Q&A: Until football matters to the state, World Cup stays a dream
Legendary striker Anil Gurung reflects on Nepal’s stalled domestic league, the rise of the NSL, football’s enduring appeal, and why women may reach the World Cup before men.
Legendary striker Anil Gurung reflects on Nepal’s stalled domestic league, the rise of the NSL, football’s enduring appeal, and why women may reach the World Cup before men.
Once celebrated for fiery revolutionary anthems, Piyush Mishra now speaks of inner peace and the journey from political rebellion to personal reflection.
LGBTQI+ rights activist Rukshana Kapali discusses the stark gap between Nepal's international reputation for progressive laws and the rigid bureaucratic resistance, weaponised transphobia, and systemic gatekeeping that transgender individuals face daily.
Most leaders in Nepal have exhibited textbook monkey behaviour. So have the public and the journalists.
The chair of the world’s largest hotel company makes the case for luxury hospitality as a development tool—and lays out what governments, including Nepal’s, need to deliver.
Kalinga Literary Festival founder Rashmi Ranjan Parida discusses literary autonomy, regional translation, and why cultural platforms must eventually belong to local communities.
Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila, who summited all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in a staggering 92 days, discusses her rapid rise to fame, the controversies that have followed her up the peaks, the urgent need to protect the Sherpa community, and why anyone eyeing Everest needs to be fundamentally prepared to suffer.
By reducing the intake from the wealthy and failing to transfer it to the poor, the budget disconnects from the principle of welfare state.
'Mountain Queen' Lhakpa Sherpa reflects on surviving abuse, gruelling immigrant labour in the US, balancing motherhood with mountaineering, and witnessing climate change reshape the world’s highest peak.
RSP Whip discusses the delicate balance between executive urgency and legislative oversight, the government’s approach to human rights and urban poverty, and the personal resolution to table a victim-centric Dalit rights bill by 2027.
Umesh Mainali, who chaired the Public Service Commission, says the Balendra Shah government’s ordinance-driven purge is legally risky, institutionally damaging, and likely to backfire.
Some may argue that we are undermining ‘due process’, but the real problem is the traditionally long and inefficient administrative process.
He will also skip the party's upcoming general convention, says RSP general secretary.
Provinces are prepared to advocate for their constitutional rights. People need services now, not when the centre finally gets around to it.
The ‘alternative wave’ did not reach the remote areas because most residents are of the older generation who do not use social media.