Nepalis at the grassroots for whom grassroots democracy has not delivered
Illustration: RABINDRAOver the past 30 years since the first People’s Movement, we have seen that things start moving in Nepal when local…
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVE“The paradox is this: if economic rationality tells us that the next century will be the age of global integration of…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIWhen we had a baby, just a few weeks ahead of the first lockdown in 2020, my husband and I had to make some difficult…
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.…
Nep Bahadur Chaudhary and his wife Rupa Chaudhary at their banana plantation.Democracy is expensive and funding political activities can be…
Photos: DIPRUNG CHUICHUMMA RURAL MUNICIPALITYSabitra Devkota of Diprung Chuichumma rural municipality in Khotang had been isolating at home for…
Bidi Yolkey Rai mapping the sate of deliberative decision-making in her Palika.Bidi Yolkey Rai, 28, struggles to conduct an online session on…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITOne afternoon last month in Ramaroshan Rural Municipality of Achham district, 45-year-old mother of five, Sarada Bista, was…
Of the more than 753 municipalities in Nepal, most are led by men and the deputy is required by law to be a woman. Jumla is one of only two…
Every watt of electricity saved is twice the power generated
