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,…
Women and Work
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…