Nepal’s rising ranks of women farmers
As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up
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As men migrate for work, Nepal’s women are increasingly taking up agriculture – but society, policies and support systems are slow to catch up
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Set in Toronto’s Tibetan community, Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘100 Sunset’ captures raw realities of diasporic life in sharp contrast to the false glamour migrants project to audiences back home
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Thant Myint-U’s new book on his grandfather, the first non-white secretary-general of the UN, revisits an era when the institution inspired expectations of internationalist diplomatic leadership that have since faded away