Kathmandu is obsessed with New Delhi, but it is what happens in Patna that affects Nepal’s borderlands more directly
The failure of this year’s monsoon in the Madhes is not just a problem for Madhes Province, but for Nepal
Conflict along the India-Pakistan border impacts another border: between India and Nepal
The Birganj violence this week is a warning not to mix religion and politics
This week’s festival binds Nepal’s ethnicities and geographies together in a celebration of coexistence
Once upon a time, Nepalis had to travel through India by railway to reach another part of Nepal
Every five years, the mass animal sacrifice in a tiny village in Nepal pits activists against devotees
One in three urban Nepali children have dangerously high blood lead levels
Which gets more media: the 10 people killed by tigers every year, or the 3,000 who die from snake bites?
Grade 9 Social Studies textbooks present a toxic interpretation of the open Nepal-India border
Message of Indian elections to Nepal: mixing politics with religion does not work
Cultural preservation needs to move beyond Kathmandu Valley to hidden historical sites in the Tarai
The smoke blanketing Nepal this week is not just from forest fires but also burning wheat stalk after harvest
As boundary walls go up around the world, the open Nepal-India border should be a model
Nepal’s Hindu right is climbing on to a train without knowing which way it is headed
Trapped Nepali workers and Burmese Nepalis escape the junta to Thailand, but many remain behind
An ideological vacuum is turning the Madhes into fertile ground for the religious right
Nepalis at the grassroots for whom grassroots democracy has not delivered
Covid, climate and conflict have combined to make hunger more acute in Nepal
Pushpa Kamal Dahal will meet Narendra Modi this week amidst signs of improved bilateral relations
Nepal’s traditional communal harmony could be disturbed by imported intolerance
National borders do not just divide countries, they also join them
The thick winter fog in the plains is a metaphor for the country’s purposeless politics
Kathmandu’s rulers have yet to learn the ABC’s of devolving power to provinces
