Category: OpEds

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” With the historical elections over, Nepal now has a complete set of newly elected representatives from the local to the federal levels. The key to elections and democracy is participation and representation of all social groups. However, like all other systems, democracy has its inherent hurdles. Democracy…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” & Tingyi Yang On January 22, the Supreme Court ruled that there should not be any hassle for children to receive citizenship through their mother when the father is ‘unidentified’. The decision was in response to authorities denying citizenship to such children through descent in case it…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” When the Rana regime was overthrown in 1950, our grandparents were convinced that Nepal had ushered a new era of democracy and socialism. Land reform, political rights and development, among others, were the buzzwords of those times. After 40 years, in 1990, when our parents took to…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” I started writing this op-ed after the first earthquake of  April 25. I had written about 500 words and titled the piece ‘We will rise’, after seeing the positive efforts, mainly focusing on relief and aid, carried out by various individuals and institutions. I was writing how, in…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” Baburam Bhattarai and most of the Maoist-Madhesi alliance have been recently claiming that status-quoists and regressive forces are undermining the rights and privileges of the majority. While one might just ridicule such claims, based on the 2013 Constituent Assembly (CA) election results where these ‘regressive forces’ were…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” The 2011 population of census of Nepal reveals important information in a distorted manner as was pointed out by Tej Adhikari and Bhagwati Sedai (‘Census illusions,’ December 5, 2012). The total population of Nepal on census day, 22 June 2011, was 26,494,504, with a meagre population growth…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” If frustrated with Nepal’s wretched economic condition, read any volume of the country’s economic history, particularly ones by Mahesh Chandra Regmi and you will understand that the Nepali state has had disorganised economic policies since its inception. Furthermore, works by authors like Leo E Rose, Ludwig Stiller…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” The migration of Nepalis to India is a complex issue. The most common reason for India being the easiest and most popular destination for Nepali migrants is frequently attributed to its geographical, social and cultural closeness to Nepal. However, during a recent trip to India, an interaction…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” In a recent article on the Post, author Subhash Nepali illustrated how caste-based discrimination continues to flourish not just in Nepal or the subcontinent but also beyond, in the wider world (‘Bigotry beyond borders,’ February 25, Page 6). Furthermore, he claimed, discrimination doesn’t just exist in less-educated…

Sanjay Sharma “Khetaarey” Every winter, for some years now, Nepalis are forced to spend ‘powerless’ days. We have already witnessed a torturous power-cut of 18 hours per day some three years ago. Continuing that trend, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has brought out new load shedding schedule effective from January 16, 2012. As…