By Ram Khatry 13 February 2019 Depending on who you ask, February 13 can either be an auspicious or regrettable day for Nepal and the Nepalese people. If you ask…
By Dr Bharat Raj Paudel 3 February 2019 Nepal has found itself in international limelight since earlier this week after a co-chairman of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)…
2 February 2019: One of world’s least developed nation is giving the world’s most powerful country a good dose of headache, thanks to Comrade Prachanda’s love of rhetoric. On January…
By Ram Khatry 12 December 2018 He fought against him for ten years and their soldiers killed each other on the battlefield in their thousands and yet Prachanda shows all…
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 30 March 2016 Monday’s discussions between Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” and Chinese President Xi Jinping produced no substantial results for the Himalayan nation.…
27 March 2017: He is not trying to keep India close to his heart and push China away, Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” has said to Chinese President…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 11 January 2017 I will be honest. There was a time when I was one of millions of Nepali youths totally in awe of Prachanda, the…
15Dec16: A Beijing media has urged both India and China to respect Nepal’s “balance policy” instead of forcing the fragile republic to choose one of the two “rising powers” of Asia. China and…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 14 December 2016 It was year 2005, in the communist hinterland of Nepal. The war between 21st century’s most successful guerrilla army and the erstwhile Royal Nepal Army was…
27November2016: Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) has warned his fellow Maoists that Nepal is in risk of “a regressive conspiracy” as former monarch Gyanendra Shah keeps travelling abroad to utter dismay of…
15November2016: It took five million rupees for Office of the Prime Minister of Nepal to realise that over three hundred children are currently suffering from serious malnutrition in a mountainous district of…
16 October 2016: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, or one of his staff anyway, has tried a tweet in Nepali language to welcome the prime minister of Nepal, a country…
27 September 2016: Nepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli has questioned his successor Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) about his meeting with an absconding “criminal”. He was addressing the parliament on Tuesday.…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 17 September 2016 India “has once again refused to welcome Nepal’s constitution” – a report by nagariknews journalist Surendra Poudel claimed today. According to the Kathmandu-based vernacular…
16 Sept 2016: Editor’s Note: “In the history of our friendship, today is significant day.” This was the first sentence Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi uttered today, following the customary salutations, during…
3 August 2016: Nepal has just gotten its 39th prime minister as K.P. Sharma Oli vacated his prime ministerial residence Wednesday afternoon. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre Prachanda,…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney The Australian ambassador to Nepal, Glenn White, has apparently told Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda that there would have been no risks to him if he had…
