Nepal

By Prof. Dev Raj Dahal — Political scientists must express truth before power, oppose where citizens are silenced and their human rights abused. Democratic polity presumes citizens’ participation in decision-making in the institutional life of society.

By Nepal Polity Desk — Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

युवराज घिमिरे — राजसंस्था समाप्त गर्न चीनबाट ट्याक्सी चढेर कम्युनिजम आएन, भारतको आदेशपालका रुपमा नेपाली जनताको आत्मनिर्णयको अधिकारलाई कुल्चँदै ‘माओवादी’ आए। बीपीका भाइ गिरिजा बीपीको सिद्धान्त र मान्यताबाट नभएर भारतीय प्रशासनको गोटीका रुपमा निर्देशित भए। नेपाली कांग्रेस अहिले जनताको नजरमा अपराधी, प्रजातन्त्र र राष्ट्रियता विरोधी देखिनुको कारण त्यही हो।

By Maila Baje — If the recently unified communist party is a threat to the nation, what are those warning us going to about it? And how do they intend to do that. Merely by changing the leadership of the main opposition party that can’t craft a coherent message to replace the one it had? Or unifying disparate elements on the right whose agenda is no less muddled? Surely, Nirmal Niwas is not the only place anxious for answers.

शम्भुराम जोशी — विदेशीले चाहेको जस्तो राजनीतिक परिवर्तन भैसकेपछि आफ्नो लगानीको सावाँ र ब्याज दुवै उठाउने प्रवृति भएका उनीहरूकै सहयोगमा राजसंस्था पुनर्स्थापना भएमा त्यो उपयुक्त हुनेछैन किनकि यसरी पुनर्स्थापित राजा नेपाल र नेपालीको लागि भन्दा अरूको लागि काम गर्न वाध्य हुनेछन् ।

In a democratic society, citizens are entitled to decent living where symbolic economy can also contribute. Politics abhors a vacuum. If it is not...

By Maila Baje — Over time, the contradictions in a communist party unified in defiance of history and ideological consistency are bound to spill out into the open. Grasping the geopolitical winds of change may not be palatable for a party so wedded to contriving a legacy of singularity since inception.

By Prof. Dev Raj Dahal — The extreme reliance of Nepalis on aid working along cross-cutting interests, sometimes centrifugal, makes them its victim beyond the coordinating ability of Finance and Foreign Ministries and Social Welfare Council.

By N.P. Upadhyaya — Neither the Nepal PM nor the King agreed to remain under the Indian security umbrella. Now PM Modi has almost succeeded in swinging Nepal to which his predecessors have had summarily failed in the past beginning Madame Gandhi to Dr. MM Singh. If Rajiv Gandhi “taught a lesson” to King Birendra then it was Dr.Man Mohan Singh, a yes man of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, who also thought to take some tutorial classes to King Gyanendra. As was expected, India has been dominating Nepali affairs clearly and the population is helpless.

प्राध्यापक पी खरेल — तीव्र सामाजिक विभाजनका कारण वर्तमान परिपे्रक्ष्यमा राजसंस्थाले एक सशक्त परिपूरकको भूमिका खेल्न सक्छ । दुई ठूला छिमेकी राजसंस्थामाथि दृढ भएमा अमेरिका आफूले पनि कुनै अवरोध नगर्ने टुंगोमा पुगेको छ ।