Issue #213

September 10-16, 2004

Headline

The Delhi run

The Delhi run

Deuba's 72-member entourage settles down for a leisurely four-day visit

KANAK MANI DIXIT

Editorial

Post mortem

Post mortem

Dante wrote in his Inferno that the deepest layers of hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral turpitude. In Central…

Columns

Self-immolation
State Of The State by CK LAL

Self-immolation

When we damage the tree to its very roots, there is no point complaining it doesn't bear fruit

Three years after 9/11
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Three years after 9/11

The breeding ground for monsters are in Jerusalem, Moscow, Washington...and Kathmandu

Right to do business
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Right to do business

The business community needs to both assert and prove itself

Business games
Tee Break by DEEPAK ACHARYA

Business games

Why corporate heads are hooked

Nation

"The last thing we expected in Nepal"

"The last thing we expected in Nepal"

The destruction of airline offices, media companies and hotels on 1 September grabbed headlines, but few hear the cries of Nepali Muslims who lost all

NARESH NEWAR

Nepali Muslims

Nepali Muslims

Nepali historians believe that the first Muslims settled in Kathmandu during King Ratna Malla's reign in the late 15th century. Kashmiri traders…

Six hours in hell

Six hours in hell

On 1 September, both the riots and the lack of security response were deliberate

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA

Interview

"Dire straits"

"Dire straits"

Pitambar Sharma-Geographer and planner, also a noted economist

Business

Hitting where it hurts

Hitting where it hurts

Nepal tourism industry, which was all set for a turnaround this autumn, has been devastated, first by the international media's coverage of the…

Belly-up

Belly-up

The attacks on recruitment agencies on 1 September was the coup de grace

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA

Review

Showing us the ropes

Showing us the ropes

How can anyone presume to write-off all foreign aid to Nepal as ineffective?

LAXMAN ACHARYA and SHIZU UPADHYA

Economy

Hitting where it hurts

Hitting where it hurts

Nepal tourism industry, which was all set for a turnaround this autumn, has been devastated, first by the international media's coverage of the…

Belly-up

Belly-up

The attacks on recruitment agencies on 1 September was the coup de grace

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA

Happenings

Happenings - Issue #213: GP AND BP

Happenings - Issue #213: GP AND BP

GP AND BP: Girija Prasad Koirala holds up a poster of BP portraits at the inauguration of the BP Koirala museum, formerly the Sundarijal Jail,…

Nepali Society

Cabbie’s bar

Cabbie’s bar

Cozily tucked away behind Himalayan Java, the newly opened Jbar is truly one of its kind here in the city. The concept on its own isn't that…

From The Nepali Press

Goodwill

Foreign Minister of State Prakash Sharan Mahat in Deshantar, 5 September

Domestic Brief

All together now

All together now

Thousands in Kathmandu marched in an inter-faith rally, calling for restoration of Nepal's traditional communal harmony and tolerance during a…

Business Briefs

Flying back

Had it not been for heavy bookings for September-October, the badly vandalised Qatar Airways office in Kathmandu would not have reopened so…

Mero mobile

Four years after winning the license to operate Nepal's first private cellphone company, Spice Cell Nepal has finally settled its dispute with…

Plagiarised packets

Keeping one step ahead of the pack, the Dairy Development Cooperation has changed the packaging of its DDC pasteurised standard milk. Various…

Letters

Return of the barbarous

I used to greet the owners of the small Muslim-run shops behind Dharara which used to sell sekuwa saying "Assalam Araikum". Once they invited me…

In this issue:

The Delhi Run | Post Martem | Editorial: Double - digit lumensition | Self - immolation | " The last thing we expected in Nepal" | Three years after 9/11 | Kalapani's new "line of control" | Hitting where it hurts | Belly- up | Right to do business | Six hours in hell | Rumors Mania | A pound of flesh | " I didn't believe in killing people" | War of the icons | US and them | Not all bad | Business games | Few records broken | Country life is better than city life