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...goes and ends Lil Bahadur Chettri's brief but unflinching 1957 Nepali fable Mountains Painted with Turmeric. Where did the family migrate to? Were they ever avenged? Chettri's novella - one of Nepal's most popular stories, reprinted 30 times in the country and now widely available for the first time in English - doesn't say, but likely they went to India, perhaps West Bengal, Sikkim or Assam, where Chettri, despite being such a prominent figure of Nepali letters, was born, raised and still lives...
...Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the Mughal Emperor of India, led an enviable existence. He no longer hunted, as he once loved to do, but he still read and wrote poetry, flew his kites, talked to his numerous sons and grandsons, and, from his residence in the Red Fort, enjoyed the views of his beloved city, Delhi. The city was all that was left of Zafar's dominion, but even there he wasn't really in charge; the year was 1857, and the British East India Company ruled Delhi and most of the rest of India. Then, in the course...
...neighborhood of Gangabu, another hotbed of protests, the police have just fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors, and many have scattered. Ram Bahadur, a stone cutter, is watching the protestors flee from behind the safety of the wire-mesh screen in his backyard. He is surrounded by large pieces of marble, which he cuts for people building their houses - white marble, good for making stairs, and imitation green mable for the kitchens. Since the movement began, though, no one has bought any marble. "I want all this to end, I'll tell you that," he mumbles...
...SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction contract. Deuba has denounced the verdict as "political assassination" and has vowed to fight his conviction. He is the highest-ranking Nepalese leader ever to be found guilty of corruption...
...CLEARED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, Nepal's former Prime Minister; of corruption charges; by the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (R.C.C.C.); in Kathmandu. Six other former ministers were cleared of similar charges. Deuba was sacked in February when King Gyanendra seized power and accused him of failing to put down Nepal's bloody nine-year Maoist rebellion. Arrested in April after he refused to be questioned by the R.C.C.C., Deuba remains in police custody pending a decision on a separate embezzlement charge...