National

Ten Commandments: A Fast-Track Approach to Sustaining Nepal Economy : Despite numerous structural constraints, there are ample opportunities that Nepal could tremendously gear up the economy by stimulating its major foundations comprising hydro-power, tourism, biodiversity and remittances through foreign employment in cooperation with the private sector.


Nepal: Madhes is not geography, a microcosm of ethnic harmony : The axe fallen on the Pahade community that dispelled them from the Terai has been used on the Madhesi themselves by the flunkeys who flaunt themselves as members of one or another political parties or armed groups of Madhes. Tu tuoque!


New Nepal: What kind of media? : “Making up our own standards is yet more difficult in Nepal because of its significant donor dependency. ‘Nepali standards’ are good to think with for Nepali media but in a situation where even the best journalists are implicated in patronage networks arising from the clout of donor-led dollars...


Nepal: Foreign policy challenges- issue of 1950 treaty : Owing to a transition phase in the formulation of foreign policy measures of both India and China, the situation is extremely volatile and sensitive. Any slip up by smaller countries in the region in their relations with these regional powers could extract a heavy price endangering national sovereignty.


Nepal: Federal state can’t sustain on ethnic identity basis : Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party, Rastriya Janamorcha prefer geography, rivers, mountains as the ground for such division. The UCPN-Maoist and CPN-United have opined that the ethnicity, language and region should be the ground.


Nepal: Foreign policy challenges-Key turning Points : Nepal’s overtures to China did not produce immediate results not as a matter of less interest of China but of Chiang Kai-Sek’s preoccupations with communist rivals. However, it did not preclude continuation of diplomatic contacts between Nepal and the nationalist government of China.


Nepal: Foreign Policy Challenges : The precept enunciated by King Prithivi Narayan Shah, the founder of united Nepal in his famous sermon of “Nepal is a yam between two boulders” (‘This nation is like a gourd between two rocks”-Dibya Upadesh) is the main source of Nepal’s foreign policy.


Nepal: Enhancing Dialogue Efficiency of Political Parties : nternalization of democratic principles in the inter and intra-party life of Nepalese political parties can be expected to transform a culture of violence into a culture of peace.


Nepal: Strategic Perspective on Climate Change : Nepal is in no way able to address CC impact mitigation and adaptation from a position of national incapability. And, it will never be on the way of achieving national capability unless the aliens' generated global CC impact issue is addressed by integrating oriental wisdom and local capability.