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Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal - Contrived Candor
Monday, 5 September 2005, 1:08 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
A rare whiff of political candor is wafting across Nepal. The country’s two largest opposition parties have announced a move away from their support for constitutional monarchy. More >>
Troubling Moves On The South Asian Chessboard
Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:12 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
The Bush administration’s decision last month to welcome India to the “nuclear club” – weeks after the two governments signed a 10-year defense cooperation agreement -- has prompted contrasting reactions from two principal quarters in Asia. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Clarity Above The Cacophony
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 11:12 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Six months after King Gyanendra dismissed Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's multiparty government and took over full executive control, critics have a litany of lamentations. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal - Stealth of Nations
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:52 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Predicaments gripping the fourth player in Nepal's deepening conflict are gradually coming to the fore, as the first three continue their struggle for predominance with greater determination. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal - The Realignment Race
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:59 am | Sanjay Upadhya
King Gyanendra’s expansion of his five-month-old council of ministers last week has provoked predictable jeers of contempt from Nepal’s opposition parties. Of the 12 fresh inductees, at least four can be described as hard-line palace loyalists the ... More >>
Nepalese Maoists: Caught In Their Own Craftiness
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:08 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The Nepalese Maoists’ mastery of creative ambiguity has helped catapult a ragtag band of ideologically motivated fighters into a formidable force. Now that art of artifice has come to haunt them. More >>
Nepal: Miasma Of Maoist-Mainstream Alliance
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:37 am | Sanjay Upadhya
With Nepal’s Maoist rebels offering to support the seven-party anti-palace alliance in its fight for the restoration of democracy, key sections within the political mainstream have begun absorbing the implications. More >>
Nepal: Deepening Uncertainty Amid U.S. Dilemma
Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 12:24 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The Maoist insurgency raging in Nepal has posed a unique challenge to the United States: Reverberations of the Cold War-era Red Scare have combined with the imperatives of the ongoing War on Terror. The possibility of the world’s first communist takeover ... More >>
Belated Acknowledgment Of Key Contradiction
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 10:07 am | Sanjay Upadhya
For a brief moment this week, Nepal’s political gloom gave way to a flash of fidelity. Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala met ousted prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and discussed the current political situation in the kingdom. More >>
S. Upadhya: Don’t Ignore Real Sovereignty Issue
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 4:44 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Fifty-five years after Nepalis were introduced to democracy, we are still debating that old debate. Where should the nation’s sovereignty reside? It looked like the democratic constitution of 1990 had settled that question for good. The drafters ... More >>
Republicanism: How About A Real Public Debate?
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 2:11 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Amid the flurry of political activity in Kathmandu and New Delhi in recent weeks, the myth surrounding the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1990 is being dispelled. From the outset, it was clear that the tripartite agreement among the royal palace, ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Crystal-gazing Through The Crisis
Friday, 3 June 2005, 11:15 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The most levelheaded assessment of Nepal’s current crisis has come from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a delayed disclosure, US Ambassador to Nepal James F. Moriarty last week quoted Madam Secretary as saying that what King Gyanendra had ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Conundrum Of Closeness
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 10:06 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The much-extolled close relationship between Nepal and India has unmasked the conundrum that it is. A shared religious, cultural and social heritage has been at the core of these “special relations,” a term New Delhi prefers, often to the consternation ... More >>
S. Upadhya: Nepal - Mixed Message Of Moderation
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:12 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Weathering scathing global condemnation and strident threats of isolation, Nepal’s royal government completed 100 days in office this week. Actually, it seems to have made headway in making its case. Coinciding with the milestone, the Indian government ... More >>
Nepal: Cynicism Amid Competing Visions
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 12:51 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The range of reaction to King Gyanendra’s announcement last week lifting the state of emergency he imposed on February 1 after dismissing Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s government and taking over the reins of government underscores the cynicism ... More >>
Nepal: Denunciation Gives Way To Deliberation
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 11:35 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Nearly three months after King Gyanendra took over full executive powers, sparking widespread international condemnation, his government can finally take satisfaction in having presented its side of the story to the world. More >>
Nepal - Perils Of International Ambivalence
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 1:08 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Amid a paralyzing internal political standoff and palpable international ambivalence, revenge killings sparked by vigilante justice threaten to accelerate Nepal’s slide into chaos. More >>
Pulling Nepal Back From The Precipice
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 10:22 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Having endured scathing criticism from much of the world for his February 1 decision to take direct control of the government, Nepal’s King Gyanendra now has a special opportunity to present his case on the sidelines of two major regional forums later ... More >>
Monarchy And Modernization Not Mutually Exclusive
Monday, 4 April 2005, 11:38 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The release of former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala from two months of house arrest, along with the freeing of nearly 300 other political activists across the nation, should help create the climate for constructive discussions on the political ... More >>
