Kathmandu: On 9 September, as smoke rose from the parliament building in Nepal’s Kathmandu, Gen Z protesters chanted slogans not just against the ban on social media but against something far deeper.

For Nepal’s Gen Z, blocking of social media may have lit the spark, but the fuel was years of frustration — crumbling economy, rising unemployment, corruption and a future that feels possible only outside their own country.

With labour migration experts underlining that one in five young Nepalis is unemployed, the country’s demographic dividend is becoming a demographic dilemma. Show Full Article

This is the first time that Nepal’s youngest generation, born after the 1996-2006 civil war and ensuing democratic transition, has erupted on the streets at scale.

Unlike their parents, who end

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