Nepali Times

Some of us were forced, nearly at gunpoint, to play with our children.

The farce in parliament hides an eternal Nepali Congress feud that is taking the party down, and dragging the country down with it.

Here we were, congratulating ourselves with mutual backpats about our splendid work on behalf of the poor, and where were those with first hand experience?

"Greedy people in Kathmandu want to steal our forests," says Hari Prasad Neupane, chairman of the Federation of Community Forest Users of Nepal.