Before embarking on his India visit last week, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the largest outfit in Nepal’s dissolved Constituent Assembly, reiterated one statement over and over again. Read more

“Now I am a free citizen. Thank you everybody who have stood with me during the last 18 months & 18 days,” Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal’s former prime minister tweeted hours after handing his post to the incumbent chief justice of the country on Thursday. Read more

The present political crisis in Nepal seems to have become somewhat like the never-ending soap operas on Hindi television channels. Even if you return to view them after a long break you would find that nothing much has changed in the past months. Read more

The main goal of political parties is to attain the reins of government and stay in power as long as possible. To that end political parties in Nepal are no different in hankering for power and trying to retain it. Read more

Accusing Republicans of misinforming industrial workers and farmers about his Democratic government’s farm and labour policies, former US president Harry S Truman had famously said in a 1948 campaign speech—“If you can’t convince them, confuse them”. Read more

The US embassy in Kathmandu is buzzing with activity these days. Not that it remains quiet usually, but seven mails in my inbox from the embassy in six days indicate things are busier than routine. Read more

Exactly three months have passed since Nepal’s Constituent Assembly got dissolved following failure to give the country its new constitution. But there’s no end to the political and constitutional crisis that has gripped the country as a result of that letdown. Read more

One year is a long time in politics. Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who completes one year in office next week would agree. Read more

One would believe interest of students would be the paramount concern for student unions. But that seems to be the last of their worries, as some recent occurrences in Nepal show. Read more

Nepal’s experiencing its fresh crisis. But unlike earlier instances in recent past when there used to be outpouring of anguish, disillusionment, anger and outburst on social networking sites and on streets—Nepalis seem to have become quiet this time around. Read more