March 10-16, 2006
Headline
Editorial
Never too late
JAGDISH BHATTARAIThe slight softening in tone of those in favour of an interventionist monarchy could, if one is an optimist, signal a…
Columns
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Getting back on track
Nepal must hitch its wagons to the Indian and Chinese locomotives
Nepalipan by MARTY LOGAN
Puja comes back
The nine-year-old made it further than the 20 percent of Nepali children who never enroll in primary school
Southasia Beat by KANAK MANI DIXIT
India gets US nod on nukes
MK Gandhi would not have taken India nuclear, nor sought the atomic blessings of the US
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #289
State Of The State by CK LAL
A future foretold
If 85 percent of college kids are for a republic, then that is the way we are headed
Guest Column by BIHARI K SHRESTHA
The 7-party quagmire
The alliance owes the Maoists a debt of gratitude
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Look at the brighter side of loadshedding
To tell you frankly, I'm getting sick and tired of listening to some of you who have insisted on criticising at every possible wedding reception…
Nation
Loadshedding till 2015
Question is what can we do till then to make a bad situation bearable?
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Mayadebi’s meditating son
Ten months into his fast, Ram Bomzon's mother is worried about her son's health
DIPAK RAUNIYAR in BARA
Business
"Nepal doesn’t have the luxury of time"
Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Country Director of the Asian Development Bank's Nepal Resident Mission, spoke to Nepali Times about lending in the past…
Review
Demystifying The Long March
Author retraces Mao Zedong's journey that is part of China's founding myth
SUN SHUYUN
Literature
WARY
NICK DAWSONScraps clutched at What was once a world, through shaking fingers, falls. Territory, mapped and scouted, with a shout swells and…
WAYNE AMTZIS
Sports
Bullets against bullets
Himalayan Enfielders saddle up for their Kathmandu-Pokhara peace ride
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #289: NEPALI BABIES
NEPALI BABIES: Women demonstrate in Baneswor on Wednesday on International Women's Day demanding that children be eligible for citizenship…
Nepali Society
Differently-abled
Sudarshan Subedi was eight when he developed a limp. His village in Parbat was a 10 day walk from the hospital in Kathmandu so he got no…
Update
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
All-natural Nepal
Nepali officials will unveil the new tourism brand 'Naturally Nepal, Once is Not Enough' at a trade show in Berlin on Saturday. The delegation…
Garments gain
Exports of ready-made garments to the US jumped in the month of February over the same period in 2005 but dropped one-third in the past two…
#1 Manager
Standard Chartered Bank CEO Sujit Mundul has been named Manager of the Year?2005 by the Management Association of Nepal (MAN). Mundul, who has…
New Products
Redesigned Hyundai: Hyundai's award-winning Getz has had a major makeover and will go on sale in Nepal from March 2006. Designers have made a…
Letters
Delusional
The king conveniently forgets that he is getting guns and money from abroad when he complains about funds given to the parties ('Where will the…
Iconic Thamel
I read the very negative article on Thamel by Pankaj Rayamaji ('Lean and mean in Thamel', #289) that exaggerates the problems. Every popular…
Rang De Basanti
Kanak Mani Dixit is hopelessly wrong in his analysis of Rang De Basanti. Is it possible that generation gap has finally caught up with him? It…
Kunal Lama
Applause to Kunal Lama's well-placed vitriol ('Pico makes an ass of himself', #288) ". It would have been better if it had been published in…
Everest
The story you carried on the 85-year-old British woman trying to climb Mt Everest with her daschund ('Cos it's there', #288) was not a hoax but…
In this issue:
Hopeful |Never too late |Editorial: The 7-party quagmire |A future foretold |Loadshedding till 2015 |Nothing in the pipeline |Getting back on track |“Nepal doesn’t have the luxury of time” |Biased activists |Student pawns |Explosive India |Solitary |Airport entry |Delhi-Pokhara |12 vital points |Election dates |Bomb Warning |Demystifying The Long March |Mayadebi’s meditating son |Puja comes back |India gets US nod on nukes |Raves for Rafael |Bullets against bullets |Differently-abled |Look at the brighter side of loadshedding