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Aug 16, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Arup Rajouria

    Balen Has the Fire. Nepal Needs a Compass (opens the original)

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    Prime Minister Balendra "Balen" Shah did not just win an election but he also channeled a country's exhaustion with its old politics into power. Four and a half months on, that goodwill has not disappeared, but it was never going to be permanent. The originality of a plain talking leader making quick calls is starting to run up against a tougher question: can you actually govern a country through Facebook posts, ordinances and a handful of trusted aides, or does real legitimacy still have to be

  2. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Arup Rajouria

    Balen Shah: Nepal Crossed Its Rubicon (opens the original)

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    Balen Shah’s arrival is not a promotion but a decisive break with the way Nepal has been governed since 1991 – the system admitting, under pressure, that the old way of doing politics has finally hit a wall. When a structural engineer and a former mayor of Kathmandu and political outsider walks into Singha Durbar as prime minister, Nepal is not “trying a new face” – it is crossing the Rubicon. Alea iacta est.Once you cross a Rubicon, you do not wade back. For decades, the country was run like a

  3. Article · Jul 12, 2026 · Arup Rajouria

    Discipline, Despair and the Fire in Tripureshwor (opens the original)

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    A young man’s fire in Tripureshwor forces Nepal to confront decades of undisciplined governance, policing failure, and the moral burden now resting on a political class that includes, but is not limited to, Prime Minister Balen Shah. Nepal’s crisis of indiscipline did not arrive overnight; it is the slow buildup of regimes that wielded authority without accountability, even as the country earned international respect for thoughtful conservation through national parks, conservation areas and buff

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