Debate: Why the Indian elections are more about Narendra Modi than anything else
By Britta Ohm, Université de Berne 12 May 2019 India votes until May 19, and Western media and opinion seem to be slowly waking up to the dangers faced by…
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After the Easter Bombings, Sri Lanka Needs Effective Initiatives for Countering Violent Extremism
By Zahrah Imtiaz, Dr DB Subedi and Dr Muttukrishna Sarvananthan 3 May 2019 In the aftermath of the Easter bombings, Sri Lanka will require effective initiatives for countering violent extremism.…
Potential investors urged to use NRNs as the “Sherpas” of investment in Nepal
Ram Khatry I 31 March 2019: Speaking at the closing ceremony of Nepal Investment Summit 2019, Japan-based businessman Bhaban Bhatta has urged potential investors to use non-resident Nepalis as the…
Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugee shaves head to raise funds for cancer research
20 March 2019: A young Bhutanese refugee has bid goodbye to her thick, black and beautiful hair aiming to raise funds for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF). Bidhya Karki,…
Maya of momo expected to draw estimated 20,000 visitors to Melbourne venue
7 March 2019: Come to the Coburg Velodrome they say. A day full of fun, flavour and festivities is for sure they say. An occasion to celebrate Nepal and relish…
A devout leftist journalist, People’s War and revolutionary-turned political pests of Nepal
By Ram Khatry 13 February 2019 Depending on who you ask, February 13 can either be an auspicious or regrettable day for Nepal and the Nepalese people. If you ask…
Medal of the Order of Australia awarded for trailblazing social entrepreneurship in Nepal
By Ram Khatry 26 January 2019 A Melbourne “social entrepreneur” has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her trailblazing philanthropic enterprise that aims to…
Nepalese flag imprinted satellite soon to be aboard International Space Station
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…
Nepal Flood: Insufficient preparedness causing expensive disaster response and recovery
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…
Give me “mind, money and commitment” and I will give you a prosperous Nepal: Mr Innovator
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…
If getting robbed can be shared publicly then why not rape, questions rape victim Aastha Kumari Karki
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…
The Nepalese-Punjabi couple that outsmarted over a dozen Brisbane entrepreneurs
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…
Is NRNA Australia becoming an expert-free zone?
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…
Global Series: Talking sex, changing cultures
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…
Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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…
What income inequality looks like across Australia
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…
Private Sarn Singh Johal & Private Nain Singh Sailani: two Indians who made ultimate sacrifice for Australia 100 years ago
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.…
Project Yeti
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…
Has Everest’s iconic Hillary Step really collapsed? Here’s the science
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…
Shesh and Jamuna Ghale merely $353 million shy of joining billionaires club but the philanthropic couple is in no hurry
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…
