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Nepali Village Story: Daughter Escaped Maoist Party, Soldiers Beat Dad
Kul Bahadur Gajmer, a blacksmith and so called untouchable, feels that the discrimination based on touch has gradually been eradicated in villages. It’s not because of the Maoist movement but because of the growing influence of young generation in the society. When Maoists wanted his 18-year-old daughter, she fled to Kathmandu. Government soldiers while patrolling…
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Nepal Budget : Finance Minister in Catch-22 Situation
Finance Minister needs divine intervention to activate the slackened economy and find requisite resources to finance his ‘rural-centric’ and path-breaking’ budget. By Chattra Bahadur An Analysis. UWB received this article in email. Whereas the rest of the SPA (Seven Party Alliance) are jubilant of the victory over the ‘autocratic’ and ‘repressive’ royal regime, Finance Minister…
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Royal Officials in Probe Commission: King Gyanendra Should Explain
King Gyanendra should use the forum of High Level Probe Commission to explain Nepali people why he did what he did in 2002 and 2005 and how he failed to do what he wanted to do. We don’t know what exactly Dr. Tulsi Giri told the High Level Probe Commission (HLPC) Tuesday (June 27) but…
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While My Village Gently Weeps: Story of an Internally Displaced Citizen of Nepal
By Dinesh Wagle in Duragaun (Ramechhap) Wagle Street Journal [This is the extended version of Wagle’s reporting that was originally published on the front page of Kantipur daily on Sunday June 25. Kantipur wrote editorial on the same topic the next day.] Toyanath Poudel inspects the lock put up by the Maoists on his house…
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Batsyayana and His Cartoons: Now in a Book
The book Batsyayana and His Barbs: A Cartoonist’s Take on Post-1990 Nepal will be available online on UWB for sale. (read more about the book below) Prachanda: O Buddha! I take refuge in thee Guerillas: O Buddha Cartoon by Batsyayana via (the front page of) Kantipur (Monday, June 26, 2006). Batsyayana is Nepal’s foremost cartoonist…
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Misadventure of Bharat Keshar and Heroic Policing of Timilsina
For the record: For latest on this case, see inside Isn’t this a historical photo? YES. This is what is called democracy perhaps. Police Inspector Abhushan Timilsina drags a brat royal honorary ADC (on June 20) who thought he could do anything he wished on the streets of Kathmandu. This was very much needed to…
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Comparing Notes: Nepal One Year Later
An American writes his experience of having close encounter with the Nepali Maoist comrades in a remote village Maoist graffiti in a village in Myagdi district Left: “Up with Republic of Nepal: CPN Maoist.” Right: “Down with Killer Gyanendra.: CPN Maoist”/ “Whoever deletes this slogan will die.” By Neil Horning in Pokhara (West Nepal) There…
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