nepal-politics

All is fair in war (and peace)

Retelling the Maoist conflict, and its impact on Nepali society and politics

3-party dictatorship

On Sunday in Gorkha, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, flanked by Narayan Kaji Shrestha and former comrade-in-arms Baburam Bhattarai, led a procession of supporters...

Shristi Karki

Geopolitical tug-o-war over Nepal

Barely days after Pushpa Kamal Dahal met the visiting head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China, Liu...

Returning to the cradle of democracy

Min Bajracharya was just 18 then. He was close to Nepali Congress democracy warrior Ganesh Man Singh, and was photographing the People’s...

What is delaying Nepal cabinet expansion?

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office over a month ago, but aside from six ministers he has not been able to...

Smartass lockdown

Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could...

The Ass

Going down with the ship

If anyone had wanted to dismantle Nepal’s Communist movement, no one would have been able to do a better job than Prime...

Kunda Dixit

Nepal goes viral

One thing we cannot complain about is that, for once, the world is not ignoring a humanitarian disaster in Nepal. They have...

A Kathmandu Spring

The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has by now squandered the overwhelming mandate it got in the 2017 elections to govern for five...

Oli’s tit-for-tat show of force

The tit-for-tat show of force between rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) continued on Friday with Prime Minister K...