Perplexities of the permanent minority
Strengthening the Khas-Arya supremacy appears to be the main agenda of the Oli government.
Strengthening the Khas-Arya supremacy appears to be the main agenda of the Oli government.
Madheshi politicos must realise that confrontation with majoritarian ethnonationalists is the only way of making a mark on history.
Nepal cannot count on the remaining 'Bharatmatako Mutu' with Premier Modi’s Agnipath scheme on stream.
Some populists can do good, but a rabble-rouser inevitably causes unmitigated disaster.
All politics is performance, and any politician is only as good as his last act.
Indian PM’s imperial lifestyle might reflect in his policies towards smaller neighbours of South Asia.
Political negotiations can help Nepal benefit from Chinese power projects as long as India is kept out of the arrangement.
Elected versions of tinpot tyrants are erecting structures of self-aggrandisement across the country called view towers!
The liberal voice in India remains ambivalent, if not silent altogether.
What public roads are for the Nepalis, airports are for the ultrarich in bigger plutocracies.
There are laws in place that proscribe usury, but their enforcement is fraught with institutional hurdles.
Literary festivals offer an occasion to indulge in the guiltless pleasures of the middlebrow bourgeois culture.
Hopefully, Singapore will regain the creativity, passion, courage and confidence it was once known for.
Senior faculty are often found in programmes of NGOs or political parties rather than in universities.
The poor youths have always been pushed out of the country to wherever they could find work for survival.