| Headline Like it or not, the future of Nepal's hydro development may depend on India's gigantic river-linking project. NAVIN SINGH KHADKA 
 Nation How about back home?  
 There is an unreal calm in Rukum. The guerrillas have vanished, and there is no sign of the government.  GANGA BC in SIMLI, RUKUM 
 An American trekker writes to a Maoist he met on the Annapurna trail two weeks ago.  
 Bhutani refugees need a dignified return to their homeland through an internationally-monitored repatriation process. MAHENDRA P LAMA 
 Domestic Brief 
 
 
 Travel RENCHIN YONJAN 
 The Queen of the Hills gears up for a carnival next week.  DANIEL B HABER in DARJEELING 
 Culture The diaspora has found a new way to keep in touch with relatives back home.  BHAGIRATH YOGI in LONDON 
 Nepali Society 
 History Man Bahadur Rai's narration of fighting 
 Review A book about brutal internal purges in the Philippine revolutionary movement may have lessons for our own.  DIPAK GYAWALI 
 MARK TURIN 
 Leisure Oral rehydration therapy in geo-stationary orbit over New Road. BHATMARAI BHAI 
 Book Worm 
 
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