June 4-10, 2004
Headline
Editorial
Square one
As Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes prime minister for the third time, it is difficult to say which square Nepal is back on. Is it 1960? 1980? July…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Niki Lauda’s revenge
Flashback to a scandal from which neither Nepali politics nor its flag carrier ever recovered
Nepalipan by BHUPENDRA SHARMA
The gori details
Nothing like a modelling contest to remind you that beauty is only skin deep
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Couch potato
Along, long time ago, when the world was still young, our forefathers had just shed their tails and learnt to walk erect when they discovered…
Nation
Final farewell in a distant land
How did a popular university graduate from Myagdi end up jumping off a bridge in Belgium?
LUCIA DE VRIES in BRUSSELS
"Leave our schools alone"
Nepathya's unique concert tour carried the message of peace and education through music
19 daughters, still hoping for a son
A lot more needs to be done to bring Nepal's fertility rate down
Business
Crying over spilt milk
Unable to sell their produce due to frequent bandas, farmers are pouring milk into rivers and dumping vegetables on the highways
HASTA GURUNG
Too much drag
It is not too late to rescue Royal Nepal Airlines and turn it into the reliable and profitable carrier it once was
Vijay Lama
Development deadlock
In past month, Maoist warnings have forced many aid agencies to pull out
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
History
A bahun Gurkha
Jivanath Bhattarai lied about his age and caste to get into the British army and spent a decade fighting in Burma.
Culture
DOGMANDU
Dogs are best friends with benefits. They work with us, keep us company, give us unwavering loyalty, protect and cheer us up and never ask for…
SRADDHA BASNYAT
Leisure
Can we now go back to being human?
One of the effects of war is the emptying-out of personal content from people's lives: When security is a daily concern, what energy can we…
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Book Worm
Globalization and Development Studies- Challenges for the 21st century
Globalization and Development Studies: Challenges for the 21st century Frans J Schuurman (ed) Vistaar Publications, 2003 Rs 440 This text…
Nepali Society
Shining Sangina
As a child, Sangina Vaidya spent hours watching Bruce Lee movies. Like most Nepali children at that time, she was impressed by his kung-fu…
From The Nepali Press
Editorials on Deuba
Think ahead Samacharpatra, 3 June Twenty months after the king dismissed Sher Bahadur Deuba and his government, he has been reappointed prime…
Domestic Brief
Grand slam
Alan Hinkes aims to be the first Briton to climb all the world's fourteen 8,000m peaks. This spring, he climbed Dhaulagiri and has only one…
Surfing in Nepal, not Scotland
A member of the Scottish parliament is furious after he has discovered that five villages in Nepal have faster Internet connections than some of…
Money for the poor
Nepal's poverty alleviation drive just received an immense boost with the World Bank approving $40 million in assistance this week. Out of the…
Business Briefs
Go north
Now that Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has launched its pilgrimage package south of the border, it is looking north. In association with Air China…
High five
Laxmi Bank opened its fifth full-fledged branch in Pokhara on 30 May offering services like Internet banking, ATMs and debit cards, loans,…
Celebrating Nepal
The third Nepal Himalayan Festival, organised by the Nepali Association in the UK and hosted by Manchester City Council at the town hall, will…
Up, up and away
Qatar Airways announced a 47 percent increase in passenger revenue during the 2003/2004 financial year, buoyed by a 35 percent increase in the…
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Letters
Bus bomb
It was disgusting to see the media, political leaders and important sectors of society taking the bombing of the Sajha bus and resultant loss of…
Saddamised
Re: "Saddamised" (Here and There, # 198). Daniel Lak, like all flip-floppers, has pretty good hindsight. If I'm not mistaken, he once wrote in…
Shame
I am ashamed to be a citizen of Nepal after seeing the crowd of wannabe prime ministers at the palace gate. What a joke on our destiny and on…
Starstruck
The current astrological planetary configuration favours the king, said Ashok Bajracharya, a Kathmandu-based astrologer and shaman. "If the…
In this issue:
Deuba lll | Square One | Editorial: The error of terror | Niki Lauda's revenge | Final fairwell in a distant land | Democracy now | The gori details | " Leave our school alone" | 19 daughters, still hoping for a son | Crying over spilt milk | Development deadlock | The Nepathya model | Too much big | Editorials on Deuba | Pen to rest | Mess - opotamia | Given to rule | Making growth green | A bahun Gurkha | Head Start | Shining Sangina | Couch Potato