Paper crown
PRETEND KING: Student activist Krishna Bahadur Thapa entertains pro-democracy demonstrators wearing a paper crown and with an accurate…
April 28 - May 4, 2006
Headline
Editorial
Freedom at midnight
KIRAN PANDAY On Monday night when King Gyanendra restored parliament, we as a nation actually went back four years to 22 May 2002. So it is hard…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Can’t fail this time
This transitional parliament must hit the ground running
Game Point by SUJAY LAMA
Dirt ball time
Clay court specialists will slide all the way to the French Open finals
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Management lessons
The current crisis makes a great case study on fundamentals
Southasia Beat by KANAK MANI DIXIT
Nepal’s people phenomenon
The Kathmandu Spring gave Nepalis confidence in their ability to fight a despot and define their own future
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #295
Guest Column by SAMBHU THAPA
End 'constitutional adventurism'
Reinstate the house as a first step to peace
Nepalipan by TED RICCARDI
Forgetting to remember BP
He is safe, but gagged and bound, invisible but always present
Between The Lines by KULDIP NAYAR
India’s mumbling policy in Nepal
New Delhi's problem is that it opts for the least line of resistance
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Declaring a state of urgency
For a country with the world's most advanced calendar (we are 57 years ahead of our nearest rival) and a nation with the tallest bonsai on earth…
Nation
Now for the hard part
The parties will find that fighting for democracy was easier than crafting a new constitution
SHIVA GAUNLE
Durga’s journey through time
MIN BAJRACHARYA, 9 APRIL 1990, NIKON FM-2 105MM ON MITSUBISHI 100 ASA FILM This picture of Durga Thapa leaping out of a crowd of protesters in…
RELIVING 1990
MEDIA UPRISING: Compared to 1990, the 2006 Kathmandu Spring was conducting in full glare of media. Demosntrators battled riot police and went…
Covering the Battle of Gongabu
SLRs confront SLRs as journalists risk their lives covering Kathmandu's street uprising
TIMELINE - Royal rollback
1 February 2005 - King Gyanendra takes over. Declares emergency, sacks Deuba yet again, cuts phone lines, sends army into newsrooms. Hundreds of…
Interview
"The UN will assist in any way it can"
United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal, Mathew Kahane spoke to Nepali Times just after King Gyanendra's proclamation restoring parliament.…
Review
Nepali Society
The monk and the king
MARTY LOGAN As Bhikhshu T Sato chants the Lotus Sutra and softly beats a drum, he faces the massive wall and swaying bamboo groves that hide…
MARTY LOGAN
Sports
Africans get their kicks
But not everyone is cheering the success of these import footballers
MANOJ GHIMIRE
Update
Technology
Star Gazing
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #295: OVERARCHING ALLIANCE
OVERARCHING ALLIANCE: UML leader Madhab Nepal flanked by other members of the seven party alliance at the residence of Girija Koirala before…
From The Nepali Press
"We will not accept monarchy"
Interview with Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai by Rabindra Mishra of the BBC Nepali Service, 25 April
Baby sitting
BABY SITTING: A father carries his boy to a pro-democracy demonstration in Koteswore on 21 April. (Pic: Chandra Shekar Karki in Nepal 23 April)
Letters
People Power II
I would like to comment on the repeated misrepresentation in the democratic press of EU views in relation to the King's declarations of 21 and…
Kiyoko Ogura
Kiyoku Ogura is correct in saying in her Guest Column that the Newars of Kathmandu were exploited by political parties during the 1990 movement…
Poll Question
Your weekly internet poll of 14-20 April (#294) asked: 'Who do you blame for the state of the country'? The number of votes registered was the…
News
In his Strictly Business column ('News as public good', #294) Ashutosh Tiwari labels news as a public good. But a 'pure' public good is a good…
Hot Spots
After reading Under My Hat, I cam up with my own list of suggested holiday hotspots the actors in Nepal's political stage should consider this…
In this issue:
Freedom at night |Editorial: Forgetting to remember BP |Can’t fail this time |Now for the hard part |“We will not accept monarchy” |Girija is back |The king kneeled |Management lessons |“The UN will assist in any way it can” |Durga’s journey through time |RELIVING 1990 |“Will they beat us?” |TIMELINE Royal rollback |Citizen scribes |Nepal’s people phenomenon |Chernobyl’s turning point |Freedom imperilled |From the foreign press |India’s mumbling policy in Nepal |King sans country |Ruling on borrowed time |India’s folly |Africans get their kicks |Dirt ball time |“Peace is on its way” |Great celestial gathering |The monk and the king |Declaring a state of urgency