Narayan Manandhar

Every school-going Nepali student must have gone through this story. It goes like this: Once a cunning jackal, accidentally, falls into a pool of blue color meant for dying. When he came out, he had already transformed into a new avatar - a bright blue color jackal. With curiosity, other animals cam...

In an earlier article for this daily (19 October), I highlighted the on-going dispute between Marwari Sewa Samiti (MSS) and Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT).

#OPINION The ongoing institutional conflict between Marwari Sewa Samiti (MSS) and Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has not only taken an overt situation, it is also taking a nasty turn, as both sides are digging trenches and are determined to use force to outwit the other. At a federal level...

#OPINION The word schadenfreude comes from German; it stands for taking pleasure in other’s pain or misfortune. In German language, schaden means damage or harm, and freude means joy or pleasure. We may call the culture of khuching as Nepali version of schadenfruede.

Carefully playing one ball against the other, he did manage to keep himself in power. However, this could not last long. The two big political parties suddenly realized that this man is fooling around a lot and needs a lesson or two for claiming invincibility and holding a magic number.

The findings and suggestions may go into a deep freezer or could be used as a bargaining chip to tame this party of overly ambitious brats. One can observe brisk meetings being held, inside and outside the political parties, including PM Oli himself visiting, at the last hour, the investigation comm...

When Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi  visited Kathmandu in 2016, she was, literally, baffled by meeting more than half a dozen surviving PMs, that too, in a single day.  In other places, crisis situations give birth to leaders, in our country, it is the leaders who give birth to crisis situations.

Earlier, I summarized anti-corruption law reform issues (7 May 2023, MyRepublica). With the tabling of the bills in the parliament and discussion within the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, the debate is in a full swing.

In the process of amending anti-corruption laws, now being discussed in the parliament, a controversy is being sparked over the issue of statute of limitations (SL), that is, the time limit for investigating corruption crimes committed by the public officials.

First, a disclaimer: This is not to degrade or downgrade any country. I just combined Nepal and Bangladesh to form Nepangladesh.