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The outcasts
Nepalis at the grassroots for whom grassroots democracy has not delivered
Feudalism to Federalism
Illustration: RABINDRAOver the past 30 years since the first People’s Movement, we have seen that things start moving in Nepal when local…
Nepal’s local election gives power back to people
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVE“The paradox is this: if economic rationality tells us that the next century will be the age of global integration of…
Can Nepal elections change its male-stream politics?
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIWhen we had a baby, just a few weeks ahead of the first lockdown in 2020, my husband and I had to make some difficult…
Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Polls in the time of pandemic
After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.…
Nepal’s politicians take up farming
Nep Bahadur Chaudhary and his wife Rupa Chaudhary at their banana plantation.Democracy is expensive and funding political activities can be…
Nepal’s local governments lead from the front
Photos: DIPRUNG CHUICHUMMA RURAL MUNICIPALITYSabitra Devkota of Diprung Chuichumma rural municipality in Khotang had been isolating at home for…
“Everything is political”
Bidi Yolkey Rai mapping the sate of deliberative decision-making in her Palika.Bidi Yolkey Rai, 28, struggles to conduct an online session on…
Devolution for development
Photo: KUNDA DIXITOne afternoon last month in Ramaroshan Rural Municipality of Achham district, 45-year-old mother of five, Sarada Bista, was…
Holding up the whole sky in Jumla
Of the more than 753 municipalities in Nepal, most are led by men and the deputy is required by law to be a woman. Jumla is one of only two…
Mustering the energy to save
Every watt of electricity saved is twice the power generated