February 20-26, 2004
Headline
Editorial
What’s the point?
With each passing day in this terrible conflict, one wonders if the two sides are competing to see who can punish the people more. The Maoists…
Columns
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Well-oiled palms
Dealers, government and consumer activists are all to blame
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
The silly season
As we approach another silly season in Nepal, it is an opportune moment for all responsible citizens to be prepared to meet whatever eventuality…
Nation
Back to zero
Gas stations have won the right to keep selling adulterated petrol and diesel for another six months
NARESH NEWAR
Melamchi in a mess again
After years of slow motion, the Melamchi project has finally ground to a complete halt. The ambitious $464 million scheme to bring glacial melt…
Double loading
Now that there is a law for safe abortion, maybe Nepali mothers will not have to suffer and die needlessly
MUDITA BAJRACHARYA
Culture
One song
About half way between Lama Hotel and Ghode Tabela, at 2,770m, Kaisang Sherpa comes out of the trailside lodge singing a song. It is the current…
SRADDHA BASNYAT in LANGTANG
Leisure
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beetles
Get your carburettors cleaned for the next big Bug rally
JEMIMA SHERPA
Nepali ambassadors
For the Ambassadors' detractors who thought they had seen the last of the dinosaurs, wait! Hindustan Motors is poised to make a comeback to…
Book Worm
S?dhus- Holy Men of India
S?dhus: Holy Men of India Dolf Hartsucker Thames and Hudson, 1993 Rs 1,430 The author has spent many years in close study of these Indian…
Arts
Feminine reality
The walls of Gallery Nine are filled with women. Thirty paintings by Erina Tamrakar reflect an alternate reality of the conventional Nepali…
MAHESWOR ACHARYA
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Nepal beat South Africa in U-19
Nepal beat cricket powerhouse South Africa in the U-19 World Cup Cricket on Wednesday in Bangladesh, boosting its chances to rise up the…
No to civilian militia
The Brussels-based conflict resolution organisation, International Crisis Group (ICG), has said the government's plans to set up village militia…
Help needed
It has just been two months since Raj Kumar Rai was told by his doctor that he had a blood disease that needed a bone marrow transplant. Since…
Business Briefs
NADA auto show
Some 50,000 visitors will have thronged to the automobile show 2004 in Kathmandu by the time it ends this weekend. "This is the most appropriate…
More flights to Bangkok
Nepal and Thailand on Monday signed a long-awaited Air Services Agreement that will allow airlines from both countries to operate up to 22…
Bigger Qatar
Qatar Airways is taking delivery of 13 new Airbus aircraft in 2004, boosting its fleet to 38 by the end of the year, as it continues to build a…
Letters
Big Gulf
I flew from Kathmandu to Abu Dhabi last Saturday night in a much better position than most of my fellow passengers. How many Nepali labourers…
8, going on 9
I read with interest and sadness Kunda Dixit's '8, going on 9' (#183). It seems like a distant memory sitting down for breakfast in 1996 in…
Mediocre
I used to admire and respect Daman Nath Dhungana as a politician with dignity and principles. His tenure as Speaker demonstrated that he could…
Media
It was stimulating to read the discussion in your paper about the ongoing media war in Nepal. It seems all your contributors in #182 were open…
The king and you
CK Lal's 'A king can't do wrong' (#181) raised interesting points about the responsibilities of a king towards his 'subjects'. Despite the 'we'…
In this issue:
Democrazy | What's the point? | Editorial: Colombia and Nepal | A Dhaka Spring | Back to zero | No Nepal | Foreign aid or first aid ? | Balancing rights and wrongs | Double loading | The London Dream | Well - oiled palms | The politics of business outsourcing | Turning tanks into tractors | Nomad's land | Ladies and Gentleman, the Beetles | Her Excellency, the Ambassador | Songs in sheep's clothing | Deconstructing Iraq | " The word democracy doesn't exist in the Maoists lexicon" | Junketeers | How to build a nation | Golf at 40 | It's not cricket | The silly season