Mauled by the mob

 Back to April 24, 2006 — the date has historical importance. If an unruly mass of people, ignoring the rule of law and the constitution, can force the reinstatement of the parliament which had long been dissolved, can’t a similar…

आगामी जेठ १४ मा संविधान जारी हुन नसके उत्पन्न हुने परिस्थिति र संवैधानिक निकास

फ्रान्सेली राजनीतिज्ञ पियार जोसेफ प्रोधोँलाई “अराजकवादका पिता” भनिन्थ्यो । उनलाई कानुन व्यवस्था वा सरकारमा विश्वास थिएन । उनी अतिवादी दृष्टिकोण राख्दथे । उनले एउटा बहुचर्चित किताब पनि लेखेका थिए । यसको नाम थियो ‘द कन्फेसन्स् अफ अ रिभोल्युसनरी’ – एउटा…

D-Day minus four

 May 28 is quite close. The long awaited day when the new constitution of Nepal was expected to be promulgated is about to pass without any constitution being adopted and promulgated. This is not a serious concern at the moment…

Nowhere to go

 Mao’s tactics of guerrilla war were very simple: “The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue.” Mao did not envisage a peace process in the theory of his…

Cards up his sleeve

 Recently, references in the media as to what the president needs to do if the Constituent Assembly (CA) is not able to deliver a new constitution by Friday, May 28, have become quite frequent. There is clear indication that a…

Unfinished Business – Constituent Assmebly

 GP. Koirala became history on March 20. A four-time prime minister, giving leadership to the country for almost eight years in that capacity, Koirala had been active in politics for the last six decades. From January 2007 to July 2008,…

Lessons from history

 ”The Bolsheviks had only won a quarter of the seats in the elections to the Constituent Assembly (CA) in November 1917. They were shocked to see that the October Revolution they had forced on Russia one month before by overthrowing…

Constituent Assembly – March 2010

“The hundred-day deadline has just passed for the promulgation of Nepal’s long-awaited new constitution. But there is little optimism that this date will be met.” Shortly after Madhav Kumar Nepal was elected chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent…

Identity politics

 Identities may be defined in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, language, culture, gender, sexual orientation and similar other variables. Politics aimed at establishing these identities, among other things, involves empowering the oppressed segments among them to articulate their oppression in…

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