Originally published November 27, 2023, by Revolve Media. My interaction with this language of rivers began in 2007 with my own indigenous Lepcha community while I was in Delhi. To protest the hydropower development in Dzongu, Lepchas from this district in…
The changing nature of Boudha’s relationship with water.
Originally published June 28, 2021, by The Record Nepal. Boudha once had a long and rich relationship with water but with the explosion of concrete houses and paved roads, fresh water is becoming more and more scarce. Many of veteran…
Stories of nature, children, and Covid-19 lockdown: A storyteller’s story
Originally published July 14, 2020, by OnlineKhabar. “No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” – JK Rowling We are living in the times when we need listeners more than speakers; the listeners who can listen from the heart and not…
Changing lives around the Mahakali: Women living along the transboundary river have found their own leaders who empower them to demand their basic rights
Originally published February 12, 2020, by Dialogue Earth. Running their homes while their menfolk migrate in search of work, women living along the Mahakali River that marks Nepal’s western border with India are especially vulnerable to water-related disasters – erosion,…
Lives without men: A photographic account of the lives of women in the transboundary Mahakali River basin as their men migrate in search of work
Originally published February 10, 2020, by Dialogue Earth. Shiva and Parvati are epitomised in Hinduism as the joint protectors of the Himalayas. But men are conspicuously absent from the villages and towns on the banks of the Mahakali – the…
Mahakali women find their voices: A photographic journey among women in the India-Nepal transboundary Mahakali River basin, the first in a series
Originally published February 7, 2020, by Dialogue Earth. “Cackling hens.” Till very recently, the women of far western Nepal were so used to this derisive comment whenever they opened their mouths that they never did. But there is a change…