Nepal’s protest has completed the first stage. The rest depends on what the country builds around it.

The government must be a part of these endeavours, understanding how such businesses can save communities.

To channel great moments of awakening, we need political management: governing politicians and an opposition that cautions and advises.

In its third term, the BJP government is merely reacting to its rivals’ agenda, unlike the first two terms when it set the narrative and the Opposition did a shoddy job of trying to catch up.

With Teej and Dashain past us and Tihar around the corner, we mindlessly buy either to justify sales and offers or to never rewear an outfit.

Care workers, most of them women, deserve recognition, decent work and social protection.

Prime Minister Shah’s proposed Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism is a welcome start. A regional legal agreement among Nepal, India and China would give it a foundation.

Is police power guided by law, evidence and accountable command, or by obedience to whoever happens to hold power?

In Nepal, researchers still need permission for each project to use drones that monitor dangerous slopes before they fail.

Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle was half right on nationalism and India. But a finance minister abroad speaks for the country, not just his party.

A technique that maps aquifers from the air is changing how countries protect their drinking water. Nepal needs to adopt this method.

Reviving Madheshi sub-nationalism and showing its economic potential may be the greatest service ageing leaders can give Madhesh.

Nearly nine in ten Nepali workers are informal, yet the system built to protect them barely reaches them. Registration alone won’t fix that.

Seizing a device, searching it and demanding its password are three different acts. Nepal’s laws and police procedures should treat them that way.

The Bhotekoshi flood and the Kaligandaki landslides exposed a grid that depends on a few valleys and on river flow. Winter evenings, when demand peaks and India’s imports stop, will show how much of Nepal’s power is dependable.

From village gatherings and tika from grandparents to the struggles of celebrating away from home, the festival remains a reminder of childhood joys and the family bonds that endure.

As families gather for Dashain, many are asking whether joy is insensitive when others are still searching, mourning and rebuilding. Psychology says joy and compassion can coexist.

Orwell feared a vocabulary too flat to think in. We managed it ourselves, for free, with filters.

The failure to expand electric cooking in Nepali kitchens shows how Nepal’s energy policies are failing its people.

Nepal’s shift to fewer, stronger maternal facilities is sound. The floods show those facilities also have to hold up in a disaster.