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  • Teej Ko Lahara Aayo Barilai: Politics In Nepali Women’s Festival

    Teej songs, detailing dukkhas and sufferings, are being used to create political and social awareness By Kathryn Hohman In her 1988 article, feminist author Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak poses the rhetorical question, “can the subaltern speak?” In Nepal they sing. Each year married, unmarried and widowed women travel to their natal homes to take part in…

  • Interim Constitution Draft For Nepal: King No Head Of State!?

    Interim Constitution Draft Committee (ICDC) on Friday handed over the draft constitution to Nepal government and the Maoist party. Laxman Aryal (mid) hands over the draft to Maoist negotiator Krishna Mahara as government negotiator Krishna Sitaula looks on. After 172 Articles, 26 sections and 1 annex, interim constitution still has some major issues that are…

  • NEPAL ARMY SERIES– III: Integration? No Problem

    By Ameet Dhakal News Editor, the Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, Aug 24 – When army men start talking about the Maoists something happens to them inside: the voice suddenly becomes loud and body language changes. It’s an intoxicating mix of excitement and anger. All the army personnel interviewed for this article said the Maoists came to…

  • Maoist Students Surround Nepal Army Headquarter: Bad Move

    Students from around Kathmandu were forcefully taken to surround the army headquarters by the Maoists student organization. A wrong way of protest in wrong times at wrong venue. All pics by Shailendra Kharel The photo above reminds me of that day when thousands of school students were forcefully lined up on the sides of the…

  • NEPALI ARMY SERIES-II: Trust yet To Be Nurtured

    By Ameet Dhakal News Editor, the Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, Aug 23 – The Nepali Army (NA) is in transition: it has, to a large extent, abandoned its links with the monarchy, but it is yet to fully trust the political parties. “What happens if you buy a cow but get tired of it on your…

  • NEPALI ARMY SERIES-I: Breakdown Of Traditional Loyalty

    By Ameet Dhakal News Editor, the Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, Aug 22 – The Nepali Army (NA) may appear the same old “royal” army from outside but the changes that have taken place within are immense, especially in the way it thinks. Interestingly, what has changed the most is precisely what has been asked about umpteenth…

  • Nepal Peace Process Update: Envoys, Maoists, And Interim Constitution

    Meanwhile, we are eagerly waiting for the arrival of UN team for arms management Ambassadors James F. Moriarty and Shiv Shankar Mukharjee of the United States and India respectively meet CPN UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, reports Kantipur TV. Why? Both envoys want to warn the second largest party in the governing alliance not…