nytimes op-ed on Nepal...

[Prakash Shrestha]

Dear all,
Namaste from Nepal.

1. NYtimes has published editorial on Nepal.  thought to share it in the group.

2. Peace corps Nepal office is reopened now  !
    It was closed for about 7 years due to security reasons.

with best wishes,

prakash

Op-Ed Contributors

Nepal, on the Brink of Collapse

By SEYOM BROWN and VANDA FELBAB-BROWN

FOR more than two decades, Nepal, a resource-rich, impoverished country wedged between China and India, has teetered between paralysis and upheaval. Its people have witnessed the transition, in 1990, from an authoritarian Hindu kingdom to a constitutional monarchy; the massacre of members of the royal family in 2001 by the heir to the throne; a decade-long civil war between Maoist insurgents and the government that ended in a faltering peace agreement in 2006; and the removal of the monarchy altogether in 2008.............


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/opinion/nepal-on-the-brink-of-collapse.html?_r=2