When I joined Tribhuvan University as a visiting professor last December (2025), I was given a cubicle as my personal chamber. Among other things, I asked for a calendar—simply to know the dates and days so that I could distinguish between wor…
On a weekday afternoon in Kathmandu, a tea shop owner no longer pauses to ask how a customer would like to pay. A laminated QR code placed beside the counter, creased from sun and steam, has become as permanent as the kettle itself. When asked wheth…
We often hear that the election observers are deployed from home and abroad during local, provincial, and federal elections. They also issue a report upon completion of the observation of the election on the same day the election is held. For this, …
The other day, at a university in India where I teach, senior citizens were being felicitated at a function. On the dais sat the Vice-Chancellor along with a few invited speakers. In the front row below were seated some elderly persons who were to b…
Nepal’s digital economy is expanding at breakneck speed. According to the national telecom statistics, internet use is increasing by more than 25 percent each year, while millions of new smartphones are imported annually, driven by the rapid s…
Nepali Congress stands today not merely at a crossroads, but at a moment of moral and political reckoning. As Nepal’s oldest political party, self-proclaimed as the most democratic and historically the most transformative, it once defined the …
Nepal and China marked 70 years of diplomatic relations at a symposium in Beijing this week, where speakers from both countries reflected on the evolution of bilateral ties and spoke about how cooperation can continue to deepen across political, eco…
Graduation is not only a ceremony, it is a transition. It marks the closing of one chapter and the opening of another. You are stepping into a world full of opportunity, but also full of uncertainty. Technology, such as artificial intelligence, is t…
Nepal, a country in transition ever since 2007 BS, witnessed the most unanticipated Gen Z uprising that toppled the coalition government overnight. This event shook the very foundation of democracy that Nepal built brick by brick. The advent of new …
Hours before his scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the US military to resume nuclear-weapons testing, ending a de facto moratorium that had been in place since 1992. The a…
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