A Textbook of Power Cut

>>Didn’t they teach in school? Why would they teach such a useful thing for a lifelong?
>>Load-shedding timetable.
A cartoon by Batsyayan via Koseli

Cartoon: A Fantastic Party

This is a fantastic party…. promises to give us labeda suruwal (a traditional Nepali attire) if it wins the CA elections.
The man is reading “Manifesto”
A cartoon by Batsyayana via Koseli

Changing Cabinet Decisions of Nepal

Provide your view on celebrating New Year to Kantipur: Here
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Dialogue: Two copies each! One for passage, other for withdrawal.
Papers: Cabinet decisions.
Stacks: Withdrawal decisions.
A cartoon by Batsyayana via Kantipur
Background: Prime [...]

Hanging Between a Republic Nepal and Ceremonial Monarchy

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala’s dilemma: save monarchy and jeopardize the future of Nepali Congress or go for establishing a republican Nepal in the Constituent Assembly?
Right: Ceremonial
Left: Republic
A cartoon by Batsyayana via Kantipur

Batsyayan Cartoon: Corrupts Get Clean Chit

Placard: Hail to our leader
Man on the left with garland: Clean Chit! Clean chit for Loktantra (democracy)
Newspaper: Corruption charges cleared
Cartoon by Batsyayan via Kantipur. Translation by the Kathmandu Post
Background:
Headline dated Nov. 15: Khadka gets clean chit on graft charges
Headline dated Nov. 16: Govinda Raj Joshi acquitted on technicality
“Our government doesn’t have the political will to [...]

Maoists Leadership Wants To Halt Forced Donations. Will Cadres Follow?

Box: DONATION
Guerilla: Don’t worry, he is giving it voluntarily.
Cartoon by Batsyayana. To buy his book - collection of cartoons- please click on the Paypal logo on left bar. Read about the book here.
Finally, under pressure from the parliamentary forces, Maoist supremo Prachanda and his party’s central committee have decided to halt running their Peoples’ Government [...]

Batsyayana and His Cartoons: Now in a Book

The book Batsyayana and His Barbs: A Cartoonist’s Take on Post-1990 Nepal will be available online on UWB for sale. (read more about the book below)

Prachanda: O Buddha! I take refuge in thee
Guerillas: O Buddha
Cartoon by Batsyayana via (the front page of) Kantipur (Monday, June 26, 2006).
Batsyayana is Nepal’s foremost cartoonist both in terms of [...]

Nationalist Journalists of Nepal

“Buying books instead of drum? What’s the use of this to nationalistic journalists?” Cartoon by Batshyaan via Kantipur
Quick background:There are two kinds of journalists in Nepal. Some are fighting the autocratic government’s limited censorship and various kinds of restrictions and those who are actively supporting such moves of the royal regime. Those in the first [...]

Madhav Nepal Detention and the Agreement

Cartoon by Batshyaan via Kantipur.
Text via TKP: Home Minister says…no nice treatment if understanding not corrected. Bed: Armed Police Force Kakani.

Maoist Blockade, People and Government

UP: Cheers!
Down: Blockade
Cartoon by Batshyaan via Kantipur