Tag: #Nepal politics
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All is fair in war (and peace)
Retelling the Maoist conflict, and its impact on Nepali society and politics
3-party dictatorship
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIOn Sunday in Gorkha, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, flanked by Narayan Kaji Shrestha and former comrade-in-arms Baburam…
Geopolitical tug-o-war over Nepal
Pushpa Kamal Dahal with Jagat Prakash Nadda, national president of BJP. Photo: JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA/TWITTERBarely days after Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
Returning to the cradle of democracy
Thirty years after the iconic photograph of her during the first People’s Movement of 1990, Durga Thapa returned to the abandoned and dusty…
What is delaying Nepal cabinet expansion?
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office over a month ago, but aside from six ministers he has not been able to set up a full Cabinet yet…
Smartass lockdown
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could make…
Going down with the ship
Illustration: Diwakar ChettriIf anyone had wanted to dismantle Nepal’s Communist movement, no one would have been able to do a better job than…
Nepal goes viral
One thing we cannot complain about is that, for once, the world is not ignoring a humanitarian disaster in Nepal. They have even named a variant…
A Kathmandu Spring
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has by now squandered the overwhelming mandate it got in the 2017 elections to govern for five years, and its…
Oli’s tit-for-tat show of force
Prime Minister KP Oli addresses his supporters in Darbar Marg.The tit-for-tat show of force between rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist…
Nepali Congress takes to the streets
All photos: Bikram Rai/Nepali TimesAfter widespread criticism that the Nepali Congress (NC) was not playing the role of a loyal opposition at a…
Nepali Congress takes to the streets
All photos: Bikram Rai/Nepali TimesAfter widespread criticism that the Nepali Congress (NC) was not playing the role of a loyal opposition at a…
Nepal’s communists on verge of split, again
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhile Nepal hurtles towards the 1,000 Covid-19 deaths mark and hospitals run out of beds, the country’s two top…
Running to remain in place
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province…
Man Power
The two alpha males of Nepali politics finally sorted out their differences, ending months of deadlock that had brought governance to a…
Nepal’s past, present and future in a photo
From left-right standing: Lakpa Tsering Sherpa (?), Ganesh Man Singh, Bal Chandra Sharma, Mahendra Narayan Nidhi Sitting: Matrika Prasad Koirala…
The seat of power
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIYou have to give it to K P Oli, he seems to have wriggled out of the biggest crisis in his current tenure as prime…
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.…