India-Nepal Border

On the Road Again

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July 31st 2012
I didn’t realize that I hadn’t been feeling like myself until I suddenly felt like myself again. I was somewhere in rural northeastern India, on an overnight train heading towards the India-Nepal border. As I woke up, I glimpsed out the window and caught a view of the sun rising over endless rice paddies and a handful of water buffalo wading neck-deep in a waterhole. The tranquility of the ima ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Borderlands

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more