Enlighten me.
Anyone want to inform me, or direct me to some good sources about modern Nepalese politics?
ekantipur.com is one of the bigger Nepali newscorps. I read their English daily, the Kathmandu Post, while I was living in country and found it rather well done.
Republica is a competing English daily newspaper. They have an RSS feed on their website if you use a reader, although it’s a little bit wonky. I only ever get the headlines, but if something catches my eye it’s just a click-through to read the articles.
Both papers publish a lot of opinion, often from political notables, so that’s worth checking out. That said, neither of these papers really give enough attention (or very kind attention) to Madhesi political opinion/ambition. I, unfortunately, don’t have any other news source with which to correct this imbalance.
If you’re looking for perspectives on the civil war, Routledge has an excellent volume of anthropological articles called The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-First Century. Another book, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal was published before the war, but it provides a closer, if more dated, look at ethnic identity as it affects political action in Nepal. I don’t know who publishes it, honestly, but I’m pretty sure it’s a university press from India somewhere. Both are expensive, so if you (or anyone) is interested, you might ask your local library to get it for you.
