war

Delay, dilute, deny

A whole generation of Nepalis has grown up with no knowledge of the decade-long war

Shristi Karki

Ghosts of war

Nearly three decades after the Maoists launched their armed struggle on 13 February 1996, Nepal is still haunted by the violence

Sonia Awale

Sky high fuel price hits Nepal’s tourism, airlines

One month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fallout of the war on global fuel prices threatens to derail Nepal’s aviation and tourism sector which was...

Harrowing escape from Ukraine

“I never, ever, believed that anything like this could happen,” says Valia*. “Not for a second.” Just two weeks ago, the English teacher...

The scars of war

It was exactly 20 years ago that Rabina Regmi and her brother Rabin were travelling with their parents when their bus was...

Sahina Shrestha

Toothless Commissions

The headlines for the past month have all been about the Supreme Court, and whether or not Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana...

From Nalapani to Kalapani

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month earlier this year retracing the Gorkhali expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200...

Where Nepal’s banner once waved

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month earlier this year retracing the Gorkha expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200...

The statelessness pandemic

Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the...

The start of the Anglo-Gorkha war

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200 years ago to...