I could still be that 5-year-old boy looking out the window that was made up of bamboo sticks. As I would stare out at the dark sky, I had dreams in my eyes, wanting to fly high. But as soon as I ...

In this July 31, 2019, photo, Tej Kumari Chitrakar makes traditional paintings ahead of Naag Panchami festival at her residence in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Chitrakar families in the Nepalese capital of ...

BANKHET Durpati Nepali hides her face in shame as she recalls how she was forced to return to work as a prostitute after her husband was killed during Nepals 10-year civil war. The 35-year-old mother ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 187-192 (6 pages) Drawing on more than a decade of multidisciplinary ...

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society's caste-based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ethnic relations in Nepal today can be seen as the outcome of long-term processes of accommodation between local groups and a centralizing ...

Despite outlawing the caste system in its 1990 constitution and banning discrimination against the lowest caste in a 2001 law, Nepal — 80 percent Hindu — remains a place where the concept of ...

(New York) – Two recent incidents in which six people were killed show the Nepali government has systematically failed to confront entrenched caste – or descent – based discrimination against Dalits, ...

For some South Asian Americans, moving to the U.S. meant leaving behind the discriminatory caste system in their home country. But in California, accusations of caste-based prejudice at the workplace ...

Nawaraj, a 21-year-old from Jajarkot who loved playing sports and wanted to join the police force, was born into a Dalit family. He fell in love with Sushma Malla, an upper-caste, 17-year-old girl.