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The Long Decade
Published On: April 29, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Lenin once exclaimed: There are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. Such were the weeks of spring in May 2008 that everything had looked possible
The palanquin press
Published On: April 15, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: CK Lal
The justice system has had a checkered past in Nepal. The chieftain of Gorkha is publicly celebrated for administering victors’ justice to the vanquished. For over hundred years, the word of not just one ruler but the entire Rana clan was the law. There was a brief interregnum in the 1950s when judges and lawyers imported from India tried to establish a semblance of rule of law. However, darkness soon enveloped as not just the speech but even wishes of Shah Kings became tantamount to supreme law.
Genealogy of xenophobia
Published On: April 1, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
In a country burdened by ethno-nationalism, self-destructive jingoism and hubristic self-importance, the politics of prosperity is merely a façade to decorate existing power structure
The Maoist cul-de-sac
Published On: March 18, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Chand has very little to lose and everything to gain by creating mayhem. The NCP has everything to lose and nothing to gain by ignoring him forever
Art and identity
Published On: March 4, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
In difficult times of identity crisis and loss of dignity, uselessness of art comes quite handy. Arts help endure whatever the outcome and conserve energy for another struggle
Fantasy of prosperity
Published On: February 18, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Constraints of social disharmony, contested constitution and institutions plagued by centuries of nepotism and favoritism will not allow Nepal to be Singapore or Switzerland anytime soon
Alleyway to Beijing
Published On: February 4, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Centralization of all authority in Baluwatar continues unchallenged. Federalism is slowly being turned into a farce. Fundamental freedoms are being curtailed in insidious ways
Twelve years on
Published On: January 21, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Decades had happened in the first few weeks of 2007, it will most definitely happen again. History doesn’t repeat itself only as tragedy and farce, sometimes it does push the society forward
Culture of learning
Published On: December 24, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
The illusion of being informed is so strong that even the educated have lost the ability to differentiate between misinformation, disinformation and ‘genuine’ fake news
Hail Comrade Chairman!
Published On: December 10, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
With the mass intelligentsia ready to pounce upon his critics, Oli is confident that he can cut the media and intelligentsia down to size
Geopolitics of religion
Published On: November 26, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
The risk of proselytizing Christians is perhaps a ruse to cover secularist versus Hindutva geopolitical contestations between Beijing and New Delhi
The indefeasible struggle
Published On: November 12, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
When Padma Ratna Tuladhar passed away, a powerful symbol of struggle for dignity of historically humiliated communities of Nepal suddenly disappeared from the scene
Unrequited ambitions
Published On: October 29, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
The contrast with circumspect statements emanating from politicos of the Kathmandu School is impossible to miss
A Dashain diversion
Published On: October 8, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Stories of history and society from perspective of Dalits, Janjatis and Madhesis remain to be written. Until then, only way to get their version is to listen to their woes firsthand
The autumn thunder
Published On: September 10, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
It’s too early to declare the divisive statute dead, but its dysfunction was visible from the day of its promulgation
Of mimic men
Published On: August 27, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
In a country that has relied on production and export of unskilled manpower for its sustenance, mimic man is an ideal. Naipaul is believed without being read in Nepal
All that glitter
Published On: August 13, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Life of Nepalis in Hong Kong revolves around work, which is unstable and unpredictable in the ‘contract culture’ of the globalizing economy
Trembling in trepidation
Published On: July 30, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
No matter how powerful a government, it can’t withstand stethoscopes pointed at its head from multiple directions
Wages of conformity
Published On: July 16, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal
Shackles of conformism are so comforting that it takes real courage to break out of its shiny chains. Exodus abroad is an escape, not liberty
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