Kanak Mani Dixit

Kanak Mani Dixit is a Nepali <a href=http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Nepal08mar05na.html target=_blank>journalist</a> and editor of the Kathmandu-based south Asian magazine <a href=http://www.himalmag.co

Maoist lock, Nepali key

After two days of constitutional and political crisis, the politics of Nepal took another twist when prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ("Prachanda') announced on the afternoon of 4

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 8 May 2009

Nepal: the Maoist transformation's fuzzy logic

A delicate experiment is underway in Nepal in the wake of the success of the "people's movement" and the collapse of the Gyanendra autocracy in late

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 21 Jun 2006

Nepal: the rising

Amidst an exhilarating people's movement in Nepal that has spread like wildfire against the Gyanendra autocracy since early April, one develops a perspective a week-and-half into detention. Taken

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 23 Apr 2006

Nepal: the underbelly of the beast

Ending a nearly two-month holiday, Nepals embattled ruler, King Gyanendra, returned to Kathmandu late on 12 April amid speculation that he might take the first step toward defusing days

By Kanak Mani Dixit and Maryann Bird

/ 12 Apr 2006