governance

State malfunction

It seems like just yesterday that the momentous story broke. Police started investigating the fake Bhutanese refugee scandal, and Nepalis held their...

Inconvenient truths

Instead of making things easy for its citizens, the Nepali state excels at putting up obstacles every step of the way

Now and then

Imagine how much more progress Nepal would have made if war, corruption and poor governance did not set us back

State of the state

The macro-economic situation may look ok, but Nepal’s economy is a wreck

Kunda Dixit

Keep the flag flying in 2022

Exactly one year ago, this newspaper restarted its hardcopy edition 10 month after going digital-only. The 1 January 2021 #1042 of Nepali...

Government in installments

More than two months after Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office to lead a five-party coalition, he has not even been able to...

The business of politics in Nepal

The cause of prolonged political paralysis in Nepal is cronyism, and the only way to uproot it is by tackling its source:...

Deuba's denouement

Sher Bahadur Deuba became Nepal’s prime minister last week, and won a confidence vote in the House on 18 July. This is...

Hunger for governance

Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux in...

Nepal's empty corridors of power

When Prime Minister K P Oli set foot in Singha Darbar on 15 February to inaugurate the Cabinet office rebuilt after the earthquake, it...