Nepal, June 2 -- The idea of this column germinated when Kishor Dahal, op-ed editor at the Kantipur Daily observed during an informal conversation: "Once readers used to look for writers. Such are the... Read More
Nepal, May 19 -- The performative pomposity of Prime Minister Balendra Shah is irritatingly perplexing. For reasons not difficult to infer, he prefers digital monologues over institutional dialogue. S... Read More
Nepal, May 5 -- It is entirely possible that when peaceful protestors turned violent, breached the police barricade, and began to storm the Parliament building on September 8, 2025, a few security per... Read More
Nepal, April 21 -- Addicted to the algorithmic aphrodisiac of populism, the post-truth government of Prime Minister Balendra Shah is performing almost exactly as scripted in the regime-change playbook... Read More
Nepal, April 7 -- meaning friend has sent an asocial media post-a term that suggests the amoral nature of such platforms-asking for my opinion. The text is cryptic and mentions no names, making it dif... Read More
Nepal, March 24 -- It isn't easy to pick a person to understand a phenomenon. The sunset of the Khas-Arya ethnonational chieftain Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, and the aurora of the political shaman, Bale... Read More