Few Ideas for Action: A Short Essay on Voluntourism and Orphanage Volunteering

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Next Generation Nepal, NGN an international organization working in the field of child protection, recently released “The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering”, a landmark study on the impact of international volunteering within children institutions in Nepal. Hopefully the Report will help kick out a national conversation on a particular sensitive.

NEPAL 1975 – 2011: An illustrated talk by KEVIN BUBRISKI

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'Photographer Kevin Bubriski has been visually documenting the country and people of Nepal since his first visit in 1975. Sent as a young Peace Corps volunteer to the northwest Karnali Zone, the country’s remotest and most economically depressed region, he spent three years walking the length and breadth of the Karnali, planning and overseeing construction of gravity flow drinking water pipelines. He also photographed the local villagers, producing an extraordinary series of 35mm and large format black & white images.

Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis by Cheryl Colopy [Book Recommendation]

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"Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population.

A new year starts at ENGAGE

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A half full glass for ENGAGE but still a long way ahead. How a costly international pitching competition helped us rethink what we were doing. A year of learning a lot while raising the bar of our work. The blessing of having a great colleague and how a small group of pro bono advisors are making the difference…

Is a Job a Job?

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A piece on jobs, caste and social pressure in Nepal.

Subhash chandra Bose, an extraordinary freedom fighter

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about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, his contribution in the history of freedom struggle, his contribution in Freedom moment of India and Indian Independence. subhas chandra bose had founded travel to many countries to get the support for Azad Hind Fauj to overthrow British Empire from India.

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