Issue #149

June 13-19, 2003

Headline

THAPADOM

THAPADOM

The day of the Thapa has returned.

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Editorial

Winner takes nothing

Winner takes nothing

The political tragedy of our time is that history keeps repeating itself as farce. This raises the question: do we need a cabinet at all? It…

Columns

Revolution in Mustang
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Revolution in Mustang

The future is a tiny shrub thriving under the apple trees above the Kali Gandaki.

Curtain call
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Curtain call

The business of death

State Of The State by CK LAL

Fox in the chicken-coop

If he is really smart, Surya Bahadur Thapa will reinstate parliament.

Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT

Driving me mad

Those of you who think there is nothing more chaotic than Kathmandu traffic are wrong. It is no more chaotic than our politics. But you have a…

Nation

In the shadows

In the shadows

Paedophilia is hidden, elusive and it is spreading.

THOMAS BELL and MAARTEN POST

Hearts, minds and haircuts

Hearts, minds and haircuts

The locals don't know what to make of it. Till a few months ago when the soldiers came on patrols the villagers cowered because the army would…

MIN BAJRACHARYA in BAGLUNG

Wooing Congress

At face value, Surya Bahadur Thapa's government appears to be in deeper soup than his predecessor Lokendra Bahadur Chand's. The NC and the UML…

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA

Business

Flying for Nepal

Flying for Nepal

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the flight deck: Will politicians please stop interfering in Royal Nepal Airlines?

History

Review

The mad Carew

The mad Carew

Disseminating deranged ideas in the volatile political climate of the present is simply irresponsible.

MARK TURIN

Being seen

Being seen

This is who I am. This is who we are. This is how I want to be seen.

WAYNE AMTZIS

Leisure

Economy

Flying for Nepal

Flying for Nepal

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the flight deck: Will politicians please stop interfering in Royal Nepal Airlines?

Development

Fulbright Nepalis

Fulbright Nepalis

For more than 50 years, Nepali students have benefited from the world's most successful educational exchange.

Nepali Society

The gift of mobility

The gift of mobility

In a country where there are so many injured people in need of rehabilitation, there is a shortage wheelchairs and aids for the handicapped.…

From The Nepali Press

Panda vs NEA

Lekhnath Adhikhari in Nepal Samacharpatra, 8 June

Domestic Brief

PM Chapa

PM Chapa

Can't really blame Time magazine for getting confused between the prime ministers that keep coming and going in Nepal. Will the real Lokendra…

India-Pakistan Roadmap

In a sign of gathering thaw between India and Pakistan, or maybe just the searing heat in the Indus-Ganga plains this summer, an Indo-Pakistan…

South Asian AIDS epicentre

South Asia is already the second epicentre of HIV/AIDS after Sub- Saharan Africa. The virus is spreading rapidly across the subcontinent and…

Who goes back to Bhutan?

More than a year after it began verification of Bhutanese refugees in one of the seven camps in eastern Nepal, the categorisation procedures for…

Business Briefs

Sliding away

Sliding away

The onset of monsoon may be good tidings for farmers, but along the Prithbi Highway, the massive Krishna Bhir landslide threatens to block this…

Running fit

Fed up of running along Kathmandu streets and breathing the fumes? You can exercise indoors now with the new Intertrack 6100 treadmill from…

Brand event

Events are becoming the new byword for brand building in Nepal. The annual Surya Grind presented by Surya Lights cigarettes is scheduled for 14…

Digitally yours

FOSA, an American branded laptop described by PC World as 'Top Pick Notebook' in 2001 is now available in Nepal. Digitek.com.np in Durbar Marg…

Debut

Chinese pick-ups are making their debut into the Nepali market. Changhe flatbed trucks licensed by Suzuki and imported by Prime Global, have a…

Letters

Regime Change

After reading your editorial 'The Kathmandu Shuffle' (#148) of the regime change in Nepal on your online edition, I get the impression that…

Maoist fee

I have trekked and climbed in your country four times in the last two years. As a foreigner, I do not believe I have the right to comment on the…

Vaidya

I am a great admirer of Manjushree Thapa, so I can only assume that she has been the victim of sloppy sub-editing when I read her say, of Purna…

In this issue:

Thapadom | Wooing Congress | Winner taking nothing | Editorial: Fox in the chicken-coop | In the shadows | Revolution in Mustang | Their nightmarish reality | Ex-prime ministers speak out | Hearts, minds and haircuts | Curtain call | Flying for Nepal | Big lies about central banking | A Saudi survival strategy | End game in Burma? | Oli on troubled waters | Solitary confinement is softening my mind | The mad Carew | Fulbright Nepalis | Being seen | Driving me mad | The gift of mobility