Empowered Yet Exposed: Disability in the Age of Technology
-Ajita Devkota In this era, technology has become our heart and brain. We live with technology, we grow with technology, and we shape our perspectives based on what digital media presents to us. Technology has granted us freedom, agency, and the power to...
Media Monitoring Report: GenZ Protest in Nepal
This paper analyzes media coverage of the Gen-Z Protest in Nepal, which began on September 8, 2025. Thousands of youth protested against systemic corruption, nepotism, and the government's ban on 26 social media platforms. Key demands included restoring free speech,...
Not Just a Rumor: Living Through Digital Violence
-Firefly We are in the 21st century where technology and social media is very popular among us. People use it for their day to day basis and life without it seems almost impossible. However, in this era of technology, I am scared to use it all because of that one...
Unsolicited Nudes and Digital Abuse, Not Flirtation
-Binisha maharjan When I was a teenager, I used Facebook and Messenger to connect with my family and friends. As a playful and innocent girl, I liked to share pictures and write statuses every now and then. It wasn’t the era of followers and follow-backs yet,...
अनलाइन जातवाद; अनुभव र प्रभाव
-राधिका परियार मैले फेसबुक चलाउन थालेको सन् २०१३ हो, जति बेला नाम राधिका कार्की राखे । मैले किन कार्की राखे भन्ने कुरा हिमाल खबरमा प्रकाशित लेखमास्पष्ट पारेकि छु । सन् २०१५ देखि २०१९ सम्म मैले राधिका मात्र राखेर चलाए, त्यो समय नाम पछाडिको थर सोध्नेहरुको हरेक...
Violence against women has been deeply scabbed…
Written by Susmita Aryal In the year 2021, when hundreds of women were out on streets for a Women’s march as a protest to fight violence against women. Anshu Khanal, one of the performing artists laid down on a stretcher and was carried all the way from Basantapur to...
Letter to Journalist
Written by Saru Date: 18th October, 2023To, The Journalist, Who stole my story Nepal Subject: Reminder to be accountable Dear Friend, I hope you are doing well. I love reading your writings, I still follow your news stories and I am so glad and happy for the...
There is no one single story to Pride
Written by Neha Gauchan Trigger Warning* mentions of hate speech and experiences of attacks June is the month of much anticipation, not only because it’s Pride month but also because of the beauty it holds by bringing individuals together through...
How Musk’s Twitter buyout may do more to cage the bird than to free it.
Written by Alisha M. "The bird is free," tweeted Elon Musk, a pithy celebratory response to his successful buyout of Twitter. Musk's main ambition for Twitter was to transform it into "an inclusive arena of free speech." However, it turns out that the self-described...
The Allocishet Vision in Schools: A Digital Perspective
Digital surveillance of students by schools, reprehensible in itself, also disproportionately harms queer, trans and gender non-conforming youth Written by Pras Introduction While schools have always been sites of surveillance; monitoring what...