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Atul Bhattarai

Boston, Kathmandu
As seen in: Bloomberg CityLab, The Christian Science Monitor, Outside Magazine, Yahoo, The Caravan, Rest of World, Himal Southasian, The Juggernaut
sometimes journalist, now mostly student of buddhism

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Atul Bhattarai is a freelance journalist based in Kathmandu. He writes on politics and culture in South Asia

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The Nepali Women Who Hike for Days to Deliver Birth Control

The Nepali Women Who Hike for Days to Deliver Birth Control

Staff members of Marie Stopes International navigate wild bulls, treacherous singletrack, and rushing rivers …

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The Rise and Fall of Kathmandu's Groundbreaking Electric Bus Industry

The Rise and Fall of Kathmandu's Groundbreaking Electric Bus Industry

If you take public transport in Kathmandu, you have three options. There are buses and microbuses, different …

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Burning Resentment: The discontented cremators of Pashupatinath

Burning Resentment: The discontented cremators of Pashupatinath

"We've worked here so fucking long, they should give us an award, send us off with flowers and five or seven …

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Storeyed Past: The movement to rebuild an iconic monument in earthquake-hit Nepal

Storeyed Past: The movement to rebuild an iconic monument in earthquake-hit Nepal

ON A SUNDAY MORNING LAST OCTOBER, in a cramped office overlooking Kathmandu Durbar Square—an iconic plaza sur…

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How Two Pakistani Brothers Created the World’s First PC Virus

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By Atul Bhattarai
| The Juggernaut Verified
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How Amar Bose Engineered Today’s Sound

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By Atul Bhattarai
| The Juggernaut Verified
A curious Bengali American kid with a love for tinkering built a multibillion-dollar company and changed the way we listen to music. In 2015, two years after the death of Amar Bose — the research scientist, longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, and founder of the eponymous acoustics company — the Fifth Asian Awards in the U.K. presented a posthumous award in Bose’s honor.
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Explained: The Israel-Palestine Conflict and South Asian Diplomacy

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By Poulomi Das, Michaela Cross, Naz El-Khatib, Atul Bhattarai
| The Juggernaut Verified
Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1980 (Alamy) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is witnessing its . During the final week of Ramadan, the Israeli police entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at Palestinian youth. The site is considered holy for both Jews and Muslims. Since mid-April, dozens of Palestinians have been injured.
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Awards

SAJA Journalism Award

2018 - Culture and Arts Reporting
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