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Archive for April, 2012
Presidential roadshow for unity
Nearly 250 years after Nepal’s unification, the Timal region with its historic Hindu and Buddhist shrines gets its first visit by a national leader. President Ram Baran Yadav tells a cheering crowd it has never been more important to protect that unity. With just a month to go to finish writing the new constitution that will carve […]
Remembering not to forget Toni Hagen
As he looks down at another nearly lost half-decade of development in Nepal, Toni Hagen must be shaking his head Swiss geologist-turned-development guru first came to Nepal in 1950, travelled 14,000 km criss-crossing Nepal on foot over 12 years, and produced books and charted out Nepal’s development pathways. Just about everything he said we should do, […]
