Devaki is from the hills in Nuwarkot, north of Kathmandu. Born into the highest Brahmin caste, her family lost all that they had during a major flood. She now lives on a small piece of land, where she leads a workshop and cooperative, weaving Nepal’s traditional "dhaka" cloth.

D J Clark Multimedia Stories

Devaki - Back from disaster

This podcast is of D J Clark's weekly video story, published on the China Daily website. The features cover a variety of subjects from in depth special reports to travel and regional events. D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World. Starting his career in 1988 D J Clark worked first as a photojournalist before moving into video journalism and later as a multimedia journalist. Over the last 23 years he has covered stories all over the world for leading newspapers, magazines, news agencies and TV stations. In 2006 he moved permanently to China where he is now based covering news throughout Asia.

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