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  • India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two…

  • Army in Nepali Politics, Politics in Nepal Army [Everything You Wanted to Know]

    UWB note: The issue resulted in the resignation of the first democratically elected (and Maoist) Prime Minister of the Republic of Nepal after his split cabinet fired the Army chief only to be rejected by the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Nepal. The country is now into a constitutional crisis with the…

  • Addressing the PLA Combatants, Prachanda Outlined How Maoists Wanted to Capture State and National Army

    Maos respond to the video: here The video was first aired yesterday evening by Image Channel. YouTubed today by myrepublica.com During the uncertain times just two months before the 10 April 2008 Constituent Assembly elections, Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” was addressing a meeting of People’s Liberation Army commanders and combatants at Shatikhor, Chitwan cantonment. In…

  • Prime Minister Prachanda Resigns

    Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ announced his resignation in a nationally broadcast TV address a while ago. With this the eight-month old Maoist rule has ended. This decision comes as a surprise to many while some have appreciated Dahal’s act as democratic. The Maoist party is the single largest in the Constituent Assembly that…

  • Why Nepal is Divided Over the Sacking of Army Chief?

    It’s not so important to ask why the Maoists are sacking the Army Chief as it is to ask why the other parties are apposing this so strongly. Three reasons: By Neil Horning In a democracy, the Army should not be a center of power in the slightest. It is supposed to carry out the…

  • Nepal Army Chief Sacked

    >>>President Intervenes>>>But the President who is the supreme commander of the army, tells ‘sacked’ General Katwal, to continue with the job in a late night letter. President said he received letters from 18 political parties in the Constituent Assembly in which they said they were against the government’s decision to sack the General. President also…

  • India's Two Big Leagues

    India is currently consumed by its two great passions: cricket and elections By Dinesh Wagle This article first appeared in the Op-Ed page of today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page. This is a season of fierce competition in India. The two great Indian games are going on and, if the…