Delivery will test whether the rabble-rousers can remain relevant amid mounting challenges.

Across much of South Asia, voters do not merely elect representatives; they seek protectors.

Nepal’s tragedy has often been that stories outpace structures, and symbols substitute for systems.

Morality is not tested when it echoes the crowd, but when it restrains it.

As long as the state remains a Khas-Arya monopoly, changing leaders is just rearranging the boardroom.

Migrant labourers are not peripheral to Nepal’s recent history; they are its protagonists.

The old guard yearns for stability to retain its station in life, while the new claimants seek dynamism.

The succession is no longer merely a religious matter; it has become a geopolitical flashpoint.

AI is poised not only to change how people work but also to transform the very nature of tourism.

The change of guards in the capital holds little, if any, meaning outside Kathmandu.

Sudan Gurung is a mirror to a generation learning to weaponise attention as its most potent resource.

An ethnonational regime does not guarantee effective governance.

Leaders across the region should heed the warning: legitimacy lost in the streets can’t be regained at gunpoint.

The Madheshis are in a no-win situation under the present political dispensation.

Despite its presence at ‘minilateral’ forums, India has failed to acquire the role it seeks in global affairs.