Generational idiosyncrasy of Nepali Congress

To be relevant again, the party must flush out the toxic residues of Machiavellian politicking from its culture.

Long ago, it was theorised that men are insecure creatures, and that fear in men is as innate as their will to prevail. While skimming through the basics of Western political philosophy, I have often wondered whether one can apply the theses of Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes to women too; in my experience, women rarely seem to feel the kind of power-centric insecurities political men do. Maybe it is because women were seldom allowed into political games, where the stakes were too high and therefore the will to prevail and the fear of the failure to do so did not get channelled into the female DNA as much. It is not uncommon, then, that the Nepali Congress, the grand old party of Nepal, which has forever been predominantly male, grapples with this intrinsically masculine fear that is intertwined with the will to prevail, that has become part and parcel of its organisational culture, and fraternity.