July 23-29, 2004
Headline
Editorial
Let’s go back
Just to make it easier for us to take the bad news, the United Nations Human Development Report (HDR) released this week upgraded Nepal from its…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
UNder-developed
The UN has finally accepted the need to build inclusionary multicultural democracies
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Iraquagmire
Political desperation at the top in Washington is so thick now that you can smell it
Strictly Business by ARTHA BEED
Present continuous tense
Out-of-the-box thinking for budgetary control
Tee Break by DEEPAK ACHARYA
Global golf
Expert players, bigger prizes, better equipment means more golf everywhere
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Our giardia stockpile
There comes a time in every nation's lifecycle when it needs to seriously think about developing weapons of mass destruction so that it is taken…
Nation
From the hills to the plains
In the absence of government, the Maoists spread rapidly across the tarai
RAMESWOR BOHARA in NEPALGANJ
Early warnings
Flood forecasting would save money but who is going to pay for prevention?
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Do you know your street and house number?
Kathmandu has a new metric system to make it easier to find out where people live
NARESH NEWAR
Birganj is the prize
The central tarai and Birganj used to be known as the least Maoist-affected area of the country. But since the collapse of the ceasefire last…
CHANDRA KISHOR in Birganj
Business
Book Worm
Rana Rule in Nepal
Rana Rule in Nepal Shaphalya Amatya Nirala Publications, 2004 Rs 1,112 Based on Amatya's expertise as a historian and his own family's…
Nepali Society
Ritu’s Nepali connection
Watch any of the Indian music channels on television these days and chances are high that you will see the seductive Hindi hit, 'Sun Zara' being…
Technology
Spam, spammer, spammest
When, of the six new emails in your inbox, four are advertising everything from home mortgages to cheap Viagra, it seems like ISPs should do…
BHUSHAN SHILPAKAR
Cable net
Bye-bye dial-up. Bye-bye slow surfing. Bye-bye paying two bills to Nepal Telecom and to the ISP. Here comes cable net: a system that allows you…
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Health walker
Walking 3,000km, at up to 20km a day, sounds like a gruelling fitness regime, but 39-year-old Londoner Stephen Watkins has more than his own…
Nepal ranked 140th
Despite the ongoing conflict, Nepal has been able to jump three spots and enter the category of medium development countries from a lower…
Letters
Uber Alles
am of the firm opinion that intellect and the hairline have an inverse correlation. In his usual nerdy articles Daniel Lak has apparently…
Sisterhood
I was very moved after reading 'Sisters on a long march' by Bibi Funyal (#205) and learning about Sarita and Laxmi who left school out of fear…
Sangroula
Thank you for translating veteran writer Khagendra Sangroula's brilliant observations ('Re-education at gunpoint', #203). Sangroula has shown us…
Bon Voyage
Captain Vijay Lama is an experienced pilot and he seems to know what he is talking about. But I don't understand what he has against pilots…
In this issue:
Talking about talking | Let's go back | Editorial: Under - developed | From the hills to the plains | Iraquagmire | Birganj is the prize | Greed, Inc | Early Warning | Do you know your street and house number? | VAT a great idea | " A 360 degree approach" | Present continuous tense | Cyber Space | Spam, spammer, spammest | Unsafe haven in India | Monarchy manners | Terrorising TV | Explanation | " Clear Cut" | Article 3 | All - Terrain pollution | Going green with jealousy | Making Fair trade fair | Yes means no | Poetry and politics | Ode to train | Global Golf | 22 days for the 28th Olympics | Ritu's Nepali Connection | Our Giardia stockpile