Who's the roadblock?
US Ambassador James Moriarty spoke to Nepali Times on Wednesday on a wide range of issues, including his wish that the king and the parties get over their differences in order to face the bigger threat of Maoism.
May 27 - June 2, 2005
Headline
Editorial
Ordnance against media
If it had to be done, the intelligent way to do February First would have been to build domestic consensus, bring political parties in as a…
Columns
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Best-selling business
The success of Samrat's book could teach our gurus too
State Of The State by CK LAL
Arrest this drift into obscurantism
Statecraft can't be divinely pre-ordained in this day and age
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Covering up our manhood
Now for something completely different. Many of us are reluctant to shed cosy illusions and want to go on pretending that everything is fine in…
Nation
The edge of a khukuri
It's not yet dawn here in Ramechhap district but we are awakened by a 'tung tung' sound from down the road. The village of Shivalaya is on the…
BIBI FUNYAL in SHIVALAYA
Rukum just wants to be left alone
The villagers of Rukum don't want to have anything to do with the government or the Maoists
DHRUBA SIMKHADA in RUKUM
"Does Kathmandu care about us?"
A bus trip along the East-West Highway shows just how much Nepal has changed-for the worse
KIRAN NEPAL
Review
Casting years in earth
At first sight it does not look like a vase or an incense holder. Its texture makes you think it is another one of those unusual pebbles you…
ABHA ELI PHOBOO
Every place, every novelist
Remembrance and memories in Karthak's new novel about Darjeeling's decay
CK LAL
Nepali Society
Swadeshi soda
Suresh Suwal has been in the soda business for as long as he can remember but not just any ordinary soda. His father, Buddhiram Suwal, set up…
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
Eurocopter on Everest
An Ecureuil/AStar AS 350B3 helicopter (pictured) landed last weekend on the top of Chomolungma, setting a new world record, company sources said…
West Seti on again
China and Australia will invest in the $1.2 billion and 750 megawatt West Seti project in western Nepal, a Chinese embassy official in Kathmandu…
No more landlocked
Star Cruises is poised to market its ocean cruises in the Nepal market this year after encouraging response in India. Star Cruises has appointed…
Welcome wins
Welcome Advertising and Marketing has won the Certificate of Merit in the 38th Abby Awards ceremony. It won the award in the Best of Nepal…
Yamaha workshop
Morang Auto Works, the authorised dealer of Yamaha motorcycles in Nepal, has set up a workshop, Yamaha Care Centre, in Tripureswor. Y Morita,…
New Products
SHOE FITS: Birat Shoe Co Ltd has added sport shoes to its Fit Rite outlets. It recently held a 'Guess and Win' contest coinciding with the AFC…
Letters
Nepal
I am really shocked at China's new position on Nepal in the piece you translated from Nepal magazine ('India and China sacrifice Nepal', #247)…
Tree slaughter
Why are trees being decimated so ruthlessly and systematically all along the major thoroughfares of Kathmandu and why is there no protest at…
Why not Nepali?
Your translation of Rituraj's column from Himal Khabarpatrika ('Why English?', #246) is right on. A similar thing happened on 20 May, at the…
Love song to a jacaranda
Love song to a jacaranda Nothing pleases like a jacaranda in spring Don't think I can't see what joy you bring While my budhi's bloom diminishes…
In this issue:
Who's the roadblock? | Ordnance Against Media | Editorial: Arm-twisting Nepal | Arrest this drift into obscurantism | “The glass may be quarter full” | The edge of a khukuri | Best-selling business | New NHRC | Voltage shortage | Tantrum | Melamchi contract | Royal flight | PMO | Gorkhaland | Isolating Nepal | Rukum just wants to be left alone | “Does Kathmandu care about us?” | Every place,every novelist | Casting years in earth | Why you can’t ignore blogs anymore | Left right, left right | Yip, yip, hurray | Bowling for democracy | Swadeshi soda | Covering up our manhood