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Why should Nepal join the WTO’s interim appeals system
Membership in the MPIA would help safeguard Nepal’s interests in an uncertain global trading system while reinforcing its commitment to rules-based international trade.
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Why should Nepal join the WTO’s interim appeals system
Membership in the MPIA would help safeguard Nepal’s interests in an uncertain global trading system while reinforcing its commitment to rules-based international trade.
250 years of American state capitalism
The myth of laissez-faire America has proved remarkably durable, functioning almost as a national religion, even as the practice diverged from the creed.
Beyond the grade 12 result controversy is a deeper learning crisis
Students are on the streets demanding accountability for a flawed Grade 12 evaluation. They deserve answers. But Nepal's education system owes them more for something …
Technofeudalism with Nepali characteristics
How a nation that survived kings, Maoists, and catastrophes is now learning to genuflect before a new kind of lord
Nepal’s gold sector squeezed by quotas, taxes and smuggling
If Nepal wants a healthy, transparent, and globally competitive gold jewellery sector, serious reforms are necessary, particularly stable and transparent gold import policy, taxation and …
How I became a manufacturing skeptic
What made manufacturing the powerful economic escalator it used to be was that it could employ large numbers of low-skilled workers while making limited demands …
Sorry, Sarkar! We ain’t smugglers.
The psychology of cross-border communities is completely different from how an international border is understood from Kathmandu.
Reimagining the economics of culture
Mariana Mazzucato argues that arts and culture are not peripheral luxuries but foundational drivers of economic development, social cohesion, and state capacity, and that governments …
Democracy or mob rule? Nepal's uncomfortable moment of self-reflection
As social media amplifies emotion over evidence and slogans over substance, Nepal confronts a difficult question: is democratic participation being overtaken by digital mobocracy?
Power, risks, and fragmentation in a multipolar world
How geoeconomic rivalry, information warfare, climate risk, and AI are reshaping global power in an era of fragmented multipolarity.
Grok is testing whether AI governance means anything
By generating increasingly disturbing outputs, Grok has exposed a deep structural problem that should concern regulators everywhere. Advanced AI systems are being deployed and made …
The unravelling of Sudan Gurung
Every time Sudan explains, contradictions become more glaring. His stances, more inappropriate and anarchic.
