Modi has changed the status quo with his boldest, and riskiest, move yet. But challenges remain.

Between 1900-2005, 3.2 million Nepalis died in floods; 2.8 million of them were from the Tarai.

Let’s not fool ourselves by suggesting an import duty on books will improve our domestic publishing industries.

The Oli government suffers from a crisis of credibility, with its tall electoral promises now faded away.

Despite deepening relations, one cannot expect the northern frontier to be as open as the southern one.

The Nepal government has currently designated different regions across 13 northern districts as ‘restricted areas’, for which trekking groups (one cannot travel individually) have to pay a varying range of fees to the Immigration Department.

The collection of US state department cables published by Wikileaks allows us to chart one such period between 1974-1976, when events in Sikkim that led to the former Himalayan kingdom being integrated into India as a state resulted in tensions between Nepal and India.

The defence of unequal citizenship rights is a defence of the Khas-Arya man’s status, and not a question of state sovereignty.

The only response to the recent India-Pakistan conflict might be Kurt Vonnegut’s pithy refrain: so it goes

The US intelligence service’s assessments about Nepal have mostly been proven true

Conspiracy theories on CIA cover-up about extraterrestrial activity aside, the note on UFOs is extremely fascinating.

The irony is unmissable. For the BJP, the cow is now a millstone around its neck

On two films by Austrian anthropologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf

If we continue to imagine our culture as unchanging, we will remain entombed in imagined hierarchies

For the periphery to develop, the centre must not hold