The Maoist insurgency is the product of Nepal's failed government and persisting under-development. This brief study shows that while the Maoists' violent methods for capturing power may not have the approval of dominant elites and international community, their political and socioeconomic agenda has considerable appeal for the poor and long-oppressed Nepalese masses.
After analyzing the seven years of insurgency, the study critically examines the responses of the Nepalese government and the international community, particularly the US, the UK and China. The study also underlines that India may have to radically redefine its approach to the developments in Nepal in order to preserve and promote the Kingdom's peace and stability, as also in its own enlightened strategic interests.
This book concludes that the King's military methods will not be easily changed and that social order will have to be drastically transformed so as to accommodate popular aspirations unleashed by the Maoist movement.
Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace one evening, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly. Now with a new lead, Detective Lindsay Boxer is determined to find out what happened to San Francisco’s Golden Boy. Meanwhile, a string of fatal arson attacks have broken out leaving four rich, successful married couples dead. What could the motive be for these ruthless murders and what is their link to the Campion case? With the help of her friends and fellow Women's Murder Club members - Yuki, an attorney feeling the strain of a high profile court case; Claire, a medical examiner trying to balance her career and her pregnancy and Cindy, the reporter for a San Francisco newspaper - Lindsay must find the suspects, and fast.
Kopila by Ghanashyam Khadka is a collection of 30 short poems for children. Easy to read with mostly four to five stanzas in each, the poems try to capture a child’s feelings, thoughts, questions, and wishes, khadka has tried to identify well with a child and gives young hearts an interesting collection. Sometimes he has also used some mature words, but overall khadka’s language is simple that can be easily understood by young children. The poems are located the hills from where the snow capped mountains are seen. Everything is colorful, happy and violence does not exist in the village, a refreshing turn from today’s trouble to which children is exposed. Children’s inquisitive mind and their innocent wishes are highlighted in the poems. Khadka, also turns didactic in some poems, like Banchari where he asks the hunters to not to end the life of a beautiful, vibrant bird just for the desire to eat one piece of meat.
Published by Bibek Shrijanshil Prakashan, the book is priced at Rs. 30.
Call it micro fiction, postcard fiction, short story, sudden fiction or simply flashfiction- by its extreme brevity is fast gaining popularity these days.Meanwhile, to give the Nepali readers of English short stories a taste of Nepali type of flash fiction, seasoned story-teller Vinaya Kasajoo has come up with his collection of 25 flash fictions. Kasajoo is more popular as a shortstory writer for children. In fact if you give a bird’s eye view to some of the stories in the latter part of the present collection, you won’t debate hat they would appeal to every children’s palette. However, on a second reading, you will notice that events in those stories do not unfold the way it does in children’s story. A lion would reward the mouse for saving his life in a children’s story; a mouse is not honored so in Kasajoo,s, “Honoring a Mouse.” Here the fox intervenes to convince the animals that it is the lion that should be honored and not a sordid mouse. How he convinces the animals is left for the readers. The 25 stories in this collection are supposed to expose” the quandary of democracy and development.” Kasajoo’s literary sensibility was highly disturbed by the 13 years long moist insurgency, which resulted in a colossal loss of human life and property. He is not even sure of the future road the country will embark upon on its quest for a republican state. His hopes doubts, uncertainties and illusions pertaining to this country have been well- portrayed in this collection. In kasajoo’s own words, this collection will help the English readers understand the predicament of this collection were written over a period of three decades, and originally published in some other periodicals and magazines. It is why they represent diverse mood and situations.
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Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace one evening, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.
Kopila by Ghanashyam Khadka is a collection of 30 short poems for children. Easy to read with mostly four to five stanzas in each, the poems try to capture a child’s feelings, thoughts, questions, and wishes, khadka has tried to identify well with a child and gives young hearts an interesting collection. Sometimes he has also used some mature words, but overall khadka’s language is simple that can be easily understood by young children. The poems are located the hills from where the snow capped mountains are seen. Everything is colorful, happy and violence does not exist in the village, a refreshing turn from today’s trouble to which children is exposed. Children’s inquisitive mind and their innocent wishes are highlighted in the poems. Khadka, also turns didactic in some poems, like Banchari where he asks the hunters to not to end the life of a beautiful, vibrant bird just for the desire to eat one piece of meat.