THINKING NEPAL

A dearth of reason

26 November 2015

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

Nepal Public Figures Challenge Human Rights Watch

Second-Class: The Nepal Embassy and Citizenship Inaccuracies

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...

A journey to remember

This post was written in 2007, following what has been my most interesting train journey thus far…

Walking a Tightrope

3 February 2013

Tourism in Bhutan is treading a fine line. On the one hand, the Bhutanese government wants to limit the number of tourists it receives every year, and yet, on the other, tourism has been marked out as one of the key sources of economic growth. Try as…

The Migration Conundrum

27 January 2013

We’re going to make them a promise we can’t keep

2012 piece written four years after Nepal’s first Constituent Assembly had failed to give the country a Constitution.

Make that several promises. We will bring you federalism. We will bring about social inclusion. We…