my favs are Chetan karki and Pradeep Giri...but I am also big fan of Ganesh Raj Sharma for his clarity if thoughts, his candid expression and in his own words "madhyam panki to dhaar" ....I am just wondering where are these guys amid this disgusting chaos of madenly crowd....

lets explore our best nepalese thinkers and speakers...whom do you like to watch and listen talking.....

Here is one more announcement.

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One more announcement. A lawyer and a good friend of mine, Dinesh Tripathi, will be talking about challenges and opportunities for the Constitutional Assembly. Tomorrow in New York.


Building Constitutional Democracy in Nepal - Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Dinesh Tripathi, LL.M

Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Time: 7 - 8:30 PM
Location: 500 East 63rd street, Symposium (38th floor), New York

Synopsis

Dinesh Tripathi, LL.M, a well known lawyer of Supreme courts of Nepal, and human rights activist will present his views on upcoming Constitutional Assembly elections, its challenges and opportunities. As Nepal is going through a very critical phase in History, Mr. Tripathi will analyze the current complexities in Nepali politics. Topics of discussion would be agendas of new constitution making such as rights and liberty of people, future of monarchy, empowerment of marginalized group and communities, inclusive democracy and restructuring of state as well as the right to vote for Nepalese Diaspora in upcoming constituent assembly election.
As an expert on constitutional and International human rights Law, Mr. Tripathi will also address federalism, Participatory democracy, proportional representation as well as rights of ethnic groups and minorities.
This is going to be an interactive discussion on Nepal's peace process and moving forward through Constitutional Assembly Election. Come prepared to discuss on challenges and opportunities of Nepal's constitution building process.
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I do not have that much of oppourtunity to personally interact with any leaders but on basis of how I have heard, Pradip Giri is obviously the best. I find Hridayesh Tripathy, and Sambhu Thapa also very good in orating ability.

Invitation to a workshop in Columbia University this Friday.

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SIPA, Columbia University
Invites you to a
Workshop:

“Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Process and the Building of a Democratic State in Nepal”


Hosted by Prof. Jenik Radon


Date: Friday, April 13, 2007
Time: 1:30 – 6:30 pm
Venue: Columbia University Law School
435 West 116th Street at Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
Room JG-101

Exactly one year after the signing of the 12 point agreement reached between the Maoists and the Seven Party Alliance the two sides signed a comprehensive peace agreement on November 16, 2006. The events that led to this accord were launched by the people’s movement in April 2006 and are truly historic. With the signing of the agreement, the cease fire became permanent and finally the UN assisted with the arms management - two key issues that leveled the ground for implementing the peace agreement and for the peaceful construction of a stable democracy in Nepal.

Another key issue was the passing of the Nepal Citizenship Act 2006, whereby all those born in Nepal before the second week of April 1990 are to be given citizenship under certain conditions. This would help thousands of formerly stateless people to exercise their rights and to fulfill their obligations as citizens of Nepal.

However, there are many challenges the Nepalese people have to tackle before and also after the elections to the Constituent Assembly officially still set for June 2007. With an interim parliament and an interim constitution in place, the country is still facing serious questions as to how to provide for inclusion and equal representation of all ethnic and other groups, clarify the separation of powers, and many more issues.

In order to discuss and find solutions for some of these challenges we cordially invite you to join us for the first of a series of workshops entitled “Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Process and the Building of a Democratic State in Nepal”. Our goal is to analyze some of these questions, how they impact the Nepalese people and to draft working papers on these issues so as to contribute to the democracy process in Nepal.

As we are aiming for a concentrated and result-oriented working seminar, we encourage people truly committed to the cause of the democracy process in Nepal to sign up for this workshop.

Since there will be a limited number of seats, please RSVP to
Jasmine Henz (jh2698@columbia.edu)

and for questions, please contact
Prof. Jenik Radon (jr2218@columbia.edu)
or Jasmine Henz (jh2698@columbia.edu).
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