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Pushpa Kamal Dahal is still Prachanda

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...

In a surveillance state

While citizens in Western democracies try to get their governments to combat the misuse of their private data by internet companies, here...

THE TWO - YEAR ITCH

The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority, the party’s performance has been...

Spooking Nepalis by snooping on them

On 11 December, the Prime Minister and Cabinet's office tabled the 'bill to amend and integrate laws relating to the constitution and...

CENSURING CENSORSHIP

Now that all three festivals are over, it is time to remind ourselves of where we left off before the holidays. Lest...

Party Line

Throughout the state visit to Nepal by Chinese President Xi Jinping last weekend, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism ideology was scarcely mentioned — even though both...

The rise and fall of Comrade Mahara

Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic...

Prime Minister's health condition under wraps

Prime Minister KP Oli is going through his seventh plasmapheresis today in the National University Hospital in Singapore, and his health is...

Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict

The Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being much better...

The Troika

After a prolonged tug-o-war that polarised the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to the point where it looked like it was headed...

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