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All politics is local

KhotangLast year, as Nepal plunged headlong into the second wave of Covid-19, cities around the country including Kathmandu Valley announced lockdowns, and people of...

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Federalism's birth pangs or death rattle?

May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives...

Grassroots democracy is delivering development

In the three decades after 1960 when political parties were banned, there were Village Panchayats. After the democratic changes in 1990, they...

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