A man looks on as he waits outside his house during the power cut in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 30, 2022. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte SO much has been written on the Sri Lankan economic crisis that the facts are...
Nepal's bilateral relations with the United States were forged in 1947 during the petering out of the Rana oligarchy in the post-War World. The U. was one of the four countries besides Britain, India, and France to tie up...
The Taliban's comeback in Kabul, after two decades, lends credence to a statement of sovereignty, autonomy, and independence of statehood in international relations. Geopolitical rivalry cannot be tantamount to supremacy or superior footing in vulnerable and sensitive geography in...
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...
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...
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...
By Katrina vanden Heuvel The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country...
BY E. AHMET TONAK – VIJAY PRASHADPhotograph Source: Paul VanDerWerf – CC BY 2.0An article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of “the second great...
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...
By BORIS KAGARLITSKY Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 The special operation in Ukraine was conceived by Putin and his entourage as a way to turn the political situation around. The Kremlin strategists weren’t the least bit interested in the fate of...