Month: August 2013
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Rights and Wrongs. Two Photos, Two Stories. Justice and Injustice. Nepal
Two powerful images were splashed on the front pages of Nepali newspapers over the past week. Lets start with the most recent one- that of the former Maoist combatants- smiling to cameras, holding and kissing their kids with their wives by their side- who have been integrated into the Nepali army as officers. A reporter…
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Privileged Maoist Kids and the Unfortunate Lot Who Were Forced Out of Schools by Maoists
A Facebook page named “CPN UML Youth Campaign” posted a combo photo (above) recently with touchy captions: “Pen and books for your own daughter. Gun for daughter of ethnic people.” [See details about the first photo below.] The context: Election season has started (voting is slated for 19the November). Remember the ‘famous’ Madhav Nepal photo (right)– in which…
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खस क्षत्री–बाहुनको बकपत्र
रघु मैनाली कुरा नयाँ होइन तर सान्दर्भिक भयो । त्यसैले केही लेख्नु जरुरी ठानेँ । म लिंग, नश्ल, वर्ण र रंगका आधारमा समाज र राज्यको परिभाषा खोज्ने प्राचीन मानव चेतनाको पक्षधर होइन । वर्तमानका मेरा सर्वजाति अभिभावक, संगी र भावी सन्ततिहरूबीच परस्पर घृणा फैलाउने र बदलाको भावना सिर्जना गर्ने कुरा म सोच्नसम्म पनि सक्तिनँ । तसर्थ, मेरै विगत र सन्निकट…
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Contradiction, Evidences Suggest, is the Communist Religion in Nepal
By Siromani Dhungana Communist movement in Nepal is full of controversy and contradictions. Nepal has seen communist leaders who once called parliament a “butcher’s shop, where dog’s meat is sold by displaying the goat’s head” got elected in the same parliament to lead a government. This country has also seen communists who waged a bloody war against parliamentary democracy join the mainstream,…
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मरिचमान मरे तर म खुशी भईन
सुलभ खत्री यूडब्लूबी पाहुना ब्लग मरिचमान मरे । मैले सम्झें ०४६ सालको त्यो एक दिन जव म त्रिपुरेश्वर सडकमा खुबै जोसिदै ‘मरिचेलाई फाँसी दे’ भनि चिच्याएको थिएँ । मरिचमानको मृत्यु त म त्यतिबेलै अर्थात २३ बर्ष अघि नै चाहन्थें म । उनी बल्ल अाज मरे । तर म खुशी हुन सकिन । साह्रै दुखी भएर…
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Deconstructing Baburam Bhattarai: Conflicts and Contradictions
On Friday (9 August), Kathmandu Post published a piece by Suman Khadka (a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia) that critically analyzed Baburam Bhattarai’s contradictory personality with focus on his bourgeois education that the Maoist leader stopped many Nepali youths from pursuing. (His party forced many students in rural Nepal out of schools to join the Maoist ‘militia’ reasoning that they…
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By a disgruntled graffiti artist?
While the CPN-Maoist continues to engage in talks with the government and the alliance of parties that dictate the government, they have already started publicity campaign to boycott the elections scheduled for 19th November. We present here photos and this update: KATHMANDU, AUG 13 – The dialogue held between the government and the poll-opposing 33-party…
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