Nepal’s voters are migrating

Weeks before elections, Nepalis are voting with their feet to migrate and remigrate

Foreign hands, or homegrown failure?

Why Nepal’s crisis is better explained by institutional decay rather than external conspiracy

Alok K. Bohara

Epicentre of hunger

Despite improvement in maternal and child survival, malnutrition is rife in Nepal’s western mountains

Sabina Devkota in Bajura

Remembering not to forget

It is exactly 30 years today since the Maoist conflict started, and 20 years since it ended

Kunda Dixit

What the interim government gave Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday 18 months after the 2024 GenZ driven upring that toppled long‑time premier Sheikh Hasina

Farhana Sultana

Mission (nearly) accomplished

Sushila Karki was given an impossible task as PM that she has handled with poise and praise

Namrata Sharma

International law meets an age of impunity

As long as some states are shielded from accountability while others are exposed to it, the legal order will struggle to command legitimacy

Jordan Ryan

Map land

Exhibition showing the evolution of Himalayan and South Asian cartography

Kunda Dixit

Regenerative conservation from zoologists in Nepal

If nature is left entirely unmanaged, ecological succession will proceed in ways that may undermine conservation objectives

Rajendra N Suwal