Basu Kshitij: CPN (Maoists), Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), and their respective slogans – people's republic, democratic socialism and 'people's multi-party democracy'
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Words appear to reign supreme in print journalism. Black print fills the papers, exploding day after day with commentaries about the world of politics, disasters, drunkenness and drama. This overabundance
22 November, a Thursday, was to have been the date of deliverance for the people of Nepal. That was when the country would have gone in for the Constituent Assembly
As Nepalis look towards the long-awaited Constituent Assembly elections later this year, the aspirations of myriad communities are coming to the fore – as are the twin promises of opportunity and strife.
It seems serious, though you can never quite tell about this sort of thing. Certainly the early October announcement by the United States that it is willing to take in
There was a time when the rebellion of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) used to be compared to the predecessor insurgency of the Sendero Luminso (Shining Path) in Peru,
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the eastern Himalayan region was a hotbed of conflict as the indigenous communities pitched themselves against Tibetan Buddhist and Gorkhali hegemony. Hitherto unstudied manuscripts afford a new understanding of these rivalries, and of the life and work of a man who l
The interim government in Kathmandu risks becoming a mere caretaker administration in the absence of concrete movement towards a constituent assembly through the adoption of an interim constitution.
