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…
13October 2016: A young Melbourne woman, who was in Nepal months before the devastating earthquake, is doing everything she can to provide a safer and modern learning environment to a bunch of underprivileged…
By Shiva Raj Mishra, Perth 26 September 2016 Shristi Bhochhibhoya lives in Kathmandu, home to some five million people. She has fond memories of her early days as she grew up…
By Ram Khatry Experts including Nepal’s award-winning former finance minister say Oli Government’s loss of credibility, a notoriously unfriendly bureaucracy and India’s blockade on the landlocked country are some key reasons that…
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6 June 2015 11:12 PM AEST: Against the backdrop of Nepal’s humming capital of Kathmandu, in a centre just off Durbar Square, it would be difficult to miss the elderly woman smiling…
By msf.org 1 June 2015 10:42 PM AEST: In the first earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April, people lost their loved ones, their homes and their belongings. Despite the massive destruction,…
By Jiye Kim This past week, Narendra Modi has visited China (May 14-16), Mongolia (May 17) and South Korea (May 18-19). The Indian prime minister’s tour has demonstrated his nation’s…
