The series of protests that political parties and public servants have threatened over the coming days, weeks and months has the potential of making Sri Lanka into a virtually ungoverned nation into an ungovernable country. In turn, this can...
New coalition government has outlined its policy priorities and programs in 21 point content based issues comprising headings of preamble, citizenship and Nepali identity, policy related and structural reforms, democracy, good governance and quality civic service, sustainable economic development...
Newly appointed Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal instructed 30 points of direction to the senior bureaucrats of the permanent government. Governance, public service delivery, and people's living situation-related issues were covered in the directive policy in Singhadurbar,...
Nepal witnessed two important electoral events in 2022 – local elections on May 13 and provincial and federal elections on November 20. The results of both elections are disturbing given the political equation developing in the country among mainstream...
Nepal is undergoing a republican democratic experiment with a harsh political, economic and social legacy. Liberal and democratic aspirations had intensified before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Liberal democracy, thus, began three decades after...
Living in a pluralist society with a bit of courage and confidence is anything but comforting today. A major reason is the role of self-styled ‘agencies’ with ascriptive claims of representation. South Asia has an array of such organizations...
Nepalilogists mull over the idea of Nepal based on the matrix of society, culture and religion. Nepal as a nation-state is not of remote origin. It dates back to the current configuration since the project of unification commenced in...
While leaving for Geneva to head the government delegation at the UNHRC session beginning this week, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated the Sri Lankan State position that it would not accept an ‘international probe’ into war-crimes, as dictated...
By N. SATHIYA MOORTHY
The much-expected National Congress of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) ended without the anticipated ‘action’, reaffirming its unassailable faith in President Ibrahim ‘Ibu’ Solih. With the result, the party primary, which was also his preferred...
“Migration studies have a significant role in the making of modern Kerala and the articulation of issues associated with it,” according to Prof. Michael Tharakan, Chairman, Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR). He was delivering an inaugural note at...
