The excitement of achievement in 1990 turned out to be a rather short one.

This Fagua marked the end of a distressing year filled with many avoidable and unavoidable deaths.

Human rights advocacy and supremacist jingoism do not go together.

The pyrrhic victory of democracy has restored judicial supremacy in place of Parliament’s sovereignty.

Harmless as it may seem, the political call for a Hindu Rashtra poses a mortal threat to the very idea of an inclusive Nepal.

Ethnonationalism and democracy are incompatible principles, where equal protection of all citizens clashes with the privileges of the core ethnic group.

The challenge for Nepali society is to work for a relatively peaceful transition.

Doctrinal vacuity could have survived political scrutiny had Oli been able to deliver the development that he has been peddling.

No tears need to be shed for the controversial constitution; the worry is that the societal and political changes have become almost irreversible.

The authoritarian wave is likely to outlast the pandemic for there is no antidote to rightwing proclivities.

The visits and manoeuvres of several high profile figures from India and China should not be taken lightly.

The US willingly ceding its diplomatic space in Nepal to the Chinese sounds improbable.

Kathmandu can boast of having more foreign policy analysts per square kilometre than anywhere else in South Asia.

Bereft of all ideological commitments, Nepali Congress has nothing to offer the electorate save its history.

Most movements that have sprung up in Kathmandu since 2015 have been staged by the urban bourgeoisie to show their presence rather than register genuine grievances.