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Videos
Nepal Elections 2026: Protests and Politics
Nepal is at a pivotal political moment. As the country prepares for its upcoming elections, questions around democratic consolidation, coalition politics, civic participation, and representation have become increasingly urgent. This panel discussion brought together scholars, analysts, and public intellectuals to reflect on the evolving political landscape in Nepal , examining electoral dynamics, the state of institutions, and what the elections mean for the country’s political future. Speakers: Pranaya Rana is a scholar-practitioner with two decades of experience spanning the military, education, social services, and public health sectors. A Ph.D. in International Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University and a lifetime Senior Bosserman-UNESCO Fellow, he is currently an active politician in Nepal, having contested in the 2020 House of Representatives elections and served as Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2024. Nabin Giri is a youth [...]
3.03.2026
Interviews
Envisioning Stability: Peace, Gender, and Climate in Nepal
In an insightful conversation with our Assistant Editor Vatsala Tyagi, Dr. Prakash Bhattarai, Executive Director of the Centre for Social Change (CSC), Kathmandu and a leading researcher in peace and conflict studies, shared his perspectives on sustaining peace, addressing migration, and tackling climate change in Nepal and South Asia.
1.07.2025
Podcasts
Hydro-hegemony: Water Modernization in Nepal and Beyond
In this wide-ranging conversation on hydrology and climate change, Dr. Dipak Gyawali, former Minister of Water Resources for Nepal, offers a series of crucial insights into the often indifferent, selectively inadequate, and politically compromised responses to the climate crisis. Arguing for a more sophisticated, multipronged approach, Dr. Gyawali critiques dominant Western scientific paradigms for failing to recognize the climate crisis primarily as a crisis of water. He highlights how these frameworks not only marginalize water-related concerns but also frequently dismiss indigenous hydrological knowledge systems as unscientific or primitive, thereby reinforcing global hierarchies of knowledge and power.
28.04.2025
News
New Dog, Old Tricks: Nepal’s Road to Federalism
Almost two decades have passed since the end of the civil war in Nepal but the country still struggles to address the legacy of the long conflict. The Nepali Civil War, which lasted a decade from 1996 to 2006 arose primarily due to uneven development and discrimination that plagued Nepal. The then elected government, formed under the constitutional monarch in 1991, and drawn from the previous system of total monarchy between 1960 to 1990, was highly centralised with political power concentrated in Kathmandu. This led to the ostracization of rural inhabitants who lived in destitute conditions and found little to no support from the state.
19.02.2025
Nepali Bureaucracy: The Powerful Establishment
In this op-ed, Sushav Niraula explores the contradictory nature of Nepali bureaucracy, which can both resist and be subservient to elected representatives. This duality has resulted from increased bureaucratic power after the end of the monarchy. The op-ed discusses factors that have led to excess bureaucratic power and argues that governance reforms need to find a balance between power and accountability to make Nepali public service efficient.
24.05.2024
