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Reclaiming an urbane identity

Nepal, July 2 -- Janakpur hasn't yet been able to resolve its identity crisis. It doesn't seem to be able to decide whether it wants to remain a site of pilgrimage, emerge as a tourist spot, develop a... Read More


Coping with the urban chaos in Kathmandu

Nepal, June 18 -- For a Madheshi boy from the political periphery, social margins, economic backwaters and the cultural other of the dominant Bahun-Chhetri-Newar (BCN) mainstream, the capital city loo... Read More


What makes a Kathmanduite?

Nepal, June 4 -- When scholars take turns to speak about a book that very few in the audience have even seen, let alone read, most attendees pretend to listen with rapt attention. The participants who... Read More


A downturn in the 'Windustry' sector

Nepal, May 21 -- In an apocryphal story, Indian economist and Marxist scholar Ashok Mitra (1928-2018) narrates the career trajectory of a spoiled brat of one of the anti-communist caudillos of the 195... Read More


Interpreters of the world, write!

Nepal, May 7 -- Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli heads a party that still likes to call itself Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), better known by the acronym CPN (UML) rather ... Read More


The end of an 'Oliological' decade

Nepal, April 22 -- The Chair of the Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba and the CPN (Maoist Centre) supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal met Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli at his official residence in B... Read More