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People gather for a vigil to pay tribute to Gen-Z protesters that were shot dead during anti-corruption protests, at an altar outside Nepal's burnt parliament on Sept. 13 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Manjushree Thapa has written on Nepal’s search for democracy in Forget Kathmandu and The Lives We Have Lost.

In a public park in Halifax, at my local grocery store in Toronto, on the Metro in Montreal, I am no longer surprised to overhear conversations taking place in Nepali. For decades, the youth of my homeland have been leaving the country en masse, giving up on a polity that has been unresponsive to their needs, despite being, in form if not in function, entirely democratic.

What do you do with a democracy that refuses to serve the demos – the people?

For 75 years now, following

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