Himal Khabarpatrika

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Himal Khabarpatrika is a Nepali-language fortnightly news magazine published in Nepal by Himal Media (pl). Each issue reaches about 5,000,000 readers across the kingdom. It is the only news magazine (khabar+patrika) in the northern half of the subcontinent which uses the liberal values of journalism to reach out to a vernacular audience. It has developed a choice following of both the rural and urban intelligentsia, maintaining credibility and an inclusive editorial voice. This magazine give highly provocative news. Most of the time the news carry great controvorsies. While its readership spans the kingdom, Nepalis worldwide also read it, including the opinion-forming and decision-making classes and the vernacular-elite. Khabarpatrika’s share is a sizeable chunk of the vernacular reading population of Nepal, and the quality of that readership means that the message does get maximum dissemination.