A statue for Ramesh
A year later, one Nepali family remembers the terrifying death of their young son
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY in LELE
September 2-8, 2005
Headline
Editorial
Seeing enemies everywhere
The palace is so fixated on the past it can't see a future with a political party that has consistently stood for reconciliation with the…
Columns
Game Point by SUJAY LAMA
Letter to Andre
Thank you also for reminding us that there is more to life than tennis
State Of The State by CK LAL
Constitutional farce
What to do when the constitutional forces are pulling in opposite directions
Guest Column by TEJSHREE THAPA
A dirty war
Will Condoleezza Rice cite 'national security' to waive restrictions on US military aid?
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Painfully rebuilding
A year after his shop was destroyed by an angry mob, Tulsi Tuladhar struggles to keep going
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
This stuff is top secret
According to recent unusually reliable reports in the state media quoting military sources, things have been going strictly according to plan…
Nation
Self-immolation
This week last year, Kathmandu's streets were in flames after a coordinated orgy of violence
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Hotel Rolpa
At a small tea shop in Ghartigaun bajar, Dil Kumari Dangi, 28, is busy baking chapattis and heating chickpea and potato soup (see pic).…
SATISH JUNG SHAHI in GHARTIGAUN
Defying Maoist threats and official indifference
fear does not seem to move 85-year old Ram Bahadur Rai anymore. "We're just too exhausted. There is nothing we can say to make them leave us…
NARESH NEWAR in SANKHUWASABHA
Rampur survives
Rampur's fertile farms on the banks of the Kali Gandaki used to be on the ancient trade route from Gorakhpur in India to Pokhara and beyond. But…
KISHORE NEPAL in PALPA
Business
The Melamchi mirage
An upcoming donor meet will decide whether the project is too tangled up in politics to salvage
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Review
Culture
Star Gazing
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
With or without you
Life-changing trekking fiction has got another boost with British author Carole Matthew's new novel With or Without You that transports readers…
New Products
Clean drinking water: Drinking water purification system WaterGuard has been launched in Nepal. Manufactured by Srijana Pure Drinking Water…
KU biotech takes off
DHULIKHEL-Kathmandu University has received overwhelming response to its new Department of Biotechnology graduate program. Five hundred students…
Banking on football
Nabil Bank has signed an agreement with Three Star Club, which will now be known as Nabil Three Star Club. In addition to making a financial…
Letters
Turnaround
A travel agent is quoted in 'Tourism turnaround?' (#262) as saying that "at least 30,000 go via Nepal" to Tibet. A quick check of the seasonal…
Regrets
I feel nothing but pity for Sachit Shumsher Rana's delusion of not understanding how much the Nepali people understand ('No regrets', #262). He…
Toontime
was somewhat perplexed by the following amazing 'sentence' that appeared in the Rising Nepal on 25 August. Can your esteemed fourth organ…
Reply to response to retort
Re: Sambhav Sharma's retort (Letters, #262) to my earlier reply (Letters, #260) to his first response (#259) to my Guest Column ('Support by…
Community
Re: Guest column by Jorg Frieden ('Imagined communities', #260). While I agree with Frieden's assessment of the situation, I find his…
Incommmiiiiing
Pravin Rana's piece ('The art of diplomacy', #262) hits all the right points. The one clear point is that INSAS rifles are to blame for the…
Heroes
Herojig is insane. And that is a compliment. I would like to buy you a drink when I am in Nepal next, a 'girlie' drink. Vinita, email I can't…
In this issue:
A statue for Ramesh | Seeing enemies everywhere | Editorial: A dirty war | Constitutional farce | Self-immolation | Painfully rebuilding | The Melamchi mirage | Invisible power centres | Take us home | Reporters’ diary | Secretaries quit | Biswabandhu Thapa | “We musn’t get stuck at every bend” | The tij hunger strike | Not a tease anymore | Why here, not there? | Defying Maoist threats and official indifference | Hotel Rolpa | Rampur survives | To the towers of Babel | Tennis sizzles | Letter to Andre | September sky | This stuff is top secret