Bibek Bhandari
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Bibek Bhandari is a correspondent at Republica, Nepal's leading daily newspaper. His experiences also include blogging for the New York-based South Asian Journalists Association and an internship at Rolling Stone India. He is currently a graduate student at University of Westminster in London.

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Nepal to Hold Its First LGBTI Sporting Event

3 Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 6:06 PM

Badri Pun, a former national volleyball athlete, quit sports when he was 22.

Now 37, Pun, also an LGBTI activist based in the capital Kathmandu, says coming out as a "third-gender" has been "the biggest drawback" professionally.

"Because I was different from my team members, I was...

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TCU Kicks Off Spring Break With VITALS

2 Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 1:49 PM

It's spring break time. And Texas Christian University is ready to play some beer pong and flip cup -- both, drinking games -- on its campus.

But instead virgin margaritas will be on the table and students will have a chance to play flip cup and beer...

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The Last Sikh Warrior

0 Comments | Posted December 13, 2011 | 6:10 AM

On a sleepy Saturday afternoon in Slough, a borough west of London, Nidar Singh Nihang knows how to keep a group of young men awake.

Inside an empty hall of a church in London Road, Singh Nihang is an authoritative figure. As 20 men, most of them from the Sikh...

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Brokeback Everest: Nepal's Film Industry Embraces Gay Romance

0 Comments | Posted October 18, 2011 | 11:55 AM

Since Courtney Mitchell came to Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1998, the Himalayan nation has witnessed some significant changes.

From the end of a bloody armed conflict, to major political reform that turned the country into one of the world's youngest republics, to a massive social movement that...

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