Nepal, Aug. 19 -- It has been nearly a year since the Gen Z movement, and seems like we are back to square one. And it is not only the return of Sher Bahadur Deuba or KP Sharma Oli's steadfast refusal to brook any dissent in the CPN-UML that is responsible for this sense of deja vu. Look around you-much of it looks and also feels the same.

For instance, not to take things lying down just because they are out of power in Kathmandu, the older political parties are back to their usual selves of pulling down governments and cobbling together new ones. Every provincial government, barring Gandaki's, has faced a crisis since the disruptions of last September. Oli and his bete noire-cum-best friend, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the 'coordinator' of the ...