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Shadow Over Shangri-La
This is the true story of a woman who rebelled against her upper-caste Hindu upbringing by joining Nepal's underground democratic movement. Her stubborn fight to bring freedom to her country resulted in brutal interrogation and eight months by the Nepalese government. mercilessly and left to die, Durga was sustained by a profound spiritual consciousness. She won the confidence and love of her fellow inmates, and became their source of strength. The petitions of people around the world earned Durga her freedom. She fled to the United States, where she completed her education and fell in love with Anthony Willett, a young Englishman she had met in Nepal.
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354 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1996
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July 17, 2020
So this Nepali figure gets incarcerated for... very petty reasons. Well, nonono, the photos say she was imprisoned frequently "for pro-democracy activities."
Who am I to say "well, that is where the evidence indicates things point?"
That was what I drew from the 353 pages with the index which you may behold at your leisure.
I couldn't ascertain from flipping through for the longest what on earth the problem could possibly be. Maybe that she could not come to a point? That it's so difficult to ascertain what Durga Pokrel's conclusion is? That there was, in fact, no QED?
Perhaps my complete puzzlement with the book I present to you comes from my own circumstances ranting about topology and combinatorics in the other window.
It seems that the others who have read this before me have concluded this is a Women's Lit book.
Grargh. I found it repulsive in that regard.
So, she couldn't ask any of her friends to come to bail her out...?
It looks like I just didn't understand the circumstances that clearly.
It feels like I opened this up before and gave up on it. Since it was published in 1996 when I was either six or seven [my birthday's in May], there is a distinct possibility.
Who am I to say "well, that is where the evidence indicates things point?"
That was what I drew from the 353 pages with the index which you may behold at your leisure.
I couldn't ascertain from flipping through for the longest what on earth the problem could possibly be. Maybe that she could not come to a point? That it's so difficult to ascertain what Durga Pokrel's conclusion is? That there was, in fact, no QED?
Perhaps my complete puzzlement with the book I present to you comes from my own circumstances ranting about topology and combinatorics in the other window.
It seems that the others who have read this before me have concluded this is a Women's Lit book.
Grargh. I found it repulsive in that regard.
So, she couldn't ask any of her friends to come to bail her out...?
It looks like I just didn't understand the circumstances that clearly.
It feels like I opened this up before and gave up on it. Since it was published in 1996 when I was either six or seven [my birthday's in May], there is a distinct possibility.
November 8, 2014
Who abridged(censored) the later edition?
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