Lohri as the Harvest Festival of Punjab and Haryana

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Lohri is the Harvest festival of  Punjab as well as Haryana too which is famously known as Breadbasket state of  India. Thus, people residing in Punjab attach a great significance to Lohri. In Punjab, wheat is the main winter crop, which is sown in October and harvested in March or April. In January, the fields come up with the promise of a golden harvest, and farmers celebrate Lohri during this rest period before the cutting and gathering of crops.

Ramblings about a book : The Little Prince

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When a book means much more than a few pages bound together.

The Hyper Christmas in Nepal

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Christmas has been become super trendy and an amazing opportunity to have fun. A pity that many do miss the real meaning of this celebration.

Celebrating volunteerism. Article written with Martina Voss, UNV, Nepal

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We need to do more to lay the foundations for a stronger volunteerism movement in the country.

A Model for Working with People with Disability in Nepal

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The US has a number of examples of facilities and processed that can be adapted in Nepal to help persons with disabilities

2 YAZIDI WOMEN WIN PRESTIGIOUS EU HUMAN RIGHT PRIZE

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Iraqi Yazidi Islamic State survivors and activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar receive the EU Parliament’s 2016 Sakharov Prize during a ceremony in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 December. After escaping sexual enslavement by Islamic State they both became spokespeople for women affected by the terrorist group's campaign of sexual violence and for the persecuted Yazidi minority

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Dynamic Borderlands: Livelihoods, Communities and Flows 5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network starts today

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A very interesting conference is starting today in Kathmandu with scholars with an incredibly diverse background attending from all over the world. The conference is organized by Social Science Baha; International Institute for Asian Studies and the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN).

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT SANTOS: Presentation Speech by Kaci Kullmann Five, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

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The speech of Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, presented by Berit Reiss-Andersen, deputy chair of the Committee, Oslo, 10 December 2016. Prize motivation: "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"

International Human Rights day: EU and USA pushes CHINA to free political prisoners ( from the Guardian)

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Surely the EU and USA have a lot to improve themselves and they should not preaching other countries but China needs to find other ways to assert itself and win over its fears. Oppressing activists is not a way for China to claim global leadership.

Stand up for someone’s rights today Human Rights Day 2016

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Many of us are fearful about the way the world is heading. Messages of intolerance and hatred prey on our fears. But we can change the course by reaffirming our common humanity and taking action to support everyone’s human rights.

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