One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide spraying campaign against malaria in Chitwan in the 1950s.

The Tharu are an ethnic group located in the Terai lowland region of southern Nepal and northern India. Sanjib Chaudhary from Global Voices caught up with Adhikari and Tharu to talk about the book and ...

The Indigenous Tharu community traditionally protected the habitat of the big cats in Chitwan and other parts of Nepal. Photo: WWF Every year, up to 15 people are killed by tigers in and around ...

The northern region of the Indian subcontinent is a vast landscape interlaced by diverse ecologies, for example, the Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas. A great number of ethnic groups are found there, ...

Some castes and ethnicities have been and continue to be marginalized in Nepal, and the Tharus, the fourth largest ethnic group in the country, are one of them. Through his art series ‘Masinya Dastoor ...