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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...

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...

This is my third take on elections. The country is very much poised for elections. It is less than a week from now on. Still there are lingering doubts, not on having elections, bu...

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...

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...