Deepa Majhi opened a local eatery three months ago, near the Chandragiri Hills, a tourist site close to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. For a passerby, it might appear to be a typical tea shop with a small ...

The flower fields of Nepal's Gundu village glimmer yellow, orange and purple as women harvest blooms, a flourishing industry changing tough village lives by providing garlands for Hindu festivals. The ...

Nirvana Bhandary is a Nepali feminist writer, independent filmmaker, and digital activist. She founded the feminist storytelling platform The Feminism Project. She also wrote and directed the ...

Villagers in Gauri Kund, a key stop on the Kedarnath Yatra, have decided to prohibit the entry of women and children of Nepali origin from the 2026 pilgrimage season. The move, announced in a Gram ...

Until she was 48, Eka Kumari Karki had never travelled alone. Then she heard of a unique project that is trying to encourage and empower women by giving them travel grants. Karki got her daughter to ...

BHARDEV, Nepal, Aug 25 (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently ...

Growing up in a traditional Hindu family in an eastern Nepal village, Durga Shrestha never thought that one day she would become a Catholic nun and work for the welfare of her country’s poor. The ...

Prava Baral is a freelance writer and scholar from Nepal. With a deep appreciation for Nepali literature and a passion for wordplay, she embarked on her writing journey through poetry. Over the years, ...