Rethinking Nepal’s Foreign Policy: Why the Yam Between the Boulders Must Move

Nepal stands today at a familiar, and yet strangely unfamiliar, junction. The scene feels new, while the script is old. Politics is noisy, restless, and crowded, but stripped of purpose. New parties emerge, old and new regroup, and coalitions are stitched and unstitched in a race to decide who governs next and for how long. Meanwhile, the so-called “mystical” March elections remain uncertain on the horizon. The musical chairs of power have begun again, only this time the faces are younger, the habits unchanged.