Except in war-time, capitalism invariably seeks to control inflation by creating a recession; and this is so even when the inflation has been caused by an autonomous increase in capitalists’ profit-margins which are downward inflexible and hence would not...
World politics is getting polarized with America and the West in one camp and authoritarian giants like Russia and China in the opposite camp. Meanwhile, India, Turkey, South America, African continental powers and other developed countries are middling either...
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...
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...
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...
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...
