As families gather for Dashain, many are asking whether joy is insensitive when others are still searching, mourning and rebuilding. Psychology says joy and compassion can coexist.

Orwell feared a vocabulary too flat to think in. We managed it ourselves, for free, with filters.

The failure to expand electric cooking in Nepali kitchens shows how Nepal’s energy policies are failing its people.

Nepal’s shift to fewer, stronger maternal facilities is sound. The floods show those facilities also have to hold up in a disaster.

Dashain’s prominence in Nepali media is understandable, but how consistently do news outlets recognise the festivals of other religious and cultural communities?

Crime now arrives as a friend request, a familiar voice, a link too good to ignore. Policing it will take better machines, better-prepared personnel and a public that trusts us enough to talk.

Nepal pays billions a year for work it does not count and daughters it did not educate.

Stories from Nepal have become more common internationally in recent decades, although positive ones are rare.

A monitoring framework can count toilets built, but not whether people use them, they’re well located or work for women.

Recurring disasters in Nepal destroy crops, permanently erode farmland, displace families and worsen economic inequality.

The government must immediately secure clean water, enforce emergency sanitation and monitor emerging infections.

When a few hours’ notice can save lives, fragmented or missing cross-country information becomes dangerous.

Political parties’ historical contributions do not give them a license to control universities and student bodies.

From the 51,000-year-old Tsergo Ri collapse to the 2015 Langtang landslide, rockfalls are part of the Himalayan ecosystem, and global warming is making them more dangerous.