BARBARA NIMRI AZIZ Nepalis perhaps unique in the world of nations today
with its three top public offices occupied by women: Bidhya Devi
Bhandari is president; Sushila Karki is
chief justice; and Onsari Gharti Magar is speaker of Nepal’s parliament.
This record is particularly noteworthy in a fledgling democracy, a
new Asian republic that since its founding in 2008, has been by members
ofNepal’s communist and Maoist parties.
