Category: Opinion

Narayan Manandhar Every baby boomers must have gone through the story of ghieu bechuwa and tarwar behuwa (ghee-seller and sword-seller) when they were kid or during their school d...

Narayan Manandhar “Aba ke hunxa?” or what next? is hanging over the heads of every Nepali. With relatively young MPs, fresh blood in the parliament, with a single party commanding...

Narayan Manandhar Post Gen-Z movement, CPN-UML president Oli has suddenly become a hero to me. I even called him the Bruce Lee of Nepali politics, though I am still waiting for th...

By Tsering Passang, Founder-Chair, Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities March 10 is not merely an anniversary for Tibetans. It is a day of national remembrance, polit...

This is my fourth take on elections or under the title “Predicting the Unpredictable”. So, all the analysis, prognosis, diagnosis and predictions gone wrong? The results clearly in...

An Economy of Expectations When we were children, relatives visiting home meant expecting chocolates—a small, innocent social ritual. Years later, in my mid-twenties, I joined a fr...

In the up-coming elections, the political parties have given a special accord to the agenda of good governance and anti-corruption (GGAC). This is because GGAC has become a sexy to...

Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci had defined “interregnum”or the state of transition as the situation where “the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum (si...

The Tibetan world stands in solemn reflection following the passing of Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th Ngari Rinpoche, who died on 17 February 2026 at his residence, Kashmir Cottage, in...

This is my second take on up-coming elections. Earlier, I projected three possible scenarios, namely, worst case, business-as-usual case and best case scenarios (2 February, op-ed)...

Narayan Manandhar Earlier, I have written that the study report of the Karki Investigation Commission will end up as an albatross to Sushila Karki Government (6 February op-ed). T...