The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health and medical crisis that has caused widespread illness and death in almost every country. The pandemic has turned out to be not just a global health concern but has affected several other domains of daily life. The pandemic has caused an economic crisis due to which many...

“In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.” – Mahbub ul Haq, 2001.  “People, States and Fear” stands as one of Barry Buzan’s (1968)...

Bishwa Bandhu Thapa, 93, is one of the senior-most and oldest living politicians of Nepal. The nonagenarian leader has seen great upheavals in the domestic and international politics during his lifetime. As a young man, he served as General Secretary of Nepali Congress under the leadership of its President B. P. Koirala. After King Mahendra...