So, as reported in the article copied below, Kathmandu is in a condition of general road strikes. There is a great deal of hubbub about petroleum prices–basically the government can’t afford to subsidize the stuff, and it costs the same here as it does in the states.
Only, most people here earn no more than a [...]
This from today’s Kathmandu Post:
A Plague of Strikes Upon Us?
Kantipur Report
KATHMANDU, June 22 - At least four strikes - Valley and Nepal bandas — in a month and many more in the making. As if the rest of the country felt left out in the Valley-only transport strike on Saturday called by student unions and transporters’ [...]
Went to the village today to find our third girl. If it sounds like ‘how on earth is it that they’re 9 days from leaving and they’ve yet to cast this thing?’… well, you’re right. It was freaking us out as well.
But doing this kind of work in unfamiliar settings, across language and cultural divides, [...]
After a long and illuminating Skype conversation with our dear friend and CDBO (Chief of Documentary Brainstorming Operations), Chris Boulton, we resolved that our film is about women.
What drives most of the conversations we’re involved in here is this simple fact: When women break the generational cycle of undereducation, early marriage, and overwork–only then does their [...]
Even in a vastly simplified form, a discussion of Nepal’s caste system is almost meaninglessly dense for a big-picture guy such as myself. Nominally outlawed before I was born, there nevertheless persists a deep and socially meaningful set of caste divisions in society here.
One of the Little Sisters is of an Untouchable caste. Not entirely coincidentally, [...]
