Sick of war
Western Nepal faces a food emergency and a health emergency. Women and children are affected the most.
ARUNA UPRETY in DOTI
July 19-25, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Act locally
So, what the Maoists started with their destruction of one-third of all VDCs in the country, this government has finished off. It has gone ahead…
Columns
Guest Column by PUSKAR GAUTAM
Nothing is what it seems
There is more than meets the eye in Kathmandu these days.
Economic Sense by MEGH RANJANI RAI
Letter from Black Mesa
Huck Greyeyes looked like us, and he prayed like us.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Irony, Steel and Industriousness
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but we have just received a piece of breaking news that the All-Nepal Association for Satire, Parody…
Nation
"The answer is no."
In a candid interview with the Nepali Times, Ken Ohashi, World Bank director in Kathmandu, discusses his concerns about budgetery support, banking reforms, decentralisation, and the Bank's priorities.
Rajbiraj revisited
The tarai town that missed the bus. Is a revival possible?
PRASHANT JHA in RAJBIRAJ
One great leap forward, two leaps back?
The Maoists have used the political confusion in Kathmandu to re-strategise their "forward leap". But there may be factors they haven't taken into account.
PUSKAR GAUTAM
Literature
Misogny amid the 'Intellectuals'
Like most Nepali women writers, activists, doctors, lawyers, professionals, I know that no matter what my achievement, I too can be cut down to size by name-calling and insinuation.
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Yak Yeti Yak
Heritage
The red palace
The history of Lal Darbar is like a fairy tale with legends, rumours of gold, and resident ghosts.
SOPHIA PANDE
Arts
Nepal's best art
Bold, stunning colours, all manner of textures and thought-provoking messages. All this and more awaits you at the current show at the Srijana…
Sports
Girls' goal
Our under-16 girls are off to play competitive football in Norway. Back home, they need a budget, events and an audience.
KASHISH DAS SHRESTHA
Nepali Society
Meera's world
Next time you drive up Kupondole towards Patan, look at some of the classy handicraft shopfronts on either side of the road and you may just see…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
South and North
It is still as King Prithvi Narayan Shah said: Nepal is a yam between two stones. This week, his descendant, King Gyanendra has completed…
Spinal drive
On 14 July, after driving for two days over 1,200 km from Kathmandu to Dhaka in a VW Beetle, editor of Himal South Asian magazine Kanak Mani…
Formet MP missing after 'arrest'
In an appeal to the National Human Rights Commission dated 17 July, the family of Tsewang Lama, former MP from Humla, has asked the commission…
Constituency update
The Constituency Delineation Commission has reduced the number of constituencies in Palpa to two from the previous three, and in Jhapa the…
No grass, no roots
The Royal Nepal Army headquarters has set up a human rights branch under the Department of the Adjutant General to look into adherence to or…
Humane image
The Royal Nepal Army headquarters has set up a human rights branch under the Department of the Adjutant General to look into adherence to or…
Matching donations for HIV
The Save the Children (UK) country office says that for each donation made by an individual Nepali donor to PRERANA, an NGO initiated in 1997 by…
Business Briefs
Paid vacation
Nepal Tourism Board and the tourism industry department at the ministry are pushing to activate a 1998-idea to send government officials on…
NRB directives
The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has issued new directives to govern the operations of 34 co-operatives with permission that have been permitted to…
NBL reforms
The Bank of Scotland of which the ICC Bank is part began work aimed at turning around the Nepal Bank Limited this week. The management…
ADB/N stats
The Agricultural Development Bank Nepal (ADB/N)-a government-run bank whose books are to be scrutinised by foreign auditors this year-reports…
China aid
China has announced it is giving Rs 780 million for three projects in Nepal-the 18 km Rasuwa-Syabrubesi road to the Tibetan border, a hospital…
Letters
Tree poachers
Further to Lhakpa Sherpa's article on the 25th anniversary of the Sagarmatha National Park ("Sagarmatha National Park turns 25", #99), I offer…
Arsenic
We are engineers at the Department of Water Supply & Sewerage (DWSS), and were glad to read “Poisoned Wells” by Avidit Acharya (#102). We would…
Kangresis
I read the opinion piece by Dr Ram Sharan Mahat ("Cheques and balances", #100) and then Sagar SJB Rana's rebuttal ("Deuba was given no choice",…
Hara kiri
Your editorial "D?j? vu" (#102) laments the slow choking death of democracy in Nepal. Yes, the sovereignty lies with the people, however, our…
More holiday
In case the powers-that-be missed it, buried in Under My Hat ("Crooks R Us", #101) was a serious point. A barb aimed at those yes-men…
In this issue:
Sick of war | Act Locally | Editorial: Thai lessons | One great leap forward, two leaps back? | Rajbiraj revisited | India’s Maoists | There is peace in western Nepal, a deathly peace. | The return of the spooks | Nothing is what it seems | “Dissolving local councils is a serious setback…” | Modern, Muslim Turkey | No final solutions | Historical present | Re-occupying Palestine | Children in war | Misogyny amid the ‘Intellectuals’ | Letter from Black Mesa | Irony, Steel and Industriousness