Opinion
Will it be different this time in Nepal?
RSP can no longer define itself as anti-establishment. It is now the establishment.
No forests, no economies
Sustainable management that protects and promotes nature amidst growing demands for forest products
The spheres-of-influence illusion
The US, China, and Russia are abandoning international law for power politics, a shift toward rival blocs that has historically breed conflict over stability.
Trump’s China Trip: Aiming for Deliverables
The United States and China need to lower expectations about Trump’s trip and be realistic, aiming for several concrete outcomes
Soon, the monsoon
Activists who rescued flood survivors are now in Nepal’s government. Will disaster response be different this rainy season?
After the ballot in Nepal
Hope, concern and the long road ahead to make democracy deliver
Nepalis deliver a mature and historic mandate
The people have played their part, now it is the RSP’s job to deliver on promises made
Nepal’s mandate for change
Building effective governance will be far more difficult than winning votes
Imagery, Algorithms, and the Ballot
What Takaichi’s Victory Says About Youth Politics in the Digital Age
When geopolitics becomes lived reality
It is one thing to analyse geopolitics from a distance, it is another to sit at home, phone in hand, watching alerts multiply
Letter from Norway
Democracy is at stake all over the world, and Nepal will face its own test on 5 March
AI takeover of all media
Novels, photography, art, music and journalism face a reckoning with artificial intelligence
RED ALERT: Get ready for the wildfire season
How Nepal can reduce forest fires and boost farm production at the same time
Bangladesh’s post-uprising election
Out-of-country voting and rapid ballot counting can hold lessons for Nepal’s own polls
How I got my NRN Citizenship in Nepal
Despite a convoluted process, NRN citizenship secures the rights and aspirations of expatriate Nepalis
What the interim government gave Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday 18 months after the 2024 GenZ driven upring that toppled long‑time premier Sheikh Hasina
International law meets an age of impunity
As long as some states are shielded from accountability while others are exposed to it, the legal order will struggle to command legitimacy
Regenerative conservation from zoologists in Nepal
If nature is left entirely unmanaged, ecological succession will proceed in ways that may undermine conservation objectives
Cleaning up the Himalayan airshed
Pollution from North India and Pakistan clouds the sky over Nepal worsening health risk and melting ice caps
Nepal's vanishing wetlands
On World Wetlands Day, a call to protect migratory birds and their habitat along the Narayani River
Where culture meets ecology
Reverence and traditional practices have helped preserve valuable wetland ecosystems in the Himalaya
The UN’s withering vine
What the American retreat from global governance means for the world
Safe delivery in 2026
Nepal introducing two new initiatives to strengthen maternal and newborn health despite funding setbacks
Protectionism will not protect against pandemics
Infections and health inequalities have been reduced, but tariffs, cutting foreign aid, and protectionism will reverse progress