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  • Nepal’s India Yatra: Great Expectations

    An editorial in the Kathmandu Post titled Koirala’s visit. It has become a tradition. India is the first official destination for every successive prime minister. China is the second one. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has also decided not to break the practice. Postponing his medical visit to Bangkok, Koirala is embarking on a three…

  • Nepal’s India Yatra: Great Expectations

    An editorial in the Kathmandu Post titled Koirala’s visit. It has become a tradition. India is the first official destination for every successive prime minister. China is the second one. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has also decided not to break the practice. Postponing his medical visit to Bangkok, Koirala is embarking on a three…

  • Women Reservation in Nepal: Flawed Policy Prescription

    This Bill is biased towards narrow-band of urban-based women, in terms of the government jobs, and fails to address much larger and more deprived rural-based women population. By Chattra Bahadur An Analysis. UWB received this article in email. Within few weeks of popular uprising, the reinstated Parliament passed the Women Reservation Bill unanimously reserving 33%…

  • A Nepali Girl's American Experience

    By Kanchan Burathoki Saturday BlogDiary of a Nepali student Every now and then some girls who take politics classes ask me about Nepal and express their sympathy, but I wonder if they really care…. On a recent bus ride, an American asked me, “I know you think we are dumb because we don’t know anything…

  • A Nepali Girl’s American Experience

    By Kanchan Burathoki Saturday BlogDiary of a Nepali student Every now and then some girls who take politics classes ask me about Nepal and express their sympathy, but I wonder if they really care…. On a recent bus ride, an American asked me, “I know you think we are dumb because we don’t know anything…

  • Maoist Mass Meeting: City Girl’s Perspective

    By Zade 15 After attending the Maoist Mass Meeting in Khula Manch, Kathmandu. …I see no reason for the crowd to get so excited. So the Maoists will be closer to our doorsteps, how happy should one feel? Who can you trust? The same applies to the SPA (Seven Party Alliance). The mass meetings in…

  • Images from the Maoist Mass Meeting in Kathmandu-II

    Photo blog by Dinesh Wagle Last of Two Parts. Here is the first part. Sharmila. Works in a carpet factory in Atterkhel, Gokarna. She came to see the Maoist mass meeting with her friends. She was too shy to talk to me about her participation so her friend Kabita (below) came forward.