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Sweta Gyanu Baniya

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How Covid-19 changed everything

Published On: March 24, 2020 09:55 AM NPT By: Sweta Gyanu Baniya

A week ago, life was different. As I am almost getting done with my PhD, I had planned each day to the utmost perfection. Sundays: Going to bazar, journaling, and recently I was planning on making my Sundays “spiritual.” Yoga for three days a week. Teaching for Tuesdays and Thursdays. A date for Wednesdays and Fridays. And, rest of the time writing my dissertation, which I am defending soon to get Doctorate Degree. Everything was perfectly planned and there was a plan B too. But I didn’t plan to live through yet another disaster—the pandemic, the Covid-19 crisis that has crippled lives of hundreds and thousands of us around the world.

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Let’s rage together

Published On: March 9, 2019 04:08 AM NPT By: Sweta Gyanu Baniya

We get a lot of reports on someone being raped. Why aren’t we asking why this is happening so frequently?

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Save our girls

Published On: July 26, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Sweta Gyanu Baniya

Women in Nepal are advancing careers, breaking boundaries and fighting so many intrinsic social evils. But what do we lack so much to stop Chhaupadi?

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Rage against rape

Published On: March 8, 2018 01:11 AM NPT By: Sweta Gyanu Baniya

How many of the survivors are battling with their life due to “gang rape”? Can we fathom the pain and suffering of these girls and women?

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Redefining Teej

Published On: August 19, 2017 12:26 AM NPT By: Sweta Gyanu Baniya

My 65-year-old Fupu never married but she has fasted since her childhood. She didn’t do so to get a good husband

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