An excerpt of a conversation between an anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, PhD and Lava Deo Awasthi, PhD, the first Chairperson of the Language Commission of Nepal. Nepali Times: What is the role ...

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...

Singha Durbar was built by Chandra Shumsher Rana in 1924 and was once the largest palace in Asia. After the fall of the Ranas, it became the seat of government, the front façade that survived a ...

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