Category: UWB Photo Blog

  • Kirtipur & Patan Through Lens

    Patan and Kirtipur witnessed the biggest protest on the second day of the General Strike Photo Blog by Raja Ram Gautam Tinkune Photos by Deepak Adhikari KIRTUPUR

  • Looking For Ram Bahadur Bamjom, the Buddha Boy of Nepal

    There is no Buddha Boy meditating under the Peepal Tree. Searching efforts have begun as Nepalis and interested people around the world question how this happened and where the 16-year-old Ram Bahadur Bomjam might have gone. A photo blog by Upendra Lamichhane and Shankar Acharya Look Ma, there is no Buddha Boy. This is the…

  • In The Name of Revolution

    General people in Nepal are paying the price of the bloody war Many Internally Displaced People in Nepal are going through difficult situation like this woman in the photo. Nimakala Pun, 58, has been performing the same daily routine lively hood for the last eight years in Liwang, the headquarters of Rolpa districts. She is…

  • Yes, Comrade is Playing with a Child

    And the child is apparently frightened by the comrade’s toy. This is an example of how giving arms to insane people like the one in the photo could deeply harm our society in the long run. What the two-year-old child (right) might be thinking and how other children standing beside the comrade might grow up?…

  • Bomb Effects: Palpa, Bhairahawa

    Look ma, they got new toys: In this photo, children of Bhutuke village of Jyameere VDC, Palpa district, are seen playing with abandoned bullets and parts of bombs. A heavy fighting between Maoists and security force took place in the village in the second week of Magh. Pic by Madhav Aryal The Bal Mandir (Orphanage)…

  • Terror and Tourists in Pokhara

    Yes, the life goes on… in Nepali style…and in foreign style. Despite all those bomb blasts and killings, it seems, life in Nepal turns into normalcy the day after… Take this example from Pokhara…The other day bombs exploded, civilians were injured…then the next day saw army folks painstakingly trying to defuse a fake bomb. Tourists…

  • Images From Kavre Clash

    Maoists rebels, declared terrorists by the state, killed three army men in the Monday (Feb 27) morning clash at Kavre Bhanjyang of Kavre Palanchwok district. All pics except the last two by Chandra Shekhar Karki. Terrified local girls of Kavre Bhanjyang were apparently unable to speak with eachother after some of them saw the battle…