India, Oct. 1 -- What began as memes and Discord chats became a nationwide uprising, leading to Sushila Karki's election as Nepal's interim prime minister. The September Kranti has shaken Nepalese politics like never before

Nine-year-old Parum Gurung is a digital wizard from Lame Ahal, Pokhara. When Nepal banned TikTok in 2024, he managed to override the ban. In October 1959, when I first walked across Nepal, it belonged to a primitive planet, the forbidden Shangri-La. Subina Shreshtha (Nieman Report, 19 September) tells you how "real-time narratives" of Gen Z revolt were provided on social media, and its online memes precipitated the collapse of the government, undermining credibility and fidelity of legacy media usually seen as complic...