One can only hope that wise heads prevail in the current coalition.

We should debate whether we need VIPs flashing their status to our faces every opportunity they find.

Given past experience, we might as well write off the yet-to-be-born party even before it comes into being.

Their contribution to democracy is so great that we are expected to remember the past and be content.

It is our misfortune that the cast of characters has changed very little in the last three decades.

The party and its leadership have moved on to mundane pursuits like power and money.

Rejection of the ‘traditional elite’ was clearly on the minds of the Kathmandu electorate.

The big takeaway is that nothing mattered in the end except the promise of change.

Nepal’s administrative and police structures were grafts from the British imperial model.

What beats reason is why our communist parties feel the need to ‘protect’ China.

Creating 'smart' infrastructure piecemeal will be a waste of our money and time.

Local governments fulfil many of the expected functions yet they continue to be undermined.

The rallying cry of ‘one rule for the people, another for the rulers’ has roused people in various parts of the world.

A succession of gasbags trying to hoodwink their fellow partymen and the nation in turn.

For a number of reasons, certain groups do better than others but we are not being told by how much.