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...India is no stranger to violent rebellion, as the decades-long struggle in Kashmir attests. But the separatist conflict there and low-level insurgencies in the country's remote northeast grind on at the periphery, driven by groups agitating to break away. The Maoists, like their ideological brothers in Nepal who recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket a huge chunk of central...
...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...
...Nepal has an opportunity to cast aside the ancient regime of kings for a modern republic, where women, low-caste groups and indigenous minorities will be fully enfranchised. The Maoists sparked this change with blood and guts in the countryside - it's up to them to bring it to peaceful fruition within the halls of power...
...Kingdom's Shame Your report on Bhutan's experiment with democracy paints an incomplete picture of the real political situation in Bhutan [April 7]. Democracy and the pursuit of "gross national happiness" sound ludicrous when nearly one-sixth of the population has been languishing as refugees in eastern Nepal for nearly two decades. The international community's indifference to the situation is a sign of how the ruling establishment has successfully diverted the world's attention. Adwait Silwal, Kathmandu...
KATHMANDU, NEPAL Poll results give former Maoist rebels a significant lead in landmark elections...