I left Kathmandu for few days, in order to understand from where “all these people” come. I mean, from where young people, and not only, come to Kathmandu, in order to find job here, or abroad, through many agencies, that provide job and sometimes studying visa for many different countries.
Some of them are only 19, other are older, with fam…[Weiterlesen]

My days are going on..and electricity creates some problems to me and my work. But I am become accustomed to such unforeseen. They become part of a lifestyle, that gives you a sort of freedom in a sense.
Meeting people, having so many dialogues every days, eating with good company of Nepali family, talking with so different kind of people..all…[Weiterlesen]

Sino-China influence on Nepal. A new playground for cold war?

Hot and Cold

http://www.saglobalaffairs.com/component/content/article/920-hot-and-cold.html

The burgeoning Chinese, Indian and Pakistani influence raises alarm in transitional Nepal which has an open border with both China and India. India encircles it from…

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“High level of criss-cross, entropy, may dampen mobilization”.
I am thinking about this short sentence. Nepal can be considered a really high-entropy country. But what about dampen mobilization?
Currently, huge problems are drafting new Constitution, federalism, and peace process.
People, civil society are asking for it, in a very cro…[Weiterlesen]

I am in Nepal. This interest for mountainous communities and peace bring me here.
What about my first considerations??
Language..is the first step. Only few words on local language can change my approach and their vision. The greetings manner is ”Namaste”, it sounds like..I greet the God in you..A wonderful way to remember daily that everyone sho…[Weiterlesen]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/26/libya-war-saving-lives-catastrophic-failure

What do you think about federalism in a country as Nepal, with many different linguistic, ethnic groups?
What is in your opinion the best solution?

Ethnicity-based federalism?-
Nepali
Times

http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2007/03/23/fromthenepalipress/13361

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Federalism in Nepal, its form, modality, composition, is the first step to be faced for peace process and for enhancing Nepalese situation.
The issues of federalism has become a priority in the agenda of all ethnic, regional, lingual, cultural based group in Nepal.
Nevertheless this issue is not without huge contradictions. “People have high e…[Weiterlesen]

So what are you trying to say? That NATO put the wrong guys in power? I think that this is just like Afghanistan 1994 all over again, with the difference, that this time, they will support the mudjahedeen until they have a government and a secure political system. The difference is that they will not abandon them again. This will be a perfect…[Weiterlesen]

A retrospective on the most absurd outcome of this entire intervention. Conservative Poitical Islam getting into power in Libya after 40 years of fierce oppression at the hands of Ghaddaffi who considered them too hardcore for the good of the country – and his own position ofcourse. The question is, did the chiefs of staff know just whom they were…[Weiterlesen]