Disaster unpreparedness
The response to this week's floods show our disaster management is a disaster.
BINOD BHATTARAI
July 26 - August 1, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Apres nous le deluge
This week's rains and floods were a metaphor for the crisis battering this country. While nothing can be done about mother nature, there is…
Columns
Guest Column by NORU LAMA SHERPA
Bahuns and the Nepali state (revisited)
It is unfair to blame everything on bahuns, or blame every bahun of wrong doing.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
it’s a small world
The world is getting pretty cosy. Some of the time that's good, at others it isn't.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Economic hara-kiri
One move has reversed the most important economic gains of the past decade.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Do we have the guts?
Before I forget, it is my duty as a responsible citizen to warn all minors that, as per a statutory requirement of the Bored of Censors, this…
Nation
One week in Rolpa
The people of Rolpa desperately need help. Not to fight the Maoists, but to give the Maoists nothing to fight about
KASHISH DAS SHRESTHA in GHARTIGAUN
What do the Maoists want this time?
The Maoists have shown new political flexibility. The political parties must respond in kind.
SHYAM SHRESTHA
No-go on green
The new traffic lights were supposed to make Kathmandu traffic more organised. But it has got worse. Why?
RAMYATA LIMBU
Business
Remittance economy
It's a good thing that the laws of economics don't always work. If they did, the Nepali economy would have crumbled after the disastrous 2001/02…
KIRAN NEPAL
History
"The problems that the country faces require statesmanship."
BP welcomes the government's decision to try him and Ganesh Man Singh because he says it will at least end the period of uncertainty in prison.
Leisure
I spa, you spa
There's plain old unwinding, and then there's the spa. It's so decadently feel-good, you'll want to be burnt out on a regular basis.
jANAKI GURUNG
Yak Yeti Yak
Arts
Expression of a grieving mind
Shashikala Tiwari's stunning current show, entitled Shunya man ka sthabdha aankha haru (The bewildered eyes of a grieving mind), is a tribute to…
SOPHIA PANDE
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Standstill
Over a week after the term of the local government bodies expired, their future remains uncertain, what with the Deuba government unwilling to…
Once bitten
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba isn't taking chances. Following the breakdown of the third round of talks with the Maoists last year, when the…
State of Nepal
Finally, some insightful reading on Nepal. State of Nepal, a collection of sixteen essays by 14 Nepalis, one Nepali-Indian, and one Indian was…
A small world
Young Danish students will labour for one day in Denmark and send their earnings to aid in the education of Kamaiya children. Eleven school-age…
Localise, says Court
The Supreme Court Wednesday issued an injunction against the government decision last week to dissolve elected local councils. So far, the…
Business Briefs
Monetary policy
In accordance with the new Nepal Rastra Bank law, the central bank has loosened up monetary policy. This is an extension of its earlier decision…
Supply credit
The Laxmi Bank Ltd, the youngest commercial bank, has launched a new scheme to finance the working capital requirements of small and mid-sized…
Letters
Deja who?
Your editorial "Act locally" (#103) was spot on. Great job. Here is a list of what faces us hapless Nepalis 12 years later: 1. A partyless Prime…
Time for times
The hectic schedule here does not give us much time, but when it comes to news from Nepal then it is www.nepalitimes.com that we all await. This…
Beware
We are writing to you to publicise the plight of Nepalis in detention at a refugee centre near Melbourne so that others will not be victims.…
Misogyny
Thanks to Manjushree Thapa's "Misogyny amid the Intellectuals" (# 103). It is touching and at the same time inspiring. She has portrayed a real…
In this issue:
Disaster unpreparedness | Apres Nous Le Deluge | Editorial: What do the Maoists want this time? | Bahuns and the Nepali state (revisited) | Peace will only return when there is a genuine effort to redress past wrongs. | It’s a small world | Covering up | Economic hara-kiri | Remittance economy | The boundaries of anti-Semitism | Wanted: a new model | Burma’s next problem | Paper forests | “The problems that the country faces require statesmanship.” | Do we have the guts?