Nepal holds a distinctive and largely unstudied cannabis gene pool. Legalisation, if it comes, risks erasing it through hybridisation.

The framing of ‘human-wildlife conflict’ naturalises the problem, obscures the political choices that produce it and shields powerful conservation actors from scrutiny.

If an amendment can fail even when it is procedurally flawless, who decides when that line has been crossed?

His tragedy is not merely a localised incident of a fine gone wrong. It is a symptom of a deeper, more systemic rot in our urban governance.

It is but simple arithmetic. When the expected cost of being wrong exceeds the expected return of being right, sensible people wait.

Stolen from classrooms and playgrounds and thrust into conflict, the minors lost their formative years of education, economic mobility and psychological security.

Nepal can reach its goal of becoming a $100 billion economy in five years by adopting innovative tax policies to build a foreign sovereign wealth fund, and by creating a friendly business climate.

The blanket support of the government’s every action, just or unjust, will motivate it to veer into authoritarianism.

Disasters have differential impacts on various groups, but preparedness and responses remain generalised.

Nepal’s constitutional promise will be fulfilled only when the provincial and local levels are genuinely empowered as equal partners in governance.

Digital literacy needs to cease being a voluntary awareness programme and become a formal part of social protection and development policy.

Nepal does not have much leverage to retaliate against India’s action. It needs to update and operationalise agreements and address critical trade bottlenecks.

What precisely would a unified left stand for that it does not stand for now, divided?

Why does heritage in Nepal make headlines only after it has disappeared, or once damage becomes irreversible?