The deadline for graduating to the status of a developing country from that of a Least Developed Country (LDC) was approaching when the country experienced political upheavals in September. The Gen Z protests against a ban on social m
Along the border of Malawi and Zambia, elephants and other wildlife regularly destroy crops and threaten lives. With deterrents, community action and livelihood support, a German-funded project wants to show that protecting nature can also protect people.
Exactly 40 years ago, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after more than five years of preparatory work at the level of foreign secretaries and foreign ministers of the region. All SAARC member states, in euphoric mood, hoped for a new era of regional cooperation for the promotion of peace and progress, mutual trust and goodwill in South Asia. South A
In Nepal, we often speak about producing capable, responsible young people who can contribute to society. We talk about leadership, innovation, and nation-building. But when we look closely at our classroom
It has become increasingly clear that Nepal’s higher education system has reached a point of directionlessness in its further development and disorder in its management. Over the past seven decades, the country has
Humans—specifically Homo sapiens—have always been in pursuit of a better life. From the hunting-gathering age to the digital era, this quest continues, albeit the tools we use have transformed dramatically
Painfully, a decline can be incessantly observed in the reading culture from young minds to experienced ones globally, despite increasingly expanding access to digital connectivity. Among many vanishing, long-establishe
Complexity denotes a singular web of challenges, while multiplexity implies its plural nature, where each cluster of complexity is embedded in the other in a layered and varied manner, thus making them tough to r
Those of us born in the 1960s and 70s and fortunate enough to go to school (going to school was a hard-to-afford affair for many Nepalis, and the school-going cohort mostly included youth and children from
There are moments in life when something soft and trembling touches your heart so deeply that you can never be the same again. It may be a pair of eyes, wide, innocent, asking nothing but to live. It may be a gen
The Nepal government is busy carrying out intensive preparation for the elections to the House of Representatives scheduled for 5 March 2026, which was shortly announced after the formation of the new gove
Nepal stands at a turning point. After decades of political instability, administrative paralysis, and unfulfilled promises of reform, it has become clear that our biggest challenge is not a lack of ideas — but a lack of