Eight weeks have passed since an interim election council headed by the country’s chief justice took reins of government in Nepal. But there’s no announcement of dates of that election which would give the country another shot at framing a new constitution. Read more

Thirty eight years have elapsed since Sikkim ceased to be a monarchy and became a state of the Indian union. But repercussions of the historic development are still felt in neighbouring Nepal. Read more

The recently concluded convention of Nepal’s ruling Maoists — Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) — would mostly be remembered for the party’s strategic policy shift of discarding the path of protracted peoples’ war to adopting capitalist revolution. Read more

Can political parties in power manipulate elections? Judging by the ongoing power tussle among major parties in Nepal, one shouldn’t be blamed for thinking that it could be possible. Read more

The recent India visit by Nepal’s Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has again raised a question that’s been asked in the Himalayan nation for many years now. When will an Indian Prime Minister take an official trip to the country considered a strategic neighbour. Read more

Last week I wrote about Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal’s new Prime Minister. This time let’s share some details about Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the chief of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the party Bhattarai represents. Read more

Five years is a long period in politics. Nepal Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ would know. It’s been exactly five summers since he came to public view after remaining underground for 10 years leading a ‘revolution’ that saw nearly 13,000 losing their lives. Read more