Second-Class: The Nepal Embassy and Citizenship Inaccuracies

Nepal Public Figures Challenge Human Rights Watch

A dearth of reason

26 November 2015

A couple of days ago, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at a gathering…

Southern shutdown puts onus on Kathmandu to bridge trust deficit

The end of the civil war (2006)

This is an old essay I came across today. It was written in the summer of 2006 when the Maoists took their first steps to entering the political mainstream after years in hiding, and a decade-long civil war...

Why governance matters

24 February 2013

Socio-economic development: The big push

28 July 2013

Tourists won’t just come

21 July 2013

FDI in Nepal: A hard sell

17 February 2013

For several years now, entrepreneurs in Nepal have cried hoarse over the need for greater foreign direct investment into the country. These years of effort on the part of the private sector have been matched with years of inability on the…

Hong Kong, Singapore head in opposite directions on tax

8 April 2015

SINGAPORE — Hong Kong and Singapore have become victims of their own success. While both cities have prospered owing to their willingness to embrace globalization, one byproduct of this economic…