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The recent elections in Nepal appear to spell a heavy retreat for the country’s Maoist movement. After initiating a People’s War in 1996 that lasted ten years and saw it in control of the majority of the countryside, the popular Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) formed a front with mainstream political parties to overthrow the monarchy and institute a democratic republic in the 2006 People’s Movement. Thereafter, the CPN (Maoist) emerged as the largest party in the 2008 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.

Can a documentary film on the effects of drone attacks in Waziristan not even mention the Taliban even once and not be a misrepresentation? The documentary, Wounds of Waziristan, focuses on the survivors and victims of drone attacks and brings out the huge human cost caused by so-called collateral damage on the inhabitants of Waziristan who, the documentary shows, have been bombed in the past century by colonial Britain as well.

Even as militants continue actions against polio vaccination teams, more and more problems stem from Pakistan’s inability to contain the disease.

The performance of Chaminda Pusswedilla Part 4.1 The Comon Welthings Sumit was banned by the Censor Board and the performance scheduled for 30th November did not take place.

His is a catch-all populism, capitalizing on popular discontent and welcoming all comers. In reaching out to the businesses classes, he has sung the praises of commerce and industry, and has insisted that “99 percent” of businesspeople are the victims, not the perpetrators, of corruption. Although opposed to some particular cases of privatization or corporate malfeasance, he sees the root cause of India’s problems as the corruption of the country’s political class — ignoring the much wider net of economic and political forces that entrap the “common man.”