State of Nepal /

Ethnicity, caste and a pluralist society / Rajendra Pradhan. The Hindu state and the state of Hinduism / Sudhindra Sharma. A dozen years of democracy: the games that parties play / Sanjay Upadhya. A new king and the challenge of democracy / Kanak Mani Dixit. The Maobadi of Nepal / Deepak Thapa. Cultural flows across a blurred boundary / C.K. Lal. Nepal and the Indian Nepalis / T.B. Subba. From evil state to civil society / Saubhagya Shah. The politics of 'developing nepali women' / Seira Tamang. The squandering of a promising economy / Sujeev Shakya. Education, deception, state and society / Shanta Dixit. Yam between Bhot and Muglan: Nepal's search for security in development / Dipak Gyawali. Water, Nepal and India / Bhim Subba. Critiquing the media boom / Pratyoush Onta. The insularity of contemporary Nepali literature / Manjushree Thapa. Nepal as seen in India / Shastri Ramachandaran.