Look at me now
Article and photograph by : edamame The year is 2009. I am wearing my favorite tights, the black see-through ones with bright neon blue lines that create long spirals around the length of my legs when I put them on. I am topless; lying on my stomach with my ass on...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report on Digital Rights in Nepal (July – September 2021)
Digital Nepal and Smart Cities; Promises made, but not kept When the government launched Nagarik App, it was with the promise of making services easier and decreasing the lines at the government offices. However, some of the services take longer now after...
४ युटुवर पक्राउ सम्बन्धी घटनाबारे हाम्रो धारणा
नेपाल प्रहरीले हालसालै ४ जना युट्युबरहरुलाई महिलाको चरित्र हत्या गरेको आरोपमा पक्राउ गरेको छ । उक्त सन्दर्भमा यस्तो खालको जटिल विषयलाई केही सामाजिक साँस्कृतिक परिवेश र यसको डिजिटल अधिकारसँगको अन्र्तसम्बन्धबारे केलाउदै हाम्रो आफ्नो टिप्पणी प्रस्तुत गर्न चाहन्छौं ।...
Exposé by Shuvangi Khadka
Content Creator: Shuvangi Khadka "Suddenly I realize, I am hovering in the phone cloud somewhere. This is me, her, they, you, she, us. Our pictures floating in strange hands, sold in the value of discarded paper, and glass.. traded in locker rooms. I never show...
मञ्जुरी विना हुने अनलाइन हिंसा
हामीकहाँ सम्बन्धमा ‘कन्सेन्ट’ अर्थात् सहमति र मञ्जुरीका कुरा त्यति बहसमा आउने गर्दैन । प्रेम सम्बन्धलाई त्यति खुला रूपमा नस्वीकार्ने र यौनलाई अश्लील मानिने हुँदा यस्ता विषयको बहस घोषित/अघोषित रूपमा सतहमा आउन पाएको छैन । त्यसो त व्यक्ति–व्यक्तिबीच असमान शक्ति...
Privacy in the Pandemic
The corona pandemic isn’t a purely medical issue, it entangles all aspects of human lives, including our privacy, protection and dignity.
Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
The prevalence of early marriage in Nepal remains high. UNICEF reports that 37% of girls in Nepal marry before age 18, of which 10% are married by age 15. In 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on the prevalence of child marriages in Nepal. The main...
Biometrics have arrived. Here’s what could go wrong with them
In Laal Purja, the popular television series of the 1990s, Hari Bansha Acharya plays Ghanshyam, a simpleton and the sole heir to property coveted by outside investors. Dhurbe, played by Madan Krishna Shrestha, is a local agent trying to usurp Ghanshyam’s land. As the...