Tag: #communist
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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…
In a surveillance state
Illustration : BHANU BHATTARAIWhile citizens in Western democracies try to get their governments to combat the misuse of their private data by…
THE TWO - YEAR ITCH
Illustration : DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority,…
Spooking Nepalis by snooping on them
On 11 December, the Prime Minister and Cabinet's office tabled the 'bill to amend and integrate laws relating to the constitution and operation…
CENSURING CENSORSHIP
Now that all three festivals are over, it is time to remind ourselves of where we left off before the holidays. Lest we forget, in late…
Party Line
Photo: RAMESH GIRI/RSSThroughout the state visit to Nepal by Chinese President Xi Jinping last weekend, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism ideology was…
The rise and fall of Comrade Mahara
Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic Hospital on Tuesday…
Prime Minister's health condition under wraps
Prime Minister KP Oli returns home on 6 September after completing plasmapheresis treatment for his ailing kidney in Singapore.Prime Minister KP…
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…
The Troika
After a prolonged tug-o-war that polarised the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to the point where it looked like it was headed for a split, a…
Culture Revolution
Protests against the proposed Guthi Bill in Lalitpur on Thursday. Photos: Sanu Raj MaharjanForeigners are often puzzled why Nepalis never take…
Long shadows
SUP-PRESS: Journalists taking part in a rally on Tuesday ahead of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May were stopped by barricades and riot police…
It’s a crime not to call it terrorism
Photo: SETOPATIThe terror attack on the Ncell head office in Lalitpur that cost the life of Sing Prasad Gurung and seriously injured three…
Stop the extortion
Photo: NAGARIKEditorial in Nagarik, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has resorted to violence in…
Extortion in a federal state
Photo: SETOPATIKantipur, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has been sending letters to all rural…
“Yes, we planted that bomb”
Photo: SETOPATIInterview in BBC Nepali service, 24 FebruaryThe Nepali Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) hs owned up to…
Hitching our wagon
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIVenezuela is in the news worldwide for US-backed attempts to bring down the Nicolas Maduro government, but it is…
A conflicting stance
Devprakash Tripathi in Ghatana ra Bichar, 29 JanuaryNCP Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal recently expressed strong support for the sovereignty of…
Doctors solidarity with Govinda KC
Photo: YOYOKHABARNagarik, 31 JanuaryDoctors across the country have taken to the streets to protest the government’s inaction on Govinda KC’s…
Social insecurity
Prime Minister K P Oli’s media blitz this week taking full credit for a social security scheme for private sector employees was an attempt to…
Federalism's birth pangs or death rattle?
May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives took…
Grassroots democracy is delivering development
In the three decades after 1960 when political parties were banned, there were Village Panchayats. After the democratic changes in 1990, they…
United we stand
The unification of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninists and the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist-Centre to form the Nepal…
We need answers from Communists
Pic: RSSKrishna Jwala Devkota in Naya Patrika, 20 MayHalf the world was communist during the Cold War. Today, only five remain: China, North…