Flying on empty
Q: How do you take a country ideally suited for tourism, and quickly wreck it beyond repair? A: Just do what Nepal has done to its travel industry.
BINOD BHATARAI
February 2-8, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Suicide
The decline in Nepal's carpet exports began with a decline in quality: inferior yarns, inconsistent knots, dated designs and irregular sizes.…
Be warned
Nepal's tourism industry has another foe, and it is the United States State Department, the global policeman which has given itself the role of…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Political pornograph
Bee to the blossom, Moth to the flame; Each to his passion: What's in a name? -Helen Hunt Jackson
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
From Bhuj to Kathmandu
There are stark choices before Nepal: social unity and self-help versus cynicism about bad government and a culture of entitlement.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Waning Shangri-la
The root causes of a languishing tourism industry are lousy marketing, a virtually defunct tourism board and, yes, over-supply.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
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VACANCY A reputed Landlocked Himalayan Kingdom with a land area of 56,000 sq miles is seeking a motivated Chief Sub-contractor to take over the…
Nation
Why leap the digital divide?
At Davos this week, everyone spoke of the digital divide. What about the school divide, the hospital divide, the housing divide, the wealth divide?
KUNDA DIXIT
Organic growth
Every Sunday and Wednesday morning, a group of vegetable farmers from Dadhikot village outside Bhaktapur wait for a pick-up van from…
SALIL SUBEDI
Do your roofs leak?
Ten years after the first Lotshampas began arriving at the Kakkarvitta border post, Nepal and Bhutan have begun the preliminaries for verifying…
Six Green 'ayes'
Six non-governmental organisations have come out in support of the government decision to ban old vehicles, a Martin Chautari statement says.…
Killer kilns
Ask anyone who polluting Kathmandu's air, you'll be told it's the old car-six wheelers, two wheelers, three wheelers and all. It's true to an…
Case in point- the Bhadrakali temple complex
According to his five-year agreement with the Bhadrakali Guthi Sansthan, Babu Krishna Sapkota leases wall space belonging to the temple complex…
How large is Nepl?
We all know what Nepal's horizontal land area is. But what if we flattened all the mountains into a roti, and measure the entire surface area? Nepal could then be the size if the subcontinent! So maybe we should say there are six directions in Nepal: north, east, West, up and down.
TIRTHA BAHADUR SHRESTHA
Quake alert
Community training and individual responsibility are the tragic lessons of Gujarat.
HEMLATA RAI
History
Rana renaissance
The rather masterful reproduction of Rana-era structures in Baber Mahal Revisited is about copying intelligently.
SUJATA TULADHAR
Culture
A courtyard to the Buddha’s memory
No record of Buddha's visit to the Valley exists other than hearsay attached to hallowed spots. Like a small courtyard in Patan.
DESMOND DOIG
Leisure
Scarred cityscapes
Temple tops struggle to be seen behind brands of bottled beverages, cigarettes and home appliances.
RAMYATA LIMBU
Arts
Artists without borders
A group of international artists is using Nepali material for a traveling exhibition called Made in Nepal: 2001.
WAYNE AMTZIS
Nepali Society
Lochan
Lochan Bhattarai was scintillating last week on Shree Panchami-the festival dedicated to the goddess of learning, Saraswati. Her latest album,…
Sports
Bookies used cookies
Former Pakistan Test star Qasim Omar has claimed that a bookmaker enticed players in New Zealand and Australia to throw matches by providing…
Australians not involved: officials
No Australian cricketer has been implicated in allegations that prostitutes were used as rewards to lure top players into match-fixing, cricket…
From The Nepali Press
"I am not the Indian Ambassador"
(Excerpts from an interview with Gajendra Narayan Singh, President, Nepal Sadbhavana Party, Jana Aastha, 24 January)
Letters
Fishy tales
I read with interest Dr Harka Gurung's "To Climb Or Not To Climb (#27). I agree with most of what he says about Machhapuchhre, but there is one…
White man's burden
As an expat, the only thing I have to complain about is Daniel Lak's cardinal rule of expat behavior: "Do as you would do at home ." (White…
We want to help
We always enjoyed reading your refreshingly honest columns when we lived in Kathmandu last fall. You certainly portray the pain and struggle of…
You can
From your very first issue you have given us a newspaper of international standard. Your hard copy really gives buyers their money's worth (Rs…
In this issue:
Flying on empty | Editorial: Political pornography | Why leap the digital divide? | Organic growth | From Bhuj to Kathmandu | Hot showers | Is Melamchi watertight? | Waning Shangri-La | Scarred cityscapes | Venice of the Information Age | Mustang and Washington | Master race rhetoric | W for Warming | Opium War III | Pay up and die | A courtyard to the Buddha's memory | Bookies used cookies | Rana renaissance