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Nepali Politics: In Defense of the "Non-intellectual"
By Dr Pramod Dhakal The English-educated and Internet savvy Nepalese have started a number of mailing lists that pour emails at a rate that there are not enough hours in the day to read them all. Involved in these groups are some self proclaimed “intelligent” and “educated” cyber-friends who love to edify the self. Although…
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Come One, Come All To Vote Your Destiny: Election Commission
As part of its unprecedented campaign, Election Commission will send 8 thousand volunteers in each and every house of all villages of Nepal to deliver invitation cards: You and your family members [who are registered at the Commission] are heartily invited to the nearby voting both for the Constituent Assembly election on November 22. No…
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Nepali Politics: Brahmin and Chhetri Everywhere
While for some this article might be yet-another-Bahun/Chhetri-bashing-crap and for others a voice that needs to be much more louder: When certain people willingly or unwillingly control too much share in a nation, it is very likely that that would bring long-term political instability and long run economic damages to the country. When 10% whites…
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Our Poverty, What an Irony :(
Dailekhis grabbing the rotten rice is a crude irony to our society just like, umm…. let’s say, the hi-fi UN vehicles running on the streets of Kathmandu. Wish the rice had gone to the needy hands on time. Moonshiners in Dailekh district headquarters scavenge rotten rice before it could be disposed of, Thursday (28 June).…
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A Maoist Comrade Shakes Hand With Kofi Annan (and Others)
Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, second in rank after Chairman Prachanda, meets… …former UN boss Kofi Annan (right). The bespectacled tall guy is Ian Martin, chief of United Nations Mission to Nepal (UNMIN) Pic by Biwsodeep Pande.
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A Different Diaspora: Story of Nepali Refugees in Austria
Contributed by Dr. Bishnu Pathak and Chitra Niraula Case I: Somnath Ghimire of Chitawan reached New Delhi from Kathmandu via Mahendranagar on July 12, 2001. He stayed there for two days and flew to Moscow via Uzbekistan Airline. In Moscow, a broker from Pakistan took his passport and held him in a closed room. He…
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If Confirmed, These Folks Will Be Nepal’s Ambassadors
Envoy nominations sent to the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee By Bishnu Budhathoki KATHMANDU- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has sent a list of 14 names to the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee nominating them as the country’s ambassadors in different countries. Talking to the Kathmandu Post on Tuesday (June 26), Minister for Foreign Affairs Sahana…
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