October 21-27, 2005
Headline
Editorial
From darkness to light
"Son, I want you to be a doctor or an engineer, or a pilot." Sound familiar? Did you feel the pressure to study science and math while growing…
Columns
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Thailand’s surge
From bookstores to rapid transit, there are lessons for Nepal everywhere
Guest Column by BIHARI K SHRESTHA
Rock and hard place
Elections will be a referendum on the behaviour of the political parties
State Of The State by CK LAL
The bell tolls for polls
The royal response to the rebel ceasefire was to announce elections
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
New decrees from the ordnance factory
Being an organ of the state and thanks to the new ordnance given to us in media, our editorial today will delve into how there can be no two…
Nation
We heard it on the radio
Kathmandu Valley residents have come to rely overwhelmingly on FM stations for news
Review
Relief and respite in Kailali
In far western Nepal, villagers enjoy the ceasefire as long as it lasts
CHARLES HAVILAND
Leisure
Music to their ears
What started out two years ago as a group of women friends getting together to sing has become an important part of Kathmandu's musical…
Aarti Basnyat
Kathmandu’s drift into suburbia
The capital's residents are moving to up-market housing colonies on the Valley's outskirts
MALLIKA ARYAL
Sports
Nature
Lessons of Kashmir for Kathmandu
My home is still standing but my soul is buried in the rubble
FAROOQ AHMAD
Nepali Society
Franck the Ostad
Who said you had to go to school to become literate? Franck Bernede dropped out of Grade Six in his native France to pursue his passion in music…
Development
A winter of electric discontent
Why the proposed 10 percent electricity price hike will not solve the problem
DIPAK GYAWALI
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Bad news on media freedom
International group Reporters Without Borders has ranked Nepal #160 among the world's countries in its fourth Press Freedom Index. That puts us…
Aid appeal hushed
The UN's international appeal for $65 million for Nepal's humanitarian needs has gone low-profile after the government reportedly urged the UN…
Instability spurs corruption
Thanks to the firing of the multiparty government and restrictions on the media, among other reasons, Nepal has fallen 27 positions on the…
Wai Wai in Cal
The Nepali instant noodle brand Wai Wai which had already taken the Indian northeast by storm is now being launched for Tihar in Calcutta. Wai…
Letters
Nepalis in LA
Manjushree Thapa's 'Being Nepali (in LA)' (#268) captures the pain of being sidelined in the US. It is very commendable that the Nepali…
Shining pathists
CK Lal in his State of the State column ('A Peruvian parallel', #268) talks about the parallels between the policies of Nepal's government…
Visas
If any foreign embassy in Nepal treats Nepali people rudely ('Letter to His Excellency Bloomfield', #268), it has no right to be situated on…
Hindostani
I agree with what Kanak Mani Dixit writes in his Southasia Beat column ('Urdu, Hindi, Hindostani', #268) and wish that we could call the…
Daughter's property
I have had my share of frustrations working in the gender field with so-called liberal men of the NGO/INGO profession. But nothing beats the…
VIP motorcades
The Dasain road accident in which the Tourism Minister's car was crushed under a minibus did not come as a surprise to me. It was an accident…
Surprise
I couldn't help noticing the uncanny prescience with which you seem to be anticipating the king's move when you said in your editorial ('Don't',…
Human touch
Congratulations to Kasra Naji (“We want to go home”, #268) for bringing a human touch to the story of Maoist abduction of students in Surkhet.…
In this issue:
Extend the ceasefire! | From darkness to light | Editorial: Rock and hard place | The bell tolls for polls | A winter of electric discontent | Thailand’s surge | New cabinet next week | Heavenly tips | Police plans | Felicitating Fiji | Global democracy | Freezing news | Managed media | Kathmandu’s drift into suburbia | Relief and respite in Kailali | We heard it on the radio | Step back and wait | Worse to come | Lessons of Kashmir for Kathmandu | Call me coach | Just for fun | New decrees from the ordnance factory