Category: Opinion

This is my second take on up-coming elections. Earlier, I projected three possible scenarios, namely, worst case, business-as-usual case and best case scenarios (2 February, op-ed)...

Narayan Manandhar Earlier, I have written that the study report of the Karki Investigation Commission will end up as an albatross to Sushila Karki Government (6 February op-ed). T...

Narayan Manandhar First, an anecdote from Late Ganesh Man Singh. He got many. I must have read this in one of the Nepali tabloids, in the wake of Jana AndolanI in early 1990s. Here...

Narayan Manandhar Two years back, in 2004, through my informal channel, I proposed to Transparency International Nepal Chapter, to have full scale 20 year presentation of CPI data...

Narayan Manandhar From the very start, the Karki Investigation Commission (KIC), formed to investigate the 8–9 September incidents and recommend appropriate measures to punish the...

Ms. Greysa Barrientos Núñez One of the most uncomfortable, but necessary questions in political life is not what decisions those who govern make, but why is it that they come to g...

Narayan Manandhar Aba ke hunxa? What next? This is the question hanging around the heads of many intellectuals in Nepal. Given the situation of fluidity and volatility, it is extr...

Actor and comedian Dipak Raj Giri has spoken out against what he describes as the growing culture of performative politics on social media, distancing himself from online campaigns...