Kathmandu—Last week, on the afternoon before Nepal’s special elections called by interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki after September’s “Gen Z” uprising, I walked across Kathmandu from the Swayambhu neighborhood on the city’s northwest side to the burned-out Parliament building in the New Baneshwor quarter to the southeast. Having worked on the staff of an RSP member of Parliament and in the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, as well as having a brief stint in the interim PM’s office, she was well-positioned as a Gen Z liaison with insight into how the government works. “His track record doesn’t give us any idea that he’s going to be empathetic, that he’s going to look after the ones on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder, that he’s going to be mindful of who are the people who will actually bear the brunt of any policies that he’s bringing.”
Author: Wen Stephenson
Published at: 2026-03-13 14:08:23
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