The topics of discussion in Nepal

It seems that petty politics has once again overtaken urgent matters—such as the handling of the pandemic.

What are people in Nepal discussing today? This question struck me this morning. The reason why this struck me is that the rate of churning out topics of discussion is fast and a little confusing. If we browse through the available printed, digitised, audio and visual media we can say that Nepal is discussing everything under the sun today. The structuralism of the topics is shaped by some unforeseen and spontaneous generation of themes that do not necessarily cohere with one another. For example, one would expect that the country should be discussing the crisis of the pandemic—the spiking of Covid-19 infections in different parts of the land including the capital—but the ruling elites appear to be interested in discussing the politics of inner-party feuds instead. The other topic of discussion as we can see is the burgeoning shape of corruption in the country. News about people testing positive for the novel coronavirus, some sadly dying, hospitals running out of beds, and the chaos in terms of following the precautionary measures both by the government agencies and the public themselves go parallel with the news of corruption and in-fighting.