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"After all, there is one race-humanity", very well said by George Moore. But there are numerous kinds of discrimination and oppression still prevalent throughout the world in the name of caste, creed, gender, race and ethnicity. The developed nations are not also totally untouched by this fever. African and South -Asian countries witness such cases in galore. Nov 25 is marked as International Day for Violence against Women worldwide. Regarding our context, violence against women is at rise despite the cliche in Nepalese society-" Yatra naryastu pujyante , ramante tatra Devata " ( God dwells where women are worshipped). Women occupy more than fifty percent of Nepalese demographic statistics. Nepal itself faces various types of oppression and the victims are always the fairer sex. Generally, a woman is a mother who gives birth to you, up brings you nursing every time, a daughter that helps you in household chores, a wife that serves you from dawn to dusk to keep ...

   Panoramic hills enlivened by recent downpour, crystal-clear and haze free atmosphere, blue sky shimmering in mild sunbeam, birds stretching their wings in dustless air, dwarfed multi-storey business buildings, people striding along the pavements like puppets, age-old temples and squares steadily waiting to be renovated, motor- vehicles rushing like toys in the thoroughfare and, to everyone’s chagrin, a dense concrete jungle spread all over the fertile land of Kathmandu valley--its a glimpse of a bird-eye view from atop historic Dharahara that I chanced to have in July last year.    The scenario could have been depicted more beautifully had there been a poet instead of a simpleton like me.The ones craving to swallow the ecstatic landscape through naked eyes must get there in person. The proof of the pudding is indisputably in the eating. It so happened that I was ambling down the downtown street along with Narayan, an effervescent student of mine who ex...