I had written this post almost two years. And I felt that in the midst of the Prashant Tamang -RJ Nitin controversy this one finds some relevance again. But this one's less controversial for I have written about my friends who can take humour (unlike Tamang's fans! And do not...

Around the same time a year ago I was in Nepal. The idea was to get a first hand insight into the mind of Nepal's Maoist ideologue, the then 'enigmatic' Pushpa Kamal Dahal or Prachanda. In Nepalese 'Prachanda' means the 'extreme; The adjective that Dahal took to drive a decade...