Issue #135

A beaming Sukmit Gurung walks offstage to a rousing ovation after her performance to a packed Basantapur Square on International Women's Day on…

Dear male Maobadi comrades, Mao Zedong said women hold up half the sky. But there is not a single woman in your negotiating team with the…

In a speech that is seen as a significant statement of current US government thinking on Nepal, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Donald…

Are our men so Neanderthal that they can relate only to images of virility in bike ads?

Extrapolate human nature to the international security system and you will discover how easily power seeks to match power.

BC Sharma is the CEO of the Nepal Life Insurance Company (NLIC) and a veteran in the insurance business. After working at the Life Insurance…

"Waiting and waiting and nothing happens..."

As State of Nepal goes into its third reprint less than a year after its release, Mark Turin reviews the book that has become essential reading for everyone interested and involved in Nepal.

Wherever the aromatic beverage has tickled a nose, there is a frenzy for that perfect cup of steamy brew-now, right here in Kathmandu.

A case study Eugene Bramer Mihaly Himal Books, 2002 Rs 460 First published in 1965, this book has now become a recognised classic on the…

Sanjaya Serchan Chhye Pahuppe, 2001 Rs 200 The author submits that no matter what type of political system prevails, there is a triangular…

Arjun Karki, David Seddon (ed) Adroit publishers, 2003 Rs 960 This book aims to provide readers with an introduction to the Maoist insurgency in…

For a moment it is hard to believe the rich voice filling the room with Muna Madan's "Hatha ka maila" belongs to the honourable Royal Nepali…

Mohan Mainali in Kantipur, 3 March

Shyam Shrestha in Mulyankan, February-March 2003

Deshanter, 2 March

Jana Astha, 5 March

Tara Aryal in Rajdhani, 6 March

Nepal Samacharpatra, 4 March

Mohan Prasad Khanal (top), director of the Corporate and Marketing Division of the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) has been appointed…

Two Russian-built MI-17 transport helicopters bought by the British government for the Nepali government arrived in Kathmandu last weekend. The…

The web-savvy can download free Nepali music at gorkhali.com. Gorkhali Network Inc, a US-based initiative by young Nepalis, has launched a new…

The second dispensary of Eco Himal-Society for Ecological Cooperation Alps-Himalaya opened on Tuesday at the premises of Shahid Gangalal…

A peace march organised by the Nepal chapter of the Youth Initiative for Peace (YIP) wound its way from Patan Darbar Square to Kathmandu Darbar…

There is not much to celebrate for Nepal's health sector when it comes to child mortality. Safe Motherhood Network, a consortium of governmental…

“The celestial duo looks Nepali because Shiva hung out in the Himalaya and Parbati is rightly sung of in Nepal as Himala ki chhori. So, the…

The peace process has been welcomed by all as the most positive initiative to restore security and development ("Peace now, talks later", #134).…

If we want to stop the widening digital divide in Nepali society ("Nepal's digital divide", #133), the first thing to do is to ensure that…

When I finished reading Khagendra Sangraula's story translated by Manjushree Thapa ("Nepaliterature", #134) I could see the face of "yamadoot"…

CK Lal has raised important points about the exclusion of tarai people in “Tarai cauldron” (#134). I want to add two more to his list: the Royal…

You readers just don't get it. I don't understand how you don't understand Kunda Dixit's Under My Hat columns (Letters, "Not really funny",…