Guest Editorial

Silver lining in war clouds

The West Asia conflict can hasten the global green energy transition

Manjeet Dhakal

Tripolar contestation over Nepal

Washington, with New Delhi, can be expected to ensure that Beijing is not a decisive power in the new Nepal

Bhaskar Koirala

Nepal’s life or death election

Nepal’s next government should be judged by the lives it saves, not by speeches and ribbon-cutting

Yugottam Koirala and Yugeshwor Koirala

Foreign hands, or homegrown failure?

Why Nepal’s crisis is better explained by institutional decay rather than external conspiracy

Alok K. Bohara

A chance for Nepal's political renewal

The election can take us from the politics of personalised power to institutionalised collective leadership

Radhesh Pant

Fix what is broken

Karnali Province provides a model for real-time healthcare data and insurance settlement

Srijana Devkota

Policing the Police

Police killings, abuse of power, and the lack of accountability threaten the stability of Nepal’s democracy

Prashanta Khanal

When maps move

The subcontinent's civilisational past, colonial cartography and new national borders

Shyam Tekwani

The Himalaya is not fragile

The real fragility of Nepal’s mountains is of economics and governance, not geology.

Ngamindra Dahal

Stages of denial

After all that has happened, it is obscene for obsolete politicians to still hanker for power

Rabin Giri

Climate of tragedy and apathy

Nepal’s inability to raise Himalayan haze and permafrost issues at COPs and regional fora exposes failures in science and diplomacy

Kanak Mani Dixit

The first freedom

How we lost sight of our oldest human right — the freedom of movement

Bashir Mobasher

Command and control

Nepal's government is moving to muzzle the media ahead of the 2027 elections

Bidhya Rai

How Israel lost its soul

The Jewish state’s identity has now gone from being the victim of genocide to perpetrator.

James E Jennings

Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid

Focus on proven solutions like investing in prenatal nutrition, rather than on flashy, multisectoral schemes with no immediate payoff

William Moore

The UN vs Trump 2.0

Recent actions by the United States may foreshadow its withdrawal from the world’s foremost multilateral institution

Jayati Ghosh

Nepal should recognise Palestinian sovereignty

That will not by itself be enough for de jure sovereignty, but at least Nepal will be on the right side of the history

Katak Malla

Act now on climate

As if we needed a reminder, the Thame flood was proof of accelerated impact of climate breakdown in the Himalaya.

Manjeet Dhakal

Climate, Democracy and Media

Freedom of expression and democracy are the most important adaptations to the climate crisis.

The International Order Is Dying in Gaza

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has dealt a crushing blow to the multilateral security system and threatens to alienate the Arab and Muslim world.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The migration myth

Moving beyond anecdotes to pinpoint push factors

Brabim Bikram Thapa

False equivalence in Nepal academia

Tribhuvan University gives Nepali graduates of foreign universities the runaround

Aastha Dahal

Fight or Flight

After 7 years and 3 prime ministers, Nepal is preparing to log Nijgad Forest to build another unwanted airport

Kashish Das Shrestha

#NepalQuake 8 years later

Commemorating the past and building a green, resilient and inclusive future for Nepal

Anil Pokhrel

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