Category Archives: Nepal

Posts with information relating to Nepal or my Peace Corps service there

Gray-bar Hotel

From Today’s Nepali Times
The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Kapil Shrestha and Malla K [...]

Crisis in Nepal

Many of you know that I served in the Peace Corps in Nepal. Currently, there is a civil war capped by the king taking authoritarian rule by sacking the parliment. The sh*t is hitting the fan but I thought I would let you read an email I received from a Nepali friend:
Anthony [...]