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Sonia Awale retweeted
Jun 9
Tamang Portraits by Gabriele Tautscher is a masterclass in visual anthropology, but also documents how historical events like border closure with Tibet and modern demographic shifts within Nepal continue to shape Tamang society.
Review by @kundadixit:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Apr 24
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Love thy neighbours (and America)
▶️Silver lining in war clouds
▶️When Aura meets Audit
▶️Birth sleeves and synapses
▶️Rangelands of the Himalaya
▶️Living to tell the tale
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Mar 27
Balendra Shah is set to be sworn in as Nepal's prime minister on Friday. His reticence and reclusiveness have reinforced his brand of not being a talker. But the people he now represents would like to know, and have a right to know, what the PM is up to.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Mar 13
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Big blue wave
▶️As clear as a bell
▶️Rough road for Nepal's new rulers
▶️Nobody ran the campaign. That's why it worked.
▶️The RSP's activist DNA
▶️Motherhood in the Madhes
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Mar 13
#editorial There are many things wrong in Nepal and even with RSP's near two-thirds majority it would be impossible to solve them all overnight. Effective governance takes time and RSP must be given the chance, even if it fails, to make course-corrections.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Feb 20
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️Battleground Tarai
▶️Migrant>returnee>entrepreneur>politician
▶️Rukum in the eyes of its children
▶️Red Alert: Get ready for the wildfire season
▶️Langtang Emmentaler
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Feb 20
Madhes has always been a battleground for Nepal’s electoral politics, and is in the spotlight this election because two prime ministerial candidates have focused their attention in the region.
Read Shristi Karki's report:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
Feb 11
Map aficionados will be fascinated by the 40 antique maps from The Rajbhandari Collection on display at the ongoing exhibition ‘Imaging South Asia: Nepal in the Making at Kathmandu Art Gallery’ at Baber Mahal Revisited.
Read Kunda Dixit's review:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
12 Dec 2025
The real fragility of Nepal’s mountains is of economics and governance, not geology, writes climate scientist Ngamindra Dahal.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
12 Dec 2025
Although there is a youth wave, the three mainstream parties still have their ballot banks among older rural voters. Even in the cities, the disparate new parties and young candidates may dilute the vote allowing the older parties to retain their foothold.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
12 Dec 2025
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? Some highlights here:
▶️ New wine, new bottles
▶️ The Himalaya is not fragile
▶️ Looking good by doing good
▶️ Kangchenjunga in winter
▶️ Going offtrek in Solu
▶️ New Year readings
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Sonia Awale retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Shantanu Dhakal was shot during the anti-corruption in Itahari on 8 September, and spent three weeks in hospital.
Once back home, as he spent time in recovery, he decided to document online his near-death experience and post-protest life.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
5 Dec 2025
This season of NPL is a prettier and more mature product. The TU Stadium has new flood lights and colourful seats from which fans watch not just sixers soaring into the sky but also spectacular sunsets over the mountains.
Read Vishad Raj Onta's round-up:
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Sonia Awale retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? This week's youth-focused issue includes:
▶️A new normal
▶️Guest editorial: Stages of denial
▶️Sacred seed feeds boom
▶️Cricket carnival
▶️Things eventually work out
▶️Doomscrollong democracy
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Sonia Awale retweeted
23 Oct 2025
“Our family’s happiness has been snatched, there is a gaping hole that cannot be filled. There is no Bhai Tika this year.”
This Bhai Tika is especially poignant for those who lost their siblings in last month's protests.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
10 Oct 2025
A month after Nepal's GenZ protests, Prime Minister Sushila Karki is caught in the crossfire between managing the expectations of a movement that appointed her, and working within the framework of her interim government’s mandate.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Have you read this Friday's Nepali Times? In this issue:
▶️One month on
▶️Editorial: Discordant Democracy
▶️Life and times of Nepal Government Railway
▶️Revolution song
▶️Chuden Kabimo interview
▶️National interest vs community needs
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Sonia Awale retweeted
24 Sep 2025
Students have been central to Nepal’s democratic and political process since the mid 20th century. A 2018 book Making New Nepal traces the history of student activism and politics against a background of Nepal’s socio-political history and party politics.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
23 Sep 2025
Enraged by the kleptocracy, many protestors felt it was ok to loot the looters. But burning down a building does not reform make. It will take much more to uproot corruption because its tentacles have burrowed deeply into every sector of the state.
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Sonia Awale retweeted
23 Sep 2025
As a poet, lyricist, and singer, Gopal Yonjan innovated and improvised Nepal’s folk traditions to infuse modern arrangements, meld melody with harmony, and lend them words that made the songs eternal.
Review of new book documenting Yonjan's life and work: nepalitimes.com/here-now/gop…
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