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

 Clearing some common misconceptions about the Tharu on their New Year on Thursday One misconception about the Tharu people is that they nev...

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

Written by Tej Narayan Panjiar Republished from the July/Aug 1993 issue of Himal magazine. Used with permission. A charter at Chapaga...

Pills (for representation purpose only). Image by Flickr user Me.  (CC BY 2.0) The World Sickle Cell Awareness Awareness Day just pa...

There’s something special about traditional knowledge. Through countless trial and error our ancestors were able to find out the best way t...

The recipes and cuisines vary from place to place and get customised according to the tradition and culture. The teraibasi (the inhabitant...

A Tharu house and ducks. Image by Flickr user Jean-François Gornet.CC BY-SA 2.0 If you have visited a rural Tharu household, you must ...

Professor Dr Shiva Kumar Subedi. Image from his Facebook page. Used with permission. Dr Shiva Kumar Subedi, a professor of Nepalese hi...

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...