Nepal’s disease was never a shortage of heroes, but a surplus of incentives for mock heroism. When tickets are bought, the criminal will...

For two centuries, Nepali youth have traveled to alien lands to labor in factories, to guard palaces, to build cities in desert heat...

The fire rises from the street. It does not begin in the palace. It begins in the lungs of a young man from...

Every forest begins with one seed. It falls into black soil. It waits in the dark. It dreams of light. In 1816, Nepal...

Mother democracy carries two lives in her womb. They are not identical. They are dizygotic twins. One is freedom of the press. The...

The tragedy of Nepal is that its leaders have so often lacked the elementary understanding that diplomacy is the poetry of power, the...

There is a peculiar cruelty to the way Nepal’s communist leaders have monetized martyrdom. The men who once marched through the mid-hills in...