By James Sharrock
The English language translation of the best-selling Nepali novel Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle is out now. Palpasa Café is the story of an artist, Drishya, who falls in love with a Nepali American returnee, Palpasa and also, via a college friend, sees the effects of Nepal’s conflict in the hills.
Wagle’s book stands [...]
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So what is the king doing at a phase when constitutionally speaking, the monarchy is practically in a state of suspension?
By Tilak Pathak
Fate handed Gyanendra a windfall opportunity of becoming king of Nepal twice: In 1950 and yet again in 2001. The first time, he was enthroned for three months, a child-king without any grasp [...]
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Peace Process Update Prachanda hints at breakthrough on arms management (follow this post)
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Opinion Poll: 87 percent of Nepalis think that ‘king and monarchy are becoming unpopular in the last few years’. But 54 percent think ‘there should be space to king or monarchy in future.’
By Tilak Pathak
At a time when Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala [...]
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Why Indian media are keeping mum over the biggest events taking place in her northern neighbor? Here’s an answer
Indian media are notorious for thronging into Nepal even to cover and sensationalize trivial events. But, they have ignored the ongoing movement. CNN and BBC’s coverage is far ahead of our neighboring countries’ media. CNN and BBC [...]
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Amidst growing maneuvers of International power centers to serve their interest, the political situation of Nepal is getting volatile. It seems there is hardly a meting point among those power centers.
Analysis by Tilak Pathak
The Seven Party Alliance (SPA) have declared four-day long general strike beginning April 6. And the government has made it clear that [...]
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By Tilak on March 13th, 2005 in Reader’s Vision
While the country is in a difficult political situation, and political parties unable to hold programs freely, a new party has arrived. Former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa has come up with yet another party called Rastriya Jana Shakti Party. He founded Rastriya Prajantra Party in 1991 [...]
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