Hidden yet heinous: Intimate partner violence is haunting Nepali women, and there’s no way they can share it

Mohini Sharma, 26, still vividly remembers the day when her boyfriend forcibly took her to Kathmandu on his bike from Banepa, her hometown, one casual afternoon a few years ago.

“He was angry because I came to Banepa to visit my sick uncle without informing him,” says Sharma, who used to stay in Kathmandu with her brother and sister-in-law, “The demeaning words he used during the ride still echoes in my head. I wish to forget that day, yet it haunts me time and again.”