The Crow and Pretty P: a short story on the occasion of Kaag Tihar
Read the story by clicking on the following link: (First posted on 13 November 2012) The_Crow_and_Pretty_P
Read the story by clicking on the following link: (First posted on 13 November 2012) The_Crow_and_Pretty_P
We undersigned citizens are deeply concerned that the de facto economic blockade of the past two months by India has resulted in a grave humanitarian crisis in Nepal. We appeal to the concerned parties of Nepal, and to the international community including India to recognise this crisis and take effective steps to bring it to …
From The Kathmandu Post (25 September, 2015) The run of challenges has sapped the national spirit, but tomorrow will dawn if we shun cynicism Nothing can describe the hopelessness of the past couple of decades than the death by hunger strike of Nanda Prasad Adhikari, exactly a year ago. And the continuing battle of his …
From The Hindu (24 September, 2015) The oldest nation-state of South Asia must be allowed its own space to implement its new Constitution, which for all its weaknesses has progressive elements, from institutionalising the republic and secularism, to conferring several social and economic rights on its people No other term but ‘dismay’ can describe one’s …
From The Kathmandu Post (11 September, 2015) It is best to push back the date of constitution promulgation to build maximum ownership of the document It was not preordained that matters would go so wrong in the second Constituent Assembly (CA), with such deadly results as 34 citizens dead and counting. Nepal is not like …
From The Kathmandu Post (28 August, 2015) Emerging from the ongoing political polarisation requires picking up one of two options on federal demarcation The Maoists conducted what they said was class warfare. While they were opportunistic to take such recourse in a democratic, parliamentary state barely five years after it was achieved, at least the …
सेतोपाटी: नेपालको डिजिटल पत्रिका (भाद्र १, २०७२) बाट संघीयताको अजेण्डा नेपालको संविधानलेखनमा छिरेको न माओवादी न जनजाति आन्दोलनको कारण हो। मधेश आन्दोलनको आवाज थियो, जसले संघीयतालाई अन्तरिम संविधानमा प्रवेश गरायो। यस माग पछाडि मधेशी जनताले खेप्नु परेको दोहोरो मार थियो; एक त ऐतिहासिक बहिष्करण, अर्को राज्यको अपनत्वबाट एकहात पर राखिएको अवस्था। नेपाली समाज २०४६ को …
From The Kathmandu Post (14 August, 2015) The primary concern with the proposed band-aid federalism is how it will hurt the poor of the Tarai-Madhes Unexpectedly, the flashpoint of the federal agenda appeared not in the hotbed of identity-related tension elsewhere in the hills and the plains, but in the mid-western region which has been …
From The Kathmandu Post (31 July, 2015) The ills of governance result from the unaccountability in our electoral politics Where else would you go westward 160 km on a winding hill highway in order to travel east, for four decades on end, and never think of the costs and consequences? Nepal, of course. This derives …
नागरिक दैनिक (१३ साउन, २०७२) बाट स्थायित्व, समृद्धि र सामाजिक न्यायको लागि संविधान चाहिएको छ, तर संविधानको प्रारम्भिक मस्यौदा ‘भिजन’ विहीन र विरोधाभासपूर्ण छ— ‘सिन्डिकेट राजनीति’ ले निर्वाचित संविधान सभालाई आफ्नो हिसाबले चल्न नदिएको, निर्वाचनमा हारेका शक्तिको आडम्बर तथा विदेशी एजेन्टहरूले संविधान तयारीमा खेल्न ठाउँ पाएका कारण। तर, यस नाजुक अवस्थामा संविधान यसै मस्यौदाबाट बनाउनुको …