United We Blog

Month: February 2006

  • Difficult Lives in Nepal

    Three Images From Nepal: Brutality, Dispair and Celebration Comrades’ Crime: He is Dhani Ram Chaudhari, a resident of Dudhrakshya VDC, Rupandahi district. He was injured in an ambush set up by the Maoists in a bridge over Tulbulia Khola near Murgiya Bazaar of Rupandahi’s Parhoha VDC. As he tried to pull a flag attached to…

  • Samrat Upadhyay and The Royal Ghosts

    The Writer, his daughter and the book: Samrat Upadhayay, has dedicated his latest book The Royal Ghosts to his daughter Pic courtesy Samrat Upadhyay By Deepak Adhikari “What remains if sex is taken out from your fiction?” Samrat Upadhyay, acclaimed 42 year old writer, told us in our rendezvous at Babar Mahal Revisited in mid-June,…

  • A Rendezvous With Prachanda

    By Prateek pradhan Editor , the Kathmandu Post Pic by Narayan Wagle Together with Narayan Wagle, editor of the Kantipur daily, I embarked on the journey to interview Prachanda alias Puspa Kamal Dahal. We were neither nervous nor excited. We were only apprehensive that Prachanda, the supreme commander of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist),…

  • Police Barbarism in Dang

    We all know that pro-democracy CPN UML cadre Umesh Thapa was killed by the army on the Feb 8 Municipal Election Day in Dang. In addition to that, securitymen had come heavily against unarmed activists who were protesting the election. The woman on the photos is Shusman Sharma, leader of CPN UML, who was mercilessly…

  • Election Victory For Royal Nepal Govt.

    Their Achievement: Kamal Thapa, the Home Minister of the royal Nepal Cabinet and Chairman of the “victorious” pro-government faction of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in the municipal election lifts the Award (that reads “20%”). He asks: “Is this small?” And the cameraman tries to console him by saying, “Small? No. It’s the achievement of our…

  • Himalayan Sham: Nepal Election Drama

    Issuing a statement defending autocratic king’s election roadmap and deploring international community’s criticism of municipal polls, Nepal government fights back By D Wagle “His Majesty’s Government of Nepal finds the statements made by a few countries on the municipal elections in Nepal as totally objectionable thus unacceptable and asks them to refrain from making such…

  • Postcards From Nepal: Violence and Suffering

    I AM THE MAYOR THAPA: As newly elected officials of Pokhara Municipality were taking oaths in Dipendra Sabha Griha, people put posters with sarcastic slogans over an abandoned ox targeting Bhimsen Thapa, the Mayor [The message reads: I am Mayor Bhimsen Thapa]. The animal went around the Chowk for about one and a half-hour. After…