- Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Ritu Raj Subedi
Local Polls: A Democratic Milestone
Nepal’s federal republican system is set to attain another milestone this week. The country goes for the local elections on May 13 for the second time after it became a federal democratic republic with the promulgation of new constitution in 2015. The local polls deepen the grassroots democracy and decentralised form of governance. Democracy is a bottom-up process and the local election gives momentum to this process by sending the fresh representatives to the public offices. It nourishes popular sovereignty essential for the legitimacy and functionality of the federal set-up.
Media Ethics And Gorkhapatra
In 1871, Karl Marx wrote a letter to the Paris Commune. But Le Figaro, a French daily morning newspaper, published a completely different version of the letter with Marx’s signature. It apparently aimed to blow Marx’s thoughts on the international labour movement out of proportion. It reads: “...Then the world will belong to us, for it will be not only Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, which will rise against odious capitals, but Berlin, London, Brussels, St. Petersburg, New York. And before this new insurrection, such a history has yet to be known, the past will disappear like a hideous nightmare; for the popular conflagration, kindled at hundred points at once, will destroy even its memory!”
