फाल्गुन ७ – कुलचन्द्र गौतम, सुबोधराज प्याकुरेल, कनकमणि दीक्षित फ रक-फरक पृष्ठभूमि र पेसागत इतिहास भएका र स्वतन्त्र रूपले विभिन्न विषयमा आफ्ना अलग-अलग विचार र विश्लेषण प्रस्तुत गर्ने हामी तीन नागरिकलाई माओवादीका अध्यक्ष निकट पत्रिका ‘लालरक्षक’ले ‘यी हुन्, जनदुश्मन’ आवरण शीर्षक र तस्वीरसहित लाञ्छना लगायो । औपचारिक रूपमा हिंसा त्यागेको घोषणा आजसम्मै नगरेको, मुलुकभर बलमिच्याइँ More...

A provocative cover story in the January-February 2012 issue of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) -affiliated magazine Lalrakshak labeled three prominent Nepali citizens, Kul Chandra Gautam, Kanak Mani Dixit and Subodh Raj Pyakurel as “People’s Enemies”. These individuals wrote to the Prime Minister of Nepal, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, and advised heads of diplomatic More...

कुलचन्द्र गौतम सायद संसारभर असफल र बदनाम भइसककाले एक्काइसौँ शताब्दीमा धेरैलाई प्रेरणादायी नहुने सिद्धान्त बोकेको भएर हो कि माओवादीलाई आफ्ना कार्यकर्ता र समर्थकहरूलाई उत्प्रेरित गर्न वास्तविक वा काल्पनिक जस्तो भए पनि शत्रुको खाँचो पर्नेगरेको देखिएको छ। त्यसैले उनीहरु सधैँ आफ्ना क्रान्तिकारी एजेन्डाविरुद्ध गोप्य षड्यन्त्र गर्नेहरु भन्दै ‘सामन्ती, पुँजीवादी, राजतन्त्रवादी, साम्राज्यवादी, विस्तारवादी वा तिनका दलाल’को लामो More...

Kul Chandra Gautam Perhaps because their outdated and universally discredited ideology is not persuasive enough in the 21st century, the Maoists seem to need to invoke real or imaginary enemies to motivate their cadres and supporters. Hence they always cite a long list of ‘feudals’, ‘capitalists’, ‘royalists’, ‘imperialists’, ‘expansionists’, or their ‘agents’, who they claim More...

KUL CHANDRA GAUTAM Here is a tale of two deaths, funerals and Nepal’s reaction. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il died on Saturday December 17, 2011, but the citizens of the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” were given a cue to grieve uncontrollably only two days later on Monday December 19 by the country’s officially tearful More...

As tributes are pouring in for Vaclav Havel, former President, playwright and the icon of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia who died on 18 December 2011, I wish to recall an extraordinary occasion when I had the opportunity to meet him and hear one of his most poignant speeches. The occasion was 30 September 1990 More...

- कुलचन्द्र गौतम/दमननाथ ढुङ्गाना/पद्मरत्न तुलाधर/ डा. वीरेन्द्र मिश्र/सुशील प्याकुरेल नेपालको नयाँ संविधानमा जातीय, क्षेत्रीय, लैङ्गिक लगायतका असमानताका सबै अवशेष समाप्त गर्ने र नेपालले अनुमोदन गरेका मानवअधिकार सम्बन्धी सबै अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय महासन्धिहरूको पूर्ण पालना गर्ने प्रतिबद्धता र सङ्कल्प गरी संविधानसभामार्फत हामीले नयाँ संविधान लेखनको मूलभूत कार्य अगाडि बढाएका हौं । यही क्रममा प्रमुख राजनीतिक दलहरूबीच भएको पछिल्लो More...

KUL CHANDRA GAUTAM The 1 November agreement breathed new life into the Comprehensive Peace Accord five years after it was signed. We spent much time in the past five years debating the differing understandings of what the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) and the Agreement on Monitorign of Management of Arms and Armies (AMMAA) meant by More...

BY KUL CHANDRA GAUTAM A group of senior Nepali Communist leaders from UCPN (Maoist) and NC-UML are going to Phnom Penh next week, to learn about Cambodia’s peace process. Going on donor-funded junkets to virtually all post-conflict countries to learn from their peace process has been a thriving cottage industry in Nepal over the past More...

BY KUL CHANDRA GAUTAM History has given the Maoists a second chance to lead the Government of Nepal in three years. The new Prime Minister, Dr Baburam Bhattarai, assumes leadership of the nation with a mixed reputation — but on the whole, with high respect and great anticipation. In public opinion polls, he scores a More...