Word: tribhuvan
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According to his teachers and classmates at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University, Kundal Kamle's defining trait was his relentless sense of injustice. A humanities undergraduate and student-union leader, Kamle spent much of his time whipping up political passions, hectoring passersby through megaphones and blocking the main road outside the campus with banners or burning tires. His causes ran the gamut from human rights to the price of gas. "Sometimes I liked him and I thought what he said was right," says Keshab Kumar Shrestha, an anthropology lecturer. "But other times he annoyed me. He was just too much...
...next. Enforced by the threat of "action" against any who defy the Maoists' orders, the moves signal a new tactic in a conflict that has already claimed 10,000 lives: to bring Nepal to its knees economically. "It could be a disaster," warns Bishwambher Pyakuryal, political-science professor at Tribhuvan University. "A contraction is inevitable if this situation continues...
...down, three other girls took turns hacking at me. Blood and pieces of my bones shot up in the air?it was all over the porch wall next morning." Doctors amputated the man's right leg below the knee. Dr. Mahindra Kumar Nepal, executive director of the capital's Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, says his wards receive one or two victims of similar attacks a day. "We are getting fractures here that you never see described in medical literature," he says. "A clear pattern has emerged. It seems there is a policy to terrorize people through the use of extreme...
...nearly every detail of Rajiv's story: that Crown Prince Dipendra entered the suite of rooms and cold-bloodedly gunned down his parents, brother, sister and five other relatives. The other witnesses are both uncles of Dipendra. Ravi, a widower, was married to a daughter of the late King Tribhuvan. Maheshwar Kumar Singh, 66, is married to another daughter of Tribhuvan. None of the three witnesses saw any indication, as had been earlier reported, that there was a family argument before their arrival?something that might have set Dipendra off. Nor did they see what ultimately happened to the Crown...
...back to 1559, the year of King Drabya Shah's unification of a people already almost two millenia old. In the unbroken line of kings that has followed, His Majesty Birendra Shah in 1972 assumed the throne vacated by the death of his father Mahendra Shah, and his grandfather Tribhuvan Shan before him. Like his brother-in-law, King Birendra also attended Harvard, spending 1967-8 as a Quincy House student "taking a crash course in affairs of state," according to Shah...