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Development = Destruction

Kickback-driven maldevelopment is destroying Nepal as megalomania and kleptomania go hand-in-hand.

Baburam Bhattarai’s 4-point formula

National consensus needed on geopolitics, federalism, inclusion and infrastructure-led growth

Nepal’s elusive ‘Great Transformation’

This short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South Asia and...

Nepal stuck between rock and hard place

On 9 September, while a US delegation was landing at Kathmandu airport on a four-day visit, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal...

Pushpa Kamal Dahal is still Prachanda

Nepal’s political headlines these days are mainly about the rift between K P Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal that split Nepal’s largest party, the...

'Santosh Shah was born in Nepal'

Santosh Shah, the Nepali who was runner-up in the MasterChef Professional 2020 in Britain last week, made it a point throughout the...

'Santosh Shah was born in Nepal'

Santosh Shah, the Nepali who was runner-up in the MasterChef Professional 2020 in Britain last week, made it a point throughout the...

When will Nepal’s future ever arrive?

“What do people mean by poor governance,” asked Crown Prince Dipendra. “Are they fed up with corruption? Is it that they don’t...

An alternative to alternative politics in Nepal

Alternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties. Each time this happens, a...

Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict

The Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being much better...