Hi everyone. I’m Marty Logan. Thank you for clicking on this episode of Nepal Now: On the Move, where we speak with some of the huge number of people leaving – and occasionally returning – to this country wedged between India and China. Bharat

Nepal Now, Right Now: New micro-episodes

11 days ago 5m 8s

This is the first episode of our new micro-series: Nepal Now: Right Now. These pieces will fill the gap between regular full episodes of the show, which are published every two weeks. About 5 minutes long, they will be published on alternate we

Three months in Kuwait: The story of migrant worker Sushma

16 days ago 38m 36s

Hi everyone. I’m Marty Logan. Thank you for choosing to listen to Nepal Now: On the Move from the literally millions of podcasts available. This is our third episode since we shifted the show’s focus to migration — to, from, and within Nepal. A

New Delhi to Surkhet a sweet move for Aanchal Dutt

1 month ago 38m 36s

Hi everyone. I'm Marty Logan. Thank you for listening to Nepal Now: On the Move. Let me know what you think of this episode, and if you have ideas for future guests. My email is [email protected]. I’ve done about 10 interviews to date for t

From Kathmandu to Kabul: Prem Awasthi

Mar 5th, 2024 29m 37s

Hi everyone. Thanks for listening to this first episode of Nepal Now: On the Move. I know there are literally millions of podcasts out there competing for your listening time, so I appreciate that you chose this one.My name is Marty Logan. I’m

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Nepal Now is now Nepal Now: On the move. Why?

Mar 5th, 2024 5m 44s

Hi everyone. Welcome to Nepal Now, whose new title is Nepal Now: On the Move, for reasons I’ll explain shortly. Thanks for choosing this show from among the more than 2 million podcasts now competing for your ears. I’m back! And since my last e

Thank you, and good bye

Jun 18th, 2023 3m 57s

Hi everyone. Thanks for joining me for this new episode of Nepal Now. I’m Marty Logan. You might have noticed that this is an extra short episode. Frankly, that’s because it will be the last one. After 3 years I’m saying goodbye. Why? Put simpl

Don't stop talking! Mental health in Nepal

May 22nd, 2023 32m 10s

Hi everyone. Thanks for joining me for this new episode of Nepal Now, the podcast where we highlight different ideas and actions to move the country forward. I’m Marty Logan. Thanks to those of you who filled out the poll on our last episode, a

Improving jumli marsi rice — for farm families, buyers, or both?

May 2nd, 2023 27m 46s

Hi everyone. Thank you for being here for this new episode of Nepal Now, the podcast where we highlight different ideas and actions to move the country forward. I’m Marty Logan. Here’s something new — did you know you can listen to Nepal Now on

Sixit Bhatta describes his sometimes bumpy ride with Tootle, leader of Nepal's sharing economy

Apr 11th, 2023 33m 5s

Hi everyone. Thank you for being here for this new episode of Nepal Now, the podcast where we highlight different ideas and actions to move the country forward. I’m Marty Logan. A quick reminder that you can back the work that goes into creatin

One School One Nurse a positive prescription for Nepal’s children

Mar 21st, 2023 28m 30s

Hi everyone. Thank you for being here for this new episode of Nepal Now, the podcast where we highlight different ideas and ways of moving the country forward. I’m Marty Logan, a journalist and communicator from Canada who’s lived in Nepal for

Digging up Nepal’s violent past to improve its future

Mar 8th, 2023 51m 26s

Hi everyone. Thank you for being here for this new episode of Nepal Now, the podcast where we highlight different ideas and ways of moving the country forward. I’m Marty Logan, and I hope you can hear those birds chirping in the background. We

Why The Ass put himself out to pasture

Feb 13th, 2023 36m 51s

You can now support Nepal Now. Hi everyone. This is Marty Logan. Apologies for the long delay between episodes. I finally made it home for the holidays after four years being delayed by Covid and took advantage with a longer than usual break. S

Five questions for you

Dec 15th, 2022 1m 48s

Hi everyone. This is Marty Logan. Welcome to Nepal Now.It’s been an up-and-down year for me, and for the podcast, as I’m sure it has for many of you. But thanks to support from you listeners I’ve been motivated to keep it going. So thank you al

Designing digital technology that delivers to the most vulnerable after disasters

Nov 27th, 2022 32m

Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we explore new ideas and innovations to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. Thank you for joining me today a in my noisy neighbourhood. It feels like it’s construction season in this part of

Spousal abuse of Nepali women migrant workers

Nov 15th, 2022 30m 32s

Thank you for joining me today. I think it’s fair to say that the discussion you’re going to hear raises at least as many questions as it answers. We’re talking about domestic abuse and women who leave Nepal to work abroad. Labour migration is

Reasons for optimism about Nepal — Gyanu Adhikari

Oct 30th, 2022 31m 34s

I reached out to Gyanu Adhikari wondering if I had missed the boat. I wanted to speak to him about co-founding The Record, an online news portal that started publishing in 2014, but the website had stopped posting new information this past July

Measuring human rights in Nepal

Oct 12th, 2022 27m 8s

Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and approaches to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. Thanks for joining me for this episode, which, if you’re counting, is #52. You might be wondering what happened to

Spotlighting Tharu, and Madheshi, food and culture in Nepal

Sep 21st, 2022 24m 43s

Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and approaches to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. I hope you don’t mind a slight digression to start. A few weeks ago I met a friend, someone I see every few months.

How Nepal’s future journalists will do things differently

Sep 1st, 2022 10m 53s

Welcome to Nepal Now. My name is Marty Logan. I’m back after a long break – thanks for joining me. Today we’re doing something different. On Aug 21st I was at St. Xavier’s College in Kathmandu, talking with journalism students about podcasting.

Activists put menstrual health on the agenda in Nepal

Jul 12th, 2022 24m

Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we discuss new ideas and initiatives to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan. A lot has happened around menstrual health issues in Nepal in recent years. And it seems that all that work is bea

Desperate farmers hijack smuggled fertilizer: agriculture in Nepal today

Jun 21st, 2022 29m 55s

Last Saturday two trucks carrying smuggled fertilizer across the southern border between India and Nepal were seized at Nepal customs. Police took charge and were escorting the trucks to the capital Kathmandu when they were blocked on the highw

Putting value-based politics to the test in Nepal — Karma Tamang

Jun 7th, 2022 17m 18s

This is another episode in our series Nepal Then and Now, where we catch up with former guests. Before we do that, I have a request. We know that the show has some dedicated listeners because they’ve been saying really positive things about us,

The real-world impact of online violence and continuing to speak out — Pallavi Payal

May 23rd, 2022 17m 27s

Today is the second instalment in our series Nepal Then and Now, where we catch up with former guests. We first spoke with Pallavi Payal in mid-2020 about the situation of women in the country during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. A

Nepal bites into ambitious school meals programme

May 11th, 2022 10m 56s

That is the sound of hundreds of students at Tilingatar High School in Tokha Municipality lining up for their midday meal of rice and veggies. This still unfinished concrete school of 1,100 students on the urban edge of the Kathmandu Valley is