Justice delayed, justice denied
Nearly an entire generation of Nepali youth has grown up following the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) that was signed on 21 November...
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End of war is not peace
Communist parties the world over are obsessed with anniversaries. October Revolution Day, Mao Zedong’s Birthday, North Korea’s Day of Victory in the...
Nepali jailed 40 years without trial in Kolkata
The mother of a Nepali man who has been languishing in a Kolkata jail without trial for the past 40 years has...
“Business, bureaucracy and politicians all plundering the Chure”
On 10 January, 24-year-old Dilip Mahato was killed for opposing the ‘Crusher’ industry in Dhanusha that was illegally mining sand from a...
THE TWO - YEAR ITCH
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority, the party’s performance has been...
Getting away with murder
Rautahat MP Mohammad Aftab Alam, currently in police custody charged with murder, has refused to take a polygraph test, angering the police...
Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict
The Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being much better...
Crime and politics
Six months after the unsolved rape and murder of her daughter, the stress is beginning to show on Durga Devi Panta. Her...
Daughter's rape drives father to insanity
Nepal was shocked by the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta in Kanchanpur on 26 July, but with the crime unsolved and...
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