Researcher Sangita Thebe Limbu joins Boju Bajai to talk about the importance of creating critical spaces in the public sphere that can challenge the dominant narratives and discourses shaping people’s minds and op-ed pages around issues of inclusion, reservation, and that Nepal is “४ जात ३६ वर्णको साझा happy फूलबारी।”

Sangita Thebe Limbu is a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL). She holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and another MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently researching on the interrelations of gender, climate change and indigenous knowledge in Nepal. You can follow her work on Twitter @Sangita_Thebe

Read Sangita’s articles

“National property” of just a The Record Nepal. 14 August few.https://www.recordnepal.com/perspective/national-property-of-just-a-few/

Surveillance state and minorities. The Kathmandu Post. 26 October http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-10-26/surveillance-state-and-minorities.html

Reimagining inclusion. The Kathmandu Post http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-06-01/reimagining-inclusion.html

Nepal’s house of cards: are women included or co-opted in politics?. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/02/02/nepals-house-of-cards-are-women-included-or-co-opted-in-politics-gender-female-representation-caste/ SouthAsia@LSE

On Books and Arts. Think Pieces Series No. 2. Oxford: Education.SouthAsia. https://educationsouthasia.web.ox.ac.uk/article/thinkpiece2

On Manifestos and Promises. Think Pieces Series No. 4. Oxford: Education.SouthAsia https://educationsouthasia.web.ox.ac.uk/article/thinkpiece4

On Children’s literature. Think Pieces Series No. 4. Oxford: Education.SouthAsia

https://educationsouthasia.web.ox.ac.uk/article/thinkpiece6

The making of the "English-speaking Nepali citizens": intersectionality of class, caste, ethnicity and gender in private schools

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353451673_The_making_of_the_Englishspeaking_Nepali_citizens_intersectionality_of_class_caste_ethnicity_and_gender_in_private_schools

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