Nepal: Himalayan Women Get Set For the Fray

Nepal goes to the polls next weekend to determine whether the country will continue with a 250-year-old monarchy or become a federal republic, with Nepal’s Maoist guerrillas becoming part of the electoral process after almost 16 years of strife and as many as 13,000 people killed.

Direct elections will select 240 seats, with 335 to be filled on the basis…