Still standstill
Nepal is awash in cash, but we can't seem to spend it on rebuilding the country.
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
May 16-22, 2003
Headline
Editorial
Party time
One look at the war-torn streets near Ratna Park, the pitch batles between riot police and protesters, and it may seem like we have jumped from…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Foreign intervention
Instead of honest debate offended parties serve up a tone of "how dare you".
State Of The State by CK LAL
Reconciliation roadmap
King Gyanendra must trust the mainstream parties and get them to imagine a New Nepal.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
How they knocked the bastard off
Transcripts recently declassified under the Freedom of Information Act finally give us a historical perspective on the first ascent of Mt…
Nation
Ground realities
Former UML MP from Salyan, Prakash Jwala, travelled to the midwest to assess the lives of his constituents after the ceasefire.
PRAKASH JWALA
Why do we need tanks?
Nepal does not need, nor can it afford, to buy tanks and helicopter gunships.
ANALYSIS by Kanak Mani Dixit
The great game
The king and political parties are fighting for the hearts and minds of the Nepali people. They will win neither if they keep fighting.
DHAWAL SJB RANA
Love thy neighbour
Most Nepalis speak better Hindi than former Indian prime minister HD Deve Gowda.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
History
Review
Mao by the book
Required reading for every angst-ridden school dropout in Nepal duped into believing that dictatorship is a necessary condition for utopia.
CK LAL
Culture
Travel
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Great expectations
Climbers who timed their ascent for 29 May to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's achievement,…
Freedom pending
The law regarding abortion is clear but it fails to decriminalise those already incarcerated. Now, the government is finally moving towards the…
Business Briefs
Counter charge
A few months after a former finance minister blamed the World Bank of ignoring Nepal's remote areas, a senior official of the multilateral…
Honouring women
Laxmi Bank that began operations a year ago recently awarded Hajuri Bista as the ?woman entrepreneur of the year?. Bista is the head of HK Food…
Exports up
The initiative to boost economic growth in LDCs by giving duty-free and quota-free access to exports proposed during the June 2002 G8 Summit in…
Slippery issue
Indian ghee manufacturers are up against their Nepali competitors once again. This time they seem to be winning the battle with a case filed…
Letters
Power Play
'The price we pay for power' (#142) by Navin Singh Khadka gave a clear picture of the internal economic transition within the NEA and the…
Manifesto
Having read 'Maoist Manifesto' (#142), I am truly amazed at the lack of vision of the leadership. Their populist call to end recruitment of…
Lak that
I agree with Daniel Lak's remarks in 'So far so good.' (#143) on the current role of political parties in our kingdom. Whether directly or…
Class Act
It was ironic that in the picture accompanying 'Class of 1970' (#142) Baburam Bhattarai is on 'extreme left' and Upendra Devkota 'second to the…
Just Ugly
Thanks to Navin Singh Khadka for "The good, bad and ugly" (#143). At last someone has spoken out against the ugly hoardings mushrooming all over…
Not Skeptical
Hemlata Rai quotes me in 'More power to the villages' (#144) as saying that I am skeptical about community involvement in rural electrification.…
Directions
On 28 April, another Nepal bandh, a woman was crying for help on the Gaushala-Chabahil road, carrying her baby son who was suffering from…
In this issue:
Still standstill | Party Time | Editorial: Reconciliation roadmap | The great game | Ground realities | Foreign intervention | Love thy neighbour | Why do we need tanks? | Bipalis | Money matters | he epidemic scorecard | The false promise of stability | Poor monsoon forecast | People power | “I now understand human misery…” | Mao by the book | How they knocked the bastard off