Nepal’s Policy Corruption: Elite Immunity and Democratic Decay

KATHMANDU: In his 1784 essay What is Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant argued that intellectual and political immaturity was a self-imposed condition, arising from a lack of courage to use one’s own understanding and to step out of dependency on others. In Nepal, where institutional power is mostly exercised by legal exceptions and elite bargains, policymaking has […]