{"id":74282,"date":"2025-09-16T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/16\/colombo-kathmandu-youth-movements-nepal-toppling-entrenched-elites"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:20","slug":"from-colombo-to-kathmandu-the-furious-youth-movements-toppling-entrenched-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74282","title":{"rendered":"From Colombo to Kathmandu, the furious youth movements toppling entrenched elites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of revolution in the coffee shops of Nepal increased after protest movements across south Asia<\/p>\n<p>Across Kathmandu, the acrid stench of smoke still lingers. Singha Durbar, the opulent palace that housed Nepal\u2019s parliament, stands charred and empty, its grand white columns turned a sooty black. The home of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli \u2013 who just last week seemed to have an unshakable grip on power \u2013 is among those reduced to ruins, while Oli remains in hiding, his location still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>They stand as symbolic monuments to the week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/09\/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-lifted-gen-z-kathmandu\">Nepal\u2019s political system was brought crashing down<\/a> at the hands of a leaderless, organic movement led by young people who called themselves the Gen Zs, referring to those aged between 13 and 28.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/16\/colombo-kathmandu-youth-movements-nepal-toppling-entrenched-elites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of revolution in the coffee shops of Nepal increased after protest movements across south AsiaAcross Kathmandu, the acrid stench of smoke still lingers. Singha Durbar, the opulent palace that housed Nepal\u2019s parliament, stands charred and empty, it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,327,156,241,80,2816,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bangladesh","category-indonesia","category-nepal","category-protest","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74283,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282\/revisions\/74283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}