Nepal’s Gen Z movement succeeded through masculine violence—but that must change
Will Nepal secure a successful movement in the future by expunging violence and shifting from a hyper-masculine violent movement to a feminised non-violent movement?
Will Nepal secure a successful movement in the future by expunging violence and shifting from a hyper-masculine violent movement to a feminised non-violent movement?
Sometimes protecting a child can be as simple as deciding not to press ‘post’ or ‘share’.
Grandstanding at the United Nations forums seldom changes realities on the ground.
Assistance must go beyond immediate survival to restore safety, dignity, identity and community connections.
A disaster grants rulers extraordinary power and authority, raising the question of whether they will use that power to protect citizens or restrict them.
The average age of federal cabinet ministers and lower house MPs has declined, but key issues for Nepali youth are still not prioritised.
Nepal needs to know how to use the helicopters it already has before the next disaster arrives.
Nepal ended load-shedding through better governance. Then the river came down.
Growth does not tell the full story of the economy unless it considers how it is generated and distributed.
The time has come for the ‘Global North’ to pay its historical ecological debts to Nepal with the reparations it is rightfully owed.
Climate change is not a future risk to our hydropower sector; it is a present and recurring one. The August disaster proved it at a scale no prior monsoon had.
A resilient mountain monitoring system must combine satellite observations, remote sensing, field investigation, weather information, river monitoring and local knowledge.
Nepal can encourage innovation by establishing a practical pathway for locally designed and assembled drones.
Despite losing everything, communities along the Nepal‑Tibet border are helping each other rebuild.
DNA testing can’t undo the flood. But it can help the affected families bid farewell to those they lost.
Resilience is less about defending against a known threat and more about preparing for the unknown.
When the flood washed away the roads, helicopters were the only way out. So why were politicians and camera crews hogging them?
Is it unreasonable to ask our neighbours to engage in meaningful climate action through a regional legal arrangement?
Under international law, a state does not automatically become responsible just because something goes wrong within its national jurisdiction.
Nepal, India and China share a mountain ecosystem and face increasing effects of climate change.