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Category: Basnet Ko Guff

  • A Flawed Constitutional Design Led to a Political Crisis in Nepal. How Will it End?

    by Post Basnet —————– In an unexpected turn of events that has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis, Nepal’s prime minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved the country’s legislative body last week and announced fresh general elections for April and May next year – 18 months ahead of schedule. Nepal is a parliamentary democracy, but…

  • Effects of Nagarkot Massacre

    By Vishnu on December 21st, 2005 in Bashnet Ko Guff Nagarkot Massacre: mourning and protesting go side by side A man holds placard with the photo of Suntali Nagarkoti who was killed in Nagarkot Massacre. This man is participating in a mourning program organized today in Basantapur. Pic by Shaligram Tiwari via Kantipur A strong…

  • Government Creates Vigilante Group

    By Vishnu on August 8th, 2005 in Bashnet Ko Guff UPDATED: A Dangerous trend which will worsen the bloody situation in Nepal. In yet another instance of state-supported violence, seven people have been killed while dozens more have been displaced in Agra and surrounding villages of Makawanpur and Dhading districts. It is a state-sponsored lynching…

  • Indigenious People Deserting the Country

    By Vishnu on July 27th, 2005 in Bashnet Ko Guff With the living condition deteriorating, indigenious people in eastern Nepal are forced to migrate to India As their plea to the government demanding their rehabilitation fell on the deaf ears, the people belonging to the largely overlooked indigenous Satar tribe in the eastern Nepal are…

  • Dollar ko Kheti

    By Vishnu on June 26th, 2005 in Bashnet Ko Guff Nepalis suffer from famine: I/NGOS hold seminars at Five Star Hotels, ostensibly to alleviate poverty. Recently I have had the privilege of attending a number of seminars and workshops on child rights or poverty alleviation, which are usually held at star hotels. I have very…

  • State-friendly Textbooks and Other Versions of Truth

    By Vishnu Basnet on May 29th, 2005 in Bashnet Ko Guff Is Nepal adopting ‘personality-cult’ oriented education system? Nepali textbooks are being changed to fit the interest of particular persons and families. Is that okay for the future of Nepal? Take the truism â??Knowledge is Powerâ??, and turn it on its head. It becomes â??Power…

  • Marriage has Become a Private Affair

    Are the Nepalis on the royal road to modernization? By Vishnu Basnet Most of us agree with Clifford Geertz that ‘ something is happening to the way we think about the way we think’. Yes, change changes not only in circumference but also in the center. The spectacles through which we perceive also wear out…