Detail from a painting by Nepali artist Ragini Upadhyaya (2024). Nepali youth – symbolically depicted as a winged bird – are rising against “the injustices, inequalities, oppression, corruption and failures of the system” (Ragini, February 2025). https://raginiupadhayay.com/
Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures. Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis. The multidisciplinary volume brings together the research of activists, politicians, academics, artists, from around the world. On the political trajectory of India and Nepal, see some conclusions by Alina Saba and myself, prepared with significant support and inputs from an expert friend. It was finalised before the GenZ protests, but we think it is relevant as a background analysis inter alia to the elections in Nepal on 5 March. Read more here.
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