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छुवाछूतको कुरा उठेपछि उम्मेद्वार नै टाप
January 19, 2022
डोमहरु स्थानीय गैरदलितहरुको अन्याय र विभेदविरुद्ध बोल्न नसक्नुको मुख्य कारण हो जमीनमाथिको स्वामित्व । पुस्तौंदेखि ऐलानी जग्गामा बसेका यहाँको डामहरुको कसैको पनि आफ्नै जग्गा र लालपूर्जा छैन । केही वर्षअघिसम्म भोगचलन गर्दै आएको जग्गा पनि गैरदलितहरुले ‘रामजानकी’ मन्दिरको नाममा…
Casteised economy
January 19, 2022
Bokre, which roughly translates to ‘bark’, is the childhood nickname that my neighbours gave me. I did not know why they nicknamed me bokre until I learned about the livelihood of my grandparents. My ancestors and, by tradition, my grandparents were leather-makers…
The moment of truth
In 1993, Bimala Gayak joined 20-22 peers in Madi Municipality-8 in Chitwan to carry stones and clay and invest money to construct Baikuntheshwar Mahadev Temple. As she explained in a recent talk, after setting up the temple, they started worshipping…
Structural blindness
Caste and patriarchy come up time and again in discussions about Nepal. Yet, somehow both issues escape direct engagement as governance problems. During the last week of November 2018, Tribhuvan University Central Department of Sociology made an effort to delve into these issues…