Retelling the Maoist conflict, and its impact on Nepali society and politics
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIOn Sunday in Gorkha, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, flanked by Narayan Kaji Shrestha and former comrade-in-arms Baburam…
Pushpa Kamal Dahal with Jagat Prakash Nadda, national president of BJP. Photo: JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA/TWITTERBarely days after Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
Thirty years after the iconic photograph of her during the first People’s Movement of 1990, Durga Thapa returned to the abandoned and dusty…
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office over a month ago, but aside from six ministers he has not been able to set up a full Cabinet yet…
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could make…
Illustration: Diwakar ChettriIf anyone had wanted to dismantle Nepal’s Communist movement, no one would have been able to do a better job than…
One thing we cannot complain about is that, for once, the world is not ignoring a humanitarian disaster in Nepal. They have even named a variant…
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has by now squandered the overwhelming mandate it got in the 2017 elections to govern for five years, and its…
Prime Minister KP Oli addresses his supporters in Darbar Marg.The tit-for-tat show of force between rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist…
All photos: Bikram Rai/Nepali TimesAfter widespread criticism that the Nepali Congress (NC) was not playing the role of a loyal opposition at a…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhile Nepal hurtles towards the 1,000 Covid-19 deaths mark and hospitals run out of beds, the country’s two top…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province…
The two alpha males of Nepali politics finally sorted out their differences, ending months of deadlock that had brought governance to a…
From left-right standing: Lakpa Tsering Sherpa (?), Ganesh Man Singh, Bal Chandra Sharma, Mahendra Narayan Nidhi Sitting: Matrika Prasad Koirala…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIYou have to give it to K P Oli, he seems to have wriggled out of the biggest crisis in his current tenure as prime…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAlternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties.…
