Gagan Thapa has an idea
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 10 September 2016 Gagan Thapa is not exactly a communist comrade but the firebrand health minister of Nepal wants to bring about a sweeping revolution any way. A…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 10 September 2016 Gagan Thapa is not exactly a communist comrade but the firebrand health minister of Nepal wants to bring about a sweeping revolution any way. A…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 7 September 2016 I wanted to write their story from a first-person perspective because I knew exactly where they stood in their battle against a murderous medical condition. So…
By Dr Suresh Thapaliya, Kathmandu Winter 1997. I was in my native village in Nuwakot district. A student of fifth standard enjoying his vacation in a pristine Nepalese village. I…
By Dr Nirpa Bahadur Rawal, Victoria (Cowes) 2 June 2016 The Nepali diaspora in Australia has had to deal with a number of tragic drowning incidents in the last few years.…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 1 June 2016 Some eight years ago, an Australian teenager had the rare opportunity of embarking on a philanthropic journey to Nepal. Until then, Grace Forrest…
By Chandani Sharma, Sydney The other day, a friend of mine posted a social media status on vagina. Although the post was purported to be feminist, I found myself a…
6 March 2016: Vivienne Kondos, an Australian who loved all things Nepalese and a constant companion to Australia’s Nepalese diaspora, is being remembered as someone who could never have enough…
By Sanu Ghimire, Sydney “If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing,” so goes the popular saying. Unfortunately, things do not work for me…
By Kritika Pradhananga, Melbourne As most in Australia do on the day, we always used to have an elaborate BBQ on Australia Day. I would be busy delegating chores, assigning…
By Kyle Knight The arrival of a transgender activist from Nepal in Taiwan on October 24 for the 2015 International Lesbian and Gay Association’s Asia conference may seem unremarkable.…
By Bharat Raj Poudel They say misfortune never comes alone. No one knows this more than Nepal as it lives the unfortunate proverb right this moment. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the…
By Sumera Reshi Since 1945 more than 70 civil wars have been fought around the world. These civil wars claimed approximately 20 million deaths and displaced more than 67 million…
A small village in the Indian state of Gujrat was in the headlines last week as Times of India broke the heart-warming story of a mum who saved her young daughter from…