There be dragon fruits
The rise of the independents in local elections in May showed that Nepalis are fed up with politics as usual. Now, it...
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The business of politics
During the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC) elsewhere across the country while seeking support...
Open Defection-free Zone
It warms our cockles in these bleak times that the General Conventions of Nepal’s main parties have been declared Open Defection-Free Zones....
Nepal's accidental leaders
Now that the Army is in the business of importing medicine, why not deploy the Ministry of Health to defend Lipu Lekh?
Nepal's New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic is like a nightmare that we wish we could suddenly wake up from, realising that it was just a...
“Business, bureaucracy and politicians all plundering the Chure”
On 10 January, 24-year-old Dilip Mahato was killed for opposing the ‘Crusher’ industry in Dhanusha that was illegally mining sand from a...
No shame
Just when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even worse. The idea that ‘corruption’...
A KLEPTO REPUBLIC
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get...
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