Posted on January 5, 2009 by palpatansen
8th May, 52.
CONFIDENTIAL
My dear Jawaharlal Ji,
I received your letter No. 5744-P.M. dated April 25, 1952, in which you have mentioned on foreign contacts of the Nepal Government with special reference to the U.S.A Government. I felt that there has been some misunderstanding in the matter.
When I was in Delhi in the first week of [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2007 by palpatansen
Interviewed by David Barsamian, Boulder, Colorado, November 30, 1992
Helena Norberg-Hodge has examined and critiqued conventional notions of development. A linguist by training, and a native of Sweden, she was educated in Europe and the United States. She first went to Ladakh in northwestern India in 1975. Three years later she founded the Ladakh Project, with [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2007 by palpatansen
Ranjit Guha
(The Subaltern Studies group was founded in India in 1982 by Ranjit Guha, an Indian historian and Economist)
म आन्दोलनरत वामपन्थी खेमामा थिएँ र सक्रिय कार्यकर्ता पनि थिएँ। जुन खेमामा भएपनि साम्राज्यवादविरोधी भएको नाताले हामी सबै राष्ट्रवादी थियौं। “स्वराज” को लडाइँको त्यस चरणमा बढ्दो असन्तोषको तीब्रताको बेला हामी सुन्दर भविष्यको कल्पनामा उत्साहित थियौं। हाम्रा लागि [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2007 by palpatansen
- फिलिप रामिरेज (Phillippe Ramirez)
नेपालका दुर्गम भू-भागहरूको भ्रमण गर्दा यो गाउँ ‘कम्युनिष्ट’ र त्यो गाउँ ‘कांग्रेस’ भनेर औंल्याउने गरेको पाइन्छ। गाउँहरूलाई चिनाउन प्रयोगमा ल्याइने यस प्रकारका राजनैतिक परिचयहरू आफैमा कत्तिको सार्थक र सापेक्ष छन्? कुन हिसावमा गाउँहरूलाई एउटा खास राजनैतिक पार्टीसँग आवद्ध भएको निर्क्योल गरिन्छ? अर्घाखाँची जिल्लाको वि.सं. २०४७ सम्मको राजनैतिक इतिहासलाई केलाउँदै मूलत: [...]
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