{"id":74691,"date":"2025-10-11T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/11\/nepal-gen-z-protests-one-month-on-slow-change"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:00:11","slug":"unease-at-slow-pace-of-change-in-nepal-one-month-on-from-gen-z-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74691","title":{"rendered":"Unease at slow pace of change in Nepal one month on from gen Z protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promised crackdown on corruption is not happening fast enough for many who saw government toppled within a day of protests<\/p>\n<p>Prakash Bohora was one of the first of Nepal\u2019s gen Z protesters to feel the sting of a police bullet. Like thousands of other young people, he had taken to the streets of the capital last month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube\">protest against corruption<\/a> and a draconian ban on social media.<\/p>\n<p>He had no idea that day in Kathmandu would escalate into what is now described as Nepal\u2019s gen Z revolution, which saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/09\/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-lifted-gen-z-kathmandu\">toppling of the government<\/a> within a day, the dissolution of parliament and appointment of a new interim prime minister, the anti-corruption hardliner Sushila Karki, by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/11\/nepal-gen-z-protests-one-month-on-slow-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promised crackdown on corruption is not happening fast enough for many who saw government toppled within a day of protestsPrakash Bohora was one of the first of Nepal\u2019s gen Z protesters to feel the sting of a police bullet. Like thousands of other youn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"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":[241,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/74691","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\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74691\/revisions\/74692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}