No one won, everyone lost
Nepalis have never before faced such deprivation and insecurity.
ANALYSIS by RAJENDRA DAHAL
September 6-12, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Hot spot
Two world leaders most conspicuous by their absence at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg this week-as far as we were concerned-were the president…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Distant neighbours
Who will we take lessons from in forging a new, updated relationship with India: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or Sikkim?
Guest Column by KANAK MANI DIXIT
Fighting by the rules
General Pyar Jung Thapa takes over as Chief of Army Staff next week. He faces the challenge of fighting the Maoists without sullying the image of the army.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
History repeated as farce
In response to a specific request from the state law and order restoration council and in the interest of responsible journalism, we are pleased…
Nation
Improved water mills improve lives
The wooden paddles were replaced with this metal turbine to triple his mill's efficiency.
MADHUSUDHAN GURAGAIN in KAVRE
Poll vault
It's hard defending democracy when those who want polls aren't nearly as fired up as those who don't.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
Business
"Nepal needs fibre infrastructure."
What makes the Internet work? Ask Bill Woodcock, one of those who work behind the scenes to make this global brain tick.
History
"The ball is in the king’s court."
The stress of incarceration is beginning to tell on BP Koirala in these pages from his diary.
Review
Learning Nepali the Klingon way
A new CD-ROM teaches you to ask in Nepali where the beach is.
MARK TURIN
Culture
Love, books, and food in the Himalaya
In Thamel, a Korean couple makes a literary and gastronomic connection between their home country and Nepal.
RAMYATA LIMBU
Book Worm
Truth, Love and a Little Malice- An Autobiography
Khushwant Singh Ravi Dayal and Viking Penguin India, New Delhi, 2002 Rs 720 In a career spanning over five decades as writer, editor,…
Power, Politics, and the People
Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism Partha Sarathi Gupta Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2002 Rs 1,240 Partha Sarathi Gupta was an…
Leadership and Power
Ethical Explorations SK Chakraborty, Pradip Bhattacharya, eds Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002 Rs 952 The essays in this volume examine…
Castes of Mind
Colonialism and the Making of Modern India Nicholas B Dirks Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2002 Dirks argues that caste is neither an unchanged…
Nepali Society
Heritage
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Speaking in tongues
Despite the agreement to grant convertibility to the Yuan two months ago, a language barrier prevents Nepali traders from dealing in the Chinese…
Health to the people
A new Health Sector Strategy identifies safe motherhood and family planning, child heath, the control of communicable diseases and strengthening…
High-flying defaulters
It is old news that the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation is in the red. But it looks like the corporation won't take more than its fair share of…
Ill-gotten gains
Yet another list has been made public. The Judicial Investigation Commission on Property has put out the names of people who have yet to…
Business Briefs
Silver lining
The economy may be a shambles, industry may be struggling, but Nepal Lever Limited weathered the turbulence of the past year by achieving 25…
Letters
The messenger
Although your editorial "Bloody Well Right" (#109) tried to portray certain weak spots in the Nepali media, it failed to highlight a more…
Hansa
I usually like CK Lal's columns, they are original and insightful analyses of the present social phenomena in Nepal. But I had fundamental…
Self-empowerment
After reading “Trading power” (#108) by Binod Bhattarai, it struck me that Nepalis must get over the mindset that we always need to dance to the…
In this issue:
No one won, everyone lost | Hot Spot | Editorial: Distant neighbours | Fighting by the rules | Improved water mills improve lives | One year later | One year after September 11, the story is still the same | Poll vault | Waving the flag | The end of the end of history | In defence of Sharia | Holes in China’s social safety net | A two-state solution? | “We can also start a movement.” | “The ball is in the king’s court.” | Learning Nepali the Klingon way | History repeated as farce