A fish tattoo on the hands of Bhuti Devi Chaudhary from Sunsari Many indigenous peoples throughout the world have inked tattoos – for aesthe...

Monochrome bull in alley photo by Adam Sherez ( mr_sherez) on Unsplash No doubt, Tharus have been tilling the earth for centuries. And...

With the changing times, the festival celebrations are changing throughout the world. And so is the state of ancient festivals that are on ...

I was surprised and happy to get an email from Dr Charles Norris Brown , an adjunct faculty from the University of Vermont. I had been lead...

The name of Biyahi River has been changed to Behai without the local community's consent. If you want to erase a community’s histo...

Aginsair temple The Chure hills in Saptari district of Eastern Nepal houses ruins of ancient temples and palaces supposed to be built b...

Ashok Tharu with Sarita Pachhaldangya Ashok Tharu, a legendary Tharu scholar, has dedicated his life to unearthing the different facets...

 By Yajju Chaudhary Once there was a landlord named Tirhut Maijh. Along with him lived his son, daughter-in-law and his only baby gra...

Gopichand and Biruwa were brother and sister. As Gopichand grew up, he became a gudariya (a hermit). His sister got married to a rich pers...

Once upon a time there were two sisters – Tilmajhni and Chaurmajhni. Chaurmajhni always got favours from her mother but her step-sister Ti...

Hope you liked the two Tharu folk tales collected by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Mueller-Boeker. Here's the story of Hansraj and Bansraj narrated ...