Author: Rabin Kaini

When Help Hurts: How Pity and Prejudice Both Fuel Ableism in Nepal 

Discrimination against the disabled in Nepal isn’t always loud and cruel. Sometimes, it’s disguised as kindness. In Nepal, perceptions of disabled individuals frequently oscillate between two extremes: pity on the one hand and hostility on the other. Although these two positions give opposite superficial impressions, they share the same fundamental assumption that disabled persons are […]