Pradip Giri, the passing of an iconoclast
When we went to see him in his hospital bed last week, Pradip Giri was unconscious. It looked like this great man,...
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Nepal’s elusive ‘Great Transformation’
This short book, Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, by Jeevan Sharma, a senior lecturer on South Asia and...
TULSI GIRI, 93
The passing of Tulsi Giri, the doctor-turned-politician-turned-follower of the Jehovah’s Witness sect, who died on 18 December aged 93, marked the end...
Gagging the press in installments
It has only been two weeks since Nepal’s new Penal Code criminalised photography (Section 295), slapped heavy fines and jail terms for...
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