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Turning rhythm into care

Kathmandu, March 17 -- Since 2022, Maitri Music Therapy Nepal, a music therapy company, has been establishing musical communication as an empowering tool for expression and a sense of belonging.
Nepal's Balen is the latest in a long line of musicians who've swapped the recording studio for the campaign trail ...
Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles.
Gen Z anger at corruption and instability propels Balen Shah and the RSP to a landslide victory in Nepal’s parliamentary ...
A three-year-old party won Nepal's general elections by a landslide, authorities said, positioning its candidate Balendra ...
The election — the country’s first since last year’s youth-led revolt — was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah.
Balendra Shah, known as Balen, wins Nepal's parliamentary elections at age 35, defeating former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli in a youth-led political upheaval.
The 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician is set to become the South Asian nation’s next Prime Minister, after Gen Z protests rocked the political establishment last year ...
Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first ...
A resounding vote for clean governance in this Asian nation has ousted entrenched parties in favor of a new generation and ...
Once dismissed as a political novice, the former Kathmandu mayor is now on track to become Nepal’s next prime minister.