Manjushree Thapa is a writer with a number of books to her credit, both fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy, and The Lives We Have Lost: Essays and Opinions on Nepal. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, London Review of Books, and Newsweek, among others.

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Accord Issue 28: Inclusion in peace processes