Issue #210

The Maoists are hoping the blockade will spread panic, fuel discontent and spark an urban uprising

Nepal Oil Corporation is battling to survive soaring international prices, fuel adulteration and discontent at home

Patan's Ashoka stupas are Nepal's oldest historical monuments, but they are being choked by construction

Human rights activist Krishna Pahadi in Deshantar, 8 August

Rituraj in Himal Khabarpatrika, 15-30 August

Saptahik, 13 August

Samacharpatra, 16 August

Human rights activists, legal practitioners and journalists made common cause to express their outrage at Maoist violence with a street…

While Kathmandu is preoccupied with the Maoist blockade, 100,000 children in Chitwan have not been able to go to school for the past two weeks…

With drastic decline in the number of incoming and outgoing vehicles in Kathmandu due to the Maoist blockade around the Valley, the worst hit…

PLASTIC POWER: The new Nabil Visa Electron card allows holders to make purchases of goods and services from over 500 supermarkets, stores,…

You must be out of your mind. How dare you put a picture of a woman who is so brutally killed and her child next to her ('10,000+, #209) right…

After reading Naresh Newar's 'Gorgeous Chobar' (#207) and Navin Singh Khadka's 'Saving what's left' (#208) it is clear that time is ripe for all…

I liked everything about your ropeway special, from the title ('Rust in peace', #209) to the book review ('Showing us the ropes'). What a waste…

Thank you for publishing Capt Kul Bahadur Limbu's interesting analysis of what is wrong with Royal Nepal Airlines and what can be done with it…

Allow us, the Buddhist monastics living and working in Lumbini, to strongly disagree with the following paragraph in Navin Singh Khadka's…

Congratulations to Daniel Lak for 'The Anglo-Saxon disease' (Here and There, #205). I read it on my way to a trek in Mustang, and found the…