Dipak Gyawali
Elections and the Morning After
In the face of already emerging in-party squabbles, there are limits to which optimism can give solace: even die-hard apologists for the failed 2005 architecture seem to be losing hope so soon and even before CA-2 has been convened and a government h
By Dipak Gyawali Dec 13, 2013
Another Week in Delhi
But given India’s powerful bureaucracy which does not like the idea of power moving out of its hands to the private sector, one cannot ignore trip clauses coming into force in the absence of powerful political leadership capable of withstanding burea
By Dipak Gyawali Nov 08, 2013
Freudian Glimpses of Raw Wounds
Kantipur’s Sudhir Sharma’s new exposé Prayogshala, despite its selective documenting of how India’s neighbourhood policy and diplomacy is NOT fed by its spooks but LED by them, only confirms this new adventurism and the less than savory motives that
By Dipak Gyawali Oct 04, 2013
Nepal's Descent from Shangri-La to Embarrassment
From the more significant side of human stupidity the real culprits were houses and hotels built on the flood path with poor planning as well as massive populist road-building in the fragile hills without a thought of extreme event drainage.
By Dipak Gyawali Jun 29, 2013
Hope amidst the Gloom
Nepali society it seems knows that the remittance sector is upholding the economy, and is asserting itself to protect and service what really matters. If only its political class had not failed it so badly, there is no doubt it could have worked wond
By Dipak Gyawali Jun 02, 2013
Squatters, Appeasement and Acrobatics
Their lack of seriousness is highlighted by the news, following the much-hyped signing of the pointlessly repetitive 7-point peace deal, that the high level commission – chaired by the prime minister charged with implementing that deal in the short three weeks left for the CA – could not meet because of a lack of quorum.
By Dipak Gyawali Nov 13, 2011
Loktantra’s Leninism and Political Corruption
Despite these amendable failings, the 1990 constitution had sound political foundations. Indeed, it was only by standing on it that the current experiment was even initiated. Since the political adventurism of 2006 has ended in a miscarriage, since t
By Dipak Gyawali Aug 22, 2011
Emerging Realpolitik Contours
Can we just get at least those two structural mistakes corrected and move on? These political alternatives need approval by a higher body, the sovereign people of Nepal, through a fresh mandate, and not by an incompetent CA whose mandate has run out
By Dipak Gyawali Jun 17, 2011
Revolutionary versus Evolutionary Nepal
Even worse news for the President is that King Gyanendra as king at least had the weight of tradition behind him, he had Article 127 of the constitution that an all-party consensus had activated for him to use, and he still had the 1990 constitution that he was committed to bring back on track through fresh elections
By Dipak Gyawali Apr 08, 2011
Audacity of Clique and Clan Impunity
How else does one explain a caretaker prime minister (i.e. no longer a prime minister but only a seat-warmer) berating the permanent secretaries of government for not obeying him? And that too at a function in official premises to launch a book writt
By Dipak Gyawali Jan 10, 2011
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