Issue #152

"We can deal with poverty, we've always lived with it. But we can't deal with the brutality."

Governments should be advocates for the vulnerable, but that has not happened for 1,000 families in Mahendranagar who have no land and no hope.

We have to market the competitive advantage of traditional varieties of Nepali rice.

In withdrawing support from the Nepali garment industry and boycotting tourism, our American remonstrators ('Imperious power', #151 and 'Nepal…

Lenders in Nepal are turning more and more towards consumer banking. The prevailing stagnation in investment and competition has forced most…

A poet of ideas

Jonathan Gregson Fourth Estate, 2003 Rs 520 The author arrived in Nepal a few days after the horrific events of 1 June 2002, and cobbled…

Keshab Prasad Regmi Gyanu Regmi, 2003 Rs 200 Corruption is often studied from a legal perspective. Delineating corruption as primarily an…

Lionel Caplan Himal Books, 2003 Rs 375 Instead of exoticising them, Caplan discovers that past military writers find in their subject the…

The rebirth of Kaiser Shumshere's Garden of Dreams.

How does a Belgian manufacturer of sleeping mattresses become benefactor for a pro bono orthopaedic hospital in Jorpati? It all goes back to a…

Ananda Shrestha in Himal Khabarpatrika, 15-29 June

Nepal Samacharpatra, 3 July

Spacetime, 27 June

Himal Khabarpatrika, 30 June - 16 July

UNICEF representative in Nepal, Suomi Sakai, has said the right to education is hampered when conflict enters the classroom and the rights of…

A Tripartite Agreement was signed on 1 June between the Indian and Nepali governments and the Manmohan Memorial Foundation (MMF) on the…

Nepal has always complained about being landlocked but our bureaucrats were caught napping when the opportunity arrived to discuss their problem…

The Chinese government has finally lifted its restrictions on entering Tibet after the SARS scare. Air China, previously known as China South…

The Qinghai-Tibet railway is inching towards the plateau with construction beginning this year for the world's highest railway station. The…

Despite self-styled Tibet freedom fighter Jeff Greenwald's assertion (#151) that Ethical Traveler has called off the tourism boycott, I notice…

The front page of last week's Nepali Times had 36 percent of its space taken by the newspaper and 64 percent by advertisements. At your current…

What I read about Suresh Ojha (Nepali society, #151) made me very proud of him and his work. When I see his forward-looking and positive…

As the authors of the initial article 'Tibet, Tibet' (#150), we thank Greenwald and Cancellaro for their feedback (#151). Their letter raises…