Beneath the anger of youth uprising lies an older, rigid and unbreakable social order, one that continues to shape the country’s politics, society and economy: caste.
‘We’ve been kept outside rooms where decisions are made,’ says Aakriti Ghimire, whose team is drawing up roadmap for interim govt that assumed power after Nepal’s Gen Z movement.
While some say watching Singha Durbar burn was like watching the burning of history, others say taking refuge in art and history in present scenario is like siding with past oppressors.
In an exclusive interview, he talks about what lies ahead for his country. 'Can't go back to monarchy,' he says. ‘Gyanendra & monarchy don’t even have 2–3% support in Nepal’.
The newly formed organisation, Sangam, meaning ‘confluence’, symbolises coming together of the East and West through five determined teenagers in aftermath of Gen Z uprising in Nepal.
According to his nephew Bharat, Sajan Rai ‘didn’t know what Gen Z was but when they said there would be a movement to make Nepal free from corruption, we joined with enthusiasm’.
The historic plaza was lit Sunday with dozens of candles & earthen lamps as city residents paid tribute to those who died during the unrest that led to the ouster of Oli govt.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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