Tunnel vision
Nepal's Maoists are literally going underground to spread revolution in the region
PUSKAR GAUTAM
November 5-11, 2004
Headline
Editorial
Unconstitutional Day
Monday is Constitution Day and a holiday. But most Nepalis will mark it as a day of national mourning. The constitution has been in life support…
Columns
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #220
State Of The State by CK LAL
Dead or alive
On Constitution Day, we should be thinking about how to revive it
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
It’s over
America has chosen its president and the rest of the us must live with that
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Journalists should tell the truth- Minister
BY OUR ARMCHAIR ANAL-IST Journalists must help in the process of nation-building by sticking to facts even if they are wrong, the Minister of…
Nation
Close encounters with Maoists
Nepal's latest tourist attraction: meeting mountain guerrillas
RAMESH POUDEL in POKHARA
Jumla’s road to the future
"We can live without food, we have done that before, but we can't live without peace."
KUNDA DIXIT in JUMLA
80 percent of Nepalis want democracy
A new baseline survey of democracy shows a majority of Nepalis are in favour of the status quo on the issues of monarchy, religion, state language and state structure
KRISHNA HACHHETHU
Interview
Review
Portraits of Nepal
Toni Hagen's Nepali Faces is more than a calendar for 2005, it is a memento for a good cause
MANESH SHRESTHA
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #220: ALL SMILES
ALL SMILES: Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Ambassador Zameer Akram responding to a question from the audience at a talk organised by…
Nepali Society
Sisters three
Upstairs,in the Lajimpat Park Gallery, Neera, Neeti and Juni point reverently at a portrait of their father, Ramananda Joshi, who set up the…
Update
Offering an olive branch
One way to bring peace may be to oil Nepal's economic engine with innovative cash crops
AARTI BASNYAT in CHITLANG
Conservation
Sports
A Himalayan challenge
Whether you want to race your kayak and raft, or just watch, Bhote Kosi is the place next week
AARTI BASNYAT
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Spinal conference in Nepal
One night five years ago, US neurosurgeon Daniel Spitzer received a frantic telephone call from the wife of a friend in Nepal. The man had…
Karnali offensive
Hundreds of rebels swooped down on Gamgadi just after midnight on Monday setting fire to a dozen government buildings. The army and police…
24-hour BBC on 103 FM
BBC World Service is broadcasting its 24-hour FM radio service in Kathmandu starting Friday, 5 November. BBC 103 FM will be the first round the…
Business Briefs
Druk Air to Delhi
Druk Air has started a new winter flight schedule offering early morning Kathmandu-Delhi flights on its new Airbus 319 on Sundays and…
To Dubai
The Thai charter airline, Phuket Air, is to begin thrice-weekly Boeing 757 flights on the Bangkok-Kathmandu-Dubai route from next month. The…
Qatar flying more frequently
Following the recent open skies policy announced by the Indian government, Qatar Airways is tripling the number of weekly non-stop flights…
Slowdown in decline
Tourism officials are enthused that tourist levels are up in October compared to September. But this October is 12 percent down from last year…
Lhasa bus
Chinese and Nepali transport authorities signed an agreement last week to start direct bus services from Kathmandu to Lhasa from May 2005. Each…
Letters
Nepal’s Guantanamo
The conflict in Nepal is inexplicably neglected by the international media but two weeks ago, UK telelvision viewers had for the first time full…
Bushwhacking
After reading your editorial, 'Bushwhacking' (#219) I want to tell you that I am one American who not only wishes you could cast a ballot in our…
Tibet
Many thanks for reprinting Pico Iyer's 'Tibetan reflections' (#219). In July, I chanced quite, literally, accidentally upon a unique publication…
Predators
Re: 'We're not whores' (#218) by Naresh Newar. It is a shame that Nepal's labour law enforces patriarchal values and the notion of power by…
Red zone
Kunda Dixit's work to expose how every ordinary Nepali in western hills are trapped in a senseless system of so-called 'people fighters' is…
In this issue:
Tunnel Vision | Unconstitutional Day | Editorial: An unpatriotic act | Dead or alive | 80 percent of Nepalis want democracy | It's Over | Close encounters with Maoists | Jumla's road to the future | Offering an olive branch | Let's Spend | " More growth only if peace is restored" | Birds of passage | Baburam on BP | Voting Right | America's class chasm | Reluctant talkers in Andhra Pradesh | Portraits of Nepal | Swinging by the rules | A Himalayan Challenge | Sisters three | Journalists should tell the truth : Minister