There may be a silver lining in the Maoist movement. Everybody will agree that: the government is completely dysfunctional, politicians from all…
The Central Bank has cited the July-August work disruption in financial institutions as reason for low revenue collection and decline in…
The assumption that all village life is poverty, and candy is welcome relief for the downtrodden, is it not akin to the whole attitude behind foreign aid?
Nepal is about to auction off its first private mobile telephone licence. Nepalis finally have a chance to get cheap and efficient cell-phones. Or do they?
Hundreds of Nepali women are waiting to join their husbands in the United States. The humiliation of visa procedures has made many of them give up hopes of a normal married life.
The wooden images of Shiva and Parvati rest on the window rail, looking out over the passing scene in a manner suggesting interest in all they…
Self-deception is a technique of self-preservation. When faced with extremely harsh realities, the human mind lapses into a make-believe world…
That the biggest disaster of all doesn't come from the sky, the sea or the earth, but from poverty.
The debate heats up as a new bill a waits parliamentary debate, and it divides the Newar community
Saptahik Bimarsa, 29 September
Nepal Grindlays Bank has commissioned five new full-service Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in Kathmandu and Pokhara. Grindlays Access Cards…
By now, it has become common to find world references in Nepali literature. Still, writers who don't use obviously "Nepali" images can be…
I would like to use your paper to voice my concern over the subject matter of the BBC's South Asia debate. The United Nations is busy trying to…
There are 850 species of birds found in Nepal, more than the entire North American continent, and bird watchers from around the world are…
Universal Trading Corporation has been appointed the wholesale distributor of the Black & Decker range of appliances in Nepal. The US-based…
The wife of the captain who piloted a domestic airliner that crashed last year has not yet received her insurance money.
This week-long exhibition of photographs shows that portering is a profession that deserves respect as well as sympathy from those who employ…
Following a petition by three activist groups seeking annulment of a recent Nepal-India agreement that allows Indian vehicle imports on the…
Autumn is here, and Nepali peasantry is taking a break from back-breaking work. Planting and weeding over, the golden terraces sway with a heavy…
Many listeners in Nepal who tuned in to the BBC's World Today re-broadcast from Radio Sagarmatha FM 102.4 were shocked to hear an e-mail letter…
Kishor Nepal in Naya Sadak, 29 September
As you rightly argue in your editorial "Fiddling while Dolpo burns" (#11) the answer to the Maoist problem lies in Kathmandu, not in western…
Punarjagaran, 26 September
TU sociologist Dr Krishna Bahadur Bhattachan (left) battles it out with TU historian Dr Surendra K.C. on the definition of "janjati".
