Sustainable businesses in Nepal: In between sustaining and surviving
Small sustainable businesses that sell Nepal-made products are steadily making a mark in themarket. Some are social media hits with their marketing gimmicks, which have …
Dissecting fuel price and why Nepal should disrupt its fuel dependency?
Fuel price is one of the principal drivers of inflation that can ramp up living and business costs. This is because economies run on fuel. …
How Kathmandu’s lethal pollution is its worst economic adversary?
Cities on lockdown due to corona pandemic has provided a momentarily respite with improved air quality to many cities across the world including the ailing …
In 2017, I made a trip with my family to Chitwan to attend a close friends sons paasni, a Nepali ceremony where a six-month child …
Is taxing private electric vehicles really regressive?
In his third annual budget presentation that the Finance Minister (FM) Yubaraj Khatiwada announced a few weeks back, the government raised tax brackets for private …
The history of Kathmandu Valley, as told by its architecture.
The Kathmandu Valley, which was already called Nepal centuries before the emergence of the modern nation-state of that name, is a 220 square mile bowl, …
