Another week of disappointing news from the Subcontinent.

Baburam Bhattarai, speaking, is Nepal's new Prime Minister. Credit: The Advocacy Group.

Life moves fast. News moves faster. Nepal’s parliament elected Baburam Bhattarai its new Prime Minister on August 28. Bhattarai is a prominent member of the country’s Maoist party; despite Bhattarai’s verbal commitment to a “national unity government,” Nepali Congress and Unified Marxist Leninist party members do not trust him or his party.

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