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Nepal’s bid for UNGA chair It is the turn of Asian continent to get the chair of the United Nations General Assembly for the year 2011. [More]
NC 12th Convention: Can it revive democratic socialism? Nepal Congress (NC), the oldest democratic party of the country, is going to hold its 12th general convention in Kathmandu from September 17 to 21. [More]
South Asia mired in mutual suspicion South Asia as a region is often looked upon by the world in a negative light. South Asia is touted as a region of poor and backward people, which is often conflict ridden and hotbed of terrorism. [More]
Two pathetic comrades: MB Singh & CP Mainali The Nepalese communist movement saw many ups and downs in its more than sixty years of history. [More]
India's Nepal dilemma India and the United States seem to be working at cross-purposes in carrying forward their strategic interests in Nepal. [More]
Golden Jubilee of Nepal-Pakistan Relations Yuba Nath Lamsal The friendly and cordial relations between Nepal and Pakistan have grown fully mature. It has been fifty years since the diplomatic relationship between Nepal and Pakistan was established. [More]
Janatantric people as cannon fodder It was in the year 1885 that the recruitment of Gurkhas for the British Army was formally permitted by Bir Shumsher (1885-1901). The settlement of this issue had been pending since 1816. [More]
Statelessness Taking Its Toll It has already been 50 days since the country is without a government. Parliament failed to choose the new PM even in the fourth round of election. It is the shame of the nation and collective failure of our leadership. [More]
Continuity of Indian design in Nepal Last week, Shyam Sharan came to Kathmandu acting as a special emissary of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the purported objective of further strengthening India’s long held desire to keep Nepali politics under its tight grip. During his stay in the Nepali capital, the former Indian foreign secretary held a flurry of meetings with leaders of different political parties [More]
Maoist Aversion to Pluralism Puzzling It puzzles everyone that UCPN-Maoist is declining to write the term ‘pluralism’ in the new constitution. While coming into peace process, the Maoists made commitment to multi-party system, human rights, periodic election, independent judiciary, rule of law, press freedom and other principles of democracy. [More]
Nepal’s foreign policy in a mess Some foreign policy pundits tend to believe that the best foreign policy is ‘no foreign policy’. People who subscribe to this theory are of the view that the rigid foreign policy often handicaps a country to act and manipulate in the particular situation when international diplomacy is in disarray. [More]
Brutal Jock of Democracy It is perhaps a brutal jock of Nepalese democracy. The political parties could not choose a new prime minister even in their third attempt. The election to the PM’s post had never been so cheap before in the parliamentary history of Nepal. [More]
Long stalemate after Maoist victory disrupts life in Nepal For a decade, he carried a 9mm pistol and battled government forces in almost every corner of Nepal as part of a Maoist insurgency that ravaged this majestic Himalayan nation. [More]
Time to fulfill Nepali people's peace aspirations wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests, according to Machiavelli. A lot of confusion currently precedes the formation of Nepal´s next Federal Democratic Republic government. [More]
Nepal entangled with the United Nations The wrangling in Nepal over forming an interim coalition to replace the government that quit on June 30 has projected some of the country's politicians as small-minded, and seemingly unwilling to take the country out of its tension-fraught transition. [More]
Declining law and order and moral degeneration Have the laws and rules become redundant in our country? Don't we need them for regulating the society and developing it into a morally integrated and responsible one? We use the term redundant not because they have become superfluous, but because despite their full utility they have been left ineffective. [More]
UN is not clean-three are skeletons in their cupboard Hunger strike by a patriotic political front NFF lead by a Minister of the cabinet Wimal Weerawansa (he had since given resignation to save face of the Government and now it is reported that Wimal and his party colleagues have given up the hunger strike after President Rajapaksa’s intervention) against [More]
Nepal´s Maoists must search for a new democratic role The much hyped pro-people 13 month old UML government bowed out this week after Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal opted for a live broadcast on Nepal Television to tender his resignation, denigrating the Maoists for the cabinet´s past failures. [More]
So what Madhav went? Madhav Nepal’s lateral entry thirteen months ago reminds me of Newton’s third law. What has Madhav Nepal got to do with the great scientist Isaac Newton? The two have nothing in common except that both are human beings. But his third law makes sense in terms with the way he catapulted into the premiership and the way he was jettisoned as national politics became dangerously unstable. [More]
Nepal's Maoists poised for pragmatic role Madhav Kumar Nepal knew his days as prime minister were numbered, but he didn't want the public to believe he was quitting under pressure from the Maoists. [More]
NC 12th Convention: Can it revive democratic socialism? Nepal Congress (NC), the oldest democratic party of the country, is going to hold its 12th general convention in Kathmandu from September 17 to 21. [More]
South Asia mired in mutual suspicion South Asia as a region is often looked upon by the world in a negative light. South Asia is touted as a region of poor and backward people, which is often conflict ridden and hotbed of terrorism. [More]
Two pathetic comrades: MB Singh & CP Mainali The Nepalese communist movement saw many ups and downs in its more than sixty years of history. [More]
India's Nepal dilemma India and the United States seem to be working at cross-purposes in carrying forward their strategic interests in Nepal. [More]
Golden Jubilee of Nepal-Pakistan Relations Yuba Nath Lamsal The friendly and cordial relations between Nepal and Pakistan have grown fully mature. It has been fifty years since the diplomatic relationship between Nepal and Pakistan was established. [More]
Janatantric people as cannon fodder It was in the year 1885 that the recruitment of Gurkhas for the British Army was formally permitted by Bir Shumsher (1885-1901). The settlement of this issue had been pending since 1816. [More]
Statelessness Taking Its Toll It has already been 50 days since the country is without a government. Parliament failed to choose the new PM even in the fourth round of election. It is the shame of the nation and collective failure of our leadership. [More]
Continuity of Indian design in Nepal Last week, Shyam Sharan came to Kathmandu acting as a special emissary of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the purported objective of further strengthening India’s long held desire to keep Nepali politics under its tight grip. During his stay in the Nepali capital, the former Indian foreign secretary held a flurry of meetings with leaders of different political parties [More]
Maoist Aversion to Pluralism Puzzling It puzzles everyone that UCPN-Maoist is declining to write the term ‘pluralism’ in the new constitution. While coming into peace process, the Maoists made commitment to multi-party system, human rights, periodic election, independent judiciary, rule of law, press freedom and other principles of democracy. [More]
Nepal’s foreign policy in a mess Some foreign policy pundits tend to believe that the best foreign policy is ‘no foreign policy’. People who subscribe to this theory are of the view that the rigid foreign policy often handicaps a country to act and manipulate in the particular situation when international diplomacy is in disarray. [More]
Brutal Jock of Democracy It is perhaps a brutal jock of Nepalese democracy. The political parties could not choose a new prime minister even in their third attempt. The election to the PM’s post had never been so cheap before in the parliamentary history of Nepal. [More]
Long stalemate after Maoist victory disrupts life in Nepal For a decade, he carried a 9mm pistol and battled government forces in almost every corner of Nepal as part of a Maoist insurgency that ravaged this majestic Himalayan nation. [More]
Time to fulfill Nepali people's peace aspirations wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests, according to Machiavelli. A lot of confusion currently precedes the formation of Nepal´s next Federal Democratic Republic government. [More]
Nepal entangled with the United Nations The wrangling in Nepal over forming an interim coalition to replace the government that quit on June 30 has projected some of the country's politicians as small-minded, and seemingly unwilling to take the country out of its tension-fraught transition. [More]
Declining law and order and moral degeneration Have the laws and rules become redundant in our country? Don't we need them for regulating the society and developing it into a morally integrated and responsible one? We use the term redundant not because they have become superfluous, but because despite their full utility they have been left ineffective. [More]
UN is not clean-three are skeletons in their cupboard Hunger strike by a patriotic political front NFF lead by a Minister of the cabinet Wimal Weerawansa (he had since given resignation to save face of the Government and now it is reported that Wimal and his party colleagues have given up the hunger strike after President Rajapaksa’s intervention) against [More]
Nepal´s Maoists must search for a new democratic role The much hyped pro-people 13 month old UML government bowed out this week after Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal opted for a live broadcast on Nepal Television to tender his resignation, denigrating the Maoists for the cabinet´s past failures. [More]
So what Madhav went? Madhav Nepal’s lateral entry thirteen months ago reminds me of Newton’s third law. What has Madhav Nepal got to do with the great scientist Isaac Newton? The two have nothing in common except that both are human beings. But his third law makes sense in terms with the way he catapulted into the premiership and the way he was jettisoned as national politics became dangerously unstable. [More]
Nepal's Maoists poised for pragmatic role Madhav Kumar Nepal knew his days as prime minister were numbered, but he didn't want the public to believe he was quitting under pressure from the Maoists. [More]
