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Necessary Responsibility: Understanding Uterine Prolapse in Nepal
Written by Slok
Reports exposing the lack of human rights in Nepal are furiously common. The ubiquitous nature of deprivation of human dignity makes immune the anger, the indignation. Reports are made, read, talked about for a week and discarded. None but a select few keep the conversation alive; and those who pin […]
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Slok
I was born in Nepal, went to school in India, and college in the United States. I am currently a M.A candidate in International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi. I completed my graduation from Truman State University in the US; I then worked at a Washington D.C based think tank. I then moved to India to work for an ESG analysis company. I am presently researching the interface between religion and politics in Nepal. I write for a number of online and print media.
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Nepal’s Complex Democracy: Re-thinking the Separation of Powers
Written by Slok
The article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle. Nepal’s November 2013 parliamentary elections set a national precedent for democratic governance. Ironically, with the right people in charge and support from the population, temporary restrictions on separation of powers may serve […]
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The Bizarre Rise of the Shopping Mall in Nepal
Written by Slok
Even when I was growing up in Kathmandu during the past two decades, there were obvious signs that the city was increasingly connecting up to a globalized world. International brandnames, for instance, were slowly making their appearance in Kathmandu’s street retail outlets. You used to go to the big bazaars, […]
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Taking a Second Shot at Democracy
Written by Slok
Second chances are hard to get. And when they do come they are burdened with the nostalgia of a failed past, hopes for an aspirational future, and tinged with a splash of careless apathy that banks on a third chance if this second one is missed as well. Nepal is now […]
