Issue #212

September 3-9, 2004

Headline

Black Wednesday

Black Wednesday

Was this spontaneous combustion or planned conflagration?

KUNDA DIXIT

Editorial

Opposite reaction

Opposite reaction

When the lives of 12 young Nepalis in search of survival were brutally ended by Iraqi terrorists in rage against the United States, the response…

Columns

Guest Column by DIPTA SHAH

Idealism vs realism

How do we find a way out of this zero-sum power game?

State Of The State by CK LAL

Shock and shame

Thursday was not just a day of national mourning, but one for national repentance as well

Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Too late

Victory in the war on terror won't help this weeks' victims

Nation

1 September, 2004

1 September, 2004

The day the national shock at the hostage murders in Iraq turned into anger and then mayhem

Enter the monster

Nepal is now a land where communal hatred has reared its ugly head

KANAK MANI DIXIT

From The Nepali Press

Impunity

Sushil Pyakurel of the National Human Rights Commission in Sanghu, 30 August

Letters

Barbarous

It is with much sadness and anger that I write expressing the outrage at the brutal killings of the 12 Nepalis in Iraq. Another war, the War on…

The truth

I am not surprised that some of your readers find the picture in 10,000+ (#209) appalling. Because they don't want to know the truth. These are…

Cry baby

Girija Prasad Koirala was turned away from the airport. How does he respond? He incites his foot soldiers to call for yet another…

In this issue:

Opposite reaction | Editorial: Idealism vs Realism | Shock and shame | Too late | Enter the monster | Black Wednesday