The east is red
A firsthand account of the insurgency from Sankhuwasabha district.
MOHAN MAINALI in KHANDBARI
July 5-11, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Animated suspension
All this is getting to be like one of those movies where you can choose the plot as you go along. There are choices we will make in the months…
Columns
Guest Column by SAGAR SJB RANA
Deuba was given no choice
The battle against the terrorists shouldn't get bogged down in politics.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The dove’s bookshelf
It's time we all did more reading and less war-mongering.
State Of The State by CK LAL
Lessons from another emergency
The Right to Freedom is enshrined in Clause 12 of Part 3 of the Constitution of Kingdom of Nepal (1990).
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Crooks R Us
Being a country that is now filing for bankruptcy protection, Nepal is always ready to continue providing the Americans with technical…
Nation
Surrealist history on canvas
Hari Prasad Sharma lives in the past. He can imagine in minute detail what community life in a Patan baha might have been like 400 years ago…
"I am a Badi."
Badi women must now contend with vigilante 'Neighbourhood Improvement Committees' and the spillover effects of the insurgency.
TRISHNA GURUNG in DANG
Literature
Yak Yeti Yak
Arts
Art for art’s sake
It is a wonderful way of using art to support art. The newly founded Jasutara Art Foundation for children put on an art exhibition at the NAFA…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
No more witch hunts
At a recent party convention in Mahottari, UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal warned party workers that the UML would expel any party…
The science of prediction
On average, some 300 people die every year in Nepal as a result of monsoon floods. The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology says that while…
Satellites to the rescue
The search continues for the Asian Airlines MI 17 helicopter that disappeared over a month ago with 10 people on board, even as speculation…
Money for rights
The British Embassy announced this week that it will provide assistance worth more than Rs 6 million for human rights work in Nepal. The money…
One Congress too many
The Election Commission is having a tough time figuring out which is the real Congress. One of the reasons is that the three commissioners have…
More Indians
First, the good news. For the first time since June last year, the number of Indian tourists has gone up-doubled, in fact. Arrivals were 8,480…
Letters
Pedagogy of the opressed
Your coverage of Nepal's failed education ("Mass inferioity complex" and "Missing children", #99) it shows that failing more than 70 percent of…
Nun visa
I was delighted today by a very pleasant surprise. I went to extend my tourist visa and instead of it being $50, I found the charge had been…
Miracles
I was recently reading an article about scenario planning in South Africa in the early 1990s shortly after the release of Nelson Mandela and the…
Global warning
Your article (“Meltdown”, Nepali Times, #100) indicates that if the rich countries were to reduce CO2 emissions (to the level of Kyoto…
#100
Twenty years ago, the only reason to read The Rising Nepal on Fridays was to find Kunda Dixit's Funny Side Up satire column. Two decades later,…
Life after football
I would like to add a few suggestions to Kunda's Dixit's proposal ("Life after football", #100) to stop players from pulling opponents' jerseys.…
In this issue:
The east is red |AnimatedSuspension |Editorial: Lessons from another emergency |Deuba was given no choice |“I am a Badi.” |The dove’s bookshelf |Where are you, Tulsi Giri? |The Modern King of a New Nepal |A mindful monarch |Monarchy in a time of change | Royal soundbites | Return to roots | Maoists in Bengal | Bhairav Aryal II | Lalupate | Crooks R Us