“Time’s up, Fake leaders, Game Over. We’ll ring the bell on 5 March.” These lyrics from rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah were chanted continuously out on the streets of Nepal in September 2025 during the Gen-Z political protests. The youth responded negatively to a censorship-like social media ban, which then turned into a nationwide protest against the […]
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Uncivil Unrest from Nepal to the United States
With their Parliament building still warm from the blaze of the day before, tens of thousands of Nepalis gathered for an impromptu election. The burning of Parliament was only one part of a fiery two-day protest in Nepal’s capital, which toppled the former system, setting up an interim government in less than a week. In […]
Scaling Everest
BY GIACOMO TOGNINI It has been seven years since Nepal’s decade-long civil war led to the overthrow of the world’s third-longest-lasting absolute monarchy and the victory of former Maoist rebels at the polls. Today, Nepal is undergoing a dramatic political crisis that shows no signs of abating before the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections in two […]