Bhanna Baki

In this episode of Bhanna Baki, we’re talking about women in sports. Our conversation was accompanied by Pratigya Joshi, who is a Civil Engineering undergrad in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her football journey started at the age of 16 and currently, she plays for the local teams in Kathmandu. She initially played for the team "Thunderbirds" and later went on to join the "MUFC Nepal Girls". She says, “Playing football has helped me connect to a network of strong women from different corners of the world. In 2019, she got a chance to be a part of a coaching initiative which has helped me bring changes in my community and fueled the desire in me to help younger generation to pursue their dreams. Women's sports in Nepal are in a growing phase. We have witnessed many positive changes over the years. With good governance in sports and collective efforts from private sectors and we individuals, I believe we can reach greater heights and be on the higher ground down the line.”

For episode 14, we have Prashansha KC who is a social activist and filmmaker that has pleased the fight against child marriage and kidnap marriage. With strong resilience and a determined mind, Prashansha has been working for the empowerment of women for more than 4 years. Let's listen to how Prashansha shares her experience about the world of very young women and how the community around them has been resistible. Hi, Hello & Namaste. Nepal is massively struck with the second wave of COVID-19. The entire Bhanna Baki team remembers Nepal in their prayers and wishes everyone good health.

In this episode, we talked to Darshana Chand about the problematic moral policing culture and its deeply rooted sexism in schools of Nepal.   Darshana Chand is the curator of The Woman Up Creatives - a platform that she and her friend designed to initiate conversations on important feminist issues. She’s also engaged in @thefproject.nepal, an online community for feminist storytelling. A social work undergraduate, she is a feminist writer and activist and looks forward to inclining her future endeavors in the same.

Hi, Hello and Namaste. We hope all of you are doing well and keeping a safe distance from COVID - 19. For our episode 12, we had the pleasure to connect with Sumana KC who is currently a third-year undergraduate pursuing Dentistry at People's Dental College, Tribhuvan University. She is also the founder of Suswasthya Bhava, an initiative that aims to make oral health services accessible to different parts of Nepal. Let's hear what she thinks about the COVID-19 ecosystem in Nepal and how the health system is fighting this intangible war.

In this episode of Bhanna Baki, we have given our platform to Manzila Sharma, who is a new mom and a teacher by profession, to talk about the importance of prenatal and postpartum mental health. Pregnancy is often a time of excitement and joy, but sometimes this period could be very challenging and stressful to some women. There is always some pressure for expecting women or new moms to swiftly transition into motherhood, feel emotionally attached to their newborns right away, or just to know how to take care of their newborns. Manzila, in this episode, shares with us why these expectations are wrong and how they can affect women before and after childbirth. She talks about postpartum depression, baby blues and her own experiences as a new mother, and the challenges that come along. We hope you enjoy this episode and can find something new to learn or to talk about from this episode.