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Thursday, December 20, 2018

How to cook elephant foot yam aka oal

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Republished from ECS As the month of Shrawan begins, you’ll see the cycle-wallah and other vegetable vendors selling a round object a...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

A ray of hope for sickle cell patients

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Pills (for representation purpose only). Image by Flickr user Me.  (CC BY 2.0) The World Sickle Cell Awareness Awareness Day just pa...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Look for traditional knowledge if you’re not sure about something

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There’s something special about traditional knowledge. Through countless trial and error our ancestors were able to find out the best way t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Biriya – the delicious dry greens from Nepal’s southern plains

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Have you heard about “biriya”? In southern plains of Nepal, this dry green vegetable, eaten during the rainy season, is quite popular. Duri...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Compiling typical and original Tharu words before they disappear

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Tharu Welfare Society of Deukhuri, Dang is in the final stages of publishing a dictionary of western Tharu language. Sanjib Chaudha...
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

‘Tharu’ identity is part of a political agenda which does not necessarily correspond to the local reality – Gisele Krauskopff

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Gisele Krauskopff. Image from her Facebook page. Gisele Krauskopff , one of the first few researchers to conduct fieldwork in the Thar...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Valuable but neglected – some oil yielding plants from the southern plains of Nepal

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Some plants are valuable but neglected. And among those valuable but neglected are some of the oil yielding plants cultivated in the southe...