@the_record_nepal

the_record_nepal has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in March 2020. Besides social media accounts, the_record_nepal has populated their site with: • A message from the founders of The Record - The Record • Become our Member! Support independent journalism • Donate to The Record! • Shifting climate boundaries - The Record • A critical look at Nepal’s ‘Other’ commissions - The Record • Tips for PhD dissertation writing - The Record • Marginalized since birth - The Record • Nepali theater beyond Nepal: identity, education, and experimentation - The Record • Turning waste into energy - The Record • Surviving on storytelling - The Record • How to improve academic writing - The Record • The social construction of Balen Shah - The Record • Chasing the European dream - The Record • Writing climate change - The Record • Subhash Nepali: ‘Writing helps heal the trauma of caste-based violence’ - The Record • Turkey farmers face off against the pandemic - The Record • Secularism is at a crossroads in Nepal - The Record • Digital activism and youth involvement in the Gurkha Justice Campaign - The Record • As the earth warms and glaciers melt, the risk of glacial lake outburst floods grows - The Record • Why are police so quick to shoot during protests in the Tarai? - The Record • The right to bodily autonomy - The Record • How Kathmandu’s new leaders can do right by the city - The Record • For female health workers, it’s like the pandemic never ended - The Record • Leaving no one behind - The Record • Kathmandu’s garbage problem is a mess - The Record • Ramesh Shrestha: ‘English from all over the world is now highly acceptable’ - The Record • How Balen Shah, Harka Rai, and Gopi Hamal won their elections - The Record • Meetings on Lipu Lekh - The Record • What we don’t talk about when we talk about cringe - The Record • Gulabi Sambad: Discussing what needs discussion - The Record • Five misconceptions about Rana Tharus - The Record • The Chinese who are learning Nepali - The Record • Insights from Tilotamma Municipality on environmental governance - The Record • Why aren’t more women selected as candidates? - The Record • Nepal votes for local leadership - The Record • Everything you need to know before you go vote - The Record • How not to let Powerpoint kill a presentation - The Record • Lalitpur’s mayoral frontrunners - The Record • Exploring the barriers to the right to inclusive election in Nepal - The Record • Elections in the age of social media - The Record • Towards a malaria-free South-East Asia - The Record • 2078: A year of strong verbs - The Record • A personal Ramadan - The Record • Covid-19 cases might have gone down but long covid remains - The Record • An archive of consonants - The Record • Twenty-five years of South Asian storytelling - The Record • Buddhisagar: 'If I hadn't written Karnali Blues, I wouldn't be who I am today' - The Record • Essential lessons I’ve learned as a writer - The Record • Ensuring that local polls are truly free and fair - The Record • The personal and the public - The Record • Birdwatching in minus-degree weather - The Record • Dai - The Record • The joy of writing - The Record • In Madhes Province, voters turning away from Madhes-based parties - The Record • What once was lost - The Record • Slowing down for mindful action - The Record • The humanity of climate change in ‘The weight of water’ - The Record • Goodbye 2078: A year of inspiring Writing Journeys • Alternative justice in Dolpo - The Record • Moving mediums with Sunita Maharjan - The Record • Kunsaang: ‘I need to write, even just to prevent our stories from getting lost’ - The Record • Convenience over community - The Record • Nepalis in the land of the rising sun - The Record • Air Pollution: One of Nepal’s key policy failures - The Record • From Darchula to Dharchula, every day for work - The Record • Prashanta Khanal: ‘Cooking nurtures your body, writing nurtures your mind’ - The Record • Dammed if we do, dammed if we don’t - The Record • Not out of the Covid woods yet - The Record • Why the success of my Gurkha book should matter to us all - The Record • Addressing gender violence in cyberspace - The Record • Ujjwal Prasai: ‘Don’t just read what is popular’ - The Record • Disenfranchised – millions of Nepalis have no voting rights • Taudaha and the future of migratory birds - The Record • Women’s representation and intersectional (un)inclusion - The Record • The Record’s favorite writing advice - The Record • Four takeaways from the latest UN Climate Report for Nepal - The Record • Inclusion in teaching, inclusion in learning - The Record • Nepal’s impeachment template: justice or a political ploy? - The Record • Linguistically limited - The Record • The easiest way to improve your writing quickly: fix your verbs - The Record • Looking back at Nepal’s feminist movement – and looking forward • Communities know their forests best - The Record • Looking back to keep looking forward - The Record • Sabin Ninglekhu: ‘Validation is to be found in the struggle within’ - The Record • Ukraine and the political value of renewable energy - The Record • Three incidents that changed my writing career - The Record • Pedaling as an act of rebellion - The Record • A moon over Kathmandu — in Queens - The Record • Laxman Gnawali: ‘Students need good models of writing to learn from’ - The Record • How accurate is Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll? - The Record • Politically pardoned - The Record • What happens to the animals that die on roads? - The Record • Whether in Nepal or in the US, caste persists - The Record • Raju Syangtan: ‘I look for stories about the downtrodden, crushed by power, strength, and structures’ - The Record • Climate change as a driver of child marriage - The Record • All love in a day - The Record • A tale of displacement for conservation - The Record • The poor person’s pandemic - The Record • Sanjib Chaudhary: ‘Unearthing unknown details motivates me to write’ - The Record • Clearing the air on the MCC - The Record • How one journalist’s dogged reporting got a man released from prison - The Record • Partisan interests once again govern politics - The Record • Bhutan’s shame: why the world must continue to remember the expulsion of ethnic Nepalis - The Record • Tom's top tips for tip-top English - The Record • Nepal’s climate change migrants - The Record • Wildlife pay the price for unplanned infrastructure - The Record • Fewer public vehicles, more commuters - The Record • Leaving business and turning to writing at the age of 50 - The Record • Nepal Now podcast - The Record • Writing about writing about writing - The Record • NFTs explained - The Record • How Ghandruk persevered throughout the pandemic - The Record • Dying as a migrant worker in a pandemic - The Record • The grass is greener - The Record • Internally democratic - The Record • The lasting scars of war: sexual violence during the conflict - The Record • The third wave - The Record • The climate change analogy in Netflix's 'Don't Look Up' - The Record • The pandemic’s batch of home-based bakers - The Record • Why have Nepali banks increased interest rates on deposits? - The Record • Indu Tharu: Whatever I want to write about has to touch my soul - The Record • That iconic portrait of Prithvi Narayan Shah - The Record • Remembering, forgetting: Why we must write conflict and violence - The Record • Addressing the past, imagining a future - The Record • The rhetoric of freedom of expression - The Record • Burning despair - The Record • Writing strategies in action - The Record • How does a child lose their language? - The Record • 2021: The year in climate review - The Record • The need to regulate psychologists in Nepal - The Record • The smart city of Waling - The Record • Beneath our rock bottoms - The Record • Film is not dead - The Record • Inside the People’s Liberation Army: A military perspective - The Record • Doing business showed me the world - The Record • Across the Tarai with Ujala Shrestha - The Record • Encountering art - The Record • Ajaya Dixit: ‘Water is about people, politics, and power’ - The Record • Exploitation and harassment await young people joining the workforce - The Record • Taking a look at Kathmandu’s growing coffee culture - The Record • Musahars on the margins - The Record • Momo madness in New York City - The Record • Dismay and discrepancy at COP26 - The Record • Sahina Shrestha: ‘I like exploring different forms of storytelling’ - The Record • Menstrual health is everybody’s business - The Record • Portrait of a neighborhood: Na: Gha Twaa - The Record • Adapting with time - The Record • Where does Nepal stand in global cyberspace - The Record • Keeping the dapha alive - The Record • Tenzin Dickie: ‘Writing is how I make sense of my world’ - The Record • What does the drying up of Manang’s Gangapurna Lake mean for climate change - The Record • A death foretold - The Record • The dogfather - The Record • Understanding the intersections of disability and sexuality - The Record • What constitutes sexual harassment at the workplace? - The Record • COP26 in review: The good and the bad - The Record • As a new variant of concern circulates, experts say Nepal needs to step up preventive measures - The Record • More cats for Kathmandu • The song and the soil • From soldier to businessman • A revival in vinyl • Sonia Awale: ‘Writers and journalists must be patient’ • Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables • The Uranw and their Karma festival • Tracing the story of the yarsagumba • All eyes on the 2021 census • The unplundering of Nepal’s artifacts • Tom’s eight favorite sentences structures • NRNs might have left the country but they remain Nepali at heart • How climate change is affecting Solukhumbu’s potatoes • The scars of corporal punishment • Planting indigenous crops to build climate resilience • Rohan Chhetri: 'I’m interested in exhuming dormant traditions and stories • Superduper handy dandy easypeasy sentences • The Indian checkposts, Lipu Lekh, and Kalapani • Art sells, but who’s buying? • An alternative development paradigm for Nepal • What India’s coal crisis could mean for Nepal • Mukta Singh Tamang: ‘Writing to power requires reading against the grain’ • The Dhimal art of weaving • Bhawana Shrestha: ‘There is a highly unmet need for safe and effective non-hormonal contraception’ • Realigning justice with the judiciary • All eyes on COP26 • Climate consequences and COP26 • Richa Bhattarai: 'A day that I do not write is a day wasted' • Leaving the Gurkhas • What led to the violence in Motipur that left four people dead? • Bacteria and the Bagmati • When it rains, its pours • Akhilesh Upadhyay: ‘Reading gives us insight; writing makes us precise’ • Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us? • The winning addiction • Using crowdfunding to access healthcare • In reconstruction, local ownership goes a long way • Rajendra Maharjan: 'Changing the world with words' • In memory of Kamla Bhasin • Not always in the public interest • Sixteen Nepalis have illegally invested in offshore companies in overseas tax havens • Constitutionally compromised • We need to talk about climate change trauma • No doctors for hospitals • Excellent essays and outstanding op-eds • In Mahottari, reclaiming riverbeds for farmland • Scrub typhus, with its similarities to Covid-19, is leading to confusion — and deaths • From the hills of Dhampus to the city of Hong Kong • Retelling indigenous Tamang people’s torment and trauma through sacred seeds, handmade paper, and slates • Understanding and preventing suicides • Dhirendra Nalbo: ‘We can all be thinkers and writers’ • Chamero, chiuri, and Chepangs • To MCC or not to MCC • Six years since promulgation, problems remain with the constitution • Barriers to inclusive education • Ethics and engagement in community art • Anagha Neelakantan: ‘Write because it makes you think or feel’ • Drowning in the deluge • The perils of toxic rhetoric • Everest’s porters shoulder the heaviest burdens of the pandemic • What fostering a pair of owlets taught me • Algorithms and affection • Dev Datta Joshi: ‘Effective writing plays a vital role in changing society’ • Nepalis are not just climbing mountains but studying them too • Down in the dumps • Rain and havoc • Understanding and accepting my disorder • Social contracts under the CPC in China • The systemic silencing of stories of harassment • Understanding the Tharu perspective on the 2015 Tikapur incident • Young Nepalis are waking up to the climate crisis, but officials aren’t listening • Chaitanya Mishra: ‘I enjoy seeking to answer the question ‘Why?’’ • The salt traders of Karnali • Melamchi’s misfortune is far from over • Why cities fail: Urban development lessons for the Kathmandu Valley • Sleepwalking into a digital world • The Araniko Highway conundrum • Less is more: Three blunders and one advanced tip • Meet Muni Bahadur Shakya, a pioneering Nepali computer scientist • Everest diplomacy in the Sino-Nepali relationship • Nepal’s controversial move to cash in on wildlife farming • Difficult road ahead for the Sher Dhan government • The task of the translator • Nepal Now podcast • Sarita Pariyar: ‘Who is going to tell our stories?’ • I am a Tharu from Chitwan and I ask, conservation for whom? • The Taliban returns, Kabul falls, and Afghans despair • What the UN’s ‘Code Red’ climate report means for Nepal • Ji and the cost of name suffixes • Living with garbage • The fishing village and the stolen boat • Menstrual cup conversations • Tribhuvan University continues in-person exams despite widespread outcry • The networking of politics: families, funds, and favoritism • Migrant workers still struggle to get verified jab certificates • Masks save lives, but they’re also leading to a gargantuan waste problem • Celebration, censorship, and indifference: Nepali theater in the shadow of the state • Why Kathmandu needs a ‘green necklace’ • The global normalization of climate injustice • Why the Gurkhas are once again staging a hunger strike in the heart of London • The rising burden of chronic diseases in Nepal • Biratnagar’s vaccination drive mirrors Kathmandu’s chaos • Sanjay Upadhya: ‘Question your assumptions, play the devil’s advocate’ • Forest dwelling women blend sustainability and indigenous handicrafts • Reining in presidential overreach in a fledgling republic • Kathmandu’s vaccination drive refuses to lose its chaotic edge • Off the Record 016: Nepal at the Olympics • Hewing raw stone into things of beauty • Have scholarship, cannot travel • Chandrakishore: ‘A good story must have multiple perspectives' • Holding on, letting go--Dawa Ghale • Checking power and balancing the law--Avasna Pandey • The road ahead for Sher Bahadur Deuba-- The Record • Why all Nepalis should care about a rock in the Koshi River--Kaushal Yadav • Off the Record 015: Deuba for the fifth time • How do high flying Himalayan birds survive the frigid cold?--Saugat Bolakhe • Landslides are at the heart of Nepal’s climate vulnerability--Shuvam Rizal • Blame the system, not yourself--Tom Robertson • Neglected by the state, broken by the pandemic-- Marissa Taylor • Lessons from a year-and-a-half of virtual education--Nishi Rungta • Supreme Court reinstates Parliament again, thwarting Oli’s plans-- The Record • Caste: from rented rooms to the halls of the state--Aahuti • Off the Record 014: Specter of secularism • Valley slums face torrential problems-- Aishwarya Baidar • What does it mean to be a casteist?-- Tarun Timlasina • Manjushree Thapa: ‘It never gets easier, but I love writing’--Tom Robertson • No end in sight for survivors of domestic abuse-- Sonam Lama • The vaccination digital divide-- Samik Kharel • Conservation comes at a cost in Chitwan National Park-- Peter Gill • The advantages, drawbacks, and alternatives to electric vehicles-- Shuvam Rizal • Caste persists, nurtured by the state-- Shradha Ghale • Dipak Gyawali: ‘The hours moved like lazy cattle across a landscape’-- Tom Robertson • Justice, better late than never--Sambridh Ghimire • How feasible is Nepal’s e-mobility plan?--Marissa Taylor • The changing nature of Boudha’s relationship with water--Minket Lepcha • Lying to survive: Dalits in urban life --Gauri Nepali • Why Nepal's stock market is booming amidst a pandemic-- Aishwarya Baidar • Mansplaining, misogyny, and trolling on Clubhouse-- Nirvana Bhandary • Janak Raj Sapkota: ‘Ordinary people have extraordinary experiences’-- Tom Robertson • How urban design and planning failed cycling in Kathmandu-- Prashanta Khanal • Treated as family but worked like slaves--Sandhya Sitoula, Kripa Basnyat • Nepal’s turn away from representative democracy--George Varughese, Sushav Niraula • Death and devastation with the arrival of the monsoon-- Marissa Taylor • Vaccines are on the horizon, but there’s still no telling when they will arrive-- Ishita Shahi • Kalpana Jha: ‘Writing provides a voice to my feelings, and adds value to my struggles.’ -- Tom Robertson • Short-term profits, long-term losses - Shuvam Rizal • Oli’s attempts to rule by dicta-- Robin Sharma • Riding into the future: A short history of women and cycling in Nepal -- Prashant Khanal • Stateless in their own country-- Raksha Ram Harijan • Hisila: An insider’s account of the Maoist war and its aftermath - Meena Poudel • Despite subsidised loans, red tape and poorly formulated business plans hinder entrepreneurship -Ishita Shahi • The rise and fall of the Kathmandu Valley’s cycling culture-- Prashanta Khanal • Hell is other people--Deepesh Paudel • Prescriptions during the pandemic-- Deewash Shrestha • Amidst Covid-19 and climate change, a mental health crisis looms-- Shuvam Rizal • Abuse and physical violence for frontline health care workers--Ishita Shahi • A million vaccines to come from China, but will it be enough?--Ishita Shahi • Private citizens in Nepal and abroad lobby for vaccines--Pranaya Sjb Rana, Ishita Shahi • Be kind to your mind: preserving your mental health-- Aishwarya Baidar • How peaceful is Nepal really? - Pranaya SJB Rana and Ishita Shahi • Nepal Now podcast by Marty Logan • For the airport yet to come - Sabin Ninglekhu • Dalit deaths and the longevity of caste - Supriya Manandhar and Dewan Rai • Untouchable stories of touchable vaginas - Sarita Pariyar • What is and isn’t in a word? - Suresh Bishwakarma