Dipak Gyawali

Whither, Climate Change?

Against this sombre backdrop, the Nepal chapter of Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) and its Delhi-based secretariat met in Kathmandu on 1st February to take stock of climate action in Nepal as well as more generally. The picture is not pretty.

By Dipak Gyawali Feb 10, 2021

Democratic Distortions Bite Back

When we try to analyze these events, including Brexit and the fanatical Trump MAGA supporters, standard divisions of left-right, liberal-conservative, democratic-autocratic, or traditional-modern are of no help.

By Dipak Gyawali Jan 20, 2021

Requiem For A Dysfunctional Dispensation

Despite enjoying a practically two-third majority in parliament, despite a comatose opposition Kangress, and despite a constitution cobbled by themselves in their favour barely five years ago, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks tore apart the two parties, erstwhile UML and Cash Maoists, allegedly united to sweep the elections three years back

By Dipak Gyawali Dec 23, 2020

Royal Resurgence

The slogan of the Monarchists used to be "Raja aau desh bachau!" which is now "Raja lyau desh bachau!" The shift from "aau" to "lyau" is significant: it is no longer "O, King! Come save the country!" but "You incompetent party neo-feudals! You better bring the monarchy back to save the country!"

By Dipak Gyawali Dec 07, 2020

Understanding Uncertain Times

As these lines are being written, news has just come in that Joe Biden has squeaked through to the presidency winning what matters, i.e. majority electoral college votes, ironically on the day of the 103rd Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

By Dipak Gyawali Nov 08, 2020

Ganja Legalization Bill: The Need, Weaknesses And Needed Improvements

The history behind the ganja ban, its antecedents and consequences are stories in themselves. A traditional and widespread herb, it has been freely available in South Asian societies for medical, religious and recreational uses since time immemorial.

By Dipak Gyawali Oct 07, 2020

Covid Uncertainties, Technical Authoritarianism & Philosophical Qualms

This is where Covid science as currently practiced completely fails me and all who may come into contact with me. First, lockdown, i.e. converting my home into a hospital ICU and me and family members as its patients work only for the upper and upper-middle class and only for the isolation period, which itself is difficult to maintain.

By Dipak Gyawali Sep 02, 2020

Re-engineering Nepali Engineers' Civil Society

The Arun-3 campaign was a milestone in professional activism because it was engineers themselves who went public with what was wrong with the project. In India's Ganga plains, it is engineers like DK Mishra who chose activism against bad flood control projects which have exposed the true cost of bad engineering that has mired Bihar in rural poverty.

By Dipak Gyawali Aug 04, 2020

Regional Tensions Viewed Through Old Historical Lens

While there has been trade and money since prehistoric times, this was the first time that human society began to be organized around a new logic of capital and profit to the exclusion of other human values.

By Dipak Gyawali Jul 03, 2020

Remembering King Birendra

Not helping in the healing have been irresponsible leaders of political parties, the Left far worse than others, although Girija Koirala also shares the blame for dropping snide and baseless insinuations when it suited his petty purposes.

By Dipak Gyawali Jun 05, 2020

Deconstructing Anti-Indianism

Interestingly, the most anti-Indian rhetoric is spewed forth by parties that were either the creation of, or based on, Delhi’s munificence. And it is not just the Maoists who are the latest in exhibiting the wrath of the jilted lover: the Madhesh-based parties too are sulking in the corner, unhappy with Hindi imperialism in the Maithili-Awadhi bastion epitomized in the oath-taking flip-flop of Parmananda Jha.

By Dipak Gyawali May 25, 2020

Post-Corona World: What Next for Nepal?

The federal aspect of our system has completely failed to meet the crisis, especially the provinces which are seen as parasitic, good-for-nothing bodies merely sucking up resources and pampering the egos of political cadres.

By Dipak Gyawali May 20, 2020

As Loktantra Sizzles and Fizzles

What will happen next? Will Oli and Bidya Bhandari resign? Will Oli fight on even to the extent of splitting off his faction of the never united party? Or will he dissolve the parliament, call for fresh elections that cannot be held anytime soon and impose president's rule in the meanwhile?

By Dipak Gyawali Apr 29, 2020

Corona Forces Rethinking Democratic Governance

The Global South scrambles to muddle along, wondering what new world order is going to emerge out of this mess and if some form of Bernista or Scandinavian socialism is not such a bad thing after all.

By Dipak Gyawali Mar 29, 2020

Foreign Aid And Corruption

It is against this background that the US-proposed MCA is facing serious political headwind

By Dipak Gyawali Feb 23, 2020

Hindutva: Mughlani versus non-Mughlani

What strikes anyone visiting these places is the sheer grandeur of these age-old monuments. The rock carvings and structures can stupefy a modern engineer; but the fact that they have stood for so long amazes the historian in one.

By Dipak Gyawali Jan 23, 2020

Fraying Political Narratives

Each enjoyed the three powers to varying degrees, but when an alliance of two of them (SPAM) was cobbled, Nepal's politics eventually became morally lame, to be met with fatal consequences which we are experiencing today.

By Dipak Gyawali Dec 04, 2019

SDGs And Their Forgotten Challenges

Does that cycle represent a basic life-truth, and will SDGs, as with their previous incarnation Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), too suffer a similar fate a decade on?

By Dipak Gyawali Nov 13, 2019

RAW Wounds: The Book That Stung!

But let us first look at the well-exposed facts on which the novel is based. Mughlanis have disliked Nepal's independence and have always struggled to bring it to the level of Bhutan, Sikkim or even Kashmir.

By Dipak Gyawali Sep 29, 2019

Innovation For Nepal's Prosperity: What It Might Entail

If one looks at the issue globally, one sees technical innovations hogging the limelight, putting other factors in the shade. It was Nicola Tesla who was really "the man who invented the 20th Century" with his brilliant innovations that gave us universal electricity; however, it was Thomas Edison who really marketed those ideas successfully.

By Dipak Gyawali Aug 23, 2019

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