2025

The first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 by a New Zealander, Edmund Hillary, and a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, under a British expedition led by a Welshman, John Hunt became sparked off a wave of nationalist pride in Britain, New Zealand, Nepal, and India. Among these four countries, the Republic of India’s claim over […]

The Maoists and the seven-party alliance intended to end exclusion and discrimination and empower minorities in their 2006 peace agreements, as did the 2007 Interim Constitution (IC). This is why the 2015 Constitution declares Nepal a federal state, with various elements of power-sharing and with devolution of powers and representative political bodies. This paper explores

Tibetan salt is an important carrier of cross-Himalayan economic interaction. There is a long history of salt and grain exchange between northern Tibetan herders and tribal residents of various countries in the Himalayas. It is said that during the period of the Zhangzhung tribal alliance, the Zhangzhung people began to trade gold, ore, salt, grain

This paper examines Nepal’s political party system in the context of political science theories of democratic consolidation. Within Nepal it is taken as ‘common knowledge’ that political parties have penetrated many spheres of Nepal’s society and economy. For example, parties place their ‘people’ at all levels of the education system, local development committees, the bureaucracy,

The Nepali commercial movie industry, which did not offer movies focusing on subject matters related to caste, has recently witnessed a few such movies. One such movie, Purna Bahadurko Sarangi (Dir. Saroj Poudel, 2024), which focuses on the struggle of a Dalit family to educate their son, unexpectedly, even contrary to the movie producer’s expectations,