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Dahal, aka ‘Prachanda’, turned his back on an earlier alliance with the Nepali Congress to side with the CPN-UML. Now he must lead a coalition government with former foes and emergent new parties.
On 25 December, the former Maoist rebel leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a.k.a. ‘Prachanda’, showed why (...)
Using extensive documentary footage from the Maoist conflict, General Sam Cowan provides incisive analysis on the military effectiveness of the People’s Liberation Army.
Foreword
I am delighted that my article analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the armed wing of the Maoist party, the (...)
More social movements are being organized on social media but there are still doubts about their longevity and their ability to bring about real change.
In mid-June last year, nine young people from Kathmandu formed a private group on Facebook, the primary function of which was to act as a (...)
The attacks on poet Sapana Sanjeevani and leaders of the Women’s March are just one part of a pandemic of online violence against women.
On February 21, almost a week after she received her first rape threat on social media, Sapana Sanjeevani was finally able to register a police complaint. (...)
The constitution of Nepal has envisioned a prosperous and socialist Nepal. However, vital sectors connected to the economy and public life have been assigned to the private sector.
A debate on socialism has been underway in the Left circles of Nepal for some time now. Friends from the Nepali (...)
More than 56% of Nepal’s households receive remittances, a vital lifeline for families that have no other source of income.
Kathmandu: Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry in order to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus pandemic cost her husband his (...)
Brutal cuts to US-funded reproductive health services threaten to throw progress in the south Asian country into sharp reverse
Devendra Amgai lost his job in November. The 42-year-old public health professional was working in one of Nepal’s more remote districts, distributing contraceptives to (...)
Following a decade-long insurgency and a tumultuous peace process, a new conflict might be in the making in Nepal.
About a decade ago it seemed as if Nepal was marching into a new era. After a devastating decade-long war between Maoists and the government, an all-party People’s Movement took to (...)
Though there is support for the Hindu state agenda, Nepali people are focused on the promises made by the Communist government in 2017.
Kathmandu: Thirteen years ago, major political forces promulgated the interim constitution of Nepal (2007), following the formal entry of the warring Maoists (...)
Ideas flow easily across the border so it was only natural for the movement to enter Nepal via India.
Inspired by the #MeToo storm in India, women in Nepal have in the past month taken to Twitter and Facebook to tell their stories of sexual harassment at the hands of powerful men. It was only (...)
Critics allege that it is not just caste discrimination leading many Dalits in Nepal to turn away from Hindu beliefs and become Christians
Worshippers at a Christian church in Thakaldanda, Nepal. The country has one of the fastest growing Christian populations in the world. All photographs: (...)
Local women patrol the Nepal-Indian border to apprehend people taking girls out of the country
A dusty junction in Birgunj, Nepal. Photograph: Gavin Kelleher
Just before dawn in the bustling city of Birgunj, an elegant middle-aged woman clocks on to start her border patrol shift.
Maya (...)
Far from being a revolutionary force, the new communist party seems intent on carrying forward the hallowed tradition of the ruling parties in Nepal misusing state treasury to enrich and expand their patronage networks.
Kathmandu: The all-powerful communist government of K.P. Sharma Oli has (...)
It is crucial for secularists in Nepal to define what they mean by secularism, and to actively defend and promote it. Some forces in Nepal, supported by the Modi government in India, want Nepal to become a “Hindu state.”
Four years ago, a question put to Sushma Swaraj suggested that both India (...)
Both Prime Minister Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre leader Prachanda need each other’s help to maintain the strength of the government and the unified party.
Kathmandu: In October 2017, Nepal’s two main communist forces— the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxists Leninists (UML) the Communist Party (...)
A significant proportion of the population in Nepal migrates abroad every year to work Remittances contribute approximately 30% of the country’s GDP. Disgracefully, the state has neglected the issues of foreign labour migration and ignored the concerns, rights, and welfare of migrant workers and (...)
Despite political reservation systems, Nepali women, Dalits and other marginalised groups remain severely under-represented.
Over the past nine months, Nepal has held elections for local level officials, provincial assemblies and two houses of national parliament. In total, the country (...)
The merger has given the anti-India voice in the country a strong platform.
The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a (...)
Communists have won a land slide victory in the elections for House of Representatives of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal held in two phases on 26th November and 7th December 2017. In the parliament of 275, the elections were held for 165 seats under the first past the post system (FPTP) (...)
The incumbent, the Nepali Congress, was wracked by corruption scandals, infighting, and the lack of any vision for the country.
You might as well imagine a large red flag fluttering from the summit of Mount Everest. That’s what the outcome of the parliamentary and provincial elections in Nepal (...)
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