Dipak Gyawali

Democratizing Corruption

A few weeks back in Jawlakhel, a confab of former generals, senior officials and ministers who had served under the monarchy asked the same question; and a veteran who had dealt with the 1989 blockade concluded most sagaciously for all of us, almost

By Dipak Gyawali Dec 12, 2015

Mr Modi ko Gussa Qyu Aata Haey?

The title borrows from a Bollywood movie to ask: Why is Mr Modi Angry with Nepal? This is the million-dollar question in the minds of millions of Nepalis and friends-of-Nepal. And there are no easy or satisfactory answers.

By Dipak Gyawali Nov 05, 2015

Nepal, The Morning After…

In trying to fool all the people all the time as is their wont, the oligarchs have met and not met the first demand for a Hindu state. It is much like a MaHasatire of the 1980s that depicted a lawyer writing the client’s age in a manner that could be

By Dipak Gyawali Sep 25, 2015

As the Loktantrick Dispensation Unravels…

One feels a sense of pity for these oligarchs; and their current state is best captured by an old Soviet Russian joke about two cowboys, Bob and Jack, who were trotting along silently across a hot and featureless prairie.

By Dipak Gyawali Aug 28, 2015

How the Periphery Has Changed

Even less do they seem to understand the roiling of disgruntlement at the local level in the absence of local self-government for over a decade.

By Dipak Gyawali Jul 27, 2015

How the Periphery Has Changed

Neither the big party oligarchs supposedly framing the governance structure for this new emerging order nor the traditional Bretton Woods birthed donor agencies seem to be aware, or capable of guiding, this new political economy.

By Dipak Gyawali Jul 25, 2015

Of Derelictions and Entitlements

They also seem to have put friends at great unease by publicly announcing that they intend to invite Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping to this donors’ meet.

By Dipak Gyawali Jun 12, 2015

Nepali Resilience, the Duryog Nivaran Way

Nature does what she does without requiring our permission when cloudbursts, droughts, earthquakes, landslides or tsunamis sweep over the earth; but we humans create our own social vulnerability, through ignorance or neglect, which hence becomes our

By Dipak Gyawali May 08, 2015

Insecurity Invited by Secularism

Narendra Modi should have been the first to understand the incongruity of assigning ASI with task of defining his gift to Pashupati, indeed that the government outfit he heads has no mechanism to deal with such conflicts in Hinduism and falls back on

By Dipak Gyawali Apr 09, 2015

Where Did It All Go Wrong?

The people were largely absent or amused bystanders and the participation was mainly by conscripted corvee cadres (which would also have been the case if the Kangress or EhMaLeys had tried putting up such a show as well).

By Dipak Gyawali Mar 06, 2015

Failure Beyond Excuses

Since the Loktantricksters did not do what they were elected to do, i.e. write a constitution and provide good governance (including local elections), they spent their time in the meanwhile doing what they were not supposed to do.

By Dipak Gyawali Feb 13, 2015

When Democracies Go Bad

Such double standards have not won for Democracy the moral high ground so necessary for both good governance and security. Indeed, if anything, they have ceded that to the religious and other fundamentalists all over the world.

By Dipak Gyawali Dec 26, 2014

Deconstructing Hagiography: Rescuing History

In that Nietzscheian sense, politics is about power which is best exercised invisibly.

By Dipak Gyawali Nov 22, 2014

Making Sense of Political Nonsense

They failed national development in its manifold, whether in surrendering to neo-colonialism in the form of BIPPA or PDA, in failing to revive the national airlines, in providing jobs to our youth getting proletarized in the sands of the Middle East,

By Dipak Gyawali Oct 17, 2014

Deficiency of Democratic and Development Philosophies

It was a particularly unfortunate choice of words, for a Nepali folklore saying has it that a puny bird Hutityaun once boasted that it was holding up sky, giving the clear impression that the Our Loktantrick Fathers are no less than the Hutityaun.

By Dipak Gyawali Sep 11, 2014

Thank you, Narendra Bhai! But No Thanks!!

I can only envy the Indian people for getting a leader like you, and feel sorry for myself that today we don’t have a Jang Bahadur to successfully deal with a Lord Dalhousie, a Chandra Shumshere with the likes of Lords Curzon, Minto, or Chlemsford, o

By Dipak Gyawali Aug 15, 2014

Shoddy Constitutional Exercise: Will Ek Thaan or Ek Thangno Emerge?

No one dares utter the much-awaited ‘S’-word (for ‘succession’), but the undercurrent fight is already gathering steam among its fratricidal camps.

By Dipak Gyawali Jul 13, 2014

Insulted and Humiliated

One would have thought that on this year’s Ganatantra Divas, after a fairly peaceful election for a second CA, the Loktantricksters would be seen with some sense of pride and gravitas; but no, it was not to be.

By Dipak Gyawali Jun 06, 2014

Confronting the Past, Returning to Normal

Conflict-ridden societies have produced heart-wrenching great literature. One can name the entire spectrum from Tolstoy’s War and Peace based on the Napoleonic wars in early 19th Century Russia to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner set against war-tor

By Dipak Gyawali May 09, 2014

Mahatonomics and its Hydro Blindness

The failure of the three parliaments under the 1990 dispensation (and the supreme court of Nepal that gave a half-baked judgement on it) lay in their passing the Mahakali Treaty by brute majoritarianism without first providing that critical definitio

By Dipak Gyawali Apr 05, 2014

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