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Nepal is the first country in Asia, and one of the first in the world, where rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender are fully protected by a country’s constitution. Nepal is the first country in Asia, and one of the first in the world, where rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender are fully protected by a country’s constitution. Nepal tourism has been showing tolerance and openness to LGBT tourism for some time. Nepal will adopt its first full democratic charter on Sunday, a historic step for a nation that has witnessed war, a palace massacre and devastating earthquak...

The dragon bites its tail – Part II FROM THE ARCHIVES: A longform piece on Bhutan’s Lhotshampa question [1992]. A Lotshampa refugee at a camp in Jhapa District of eastern Nepal showing his Bhutanese passport. Photo: Alemaugil / Wikimedia Common (This article was first published in our July-August 1992 print issue. Also read Part I and Part III of the reportage.) No more a backwater Bhutan was still an economic backwater at the end of the 1940s. The economic,...