Dipak Gyawali
What Ails Nepali Hydropower?
Behind Nepal’s hydro-pathology lie a few conceptual and managerial malignancies that prevent genuine Nepali power developers from bringing to full force their capabilities and helping the country produce jobs for its youth though industrialization
By Dipak Gyawali Feb 18, 2018
Angst Of The Kangressis
Why have you accepted “alien and imported” (to use the words of your founder the late PM KP Bhattarai) secularism of atheistic communists as well as republicanism and unworkable federalism, forgetting the “flower garden” nationalism of Prithvi Narayan Shah on which this nation was founded?
By Dipak Gyawali Jan 21, 2018
Loktantra Muddles Along
This new parliament need not slink in shame with such questions, more so since the winning coalition led by KP Oli has managed this feat less on Left ideology and more on raw nationalism, surpassing the traditional nationalists such as the re-incarnated RPP of the erstwhile Panchas
By Dipak Gyawali Dec 23, 2017
That Elusive Political Stability
Loktantra of today is no longer a democracy where a person with public service in mind can apply: it is popularly described as loot-tantra of three Ds that are the primary hallmark of candidates from all major (and minor) political parties – Don, Dalal and Dampati (musclemen, shady business fixers and husband-wife teams, not counting nephews, nieces and in-laws).
By Dipak Gyawali Nov 26, 2017
Yam Between A Rock And A Hard Place
The current Loktantrick dispensation has completely trampled on these sacred principles on which this nation was founded. Since 1990, Kangress and EhMaLey, despite paying lip-service to their stated political ideology of democratic socialism and Marxism respectively, have completely given up on economic self-reliance
By Dipak Gyawali Aug 27, 2017
New Nepal’s Persistent Old Malady
Tinkering around trying to reform the entrenched kleptocratic machinery we have been bequeathed, especially by the political adventurism of 2006, is futile as proven by the Ranju Darshanas, Rabindra Mishras and Kishor Thapas in the recent hustings and by Devendra Raj Pandey a generation ago with his now aborted Lok Dal
By Dipak Gyawali Jul 23, 2017
The Case for Chhyasmisbad
The Case for Chhyasmisbad
By Dipak Gyawali May 21, 2017
In Praise of Defence Diplomacy
Although the King and the Nepal Army have been the only institutions that have faithfully honoured the peace accord of 2006, it became a fashionable precondition for the political parties, their lackey intellectuals and the so-called “international c
By Dipak Gyawali Feb 24, 2017
Supreme Court Self-Strangulates (Itself and Loktantra)
What Sushila Karki’s judicial council has done is taken matters to a new, nepotistic partisan low. I remember discussing in the late 1990s the Vishwanath mal-judgements with my father (former law minister under King Mahendra, the longest (12 years) s
By Dipak Gyawali Jan 20, 2017
Propping up Unsustainable Lampasaarbad
The script was not supposed to go awry so disastrously. Removing a supposedly pro-Chinese King Gyanendra (the Republican Mughlanis forgot to ask: how a king can be pro anything outside of his kingdom?) was supposed to usher in a very pro-Mughlani reg
By Dipak Gyawali Dec 16, 2016
GRAND LARCENY: Reverse Robin Hood behind the Privatization of Infrastructure
Even in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was widely whispered that CIAA chiefs had three drawers in their desk: one for files of corruption cases to be pursued, another for those to be left pending and forgotten, and the third to be used for bargaining
By Dipak Gyawali Nov 17, 2016
Drowning Man Clutches Straw
That Oli had to be ousted as far as India’s Babudom was concerned was when he refused to sign a joint communiqué at the end of his February visit (of the kind that Prachanda eventually signed in mid-September of which more later) and instead went on
By Dipak Gyawali Oct 01, 2016
Will Inland Navigation Shift South Asia’s Water Discourse Positively?
If Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Uttarakhand can see that containers from Europe or Japan can come to their doorsteps at Chatra or Chisapani and similar places elsewhere – and they could benefit from reduction in the cost of
By Dipak Gyawali Aug 31, 2016
Reflecting on Rokaya’s Recants
Even those who have long thought that secularism was a Western conspiracy or those who have been campaigning for a Hindu state were stunned. The reason was that Rokaya, a teacher of engineering and a Christian pastor, was seen – and indeed had positi
By Dipak Gyawali Jun 23, 2016
Upper Karnali’s Highway to Serfdom
Nepal is now unfortunately caught within a geo-political rivalry that has brought an unhealthy “Contain China” policy to its doorsteps. Along with it comes arather ludicrous fact: the Mughlanis are under a mistaken view that they can become a regiona
By Dipak Gyawali Jun 02, 2016
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