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Collapse of the post-2015 order

Nepal, Sept. 14 -- On a day of countrywide protests against rampant corruption and control over freedom of expression in Nepal on September 8, 2025, "19 killed and almost 400 injured in police firing"... Read More


The ethnonational capture of state

Nepal, Aug. 27 -- While comparing the omnipotent ruler of imperial France with the "Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States," the early 19th-century French political thinker Alexis de Tocquev... Read More


Living with a self-deluded giant

Nepal, Aug. 13 -- August is a month of bittersweet memories across much of South Asia. In Pakistan, it is a time of remembrance and rejoicing, tempered by the pangs of a nation's birth. In India, it's... Read More


Bemused performances and befuddled anxieties

Nepal, July 30 -- In the supplement of Nepali Times, marking its 25 years of publication, Kunda Dixit has titled his Publisher's Note thus: "Imagine no Internet. No Facebook. No TikTok. No algorithm, ... Read More


The chimera of equality in ethnocracies

Nepal, July 15 -- An earthy politician from the rugged hills of Rolpa, Balaram Gharti Magar (1937-2025) held various ministerial portfolios in nearly a dozen cabinets between 1970 and 2000. But his gr... Read More


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