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Common Threads: South Asian Women’s Art in Kathmandu

Being an artist is difficult. In South Asia, it can be discouraging due to poor state funding, perplexed parents, and opaque market prospects.

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Silence and Soundscapes

After a night of bad sleep, I was frazzled all day. By six in the evening, unable to do anything else, I lay down and reached for my phone, hoping a podcast I’d noted might help kill time; or even better, lull me to sleep.

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Being in Ngawal

One thing I’ve learned in the last five years is the ability to cultivate more stillness. Breathwork was necessary during lockdown, but even after the world opened

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There is no one whom I particularly dislike

Anything written presently is considered modern; although some maintain that literature prepared especially for future generations is modern. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to state that writing that captures the current zeitgeist is modern.

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Book Review
School Education in Nepal: History and Politics of Governance and Reforms
School Education in Nepal: History and Politics of Governance and Reforms

Lokranjan Parajuli, Devendra Uprety and Pratyoush Onta, eds. 2021

Reviewed by Niranjan Kunwar.

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Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education and the Nepali
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Blue Flower
Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal

Edited by Karen Valentin and
Uma Pradhan

Reviewed by Niranjan Kunwar.