Youth revolt: the battle for democracy and transparency

For the freedom-loving, educated in Nepal, Oli and company represent regression, repression and hypocrisy.

This is a season of political outrage, in the midst of the pandemic outbreak. Myanmar generals have once again shown that they hate the life of the barracks and love to smash people’s freedom. Ever since Ne Win’s coup d’état in 1962, the military, once having tasted the salty blood of state power, doesn’t want to let civilians rule. In this sense, they resemble very much the Pakistani military. In India, too, despite democracy prevailing, Mody-led majoritarianism suppresses dissent, the latest of which is the deaf ear the government has turned to the overwhelmingly Punjabi (Sikh) farmers who do not want corporations to take over their mom-and-pop farms. In Nepal, KP Sharma Oli, once he got a taste of the post of the prime minister, got strange ideas in his head and, after dissolving the parliament, now thinks he is the State. And his band of sycophants keep pouring fuel on his wild notions.