Manushree Mahat

Jun 23, 2024 | kathmandupost.com | Manushree Mahat

Nineteen-year-old Ekta suffers from excruciating pain during her periods. It is far beyond the usual pain and cannot be managed with medication–she’s tried that multiple times. Taking one dose of Meftal (a period pain medication) is never enough. The pain is debilitating most of the time. Despite several visits to gynaecologists, her complaints have been brushed aside as normal period pains. She strongly feels that her pain is abnormal, but feels powerless to address her issues.

Jun 18, 2024 | kathmandupost.com | Manushree Mahat

In ‘Gaun Aayeko Bato’, the young and troublesome Bindre outrageously commandeers the Coca-Cola bottle like a weapon. As he stands in front of his young friends—‘troops’ as he imagines them to be, he pours the hulking bottle of Coca-Cola directly into their mouths amidst the glaring sunlight like some odd, proud messiah of cold drinks. Bindre represents a generation colliding with the changing tides of modernisation.

Jun 14, 2024 | kathmandupost.com | Manushree Mahat

When 24-year-old Samjhana Bishwakarma and her partner Jeshika Gautam sought to rent a place, they were rejected at the last moment when the homeowner knew about their sexual orientation. Everything was all but decided but then the homeowner became dodgy and they eventually had to find a new place to live in. “It was disheartening,” Bishwakarma says. Bishwakarma identifies herself as a lesbian woman, and her partner a masculine lesbian.

Jun 10, 2024 | asianews.network | Manushree Mahat

June 11, 2024 KATHMANDU – Every day, fifty-seven-year old Menuka Basnet sets up her pushcart on the streets and back alleys of Old Baneshwar to sell grilled corn. She is a widow, mother to three children, and the sole earner in her family. She says she earns about Rs300-400 a day, which is hardly enough, but she has been doing this for over a decade now, as she sees no other way to make a living.“I’m at an age when I shouldn’t have to do all of this, but look at me.

Jun 8, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Manushree Mahat

Kathmandu, June 9 -- Every day, fifty-seven-year old Menuka Basnet sets up her pushcart on the streets and back alleys of Old Baneshwar to sell grilled corn. She is a widow, mother to three children, and the sole earner in her family. She says she earns about Rs300-400 a day, which is hardly enough, but she has been doing this for over a decade now, as she sees no other way to make a living. "I'm at an age when I shouldn't have to do all of this, but look at me.