Channelling support to ex-child soldiers through the Maoists would be like asking the fox to guard the chicken coop.

Pelé will also be remembered as a great champion of peace and well-being of the world’s children.

Ram Prasad Koirala candidly pours his heart out with disarming sincerity in his autobiographical memoir ‘Meri Uni ra Ma’.

We must make security forces more inclusive and effective to make them more attractive for peacekeeping.

They deserve special support from the government to genuinely complete Nepal’s peace process.

Nepal’s abstention from voting for the UN resolution on Myanmar was a mistake.

Despite Suu Kyi's flaws, she will continue to be a key player in shaping the destiny of Myanmar.

In 1959, I returned home from Banaras to Amarpur. While I was there, one of my step-uncles, Baburam Aryal, came to visit. He was working in Kathmandu as a clerk in the secretariat office of Nepal’s first elected parliament and I had long conversations with him about my education and experiences in Banaras, what he was doing in Nepal’s civil service and what life was like in Kathmandu.

For those of us baffled by the dynamics of Madhes-Pahad relations in Nepal in recent decades, journalist Girish Giri’s book Birgunj: Mero Saharko Katha provides a balanced, first-hand perspective by someone of a Pahadi stock but with deep roots in Madhes.