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Everything is fair in hate and peace
By Maila Baje Almost all of our democratically elected prime ministers have asserted their right to dissolve parliament as a matter of executive privilege. (And who knows what the prominent exception...
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Grossed out by that net gain
By Maila Baje If all official India can do these days on matters concerning Nepal is to ‘take note’, it has good reason. There seems to be no meeting point between the three broad strains of opinion....
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Collective beclowning for a cause
By Maila Baje A legislature dissolved a second time after its members couldn’t justify its restoration. A Supreme Court constitutional bench locked in a ‘conflict of interest’ row, undermining its...
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Colder calculations on Covid-19?
By Maila Baje Earlier this year, when the Indians were no longer able to bear Nepali accusations of New Delhi having imposed its version of the Pressler Amendment, they let us know that Nepali...
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What you get when you rope in India and the West
By Maila Baje ‘Indo-West’ as a geostrategic construct vis-à-vis Nepal continues to provide interesting conjunctions and contrasts. Broadly credited with engineering Nepal’s regime change in 2006, the...
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Cut-and-paste constitutionalism
By Maila Baje Okay, let’s get this straight. The leader of a deeply divided party that barely controls a quarter of the seats in parliament restored by the Supreme Court is ordered appointed prime...
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Flashback: Can Nepalis coexist with Nepal?
By Maila Baje A snarky question, even bordering on the seditious? Perhaps. But it’s one that cannot be evaded. When Ram Kumari Jhankri, a ruling party lawmaker in the dissolved parliament, said Prime...
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Afghan parallels and ironies
NEPALI NETBOOK By Maila Baje Nepali reaction to the collapse of the Afghan state to the Taliban has been quite revealing. Sections of the royalist right jumped immediately to contrast President Ashraf...
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Mounting northern discomfort
By Maila Baje “There are no communists in Nepal, all are employees of CIA and RAW”. Such sentiments have lost their ability to shock us. But maybe they do gain some traction when attributed to people...
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Between irrelevance and indispensability
By Maila Baje Most telling about ex-king Gyanendra’s Dasain message was the strange level its critics emanated from. The former king merely suggested that democracy without monarchy and vice-versa...
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