An Ocean of Possibilities
2014

31 Aug - 26 Oct 2014

An Ocean of Possibilities

Surendra Lawoti

This Country is Yours

For over a decade a civil war raged in Nepal. Maoist rebels wanted to depose King Gyanendra and establish a Communist state on the Chinese model. In 2006 the government and rebels signed a peace agreement, followed two years later by the election of an assembly to draw up a constitution. In his series This Country is Yours the photographer Surendra Lawoti followed activists from six different social and political movements in the capital city of Kathmandu – from religious minorities and indigenous peoples to women and the LGBT community – during the writing of Nepal's new constitution in a country that for centuries is being dominated by the ‘highter caste’ Hindus.

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