Issue #170

The Maoist policy of confiscating land aggravates an already precarious food situation.

From talking to independent trekkers here in these scenic mountains north of Kathmandu, it seems people holidaying in Nepal are treating travel…

From a profound sense of crisis, says the World Bank representative in Nepal, a new wave of reforms is beginning.

Sherpa who had worked on a trek with me had come to my hotel for his salary, and unwisely, I had paid him in view of the hotel staff. After he…

Man Bahadur Rai and the rest of the retreating Gurkhas are plagued with hunger as they cross into India over the Naga hills from Burma. They…

Spartan conditions have led to a higher overall standard of Japanese cuisine in the Valley.

The Naxalites and their Ideology Rabindra Ray Oxford University Press, 2002 Rs 250 This second edition of a comprehensive sociological analysis…

Social Suffering Arthur Kleinman Veena Das, Margaret Lock (eds) Oxford University Press, 2000 Rs 345 Social Suffering takes in the human…

Microlights, paragliders and skydivers encroach over Pokhara airspace.

Artist Sarita Dangol has been painting trees-and only trees-ever since she cares to remember. She explains: "What that would fascinate me when I…

Lily Thapa was something of a child prot?g?: at 13 she finished school, was 17 when she graduated from college and went on to become one of the…

'Aja ko Kura' hosted by Kiran Pokhrel Radio Sagarmatha, 11 November

Chalphal, 9 November

Samacharpatra, 10 November

Shyam Krishna Budhathoki, CDO of Jumla in Rajdhani, 12 November

Rishikesh Dahal in Space Time, 9 November

The Snowy Mountain Energy Corporation (SMEC) has signed a draft power purchase agreement with India's Power Trading Corporation (PTC) to sell…

POKHARA - Travelling Film South Asia 2004 kicked off in Pokhara this week with full house back-to-back screenings of the top films from this…

Amnesty International (AI) has expressed concern over the government's plan to introduce Rural Volunteer Security Groups and Peace Committees,…

The first Everest Sky Race 2003, to mark this year's golden jubilee of the first ascent, began on 10 November. Forty-five mountain runners from…

The global logistics giant FedEx began the FedEx 10kg and FedEx 25kg Box service in Nepal through their local agents Everest De Cargo. Designed…

Nepal has figured prominently in the Lonely Planet's list of 30 of the world's top tourism hotspots. The list, which appeared in various leading…

Gadgets and gizmos galore for the 21st century home, all conveniently found under the same roof at Jumbo Electronic's new showroom on the first…

Iceberg, the old staple from Himalayan Breweries was revamped and relaunched recently. The strong beer is all set to hold its own against other…

The new P900 from Sony Ericsson blurs the definition of a mobile phone with an inbuilt video recorder. It's smaller, faster, simpler and more…

Kathmandu's mayor Keshab Sthapit comes across as a bold and visionary dreamer in your profile of him ('My city', #169). But he should also pay…

Here we go again with CK Lal ('Our praetorian guards', #168). Were the NEA and NTC, those models of efficiency, not charging exorbitant fees way…

Glad to see that NRNs are lining up to invest in Nepal. As an overseas Nepali myself, I wonder why they want to invest in Nepal at such a…

Your praise of Fr Eugene Watrin ('In the name of the Father', #169) was much-deserved. It is the likes of Fr Watrin and his contemporaries who…

I very much appreciated your eloquent and on-the-mark editorial ('Boy on a swing', #169) invoking Oscar Arias and Esquipulas as a possible…