Ram C Acharya

Living the paradox: one of the world’s most hydropower-rich countries remains among its lowest electricity users.

Nepal’s education system wastes resources, deepens inequality, and channels schooling toward exit rather than prosperity.

The conditions that produced that uprising are still entirely intact: stagnant growth, weak institutions, and a political order that rewards power over performance I left Nepal in 1990 for Canada at a moment of great political promise. The Panchayat system had just fallen, and a multiparty interim...

Nepal’s prosperity is blocked by rules that penalize the weak and shield the powerful.

We cannot build a utopia, but we can achieve milestones worth celebrating.

What the country needs—loud and clear—is prosperity. 

Young Nepalis dream big — but they see their future not at home, but abroad

Despite the rhetoric, Nepal in practice is a mixed economy—a blend of socialism and capitalism. 

We have wounded ourselves repeatedly—politically, morally, and philosophically—without a conscience in sight.

After decades of corruption and despair, young Nepalis have reignited hope for a republic rooted in dignity, fairness, and opportunity.