NEPAL. Kathmandu. 2007. The Maoist supreme leader Comrade Prachanda (real name Pushpa Kamal Dahal), in sunglasses. At Ratna Park, the Maoists organised a memorial service for 27 Maoists who were killed in the town of Gaur, when Madhesis (southern Nepalese from the Terai belt) and Maoists clashed. Big public Maoist-organised rallies like these in the heart of Kathmandu would have been unthinkable one year ago.