What public roads are for the Nepalis, airports are for the ultrarich in bigger plutocracies.

There are laws in place that proscribe usury, but their enforcement is fraught with institutional hurdles.

Literary festivals offer an occasion to indulge in the guiltless pleasures of the middlebrow bourgeois culture.

Hopefully, Singapore will regain the creativity, passion, courage and confidence it was once known for.

Senior faculty are often found in programmes of NGOs or political parties rather than in universities.

The poor youths have always been pushed out of the country to wherever they could find work for survival.

Can federalism and the empowerment of local governments help reverse the movement of population?

The clamour for readopting ‘Hindu Rashtra’ reflects the Hindutva sweeping through India’s Hindi heartland.

At least in Madhesh, federalism has little to do with better governance and faster development.

The government must discourage disaster tourism for domestic and international do-gooders.

The accommodative Hindu way of life has become the Hindutva strain of European fascism.

Nepal has much to lose by aligning itself with any grouping perceived to be anti-China.

Governance falls in the hands of regressive forces when the engines of change exit the system.

Blowing with the ill winds since 2014, the spectre of ‘neo-Hindutva’ has begun to haunt Nepal.

The water supply from surface sources to the denizens of Kathmandu is awfully inadequate.