British Library Sound Archive – Music from Nepal. Today (Wednesday) 22 March from 12 to 1 pm, live on nts.live
Selection and mix by Rahul Giri, Resonations artist-in-residence during 2022. Supported by the British Council.
@NTSlive@soundarchive@dashrhl
'I have been reimagining and re-contextualizing these recordings - extracting and exploring elements of noise, drone and dissonance to soundtrack aspects of Nepali migrant workers journey.'
@dashrhl on his digital residency with us and @soundarchive@britishlibrary.
#Resonations
ALT A black and white photograph of a man sat down wearing a light coloured turban and dark clothing. He is playing a traditional strings instrument, behind him are trees.
This week's 'Recording of the Week' comes from Chandan Mahal, Learning Projects Manager for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project: ‘Acts of protest: Women and the Indian independence movement’. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision…
“Portugal is the khaadi (Gulf) equivalent of Europe." | Nepalis chasing the European dream through irregular migration recordnepal.com/chasing-the-…@bbhrikuti
“We now live in a country where a household earning more than Rs. 75 per day is considered above the poverty line, while an upper caste household earning Rs. 2,222 a day is considered economically weak.” @the_hindu
The 'meteoric rise' in sympathy for rape-accused Lamichhane.
In this week's Cold Takes, we call out Nepali Media's Himpathy problem.
bojubajai.substack.com/p/tak…
This isn’t just abt Apurva and that one clip. It is abt the state creating fear by showing the lengths it can go to surveil and punish us for what we say/do on the internet. अस्ति Pranesh Gautam, अनि त्यसपछि vten, आज Apurva, tmrw it could be anyone of us.
ekantipur.com/Interview/2022…
So, Meta has put one of the country’s worst people at spreading hate and misinformation on a privilege list that allows him to bypass all moderation and even get posts removed on priority without any checks.
Hey @mosseri is this how it works? thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya…