September 1959

Professor, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies,(CNAS), Tribhuvan University ,Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Books: Party Building in Nepal: Organization, Leadership and People, A Comparative Study of the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), Mandala Book Point,2002. Co-author (with Lok Raj Baral et al) Nepal: Local Leadership and Governance, New Delhi: Adroit, 2003.Co-author (with Indira Shrestha), Women and Governance: Re-imagining the State from Gender Perspective (Nepal Chapter), Kathmandu: Shtrii Shakti, 2002. Co-author (with Partha Chatterji et. Al.) Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia, New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002. Co-author (with Lok Raj Baral and Hari Sharma), Leadership in Nepal, New Delhi: Adroit Publishers, 2001;

Articles: more than 32 in various journals, and edited books.

Country Coordinator, (Nepal) for State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA) from June 2003-present sponsored by The Ford Foundation under the project on ‘Democracy and Human Security’, International IDEA, and European Union under their Cross Cultural Programme; Presently he is undertaking research on Democracy, Pluralism and State in Nepal, the Impact of Activism in Nepal and the Restructuring of the Nepali state.