By Ram Khatry 14 January 2019 It’s not exactly the “Moon Landing” but it certainly is a “giant leap” for a tiny, struggling South Asian nation. A Nepalese flag-imprinted…
By Dr Bharat Raj Poudel, Brisbane 19 August 2017 Every monsoon, flood and landslides ravage human lives and properties in Nepal. Triggered by torrential rain, flood and landslides have recently…
By Dr Bharat Raj Poudel, Brisbane 9 August 2017 For weeks now, Nepalese communities across Australia have been organising a series of fundraising events for Mahabir Pun’s philanthropic endeavours. The…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 2 August 2017 Aastha Kumari Karki was one day talking to a “fellow-musician” when the latter shared a heart-rending secret. Her friend, also a Nepalese living…
By Ram Khatry in Brisbane 27 July 20107 In 2015, Hom Pyashi had five businesses including cafes at prime Brisbane locations but he was so broke that his India-born wife…
By Ram Khatry in Brisbane 18 July 2017 Some members of the Nepalese community are concerned NRNA Australia is becoming an expert-free zone because of its failure to attract and…
Authors: Catesby Holmes, Global Commissioning Editor, The Conversation Clea Chakraverty, Commissioning Editor The Conversation; Fabrice Rousselot, Global Editor, The Conversation Stephan Schmidt, Audience Developer, The Conversation Artists have…
By Ali Kazimi, York University, Canada Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati…
By Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University and Francis Markham, Australian National University 6 July 2017 With affordable houses increasingly out of reach, wage growth slow and household debt high, Australians…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 24 June 2017 Earlier this month, nearly hundred members of the Indian Australian diaspora gathered at Canberra’s Australian War Memorial to remember two of their own.…
By Kathy Graham 15 June 2017 It sounds like a quest to locate the ever-elusive abominable snowman in the lofty Himalayas. In fact, Project Yeti describes the work of one…
By Mike Searle, University of Oxford 29 May 2017 The Hillary Step, a rocky outcrop at 8,770m, just beneath the summit of Everest (8,850m), has finally succumbed to gravity and partially…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 27 May 2017 The only Nepalese couple to appear consecutively in the BRW Rich 200 List over the past eight years is mere $353 million shy…
By Hemant Ojha, UNSW; Eileen Baldry, UNSW, and Krishna K. Shrestha, UNSW 13 May 2017 Two years after the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal, the country is struggling to bounce back.…
By Utsab KC, Adelaide 20 April 2017 “I think we should open a momo take-away!” “Yes! That’s what I was thinking! It will be a huge success!” “Momo could be the…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 26 February 2017 He was not a millionaire but he surely spent like one, withdrawing not a hundred or two but thousands of dollars at one…
By The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just…
By Shiva Raj Mishra & Vishnu Khanal, Perth 6 January 2016 Nepal has one of the lowest number of psychiatrists per 100,000 population. According to a World Health Organisation report…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 3 January 2017 Although they come from a small country, the population of Nepali-speaking Australians isn’t small any more. Census 2006 put their strength at nearly twenty five thousand…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 7 November 2016 The one million plus dollars that NRNA Australia sent to Nepal in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake last year must play…
