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...Prachanda chooses China over India," growled a headline in the Times of India, referring to Nepal's new PM by the nom de guerre the ex-Maoist rebel had used during a decade-long insurgency waged in the Himalayan foothills. That war changed the political landscape of Nepal. Dahal's trip to the Bird's Nest, in the eyes of India's hawks, threatened to upset the order of things in the whole region...
Nepal has undergone seismic change in the past half year. In April, Dahal and his Maoists won a majority of seats in an assembly charged with the task of reshaping a country that had existed for over two centuries under a rigid, feudal monarchy. Nepal's last king vacated the royal palace soon after, in June, and Dahal, who only a few years back was a fugitive in his own country, was sworn in as Prime Minister on Aug. 18. From the ashes of a civil war that claimed over 13,000 lives, his Maoist-led government now intends...
...Class war is still an unlikely dream, however. Yes, Maoist rebels recently won power in neighboring Nepal. But the Indian state is more powerful and sophisticated than Nepal's defeated monarchy. (The rise of Nepal's Maoists has actually split opinion among their Indian brothers: some believe that the Nepalese group sold out by participating in elections, while others argue it is a legitimate tactical move toward revolution.) And in India's rowdy democracy, the entire political spectrum from far right to the mainstream Communist Party of India have called for the Maoists to be destroyed...
...Until that happens, the Maoists will continue to bleed India. "We want every person in India to have equal rights and the Maoist flag flying in New Delhi," Deva told me in his camp, a small group of cadres gathered around him, nodding as he spoke. How long will that take? I asked. A few of his men giggled. "We cannot say," Deva replied. "But in our life we will do whatever is possible." It is a sentiment that captures both the enormity of the Maoists' aims and the huge challenge New Delhi faces in the years ahead...
...REPUBLIC IS BORN Nepal's newly elected assembly voted on May 28 to abolish the nation's 240-year-old monarchy, turning the world's last Hindu kingdom into its newest republic, as jubilant citizens flooded the streets of Kathmandu to celebrate. Former Maoist insurgents will make up the largest political party in the fledgling government, which now must grapple with building a stable society after a decade of civil war. Outgoing King Gyanendra has been given 15 days to abdicate his throne...