editorial

के गर्ने, यस्तै हो

A semi-serious flashback to Nepal's fatalistic culture of national shutdowns

Women and water

The climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and...

Sonia Awale

Challenge of the millennium

The most tangible collateral damage of Nepal’s chronic political instability is going to be the effort to streamline Nepal’s electricity grid. Politicians have weaponised...

From the fire into the frying pan

So, this is the price Nepalis had to pay for two leaders of the ruling party not being able to sort out their...

Manpower and hydropower

For centuries, Nepalis have been migrating to seek their fortune. Poverty, indebtedness, discrimination and disasters drove them out in droves. Even while young...

Outside, looking in

For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able...

Some silver linings

It has become a cliché to say that every crisis comes with opportunities. But that does not mean it is not true. It is...

Newswomen

Sahina Shrestha, Digital Products StrategistAs the results of the Sharecast Initiative Nepal Survey 2020 featured in this issue show, Nepal is going digital in...

Everest Postmortem

Ever since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on the border between...

LABOUR PAINS

Nepal’s politicians are prone to hyperbole, and every decade or so they have a habit of declaring that no Nepali will have...