November 28 - December 4, 2003
Headline
Editorial
Breaking eggs to make an omelet
Politics is not a spectator sport. We citizens are not supposed to just sit around watching gladiators finish each other off, especially when…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Aidwagons
Your vehicle eats up resources that your organisation could otherwise spend to help poor people.
State Of The State by CK LAL
Whose move?
Politics has become a game a chance where players make their move, and pray.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Oh FAQ!
For the first time in recent history, the number of unique online visitors to the official His Majesty's Non-Government of Nepal website…
Nation
Another AIDS Day
Another year of talk, workshops, seminars and plans. We are spending a lot of money, but HIV infection is on the rise. And for people like me…
Danger of a widening war
The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit organisation working through field-based analysis to prevent…
Cable wars
Competition between channels and cable distributors is cut-throat, but viewers benefit from the choice.
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
The ratings game
Corporate advertisers need regular ratings polls to gauge popularity of new television channels.
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Interview
History
Back on the Burma front
A month and a half after Man Bahadur Rai and the rest of the retreating Gurkhas left Burma they reach Nagpur in India. They are delighted with…
Review
Leisure
The filmdom of Nepal
The Lux Film Awards on Saturday may be just the affirmation Kollywood needs to show that it is in a new phase of creativity and originality.
VIPLOB PRATIK
The offal truth
Your favourite fortnightly food fadist takes a walk on the Newari wild side.
BHATMARAI BHAI
The offal truth
Your favourite fortnightly food fadist takes a walk on the Newari wild side.
BHATMARAI BHAI
Book Worm
Nepal- Political Parties and Parliament
Nepal: Political Parties and Parliament Lok Raj Baral (ed) Adroit Publishers, 2003 Rs 400 The universally accepted symbiotic relationship…
Nepali Society
Ludmilla’s lebensmittelpunkte
World traveller Ludmilla Tuting has two centres in her life: Berlin and Kathmandu. She gropes for an English word to describe this state, gives…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Women in arms
For the first time, the Royal Nepali Army has begun recruiting women for non-technical posts. It will recruit 100 women in the office of the…
Sharing life
In May this year, Kodak and Photo Concern pledged to set aside Rs 2 for Nepal Cancer Relief Society from every roll of film developed and…
Monitors at work
Nepal Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has received support from international rights groups to initiate independent human rights monitoring of…
New Products
Our Chevy: The all-American carmaker, Chevrolet is coming to the Himalaya with the Optra, the first in the lineup introduced by Vijaya Motors.…
Letters
Human Rights
Thanks to British ambassador Keith Bloomfield for calling a spade a spade (Interview, #171). Although couched in diplomatese, his message is…
Hunks
Charitraheen Chelis' choice of ten sexiest men in Nepali media ('Media hunks', #171) showed, among other things, the extent of the grip bahuns…
Unkind
Your editorial 'National sinkhole' (#168) and the letters it attracted have been a little unkind to Kathmandu. It sounds as if the people of…
In this issue:
Achham's agony | Another AIDS Day | Breaking eggs to make an omelet | Editorial: Whose move? | Danger of a widening war | Cable wars | The ratings game | Aidwagons | There is a famine in our villages right now. | Dharan's secret | US aid for AIDS | The world's largest functioning anarchy | Students in crossfire | Back on the Burma front | Under siege | The offal truth | Ludmilla's lebensmittelpunkte | Oh FAQ!