It's Not Easy Here in Katmandu. Eliza Griswold.
by Griswold, Eliza; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 74Global Issues. Publisher: Harper's, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Communism -- Asia | Guerrilla warfare | Human rights -- Nepal | Human Rights Watch (Organization) | Nepal -- Armed Forces | Nepal -- Politics and government | Nepal -- Royal family | Political corruption | RevolutionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the center of Katmandu, on a day when the air is clear, you can count the layers of Hanuman Dhoka's red roof, which lift delicately out of one another in a stack nine stories high. In the thirteenth century, before the current strain of rapacious and ill-starred Shah kings massacred their way to the throne, a family named Malla...built Hanuman Dhoka and founded the kingdom of Nepal. Every day...the Malla king is said to have climbed to the top of his nine-story pagoda and peered down into his happy valley of serfs. If smoke wasn't rising from each chimney, the kindhearted king dispatched a scout to see what was wrong. That, people say, is how peaceful the Katmandu valley should be when held in the palm of a benevolent monarch. But the valley is no longer the largest part of Nepal, and herein lies the root of the current crisis. Nepal is virtually two countries: Katmandu, land of high-speed Internet and 'Hima-lattes'; and the land that lies beyond, where there are no roads or hospitals and there is no government except for the young soldiers dispatched to fight the growing power of Maoist guerrillas." (HARPER'S) This article discusses the current discontent in Nepal under King Gyanendra's power.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: It's Not Easy Here in Katmandu, May 2005; pp. 64-72.
"In the center of Katmandu, on a day when the air is clear, you can count the layers of Hanuman Dhoka's red roof, which lift delicately out of one another in a stack nine stories high. In the thirteenth century, before the current strain of rapacious and ill-starred Shah kings massacred their way to the throne, a family named Malla...built Hanuman Dhoka and founded the kingdom of Nepal. Every day...the Malla king is said to have climbed to the top of his nine-story pagoda and peered down into his happy valley of serfs. If smoke wasn't rising from each chimney, the kindhearted king dispatched a scout to see what was wrong. That, people say, is how peaceful the Katmandu valley should be when held in the palm of a benevolent monarch. But the valley is no longer the largest part of Nepal, and herein lies the root of the current crisis. Nepal is virtually two countries: Katmandu, land of high-speed Internet and 'Hima-lattes'; and the land that lies beyond, where there are no roads or hospitals and there is no government except for the young soldiers dispatched to fight the growing power of Maoist guerrillas." (HARPER'S) This article discusses the current discontent in Nepal under King Gyanendra's power.
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