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When Nepali cinema decides to fix systemic oppression with background dancers and a shotgun.
Meryl Streep once said an actor’s job is to let you feel what other lives feel like. Swastima Khadka took that literally, carrying the entire weight of Lalibazar on her back like a true Sherpa of the silver screen. Her character, Madhu, starts off blithely accepting her village's oppressive traditions and ends up fiercely resisting them.
By Maya Thapa • 3 min read
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Our brilliant Infrastructure Ministry has officially banned the registration of new public vehicles across all seven provinces to "fix traffic and pollution." Because apparently, the best way to improve public transport is to ensure there is absolutely no public transport left to use. They didn't even spare electric vehicles, ensuring our green energy transition stays strictly on paper.
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In a rare plot twist, the government’s management committee actually returned savings to 304 small depositors from two troubled co-operatives. A total of 88 people from the Agricultural Co-operative and 216 from Shibha Shikhar Multi-Purpose finally got their hard-earned money back. It is truly a modern miracle to see a government committee move faster than a tectonic plate to help ordinary citizens.
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Communist Royalty, and the Eternal Art of the Nepalese Political Grift
Read the full articleChiya Guff • 23 May
Naturally, in peak Nepali fashion, Amar did a political parkour—joined the Nepali Congress and started a newspaper. But before he could write the ultimate tell-all, our Maoist comrades fast-tracked his retirement with a bullet to the head because he forgot to pay his "People’s Tax." Talk about a killer subscription fee.
Good Morning • 23 May
Our brilliant Infrastructure Ministry has officially banned the registration of new public vehicles across all seven provinces to "fix traffic and pollution." Because apparently, the best way to improve public transport is to ensure there is absolutely no public transport left to use. They didn't even spare electric vehicles, ensuring our green energy transition stays strictly on paper.
Diaspora • 22 May
This week, we’ve got governments "exploring" imaginary legal pathways, thousands of kids renaming "minimum-wage survival" as an "educational journey," and a parade in Manhattan that momentarily convinced a bunch of overworked New Yorkers that we are a deeply unified people. Grab your overpriced coffee; let's unpack the madness.
Good Morning • 22 May
In a rare plot twist, the government’s management committee actually returned savings to 304 small depositors from two troubled co-operatives. A total of 88 people from the Agricultural Co-operative and 216 from Shibha Shikhar Multi-Purpose finally got their hard-earned money back. It is truly a modern miracle to see a government committee move faster than a tectonic plate to help ordinary citizens.
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