October 1-7, 2004
Headline
Editorial
Cheap talk
At a time when the need for peace in this country has never been greater, the word's worth has been devalued by empty lip service paid to it by…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Alas, history did not end
Doomed attempts in Iraq and Afghanistan to establish Fukuyama's double whammy of democracy and capitalism
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Research ideas
Everything you wanted to know about business, but never figured out
Herojig by
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Nepalipan by MARIKE HIPPE
End of an era
For 42 years, the Peace Corps had a mutually-beneficial volunteer program, it will be sorely missed
Guest Column by KESHAB B MATHEMA
Winning the peace
In the absence of electoral representation, civil society is the key
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
More good news
As if the world wasn't depressing enough, we in the newspaper business are determined to make you more miserable by not allowing a single day to…
Nation
We came, we saw, and we fled
What happened to us happens to the people of Bajura every day, and they get it from both sides
KISHORE NEPAL in BAJURA
Ex-POWs get ?10,000
This week some Gurkhas won the right to be British citizens, while others have finally been compensated
RAMESH POUDEL in POKHARA
Delayed reaction
Every day that construction is halted on the Mid-Marsyangdi project, Nepal loses millions
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Business
High airfares hurt tourism
The conflict may be the main reason for the drop in tourists, but high airfares aren't helping
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
"We are all waiting for a truce."
Bhola Thapa-President Travels and Tours is the agent in Nepal for Gulf Air, Qantas and, starting 1 September, of United Airlines
Arts
Giving their art and soul
The Chitrakars have dominated Nepal's art scene for three centuries
NARESH NEWAR
Sports
Rajendra’s gold
This has been a winning season for athlete Rajendra Bhandari. A few days after he broke his own national record in the Athens Olympics, the…
Nepali Society
Message of peace
Returning to Nepal after five years in college in Delhi, Susanna Phoobo was shocked by how much the violence had escalated in her homeland.…
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #216: MESSY STRIKE
MESSY STRIKE: Two days of garbage piles up in Asan after the Maoist bandas on Tuesday and Wednesday.OUR TURN NOW: No sooner had the Maoist banda…
From The Nepali Press
"We will crush India"
Prachanda's interview in Krishna Sen Online, reproduced in Gatibidi, 25 September
Domestic Brief
Lukla airport still closed
Lukla airport was still closed Friday after a crash-landing of a Sita Air Dornier blocked the runway stranding hundreds of trekkers in Katmandu…
Mystery flight
It is the stuff of spy novels: a Bulgarian plane bringing American anti-terrorist equipment to Nepal is detained in India. The reported…
Going that extra mile
Nepalis abroad are walking extra miles to collect funds from the diaspora for underprivileged compatriots in their homeland. Navin Dhakal walked…
Letters
Killed in action
If I was a poor, jobless Nepali my best bet would be to go to Iraq. I can earn three times more than in Kuwait, and if I am killed by…
CK Lal
CK Lal has grossly misinterpreted the notion of civil society ('Proxy by peace', #211). For him, 'the hodge podge of retirees and out of job…
Electric city
Thank you for Aarti Basnyat's article on electric vehicles ('Against the current', #215). Hydropower is Nepal's only indigenous energy source…
Royal uneconomic class
Kunda Dixit is being too kind to domestic airlines when he pokes fun at them in his hilarious Under My Hat ('Royal uneconomic class', #215).…
In this issue:
Incommunicado | Cheap Talk | Editorial: Winning the peace | Blind alley | We came, we saw, and we fled | Alas, history did not end | End of an era | Ex- Pows get £10,000 | Delayed Reaction | High airfares hurt tourism | Research Ideas | Giving their art and soul | Conditional | Keep Off | Asylum | "Working Unity" | Outrage | " We will crush India" | Authoritarians at the gate | My pain is greater than yours | " Even the Buddha would find it difficult" | Remembering the pain of revolution | You don't want fries with that | Vertical Golf | Rajendra Goal | Message of peace | More good news