An Elegy for Democracy

Forget Kathmandu, by Manjushree Thapa

"best selling study of the tangled politics of Nepal... unprecedented unflinching look at Nepal's past and present, and easily among the finest works of non-fiction from contemporary South Asia ... the point of view of a history dweller rather than a history broker .. it is at once the celebration of the power of the literary monologue and a cry of outrage at the reality in which the present Nepali state and society are trapped" Nepali Times


"History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything. Jeannette Winterson

Read this book! I am!! its GREAT. No, you are wrong! it is an easy read!

Writing in the Flavors Cafe, with a monsoon type of rainstorm happening on the tin roof above and lightening flashes accompany thunderous rolls .... wonder when I can go home on my bike with computer in back pack!!

hugs, Dyane