Nepal, Aug. 25 -- For 33 years, Kantipur has arrived at your doorstep and on your screen, carrying the stories that matter to Nepal - from the halls of Singha Durbar to the villages beyond the highway, from Kathmandu's newsrooms to the diaspora communities that have made Nepal's story a global one. That has never been free to produce. What has changed is how much longer we can keep pretending otherwise.

We are making two changes, and we want to explain both plainly.

First, the price of our print edition is increasing to Rs 20. The cost of newsprint, printing, and distribution has risen sharply in recent years - a reality every newspaper in Nepal and around the world is contending with. For a long time, we absorbed that cost rather than ...