Rishikesh Dahal
A scholar and professional in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Mind, Medicine, and the Measure of Life
“The World Bank and the World Health Organization have commissioned a study that says ‘expenditure in the health sector is an investment that yields returns.’…
Landscapes of Change: Thomas Bell’s Human Nature
British journalist Thomas Bell, who arrived in Nepal during the height of the Maoist insurgency, remains one of the keenest observers of the country’s ever-changing…
Book Review: Surgery of Civil Administration
Umish Prasad Mainali’s Surgery of Civil Administration (Suneko Sasan Bhogeko Prasasan) is a sharp critique of Nepal’s bureaucratic system, which has argued that political and…
The Vanishing Legacy of the ‘Marwaris of Lhasa’
How did the Nepalese merchants, who at one time were the leading economic power in Tibet, manage to lose their identity as the “Marwaris of…
Deepfakes and the Realities of Nepal’s Aviation History
In an age where deepfake videos flood social media, showing apparently absurd scenes such as luggage tied to aircraft roofs or passengers boarding flights with…