Bhrikuti Rai
Boju Bajai Co-Founder
Nepal
Bhrikuti Rai is an award-winning Nepali journalist and co-founder of Boju Bajai podcast, which she started with Itisha Giri in 2016. Boju Bajai began as a passion project to address the void that exists in the discourse around gender and the politics of gender in Nepal and South Asia. Boju Bajai’s podcasts, videos and events address and highlight the lived experiences of Nepali women. Their work has successfully sparked critical conversations around issues of sexual harassment, online abuse and women’s citizenship rights in Nepal. Bhrikuti’s work has appeared in Nepali Times, Los Angeles Times, Radiolab, BBC, Reportagen, among other places. In 2023, Bhrikuti received a South Asia Laadli Media Award for Boju Bajai’s two-part series on abortion rights in Nepal.