Kickback-driven maldevelopment is destroying Nepal as megalomania and kleptomania go hand-in-hand.
National consensus needed on geopolitics, federalism, inclusion and infrastructure-led growth
This short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South Asia and…
On 9 September, while a US delegation was landing at Kathmandu airport on a four-day visit, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Narayan…
Nepal’s political headlines these days are mainly about the rift between K P Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal that split Nepal’s largest party, the…
Santosh Shah, the Nepali who was runner-up in the MasterChef Professional 2020 in Britain last week, made it a point throughout the globally…
“What do people mean by poor governance,” asked Crown Prince Dipendra. “Are they fed up with corruption? Is it that they don’t like how the…
Alternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties. Each time this happens, a party…
The Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being much better than they…
There was sharp and widespread condemnation of the bomb terror unleashed by the Biplav-led Communist Party of Nepal this week on the Nepali…
PIPE DREAM: Part of a 69km petroleum pipeline connecting Amlekhganj in Nepal to an oil refinery in India, under construction in Patlaiya. The…
In a recent meeting with editors of Nepal’s mainstream media, six months after assuming office, Prime Minister K P Oli was grilled about fears…
WE SWEAR: Out of 11 new ministers who took their oath of office last week, six were Khas-Arya, 3 Janjati, 1 Madhesi and 1 Dalit. Half the full…
The EU election mission’s report this week that Nepal’s Khas-Arya community should not have quotas for proportional representation has set off a…
