Chautara Journal

Chautara is a circular stone platform built under the shade of a tree for rest and conversation with fellow travellers. Our journal invites your views on today's politics, law, science, and medicine in any format, whether it be poetry, short stories, articles, essays or short films.

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Old tree with camping men (1799)

Josef Fischer (Austrian, 1769-1822)

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I walked up the trail, boots scraping over loose stones. The slope leaned into my legs, my calves tightening with the effort. The air carried a confusion of sounds: branches brushing against one another, leaves shifting, water moving somewhere beyond sight. Suddenly, I became aware of how differently sound behaved at an altitude. Not in any precise or scientific way. Just that my footsteps seemed louder than they should have been and the gravel under my shoes answered back mo

Mehnoor Nisar

Jan 314 min read

Pravina hates trekking.

By: Shradha Rani Chhetri Pravina hates trekking. Or to be clearer, she hates walking uphill. Sanu and Nima, the culprits for today’s exercise, are but two dots of blue and yellow a long way ahead. Their clear lungs filled with the scent of youth. Pravina checks her phone. 11:37pm. No new notifications. She looks up at the grey sky, air heavy with moisture. The humidity was one of the many reasons she did not want to go on this “short trek”. Her father’s side of the family bor

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Shradha Rani Chhetri

Dec 30, 20254 min read

Everything Belongs Everywhere

By Ishita Lohani I walked behind Arvind. I felt like a timid figure. The Dhauladhar rose to our left, all white this December. My shoulders drew themselves in and I imagined a bend in my spine. I looked for the bent coconut trees that line the trails of Konkan. This knowledge – of still yearning for elsewhere, while Arvind walked only a little ahead of me – made me feel guilty. I sped up. We had been arguing lightly since the morning – about pace, stops, and predictions of th

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Ishita Lohani

Dec 30, 20254 min read

Maternal Education and Child's Nutritional Status in Nepal

Aanshi Paudel | Kathmandu 44600, Nepal The following research was compiled under the guided research program at Kuhiro Class and mentored by Pradhyumna Wagle, Cornell University. This research examines the relationship between maternal education and three measures of child nutrition - stunting, underweight, and wasting - using data from the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) conducted in 2016 and 2022. The study also measures the influence of other factors such as th

Kuhiro Class Students

May 19, 20251 min read

Bella Ciao, Partisans, and the Resistance.

by Alok Karn ( akkarn26@gmail.com ) Intern Writer at Kuhiro Class and High School Graduate from Uniglobe SS/College, Kathmandu. Image: Stephan Leuzinger Bella Ciao, Partisans, and the Resistance in Italy. Every year on April 25, Italians gather around heavily laden tables and barbecues to chant “Bella Ciao” at least half a dozen times, right hand on the heart. It was sung as an anti-fascist resistance song during the second world war and singing it has become part of the annu

Kuhiro Class Students

Jul 20, 20246 min read

The Fishy Research Grants of Nepal

Ayush Shah In our most confident days in Kathmandu, my friend and I like to introduce ourselves as entrepreneurs. We run small...

Ayush Shah

Dec 30, 20236 min read

Air Pollution: An Ignored Plight in Kathmandu

Pappu Jha | Trinity International College Kathmandu Valley, a city of temples at the foothills of the Himalayas, is gradually transforming into a poisonous site for its residents. In the era of globalization in the 21st century, the economic hub of Nepal is witnessing unprecedented immigration of citizens across Nepal, resulting in rapid urbanization and industrialization. Due to the assimilation of Nepalis across the country, the capital is undergoing massive economic uplift

Kuhiro Class Students

Mar 18, 20234 min read

Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs, Poverty reduction, and Labor market outcomes.

Yuanmeng Li, Pradhyumna Wagle | Cornell University Would you stop working if the government started giving you free money? Read the paper...

Pradyumna Wagle

Mar 1, 20231 min read

Why Nepal's Glaciers are Melting and Why it Matters.

Written by Pappu Jha | Trinity International College Alumni Image by Kunda Dixit | Nepali Times The Himalayan glaciers are melting at a pace much faster than expected, the study shows. In 2019, Columbia University conducted a study using recently declassified America’s Cold War-era spy satellite images from the 1970s and 1980s. The result reveals that the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. In the period of two decades since the beginning of the 21st century,

Kuhiro Class Students

Feb 23, 20234 min read