August 30 - September 5, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Bloody well right
It is when your country starts making it regularly to the News Bar on CNN that you know it has hit the big time. In the past year, Nepal has…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Bonus miles for Deuba
If a leader on the verge of boarding a plane is unaware of his destination, he deserves our sympathy, not criticism
Guest Column by BHARAT UPRETY
Beyond Article 127
A no-poll situation will benefit those who have never had much affection for the present constitution and multiparty democracy
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Botanical Bust Enhancement
The quest for human perfection is as old as humanity itself. Ever since our early cave-dwelling ancestors discovered that squeezing prehistoric…
Nation
Stolen sanctity and sponsored sacrilege
Artefacts like the stolen Dipankar and sites like Lumbini or Kushinagar belong primarily to the faithful, not the state.
DIPAK GYAWALI
CIAA to target big fish
CIAA Chief Suryanath Upadhyaya has begun to come under a new kind of "pressure". This time, his phones at home and work are ringing off the…
BINOD BHATTARAI
Giving micro-credit where it’s due
Away from the glare of national politics, a quiet rural revolution in microfinance is on in the tarai.
ANI RUDRA SILWAL in DUMKIBAS
Business
Not banking on reforms
Until some years ago, everyone in Nepal wanted to run a private bank. They modernised banking, made customer service more efficient, and a…
Literature
Sudha Tripathi
In the essay below, Sudha Tripathi expresses a common sentiment among first-generation migrants to Kathmandu: love and nostalgia for a village…
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Book Worm
The Buddha’s Art of Healing - Tibetan Paintings Rediscovered
John F Avdeon, Fernand Meyer, ND Bolsokhoeva, KM Gerasimova, Tamdin S Bradley Rizzoli, New York, 1998 Rs 1,450 This lavishly illustrated book…
A Simple Monk
Tom Morgan, ed New World Library, California, 2001 Rs 2,765 This new visual biography of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, contains…
The Essence of Buddhism
Roy Gillett Caxton Editions, London, 2001 Rs 720 Who wants to be unhappy? We spend most of our lives trying to avoid it, but can we ever…
Nepali Society
Cry baby
People might call him a crybaby but 22-year-old Prakash Poudel doesn't mind. Instead, the third year BBS student from Dharan bawls his heart out…
Travel
Economy
Not banking on reforms
Until some years ago, everyone in Nepal wanted to run a private bank. They modernised banking, made customer service more efficient, and a…
From The Nepali Press
Maoist dissident speaks out
Excerpts from an interview with Mukti Pradhan, dissident central committee member, Maoist "people's government". Budhabar, 21 August
The scale of corruption
Excerpts of an interview with Devendra Raj Pandey, president of Transparency International in Nepal Deshantar, 25 August
Domestic Brief
Twin Otters still safe
Even though more Twin Otter aircraft have been lost in accidents in Nepal in the past 15 years than any other aircraft type, aviation experts…
Three men and a tree
Since May, the three members of the Election Commission have been poring over files trying to decide which faction of the Nepali Congress gets…
Courting controversy in Belgium
Nepal's bid to buy 5.56 mm assault rifles from Belgium's Fabrique Nationale (FN), has become controversial in Brussels, leading to the…
Business Briefs
Surya Nepal
The Rana Group, joint venture partners of the Kolkata-based ITC, has sold 10 percent of its shares in Surya Tobacco to become a subsidiary of…
RA sells Nepal package in Dubai
In an effort to boost passenger traffic from Dubai to Kathmandu, Royal Nepal Airlines is offering a seven-day package for $800 until 31 October.…
Staedtler’s range
Papermat Pen Industries has begun marketing Staedtler's new Lumocolor range of the company says are "multi-talented" pens and markers. The…
Accounting aide
Sustainable Solutions, Nepal and Cognito Software of New Zealand have begun selling a newly-developed accounting software, which the promoters…
Letters
Buddha of Suburbia
Thanks to CK Lal and Nepali Times ("Disadvantaged abroad", #108) for drawing attention to the rampant divisions in Nepali society that are…
Power hungry
It baffles many of us why we have failed to sign even a single treaty with India to sell power ("Trading Power", #108)? Isn't India a power…
In this issue:
H is for helicopter | CIAA to target big fish | Bloody well right | Editorial: Bonus miles for Deuba | Beyond Article 127 | Stolen sanctity and sponsored sacrilege | Giving micro-credit where it’s due | The Mestizo Mall | Vice precedents | Not banking on reforms | Another Manang | Johannesburg junction | Three cheers for Brazil | Maoists fight on in the Philippines | Maoist dissident speaks out | Sudha Tripathi | Botanical Bust Enhancement | Cry baby