Category: Opinion

Narayan Manandhar Sometime in 2008, a person came to see me at my office. I have forgotten the exact date. At that time, I was working for a donor agency, supporting the anti-corr...

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has taken a significant step in shaping its parliamentary direction by appointing Balendra Shah as its parliamentary party leader, marking a nota...

Narayan Manandhar If there is a leitmotif in the concluding address by RSP President Ravi Lamichhane, at a recently held two-day orientation program, organized for its its newly e...

Narayan Manandhar Every baby boomers must have gone through the story of ghieu bechuwa and tarwar behuwa (ghee-seller and sword-seller) when they were kid or during their school d...

Narayan Manandhar “Aba ke hunxa?” or what next? is hanging over the heads of every Nepali. With relatively young MPs, fresh blood in the parliament, with a single party commanding...

Narayan Manandhar Post Gen-Z movement, CPN-UML president Oli has suddenly become a hero to me. I even called him the Bruce Lee of Nepali politics, though I am still waiting for th...

By Tsering Passang, Founder-Chair, Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities March 10 is not merely an anniversary for Tibetans. It is a day of national remembrance, polit...

This is my fourth take on elections or under the title “Predicting the Unpredictable”. So, all the analysis, prognosis, diagnosis and predictions gone wrong? The results clearly in...

An Economy of Expectations When we were children, relatives visiting home meant expecting chocolates—a small, innocent social ritual. Years later, in my mid-twenties, I joined a fr...

In the up-coming elections, the political parties have given a special accord to the agenda of good governance and anti-corruption (GGAC). This is because GGAC has become a sexy to...

Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci had defined “interregnum”or the state of transition as the situation where “the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum (si...