Antonio Gramsci’s line from a fascist prison in the early 1930s has been quoted into cliché ever since: the old world is dying, and the new cannot yet be born, and in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. South Asia, in this decade, can be one of the clearest demonstrations of that. […]
Governments do not lose public trust in a single day, its lost through silence when people demand answers, through arrogance when criticism deserves humility, and through the dangerous illusion that electoral victory alone guarantees political legitimacy. Nepal appears to be entering precisely such a moment. The government led by the Rastriya Swatantra Party came to […]
‘We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.’ Those very lines Antonio Gramsci wrote, kept repeating in my head every time I heard a new headline about […]
