Tag: #Baburam Bhattarai
Articles tagged with #Baburam Bhattarai
Development = Destruction
Kickback-driven maldevelopment is destroying Nepal as megalomania and kleptomania go hand-in-hand.
Baburam Bhattarai’s 4-point formula
National consensus needed on geopolitics, federalism, inclusion and infrastructure-led growth
Nepal’s elusive ‘Great Transformation’
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThis short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South…
Nepal stuck between rock and hard place
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn 9 September, while a US delegation was landing at Kathmandu airport on a four-day visit, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Pushpa…
Pushpa Kamal Dahal is still Prachanda
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepal’s political headlines these days are mainly about the rift between K P Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal that split…
'Santosh Shah was born in Nepal'
Photo: SANTOSH SHAH/TWITTERSantosh Shah, the Nepali who was runner-up in the MasterChef Professional 2020 in Britain last week, made it a point…
'Santosh Shah was born in Nepal'
Photo: SANTOSH SHAH/TWITTERSantosh Shah, the Nepali who was runner-up in the MasterChef Professional 2020 in Britain last week, made it a point…
When will Nepal’s future ever arrive?
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI“What do people mean by poor governance,” asked Crown Prince Dipendra. “Are they fed up with corruption? Is it that they…
An alternative to alternative politics in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAlternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties.…
Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
Revolutionary violence, or terror?
There was sharp and widespread condemnation of the bomb terror unleashed by the Biplav-led Communist Party of Nepal this week on the Nepali…
From a fossil past to an electric future
PIPE DREAM: Part of a 69km petroleum pipeline connecting Amlekhganj in Nepal to an oil refinery in India, under construction in Patlaiya. The…
Conjoined twins
In a recent meeting with editors of Nepal’s mainstream media, six months after assuming office, Prime Minister K P Oli was grilled about fears…
Hail to the chiefs
WE SWEAR: Out of 11 new ministers who took their oath of office last week, six were Khas-Arya, 3 Janjati, 1 Madhesi and 1 Dalit. Half the full…
Baburam's U-turn
The EU election mission’s report this week that Nepal’s Khas-Arya community should not have quotas for proportional representation has set off a…