Word: nepali
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...expedition's 75 pieces of luggage. Success has made the group jubilant. This airport lounge has become the mountaineering equivalent of a winning Super Bowl locker room. As they sit amid their luggage, holding Carlsberg beers, they frequently raise a toast. "Shez! Shez!" shouts a climber. That's Nepali for drink! drink! "No epics," a climber chimes in, citing what really matters: no one died...
Devika is one of thousands of Nepali women who endure social injustice and discrimination, most of it sanctified by religion?and ignored by law. This Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas is a man's world, and it seems determined to stay that way. A two-year attempt to change the civil code and go some way toward putting women on an equal footing with men has been bogged down in the national assembly for more than a month by opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four...
Opponents of change base their case on tradition. Constitutional lawyer Ganesh Raj Sharma, who is advising the Nepali government, says any amendment would be disastrous. "Look what happened in India," he says. "Hindu women have been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari...
What is troubling, however, is that all of HIID's resources and international development activities have been shifted toward the newly formed Center for International Development (CID). To an outside observer, this step seems like the tactic of some Nepali hotels that change their names on a regular basis to avoid taxation. Even though CID now has a different, more Cambridge-focused mission--as opposed to HIID, CID does not have any permanent overseas offices--it is in many ways a clone of its scandal-plagued predecessor. CID has adopted many similar projects and employs a large percentage of HIID...