Author Archives: NepaliKuire
High number of statelessness rumbles on
Seven per cent is a huge number of people remaining stateless, particularly after the previous-previous-previous(?) government’s promise to deal with it. NEPAL: Undocumented residents excluded from state services KATHMANDU, 17 May 2012 (IRIN) – Some 7 percent of Nepal’s almost … Continue reading
Gurung Kakshapati photographs
The Rights Exposure has done an interesting interview with Nayantara Gurung Kakshapati from photo.circle whose beautiful photos of men and women recently appeared in the Nepali Times.
It’s all over, the analysis begins
CK Lal sums up a rotten day: The harmonium players CONSTITUTION AND ETHNIC ASPIRATIONS Results of CA elections confirmed worst fears of skeptics. Deep fissures of Nepal’s polity and society resulted in a fractured mandate. Since no political party was … Continue reading
Top guns say Nepal constitution today ‘for sure’
Are we there? Congratulations to the Himalayan Times for being on first. Statute today for sure: Parties KATHMANDU: After hectic parleys, negotiations, and squabbling, big four political parties have eventually decided to promulgate the statute by the midnight leaving the … Continue reading
Nepal’s media prays to god as “big guns” get down to 10 or 11 states in constitution
Love the emerging reference to them as the big guns. Seems to be spread on Twitter too. Dissolution of CA‚ or statute at hand through miracle Big guns, who are making their last-ditch attempt to break the tough nut of … Continue reading
Nepal’s constitutional talks almost dead as leaders slope off to bed
Things are looking very bad this evening as the Constituent Assembly looks set to be dissolved. Perhaps unlike the Koiralas of yesteryear, these young 50-80 somethings just don’t have it in them to pull all-nighters. Parties blame each other for … Continue reading
Will the real constitution writers please stand up
Note the final paragraph: they cannot follow the procedures met. Read: they cannot use what the Constituent Assembly drafted? New statute in the making ‘quietly’ KATHMANDU, May 26: Media headlines every other day suggesting failure by the major parties to … Continue reading
Not quite there: Nepal promises federation, but 10 or 14 states?
After positive developments this morning, things take a turn for the worse as meetings start to break up. Four party meet over May 27 crisis ends without making concrete decision The meeting of four political forces- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress, … Continue reading
Progressive cop-out leads to constitution agreement between big 3
What a fantastic piece of politicking. Nepali politicians once again prove that they can agree anything in order to extend their grip on power. Will this be the first constitution in the world with no description of the executive and … Continue reading
Nepal’s political show must go on (and on)
One shouldn’t watch the markets when deciding whether something of political significance is going to happen, but a decrease in the Nepali rupees’ value by 18% is hard to miss. The Nepali government has been managing to delay the country’s … Continue reading