Is it too much to hope that continued pressure from the public and scrutiny by the media will demobilise Nepal’s kleptocrats?
Abrupt USAID cuts have impacted development assistance in Nepal. But could this be a blessing in disguise?
Photo: BIKRAM RAIIn the last few weeks, Prime Minister K P Oli has made some decisive and significant political moves. He signed an agreement…
Photo: KRISTINA SHPERLIKThe dramatic announcement in Kathmandu on Friday by C K Raut of the Alliance for Independent Madhes in a joint press…
Prime Minister Oli said last week that his government laid the foundation for prosperity in Nepal during its first year in power. This claim has…
In her recent article in this paper ‘Gurkha Grandparents’ (#944) Sikuma Rai movingly describes the plight of many elderly Nepalis now living in…
Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.It is just over 12 years since the…
It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas…
Many commentators, including Swarnim Wagle (Guest Editorial last week, #861) may have got carried away by the first local elections in 20 years…
Nepal needs a force for change, willing to speak truth to power and for social justice, democracy and development
This is the 8th episode of the saga of the Gurkhas at the Battle of Gallipoli exactly 100 years ago
A long time ago in what seems like a far-off galaxy the warring parties came together and signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement
This is part seven of the series about the Gurkhas at Gallipoli exactly 100 years ago this month
This is the fifth in the series on the experiences of the Gurkhas at Gallipoli exactly 100 years ago in August 1915.
This is the fourth installment of a series of flashbacks of the involvement of Gurkhas in the First World War
Assessing the National Planning Commission’s Post-disaster Needs Assessment report
This is the third part of a series of articles on the Gurkhas at Gallipoli, drawn from what will eventually be a book on Nepal, The Gurkhas and the Great War by David Seddon.
The second in a series the Nepali Times is running in memory of the Nepalis who fought and died in Gallipoli
Reconstruction will have to involve not just rebuilding homes but restructuring the state
Whatever happened to ‘Disaster Preparedness’?
This is the first installment of a series of flashbacks of the involvement of Gurkhas in the First World War
The quest goes on in Nepal, the UK and South Africa
Truth and reconciliation, but not without justice
There are many other ways to ensure proper representation without the need for federalism per se
