people, general people, people from all walks of life are...
“If South Asia has a viable public health icon after the passing of Edhi in Pakistan, this man is it,” says a Nepali friend. Dr. Govinda KC is a man who is considered a saint in Nepal – a middle-class doctor who on his own expense offers medical help wherever there is a disast...
In another unprecedented, spontaneous show of solidarity, Indians began tweeting with the hashtag #IndiaWithPakistan, started by Indian columnist Tehseen Poonawala who tweets from the handle @tehseenp. The hashtag peaked with over 63,000 tweets on Tuesday, the day of the tragedy. By Friday, the...
29 August 2021:“If the government becomes the monster that it can be, then the belly of the beast contains the people in jail”, said Nepali journalistKanak Mani Dixit,speaking at a regional session on the rights of the incarcerated in South Asia, particularly in light of the ongoing Covi...
I was curious when my old friend, the Nepali journalist Kank Mani Dixitproposed the topic “To be Desi or Southasian” as the topic of a talk that another journalist friend,Aseem Chahbrafrom India, was setting up for him in New York....
The online event also commemorates the global International Peace Day, September 21. Peacetalks symposium: Raza Rumi, Pritpal Singh, Amitabh Pal, Nyla Ali Khan. Photo by Beena Sarwar By Beena Sarwar Born in the Rawalpindi area in 1943, Suresh Bakshi was about four years oldwhen his family...