Central leadership in Kathmandu continues to display its reluctance to devolve power to the provinces
Federalism has failed not because the system is flawed, but because Nepal’s politicians have
Takam village (above) in Dhaulagiri Municipality is a model for how federalism should function. Photos: JOY STEPHENSBal Bir Biswakarma from the…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIOn 19 September, Nepal marked Constitution Day. It was on this day five years ago that the Constitution was…
Pic: BIKRAM RAISuresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there…
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Photo: BIKRAM RAIFour years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the…
Of all the parts of Kathmandu Valley worst hit in the April 2015 earthquake was the historic town of Sankhu. But this is also where elected…
Photo: BIKRAM RAIKP Oli is Nepal’s strongest prime minister since the Ranas, yet as he marks his first year in office on Friday why does he…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZq9PMPzTrg&feature=youtu.beIt has been one year since Nepal wrapped up all three rounds of local elections.…
The EU election mission’s report this week that Nepal’s Khas-Arya community should not have quotas for proportional representation has set off a…
Dipendra BhandariThe road in front of the house I live in Sanepa, and one next to the school my six-year-old son goes to, was dug up for…
