As Nepalis look towards the long-awaited Constituent Assembly elections later this year, the aspirations of myriad communities are coming to the fore – as are the twin promises of opportunity and strife.
It seems serious, though you can never quite tell about this sort of thing. Certainly the early October announcement by the United States that it is willing to take in
There was a time when the rebellion of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) used to be compared to the predecessor insurgency of the Sendero Luminso (Shining Path) in Peru,
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the eastern Himalayan region was a hotbed of conflict as the indigenous communities pitched themselves against Tibetan Buddhist and Gorkhali hegemony. Hitherto unstudied manuscripts afford a new understanding of these rivalries, and of the life and work of a man who l
The interim government in Kathmandu risks becoming a mere caretaker administration in the absence of concrete movement towards a constituent assembly through the adoption of an interim constitution.
The differences were bound to surface. As Nepali Maobaadis embark on the thorny road to mainstream politics after a decade-long stint as armed revolutionaries, ripples can be felt across
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kathmandu has officially broached the subject of third-country resettlement for the more than one lakh Lhotshampa refugees from Bhutan,
It was never going to be easy to bring a violent insurgency into open politics. The immediate challenge in Nepal, which is engaged in such an experiment, is finding a
