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Dear Nepali Times Readers,
How times have changed, and how they have not especially for women in Nepal. Dhiru Bista lives in remote Achham district. She was married at 15 and first got pregnant two years later. Of the 12 babies she has given birth to only seven survived, all daughters. During her last pregnancy this year, she almost did not make it.
On page 1 of this week's issue, Aruna Uprety writes about Dhiru Bista and women like her for whom accessible medical care is a question of life or death.
Other highlights from this week's print issue:
As Nepal marks 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, Ruby Khan makes an impassioned plea for justice from her sit-in near Singha Darbar.
The Enigma of Arrival of Nepal's Gods
Today marks the return of Patan's Laxmi-Narayan which had been stolen in 1984 from its temple in Patko Tole and returned to Nepal in April. the idol's re-consecration sets a hopeful precedent and addresses new-found challenges. Ashish Dhakal's piece on page 10-11.
Artrepreneurs
On page 6-7 we have stories of women from Mithila and a boy from Jumla, and how art became their escape from the world and the route to economic empowerment.
Also watch the video:
Face-to-face to Counter Facebook
Sakar Pudasaini starts his new monthly column 'Makeshift' from this issue. In the first installment he proposes that the best way for peripheral nations to counter the ills revealed in the Facebook Papers is simple: lots of face to face meetings over cups of chia and plates of samosa.
On this week's Backside column, the Ass has a list of possible mascots for the political parties in Nepal.
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Stay Safe.
Sahina Shrestha
Nepali Times