Sneha Ghimire

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[Kalam Weekly @WeeklyKalam]

Elections concluded peacefully and fairly on March 5 with a 60 percent voter turnout. Today, as results begin to come in, we discuss what the new political arrangement will look like and the tasks it faces. Read the full analysis here 👇

https://t.co/s1w7VQ8xWn

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Update: we now know who Nepal's next PM is - a 73 year old grandmother called Sushila Karki - and it further undermines the "color revolution" theory.

In fact her profile couldn't possibly be more badass:
- Former Chief Justice until she got impeached in 2017 for going head on against the system to fight corruption
- Old school revolutionary: she participated in the 1990 People's Movement that overthrew Nepal's monarchy and was imprisoned for it
- Zero Western connections: her entire education was in Nepal and India. No Harvard, no Yale, no Soros scholarships, no Western NGO work. Nothing.
- Her husband is also a revolutionary who hijacked a Royal Nepal Airlines flight in 1973 with Bollywood actress Mala Sinha on board, stealing 3 million rupees to fund the armed struggle against Nepal's monarchy. He served time in Indian prison and proudly wrote a book called 'Plane Rebellion' about it.
- The selection process was pure chaos: protesters chose her on Discord - the gaming chat app - which is much more consistent with an organic, unpredictable movement than with a carefully stage-managed transition.
- Her mandate is to organize a proper fair election process within 6 months

So to sum up: Nepal's "Gen Z" youth chose a 73-year-old grandmother whose entire biography screams "indigenous Nepali resistance", whose husband hijacked planes, who went to jail fighting the monarchy, was impeached fighting corruption, who has zero Western connections, and whose main promise is to hold elections and leave. And they chose her transparently on Discord.

How you see "color revolution" there frankly escapes me. That lady is nobody's puppet.

I was genuinely disappointed to see so many people, including good folks who I respect, reflexively scream "color revolution" mere hours after the protest movement started, based on the flimsiest scraps of conjecture and guilt-by-association nonsense.

It's pretty irresponsible: either you have actual proof - and then fine, present it clearly - but if all you have is "they used English on some signs," or some three-degrees-removed guilt-by-association nonsense, then don't, just don't.

Not only you yourself lose credibility but you risk undermining actual resistance to imperialism - like the boy who cries wolf, if you call everything a color revolution then nothing is. And worse, you risk harming genuine revolutionary movements of the kind you claim to support: because of your accusations they now have to waste precious energy defending their legitimacy against smears from people who should be their comrades, which is pretty ironic... The actual "CIA" whose hand you see everywhere must be laughing their asses off in Langley.

It also screams of a pretty ugly lack of self-awareness when you automatically assume that folks in the Global South can't have agency and protest their own conditions without CIA help, or that everything in the world revolves around what America is doing - this is itself a form of the imperialism you pretend to fight.

Long story short: I know this is social media but there still ought to be a duty of care before you throw around accusations. At the very minimum ask yourself if what you're citing would constitute proof beyond reasonable doubt, or if it's just circumstantial nonsense that wouldn't convince anyone who wasn't already predisposed to believe it.

[AirlineGuy @GuyAirline]

I unconditionally condemn looting+burning of #Bhatbhateni stores. Totally wrong.

But let's not talk as if Min B Gurung is a saint. He was as crooked as they come:
-avoided billions in VAT
-avoided crores in income tax
-paid jr. workers below minimum wage
-Lalita Niwas scam

[Pranaya Rana @inkthink]

Around the Chakrapath/Maharajgunj area, most protesters aren't GenZ. They are older men, many of whom seem to know where and how to attack. I don't believe GenZ would be murdering police with iron rods, wooden beams and khukuris.

[Pranaya Rana @inkthink]

Today I spoke to dozens of protesters. Most of them were not GenZ. All of them were angry. But that anger was misdirected. I pulled three journalists from a van that a mob was trying to burn with them inside. "Sab patrakar jhole ho," they kept saying.

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

Just watched laapataa ladies and no, people are good actually

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

significant moments in the life of my mother is the only thing I've ever read perfectly encapsulates the mother-daughter relationship. The vibes are immaculate. I will not be explain.

[Ramki @ramkid]

The meter said 23 rupees. Leena had a few 500s, a 100, and a 20 in her wallet. No coins. The autowala didn't want to fork out change for a 100. He took the 20 rupee note and said in his best Shahrukh impression, 'Kaun kambakht teen rupaye aur kamane ke liye dhandha karta hai?'. +

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@babaubermensch Lindemann. That, or Jacobs Creek

[Nepali Times @NepaliTimes]

Who were the Charitraheen Cheli?
Sajana Baral on the clandestine feminist movement that denounced Nepal’s patriarchal order.

https://t.co/36tSUagYUg

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@NirvikThapa Omg the mullet

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Just as including Das Kapital in a course syllabus does not turn a university and its faculty and students into Marxists, it is absurd to equate the reading of Savarkar or Golwalkar with “saffronisation”.

This is a culture of intolerance. | Kuldeep Kumar

https://t.co/97KKnHXhR5

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@itsmedhakumar But which bird is the most useful

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@sweatharddd That is, in actual fact, what one calls a discerning palate

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@babaubermensch Okay wait what happened pls tell

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

Reasons climate change matters my dudes

[The Kathmandu Post @kathmandupost]

Wildfire burns 700 hectares of forest cover in Manang

The fire that started two months ago is spreading rapidly destroying forest resources and risking wildlife inside Annapurna Conservation Area.
https://t.co/LRVqbFP35D — by Aash Gurung

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

@sweatharddd It's been like 3 hours

[Sneha Ghimire @boref_]

Me: KB, conversations with you require an aptitude for geometry.

@sweatharddd: Sneha, conversation with you requires a mastery of yoga.

I still think it's the sweetest thing she's ever said to me.