17.1.11

Monday Backgrounder: Nepal’s Democracy Drama


Monday Backgrounder is a weekly feature that discusses a new topic every week giving the reader basic knowledge about the subject so that you can pretend to know things without reading a newspaper. With UN Mission in Nepal being kicked out this week, it seems an appropriate time to discuss what has been going on in the Himalayan country.

If you haven’t read my previous post on Nepal’s democratic crisis, one of the worst political dramas of the last decade in South Asia, shame on you. Anyways, I forgive you and just to be comprehensive here are the gory details of what has been going in the country.

5.1.11

Top 10 Insanities of 2010 World Politics



Looking for an appropriate close to 2010, I played this mental game: what word comes to my mind when I think about global politics in this year? And the answer came back- insanity. Repeatedly our so-called global leaders kept on making unbelievably stupid mistakes that a slightly below-average eighth-grader would laugh over. Some were circumstantial, some can be blamed on alcohol and volcanoes (See #3. McChrystal’s Folly) but some were so deliberately stupid that we would only be able to explain them to our grandchildren with a shrug and we-were-high defense.

So here are your Top 10 Insanities of 2010 World Politics: Click here or scroll down.