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2003-10-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-16 12:01:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Somebody refresh my memory - wasn't the Queen of Nepal (at least till recently) an American?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2003-10-16 1:55:37 PM|| 2003-10-16 1:55:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I know the Princess Noor of Jordan is an Americanski.

I forgot to highlight my favorite tidbit. In Nepal if the Moaists have a recruiting fair the army violently surpesses the activity. At Harvard if the Atrmy has a recruiting fair the Moaists violently break it up. Yin and Yan - there is a subtle balance in the world.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-16 2:41:16 PM|| 2003-10-16 2:41:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I was in Nepal eighteen months ago, in Kathmandu for a few days, and trekking for a week in the Himalayas around Annapurna. Things were hotting up then, and we came across some evidence of Maoist activity in the sticks (a gutted communications building a few hundred feet from a tourists' observation tower). Soldiers patrolled all over the place, on foot and on flatbeds. Nevertheless, statistically, the risk to tourists from violence is very low (there have been Maoist robbings, some robbings perpetrated by criminals posing as Maoists, and attempts to force westerners to act as weapons mules, but no killings, AFAIK), but the whole insurgency thing understandably puts many people off planning to go. As it turned out for us, avalanches were by far the most real threat, and the Maoists were merely a nuisance (I nearly missed my flight home when they called one of their national "strikes", a shutdowner which was called off at the last minute following widespread protests that it would prevent the country's students travelling to take their exams.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-16 2:54:19 PM|| 2003-10-16 2:54:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike, Queen Komal was born in Katmandu. She seems to have survived the regicide.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-16 6:11:30 PM|| 2003-10-16 6:11:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Heavens! I went to Atlanta once.

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-16 6:33:56 PM|| 2003-10-16 6:33:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think you're thinking of Hope Whatsername, who was a socialite who became queen of Sikkim. Sikkim's the low-rent district of Bhutan. I think the Chinese ate it a few months ago.

Posted by Fred 2003-10-16 8:26:34 PM|| 2003-10-16 8:26:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't think the Nepalese monarchy has interbred much beyond the four or five families which have jostled for power for centuries. It's a truly remarkable country, and well worth a visit by anyone, once things calm down and assuming the Maoists don't succeed in their efforts to wreck the place. Kathmandu itself has changed very little during the last millennium. Wander slightly off the beaten track and you can imagine you've been carried far back in time. It's a charming small city with an extraordinarily rich character. The people are tough, friendly and entertaining, Buddhists and Hindus. And as for the scenery...

Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-16 8:37:30 PM|| 2003-10-16 8:37:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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