Post Bahadur Basnet is a career journalist and researcher, presently a Visiting Fellow at the New Delhi based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). He began his career as a journalist in 2003 and worked with the Kathmandu Post and the Republica, two leading English language daily in Nepal as a political correspondent and sub-editor. Basnet had a stint at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Kathmandu as a researcher in the past. . His research interests are: Social Movement, Political Violence and Democracy.