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  • A study of DDR and SSR in Nepal

    Preliminary sociological observation of Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Nepal. By Bishnu Pathak and Devendra Uprety 1. Setting Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a continuous process to all countries and regions, including politically stable states, fragile states, and post-conflict countries. However, it is widely understood that there need to…

  • India-Pakistan Talks: Nepali Viewpoint

    By Dinesh Wagle May be they should have installed a closed circuit TV camera inside the hall sending live feeds over the Web. That could have saved millions of people from confusion. No one knows for sure what exactly happened inside Hyderabad House, a New Delhi landmark, where foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan held…

  • Royalists want referendum on monarchy and Hinduism in Nepal

    Earlier this week they organized a protest program that partially shut down Kathmandu (see at the end of the post about that). They were demanding a referendum on the monarchy and Hinduism in Nepal. They are using religion as a tool to further their political interest and it seems ultra rightist groups in India are…

  • Nepal Notebook: When corruption is part of the culture…

    An inconvenient truth: Nepal has the dubious distinction of being one of the most corrupt countries in the world. By Surendra Phuyal That question is asked by all in the Himalayan nation — everyone from international visitors, who have to deal with bribe-taking officials right at Kathmandu’s international airport, to the hapless citizens of this…

  • Maoists in India and Nepal

    ब्लगमान्डू: राष्ट्रपतीय भ्रमणका अनौपचारिक कुरा Many Indian newspapers today are filled with reports about the Indian police’s charge-sheet against Indian Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy containing a reference to a meeting with Nepali Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda in 2006 as if Ghandy did a crime by meeting a leader who had, by then, left behind…

  • India Maoist Attack: Nepali-speaking Gorkhas Die

    Of the 24 policemen killed in a Maoist attack in Silda, West Bengal, on Monday evening (15th), most were Nepali Indians. This is an irony. The Nepali-speaking people of Darjeeling hills, the Gorkhas of India, who are fighting for the separation of the region from the West Bengal form the majority of those who died…

  • Pune Students Recall Their Visits to German Bakery

    Students of Pune’s Bharati Vidyapeeth (Masters in Social Work) say life is uncertain. Plus: Mourning a Nepali waiter who died in the blast It was during the New Year eve; I had visited that place and had interacted with the cashier of the German bakery. When I came to know about the blast in the…