Swarnim Wagle

The contributor for Republica.
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Strategic symbolism of Mt. Everest’s new height

Published On: December 11, 2020 07:39 AM NPT By: Swarnim Wagle

The joint announcement has strategic significance which can be understood against the backdrop of three geo-political-economic developments.

Remembering VS Naipaul through ‘Half a Life’

Published On: August 13, 2018 07:28 AM NPT By: Swarnim Wagle

Half A Life is a work on studied nonchalance to conformity, to this need of self-respecting men across societies to pretend that life is going on fine when it is not, when to admit so is sacrilege, and a life of emptiness is continued to be led. Naipaul’s vehicle for this portrayal is a character blessed and cursed in equal measure by circumstances beyond his design.