June 17-23, 2005
Headline
Editorial
Trial and Terror
Past cruelty is always eclipsed by headlines of more recent brutality. Time blunts the jagged edges of pain. We have to keep reminding ourselves…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
How about those who didn't pass?
It is the state's responsibility to give those who didn't make it another chance
Southasia Beat by KANAK MANI DIXIT
Underground and aboveground
New Delhi is far ahead of other Southasian capitals in urban public transport
Guest Column by BIJEN JONCHHE
Ironies abound
The twilight zone of Nepali politics is full of paradoxes
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
This is not the ten o'clock news
This is Radio Nepal. This is not the ten o'clock news read by Sarah Yonzon. [Fifteen minutes of various instrumental numbers based on patriotic…
Nation
Nepal’s last hunter-gatherers
Time is running out for the Raute and their nomadic lifestyle
SAGUN S LAWOTI
Interview
"Not enough is being done."
Abraham Abraham-Nepal representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Review
Sports
Chopper on Chomolungma
Government says the highest helicopter landing never happened. Why?
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Nepali Society
Hen-pecked
They didn't set out to be radical but perhaps it is the name of the program (Pothi Basyo on Kantipur Television) that has given people the…
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
Yamaha set to accelerate
In 1996, Yamaha had half the share in the Nepali motorcycle market. By 2004, competition had caused it to plummet to one third. The Japanese…
New Products
PETER ENGLAND IN KATHMANDU: Peter England has started its showroom in Putali Sadak offering a range of suits, blazers, style garments and…
Letters
Sorry?
Kanak Mani Dixit's piece on Madi's mass murder ("Sorry.", #251) made me emotional, angry and frustrated at the same time. Being a strong…
TB
In reply to Ian Harper's letter (#250), we wish to bring to the notice of readers that there is evidence and research produced by the National…
Animal Kingdom
In 'All beings in the kingdom' (#251) there is an error that needs correction-Animal Nepal does not have the objective of establishing a 'Bureau…
100 years
I've enjoyed reading Kunda Dixit's Under My Hat column for the past eight months in Nepal and appreciate the sophisticated humour. He writes…
In this issue:
Bamboo curtain | Trial and terror | Editorial: Ironies abound | How about those who didn’t pass? | Local integration, repatriation to Bhutan or third country resettlement? | “Not enough is being done.” | Looking east | Crying wolf again | In-house | Double standards | Hide, quick | Maoist meetings | HM on FM | Not royal | Exile | Sultans of salsa | Nepal’s last hunter-gatherers | Potent insurgency | Silenced, not forgotten | Underground and aboveground | Swinging by | Chopper on Chomolungma | Hen-pecked | This is not the ten o'clock news