Selected opinion columns on artificial intelligence, technology and public policy — published in Nepal’s national press.
myRepublica
After the Gen Z protests, the bans came off and the bills were withdrawn — the reversals that cost nothing. The ageing servers and destroyed records, which need sustained money, are still waiting.
The Kathmandu Post · August 15, 2026
When public records exist in a single copy, one disaster is all it takes. Nepal’s September 2025 losses show why mandatory redundancy across government offices is not optional — it is the baseline.
myRepublica
The Supreme Court’s AI policy rightly bars machines from drafting judgments — but the quieter danger is fabricated citations slipping into judicial research, where AI knows too little Nepali law to be trusted.
The Kathmandu Post · June 7, 2026
AI is not a simple software product — it looks much more like an electricity grid, and whoever does not own the foundation must rent it forever.
myRepublica
Nepal’s AI Policy 2025 is ambitious on paper, but risks failing in practice unless it includes the everyday users — students, teachers, doctors, farmers and workers — who will actually live with its consequences.
myRepublica
Nepal’s uprising was unmistakably Gen Z — fast, visual and networked. That same energy can defend the vote if it gets redirected from outrage to skill.
myRepublica
AI isn’t ruining Nepal’s classrooms, nor is it a magic fix. It’s a tool — and one we can shape to serve our students.