by Arjun Guneratne (ed)

The first Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research 2011 has been awarded to Shreshna Basnet. Shreshna will be working with Dr Rajendra Pradhan and based at the Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chabahil, Kathmandu. Working with Dr Pradhan, Shreshna will closely study the life histories of two informants, focusing more into their formative years to understand the kind of values that influenced them to be a 'good person' later in life, such as the family environment, especially repeated exposure to mythologies with their moral lessons and formal schooling with its implication of broader outlook, and the application and expression of this learning in one’s later life.

The Baha organised the conference ‘Changing Dynamics of Nepali Society and Politics’ in association with Alliance for Social Dialogue and Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies from 17 to 19 August, 2011.  Over the course of the three days, 29 papers were presented and discussed upon. The papers covered the effects (on and) of the rise of identity movements and active civil society among others on (and of) socio-cultural and politico-economic changes in Nepal.
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