‘The Gen Z that took to the streets are from a substantial urban underclass, many of them new migrants to the city. The online Gen Z are tech-savvy, largely middle-class and fluent in Reddit memes.’ Shubhanga Pandey on protest and regime change in Nepal, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

"Disenchantment is a risky thing to build alliances on." For @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar, I analyze the Gen Z uprising in Nepal. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

🌟 New 'Take Five' from Director/CEO @julietdryden.bsky.social & Comms Intern Eve Harrison-Taylor! 🌟 📚 Our top 5 readings/podcasts on #internationalstudies from the last month! inc: Shubhanga Pandey, Alexandra Sharp, The Conversation UK, Paula Guimarães#internationalstudies & more: https://ow.ly/waKV50X63PM

बालाशंकरको चोटपटक ! As Nepal bans social-media platforms, my essay on Nepali state's intelligence networks and espionage in early 19th-c, based on my ongoing research. (Included in the second issue of the journal संकथन.) commons-nepal.com/balasankarko...

My views on this week's pro-monarchy rally in Kathmandu, where I ask if we're seeing a redefinition of what it means to be a king in our age of memes. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/shu... #Nepal

King Gyanendra's two bodies. I write on this week's pro-monarchy rally in Nepal and what it tells us about ideas of kingship in modern times. shubhangap.substack.com/p/king-gyane...

Why much of the debate around the USAID freeze has been more noise than signal. shubhangap.substack.com/p/the-usaid-...

If you're seeing my Substack for the first time, here's more about it (shubhangap.substack.com/p/introducin...) and see my first post, on what one 19th-century Chinese official thought of Nepali bureaucracy: shubhangap.substack.com/p/a-case-of-...

What's missing from the ongoing fracas over USAID freeze and international aid? My latest Substack post. tinyurl.com/33yhdzva

What's missing from the ongoing fracas over USAID freeze and international aid? My latest Substack post. tinyurl.com/33yhdzva

My latest Substack: Have all debates on foreign aid/USAID become completely hostage to the global culture wars among those terminally online? tinyurl.com/33yhdzva