Dipak Gyawali
Can Kangress Reclaim Its Soul?
One may ask how a Grand Old Party that claims to be the harbinger of major political changes of the last three quarters of a century and of many more into the future but which cannot even hold in time its own mandatory convention (forget elections of
By Dipak Gyawali Mar 17, 2016
Defending Narendra Bhai
The pre-blockade Narendra Modi was seen as having radically reoriented India’s neighbourhood policy from that of security paranoia to that of development with India as the engine of growth. With the blockade, however, Modi has revealed himself to be
By Dipak Gyawali Feb 18, 2016
Loktantra’s Pants on Fire
Last Monday, Nepal Britain Society held a discussion program led by former finance minister Madhukar Sumshere Rana on why Nepal should join the Commonwealth of Nations. Held to also celebrate the bi-centenary of Nepal-Britain diplomatic relations (an
By Dipak Gyawali Jan 22, 2016
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
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
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
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
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