IN SOME countries, feminists stage impassioned but impotent protests outside beauty pageants. In Nepal, the women of the new Maoist regime had a more effective solution: shut down the city where it was going to be held.
Incensed that their brave new world was being debased by something as tawdry and bourgeois as the Miss Nepal competition, they simply made it impossible for the organisers to press ahead with plans to stage the show in Katmandu. (
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Mao-power--blocks-Miss.4490004.jp)
Protests continue in capital over cut in ritual funds
KATHMANDU, Sept 21 - Local communities in Kathmandu took to streets for the second day on Sunday saying that the government disregarded their culture by slashing the funds in the new budget for rituals in cultural festivals including Indrajatra and Dashain. (Courtesy: www.kantipuronline.com)
