Who is Balendra Shah? The 35-year-old rap star set to be Nepal’s youngest PM - Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in ...
Balendra Shah, former Kathmandu mayor and rapper, is contesting Nepal’s 2026 elections as a prime ministerial candidate. Backed by youth support and RSP, he challenges established political forces ...
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Rewriting the cinematic map

The cinema of a region is never merely a sequence of images, it is a choreography of belonging. To speak of South Asia on screen is to invoke not a stable geography but a vibrating field of memory, ...
Riding a Gen-Z wave in Nepal’s polls, the Kathmandu mayor’s rise is also marked by sharp rhetoric and recurring controversies.
Nepal heads into a high-stakes election as Balendra Shah, Gagan Thapa and KP Oli battle for power amid youth anger.
How Balen Shah Is Rewriting Nepal’s Political Playbook in the 2026 Election. Kathmandu, 5 March : Nepal went to the polls on March 5, 2026, in what ...
Nepal’s new Rastriya Swatantra party is heading for a landslide win in the country’s first parliamentary election since youth protests toppled the old leadership last year.
Balendra Shah, known as Balen Shah, is Nepal's rapper-turned-politician who has made a remarkable journey from music to politics, serving as Prime Minister after rising through the ranks as a socially ...
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren and The Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey have teamed up on a new song for animated family sci-fi adventure The Crystal Planet, joining an already ...
“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot?” Kim Gordon is speaking to the subject of the second single from her upcoming solo album PLAY ME. “We’re the first ones whose ...
For the first time since 2019’s “Cross You Out,” Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira have collaborated on a song together. It’s called “Eyes of the World,” and it appears on Charli’s new soundtrack for ...