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There be dragon fruits
All photos: Jiwan Prasad RaiThe rise of the independents in local elections in May showed that Nepalis are fed up with politics as usual. Now,…
The business of politics
Illustration: BHANU ACHARYA/NEPALI TIMESDuring the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC)…
Open Defection-free Zone
It warms our cockles in these bleak times that the General Conventions of Nepal’s main parties have been declared Open Defection-Free Zones. But…
Nepal's accidental leaders
Now that the Army is in the business of importing medicine, why not deploy the Ministry of Health to defend Lipu Lekh?
Nepal's New Normal
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe COVID-19 pandemic is like a nightmare that we wish we could suddenly wake up from, realising that it was just a…
“Business, bureaucracy and politicians all plundering the Chure”
Photo : MANISH PAUDELOn 10 January, 24-year-old Dilip Mahato was killed for opposing the ‘Crusher’ industry in Dhanusha that was illegally…
No shame
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIJust when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even…
A KLEPTO REPUBLIC
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get a driving license to…