Supporters of 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah screamed out lyrics to an AI-generated campaign song which ...

Nepalese citizens cast their votes today in pivotal elections following a Gen Z-led protest that ousted the previous government. With 1.9 crore voters and new political forces emerging, the election ...

In 2022, Balen Shah delivered one of the biggest political upsets in Nepal's recent history. Running as an independent candidate, the structural engineer-turned-rapper defeated nominees from the ...

Supporters of 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah screamed out lyrics to an AI-generated campaign song which ...

In Nepal’s first election since the Gen Z protest, Balen Shah —the rapper‑turned‑Mayor of Kathmandu— is aiming to be the ...

Last year, discontent over corruption sparked a violent agitation that collapsed the government and threw Nepal into ...

Balendra Shah, better known as Balen Shah, rose to fame as a rapper railing against corruption and political decay. Now, at ...

Balen – as he is popularly known – was a nobody until 2013, when he almost overnight became a rap sensation. Nearly a decade ...

Among the candidates vying to become Nepal's next prime minister in a crucial election Thursday, few have generated the buzz of a Millennial former rapper who has shaken up the Himalayan country's ...

Balen Shah is a rap musician and thousands of Nepalese youth hero-worship him. After bringing down the government of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, the ...

Balendra Shah, aka Balen, is a 35-year-old rapper and mayor of Kathmandu now hoping to take his brand of populism to the highest office in Nepal.

Nepal, a country that has swung between monarchy and democracy before settling, for now, as a federal republic, is once again ...