As they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to one particular work on display. They are three canvases titled DDT ...

Manju Chaudhary sinks her hand into a little pond and brings up a tiny, conch-shaped shell. Inside it is an even tinier water snail. When she has collected a handful she goes to the kitchen, where she ...

The bustling tourist town of Sauraha, around 180 kilometres from Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu, seldom rests. Nor do the streets. However, the streets of nearby Baghmara in Ratnanagar look deserted.

Tikapur (Kailali): Bhadrabir Chaudhary of Durgauli is dejected over the breach of relations between people from Tharu community and non-Tharu community following Tikapur incident. Chaudhary however is ...

Maghi Parba marks the arrival of a new calendar for the Tharu community from the South West of Nepal's Terai region on 1 Magh in the Nepali calendar. Arun Aryan Chaudhary, Public Relations Officer of ...

KATHMANDU: Jitiya, the main festival celebrated by married women of Tharu community, commenced with the observance of the Naha Kha ritual on Friday, in Mithila region. Naha Kha means to take food ...

In the Bardiya region of Nepal, near the western border with India, Bhadai Tharu grew up with tales of tigers. They were not common in the forests around his home. At the turn of the 20th century, ...

A radio station, guest house and MP's home were vandalised in Tikapur Residents of a town in north-western Nepal have defied a curfew imposed after deadly clashes, torching homes and vandalising ...

Residents of a town in north-western Nepal have defied a curfew imposed after deadly clashes, torching homes and vandalising buildings, police say. Much of it was targeted against the ethnic Tharu ...