Dedicated to Nepal and the Nepalis

Introduced without much fanfare, this column aims to offer a cursory reading of news reports appearing mainly in the Nepali print media. Though no big name in the Nepali media firmament, yours truly will try through this forum to offer an unbiased and insightful analysis of the stories by not discriminating against any publication big or small. The effort will be on coming up with this column daily, though yours truly admits that the task will not be that easy for a juggler. Hope you all will be with yours truly through thick and thin.  Kathmandu: A team from the State Affairs Committee of Nepal's Parliament has made a kind of groundbreaking 'discovery'.  On the basis of a recent field visit conducted to different affected parts of the country, the committee has come to the conclusion that India-built dams are to blame for inundation of Nepali territories.  Apparently, this is understatement of the problem that Nepal has been facing for decades.  Ev...

The Koshi barrage (2015) is but just one template of unequal and not-so-friendly relations subsisting between Nepal and India for decades. Perhaps no other country has been sold down the river like Nepal, at the hands of her politicos, through unequal water treaties with its southern neighbour   Every monsoon, flooding and landslides occur in Nepal without fail. And every year without fail, our government fails to put measures in place to reduce loss of life/property during these disasters.  This year too, the monsoon has created havoc in Nepal, leaving scores already dead and causing loss of farmland and infrastructure worth a fortune.  About these losses, our own politicos with sensitivities of the southern neighbour in mind even at the cost of the well-being of Nepal and the Nepalis, can endlessly argue that mindless development works, undertaken with utter disregard for Nepal's fragile landscape, are mainly to blame for the national tragedy that rep...