January 2-8, 2004
Headline
Editorial
Newton’s laws
Nepal's relations with the outside world seem to be governed by Newton's third law of thermodynamics: every action has an equal and opposite…
Columns
Tee Break by DEEPAK ACHARYA
Golf gets going
Nepali Times begins this weekly column on golf tips and trivia from Nepal's foremost professional.
Nepalipan by NEETA POKHREL
From historical damsels to rebel chelis
Searching, and not finding, the ideal Nepali Woman.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Year of the truly weird
An arbitrary 12-month period comes to an end, and what do we have to look back on with anything other than fear, loathing and regret?
London Eye by JOTI GIRI
The Shang has left Rila
London Eye is the first in a rotating column in this space every week that is written exclusively for Nepali Times by various London-based Nepal-watchers.
Guest Column by MAHENDRA P LAMA
Limited intervention
Bhutan had to act sooner or later against the ULFA camps.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Happy new ears
It's that time of the year again when each of us, individually and in armed civilian groups, have to make a choice: is it really such a good…
Nation
Elections in Maoland
Maoists fill the vacuum left in VDCs in the midwest.
MANMOHAN SWAR and KARNA SHAH in ACHHAM
History
Leisure
Book Worm
First Things First- Coping with ever-increasing demands of the workplace
First Things First: Coping with ever-increasing demands of the workplace Stephen R Covey, A Roger Merrill, Rebecca R Merrill Pocket Books, 2002…
Arts
Nature
Birds of a feather
Almost one-fourth of 850 bird species in Nepal are found on Shibapuri National Park.
SRADDHA BASNYAT
Heritage
School heritage
Not everyone agrees with a plan to demolish St Xavier's old school building.
SUNIL POKHREL
Nepali Society
Jagdish’s eye
When it comes to Nepali landscape and mountain photography, Jagdish Tiwari is a name that is on the forefront. His famous panorama posters adorn…
From The Nepali Press
"We aren’t worried about a big US presence in Nepal."
Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran in Himal Khabarpatrika, 31 December - 14 January
Domestic Brief
Charumati facelift
Chabahil locals have formed a committee to restore the crumbling Charumati Stupa, which had developed cracks because of heavy vehicular traffic…
Business Briefs
No joyride
Three months after the revival of the Kathmandu-Bhakatapur trolley bus service that was closed three years ago, plans are afoot to make it turn…
Talk it easy
Since its management was revamped eight months ago, ServingMinds, the pioneer call centre in the kingdom, is seeing the good times roll. Orders…
NEW PRODUCTS
NEPALI BIKES: We may have yet to send a man to the moon, but by golly we've made our first motorbike! Cosmic Yingang Motorbikes, the first ever…
Letters
Let us pray
For once I tend to agree with CK Lal's assertions in his 'State of the State' column about our national proclivity for delving too much into our…
Lak
Living in Kathmandu, we are largely unaware of the harsh realities that exist in rural Nepal. It is a tragedy that most of us in Kathmandu…
Sniffing
Naresh Newar's 'Glued to the streets' (#176) brings welcome light to a problem which is familiar to anyone who walks city streets. Newar is…
Weirder
With each issue of Nepali Times Kunda Dixit's 'Under My Hat' column keeps getting weirder and more outlandish, so do his hats. How does he get…
Vox pop
I just finished reading the great article 'Voice of the people' (#176) by Kishore Nepal on your website. It is good to see that there is an…
In this issue:
War economy | Newton's Law | Editorial: Limited intervention | Another summit | Elections in Maoland | Year of the truly weird | M-16s in Maoist hands | “This country can’t continue like this.” | Pressure-cooker life | Nightmare in New Delhi | Unwise divergence | The Shang has left Rila | SAARCONOMY | Revenue is up, so is human misery | From historical damsels to rebel chelis | Gallery mine | Birds of a feather | School heritage | SAARC chasm | Bottom of the barrel | SOS Earth | Globalisation and its discontents in 2004 | What would King Birendra have done? | “We aren’t worried about a big US presence in Nepal.” | “The king is not going to take the initiative.” | Numa’s world | Golf gets going | EURO 2004 | Jagdish’s eye