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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...

5 days ago | Opinion

A Parable of Two Traders

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...

1 week ago | Opinion

What Next?

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...

1 week ago | Opinion

What’s wrong with Oli?

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...

2 weeks ago | Opinion

Predicting the Unpredictable

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...

2 weeks ago | Opinion

Predicting the Unpredictable

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...

3 weeks ago | Politics

Political Parties and Anti-Corruption Agenda

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...

1 month ago | Opinion

What’s wrong with Nepali politics?

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...

1 month ago | Opinion

Predicting the Unpredictable

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)...

1 month ago | Opinion

Karki Report and Catch 22 Situation

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...

1 month ago | Opinion

Oli’s Great Dilemma

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...

1 month ago | Opinion

Corruption: Perceptions and Deceptions

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...

1 month ago | Opinion