No 548 Democracy Derailed :a symposium on the subversion of democracy by the monarch in Nepal

THE PROBLEM A short statement of the issues involved CLARITY AMID EXTREMISM Manjushree Thapa, author and political commentator, Kathmandu WILL THE MONARCH SURVIVE? B.C. Upreti, Senior Faculty Member, South Asian Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur INDIA AND THE NEPAL CRISIS S.D. Muni, Professor, South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi THE WORD AND THE WORLD Anil Bhattarai, Director, Nepal South Asia Centre, Kathmandu THE WORKING OF DEMOCRACY Mukta Singh Lama, Doctoral student of Anthropology, Cornell University, USA POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Arjun Karki, President, NGO Federation of Nepal, Kathmandu ROYAL REGRESSION Baburam Bhattarai, Member Standing Committee of the Politburo and Convener, United Revolutionary People's Council, Kathmandu AN UNAVOIDABLE FORCE Hari Roka, Doctoral Student, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi DIALOGUES Compiled by Peter Ronald deSouza, and Solano Da Silva, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi INTERVIEW Pradeep Giri of the Nepali Congress speaks with Prashant Jha, Masters student, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi WHAT THE PEOPLE FEEL Krishna Hachhethu, associated with the Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY Krishna Khanal, Professor, Department of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu DATELINE NEPAL A chronology of events since 1990 COMMENT The Indian Media by Prashant Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delh When the State Kills by Bela Malik, Human Rights Monitoring Network, Kathmandu, and Pradeep S. Wagle, Advocate, Supreme Court of Nepal FURTHER READING A select and relevant bibliography BACKPAGE