Conference Year: 2020

The partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947 sparked the development of an Indian military complex specifically dedicated to addressing the foreign threats posed at the new nation’s mountainous borders. The Siachen Glacier, north of Ladakh, now lay at a strategic point where the borders of India, Pakistan, and China now met. …

Nation Building at Altitude: How the Indian Military Sustains War on the Siachen Glacier Read More »

The nexus between migration and Water Induced Disaster (WID) has commonly been referred in the previous research. In particular, previous studies often describe migration as a coping strategy for the climate and water induced disaster. Yet, very limited studies have been conducted in the past which reveals migration as a triggering factor to promote disaster …

Role of Migration in Driving Water Induced Disaster Read More »

Among various issues faced globally, that of identity has concurrently created headlines. So the same in Nepal, the recent political changes has highlighted the topic, consequently bringing about a revival for museums. For centuries Nepal remained a closed nation, reliant on religion and its scriptures for political, social, and cultural administration. In the mid19th CE, …

Museums Fulfilling a Socio-Political Cause Read More »

In 2015, a massive earthquake hit Nepal and caused enormous damages. This study aims to draw the memories and mourning of this incident through several cases, by considering who are mourned, who commemorate the earthquake, and how this process is carried out. In contemporary world, deaths from disasters are often collectively mourned by local governments …

Memories and Mourning of the Gorkha Earthquake in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Read More »

A successful approach to adaptation requires new imagination that is guided by the vision of synergy and complementarity, different from commonly applied top-down and siloed approaches. Higher-level analytics based on scientific and bureaucratic framing has been dominant in adaptation plans, policies, and programs. As James Scott argues in his seminal book, Seeing Like a State, …

Transdisciplinary Approach for Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Gandaki River Basin Read More »

The Feminist Memory Project is an on-going initiation by Nepal Picture Library to build a visual archive of Nepali women’s feminist history. The first phase of this project was showcased in Photo Kathmandu Festival 2018 in a public exhibition around Patan Durbar Square area titled “The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project”. According …

In Search of the Missing Images: Analysing a Feminist Shift in Visual Culture in Nepal Read More »

Nepal’s internal political conflict (1996-2006) instigated by the Maoist insurgency displaced tens of thousands of children. Its traditional culture of extended family caring for orphan and vulnerable children was inadequately prepared to care for so many children. To address the plight of the orphans and children from vulnerable families, many organizations funded by the internal …

Political Conflict, Natural Disaster and Displacement of Children and Evolution of Institutional Care of Children in Nepal Read More »

In the last two decades, Nepal’s education system has undergone significant decentralization process conferring financial powers and responsibilities, among others, to the local governments (LGs) and school actors. The Constitution of Nepal, 2015 and Local Governance Operation Act 2017 has further institutionalized such powers and functions to LGs relating managing school education. At the school …

The Dynamics of Financial Accountability in Nepal’s Community Schools Read More »

This paper examines the motivations for Christian conversion in the Kathmandu Valley among people who have migrated from rural to urban Nepal.  It is based on in depth interviews conducted with 40 individuals in the Kathmandu area from June to August 2019 and on observation of multiple Christian church services during the same period. I …

Motivations for Christian Conversion Among Rural to Urban Migrants in the Kathmandu Valley Read More »

This paper argues that the strategic politics of exclusion prevailing within Hindu societies of south Asian countries has divided labour and humanity conspicuously. The arrangement of rules and regulations could not prevent stigmatic practice of untouchability from the conventional Nepalese society; 13.6 percentage members from the oppressed communities have been facing discriminations. It elucidates how …

Impacts of Contradictions Among Dalits for Peace-Building in Post-Conflict Nepal Read More »