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Gaurab KC

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Assessing the cracks in reconstruction process

Published On: October 12, 2020 05:33 AM NPT By: Gaurab KC

The government and NRA, through numbers and visual narratives, presented a success story of the reconstruction but social and political cracks that appeared following the earthquake were different.

Recollecting post-earthquake reconstruction

Published On: October 5, 2020 07:30 AM NPT By: Gaurab KC

The credit for the success of reconstruction process solely goes to the earthquake survivors themselves who managed the money by borrowing loans from various sources.

Revitalizing sociology and anthropology

Published On: January 22, 2020 09:57 AM NPT By: Gaurab KC

Visual images are powerful mediums in understanding people and the society. They help us memorialize the events of the past from the present. Last Friday (January 17), I was in North Bengal University, Siliguri, to attend International Seminar on State-Society Relationship in the Himalayas—organized by Centre for Himalayan Studies. There I presented a paper on the trajectory of anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista and his seminal work People of Nepal, published in 1967. Along with my presentation, I had planned to display some of the photographs of Bista. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do so due to a technical hitch that occurred during my presentation.