The rise of the independents in local elections in May showed that Nepalis are fed up with politics as usual. Now, it looks like even…
During the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC) elsewhere across the country while seeking…
It warms our cockles in these bleak times that the General Conventions of Nepal’s main parties have been declared Open Defection-Free Zones. But…
Now that the Army is in the business of importing medicine, why not deploy the Ministry of Health to defend Lipu Lekh?
The COVID-19 pandemic is like a nightmare that we wish we could suddenly wake up from, realising that it was just a dream. Or like one of those…
On 10 January, 24-year-old Dilip Mahato was killed for opposing the ‘Crusher’ industry in Dhanusha that was illegally mining sand from a river.…
Just when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even worse. The idea that…
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get a driving license to…
