Nepali Times

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- W B Yeats

The kind of society that Comrade Bhattarai envisages in Nepal post-revolution does not need a destructive peoples war.

In the 36 hours of mobocracy that ruled Kathmandus streets last week, we caught a glimpse of an area of darkness in our countrys soul.

The battle against HIV in western Nepal is waged in isolation of larger development processes. Children and women are the hardest hit.