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Nepal has seen more change in the last fifteen
years than most countries. Its two-hundred-andthirty-
years old monarchy was dealt a grievous
blow with a horrific multiple murder that remains
unexplained to this day. Alongside it came a decadelong
civil war spearheaded by the Maoists. 16,000
people died, over a thousand disappeared, tens of
thousands were affected, the little infrastructure
and state presence the country had was destroyed.
Peace has come with uncertainty. Elections were held in 2008 with the Maoists coming to
power in a coalition government. A year later the
coalition crumbled, replaced with another one.
Ethnic assertion is posing new and unpredictable
challenges, impunity and corruption are rife and
there are two standing armies in the country.
What does the future hold? Combining reportage
and political history, and superbly narrated, A Half
Revolution is the definitive book on Nepalâs recent
history.
Anagha Neelakantan is a freelance journalist who
has written for Newsweek, Far Eastern Economic
Review, Himal and Biblio among others. She was
educated at Princeton University and has worked
with the Nepal Mission of the UN and been an
executive editor of The Nepali Times. more >>
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