“There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen,” wrote Lenin—and Nepal feels like it is living in such a week. Nepal is currently at a crossroads. The PM has resigned from the office and has left his ailing wife behind; later, she was rescued by the protestors. The army chief has announced a curfew in the country and assumed control of the reins of power—at the time of writing. The situation raises some fundamental questions: Is Nepal back to square one?
Gen Z vs Censorship: A Fight for Freedom in Nepal
On September 8, 2025, Kathmandu woke up restless with a sudden ban on social media and tighter censorship which ultimately lit the spark, but what really spilled young people into the streets ran much deeper. They spoke of their freedom of speech being strangled, but also of the weight they had carried for years—corruption, joblessness, ministers hiring their own, a government deaf to its own people. Most were standing shoulder to shoulder in their twenties some even younger, angry but determined.