A political agreement signed on 1 November was finally supposed to allow former Maoist combatants in Nepal to move ahead with their lives. Instead, the response has been mostly anger and accusations of duplicity.
The cover of Snake Lake is a Photoshopped mess: Tibetan motifs, a snakeskin pattern, a golden Buddha, all against the backdrop of a pristine lake and mountains that anyone familiar
The speckled marble tiles sprawl underneath black metallic chairs, which hold a few bored-looking passengers. This way to the immigration, says one sign. Another warns that littering will cost you
The 28 August election of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai as the country's new prime minister led to a flicker of hope among a
Mountain-firm, never did it flag,
Never trailed, this, our martial sign.
At its creation, the world was rattled:
Two empires fell; never faltered
our pride.
Timeless as the sun-moon in
With just a month to go before the end of the second extension of the Constituent Assembly, on 31 August, the mood of cynicism and uncertainty in Nepal continues to
On 12 March 1988, the weather forecast for the Kathmandu Valley in the Rising Nepal read: 'Partly cloudy with temporary thundershowers'. No prediction of impending doom. There was
