Dateline- Rolpa
Today, there is peace. But it is a peace of acquiescene.
RAMYATA LIMBU in MADICHAUR, ROLPA
March 9-15, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Look who‘s evil now
When the devotees of the Sakyamuni in the Kushan empire, nearly two thousand years ago, set about carving two giant statues of the Buddha on the…
Columns
Guest Column by PITAMBAR SHARMA
What the Left can right
From relatively small beginnings on 13 February, 1996, the Maoist "People's War" has, to use their own phrase, "moved from peak to peak". The…
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
The long monopoly
The new Indian budget cements economic reforms-but there are niggling hints of protectionism that should worry Nepali industry.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
An ill wind from the West
Without excusing the reprehensible vandalism of the Taliban, one wonders about the hypocrisy and the incompetence of Western leaders.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Recipes for disaster
Nepali men are a bit insecure when it comes to food. Understandably so: they are so used to dal bhat and achar appearing automatically before…
Nation
Government’s peace offensive
This was the first sign of life from a moribund government in a long time. It has become quite unusual to see the ruling Nepali Congress being…
BILNOD BHATTARAI
Sharing the load
There are no official estimates about the number of porters, and certainly no way of knowing how many porters have died or gone missing.
SALIL SUBEDI
What the Left can right
The issue is not whether the Maoists will prevail, it is whether questions of equity and social justice can continue to be ignored.
PITAMBAR SHARMA
The craft of graft
The treasury is being looted in the name of the politically repressed, and all parties are guilty.
TULSI DAS MAHARJAN
Business
Convenient conventions
Nepal could turn into a major destination for convention tourism. MICE is a mighty nice way to go.
A NEPALI TIMES REPORT
Culture
Of divine street walkers
Gods no longer walk the streets of Kathmandu, or if they do, there is an insufficiency of powerful tantrics to recognise them.
DEAMOND DOIG
Unholy holi
If forcing people into celebrations wasn't bad enough, the contents of flying lolas this week are a case for chemical weapons inspectors.
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Leisure
Hot Stuff
The world's hottest chilli, chemical weaponry, and why one enjoys a hot dish more than once in its journey through the body.
ESTHER ADDLEY in LONDON
Kathmandu’s red hot melting pot
There is no specific food that could be termed Nepali except the generic daal bhat tarkari, but there are plenty of dishes whose mere mention…
SUJATA TULADHAR
Literature
Society and Sentiment Shyamal
Society and private sentiment find equal place in the work of poet Shyamal: his commentaries on social injustice are deeply personal, and their…
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Economy
Convenient conventions
Nepal could turn into a major destination for convention tourism. MICE is a mighty nice way to go.
A NEPALI TIMES REPORT
Nepali Society
Shooting from a new angle
"Not everybody with a camera is a photographer. A photographer needs to have a vision and direction," says Kumar Ale, one of Nepal's young…
From The Nepali Press
It’s protocol, stupid
Q Parliamentary sessions have been stalled. How do you view this situation? A This calls for serious thinking. The events taking place, not…
Guilty until proven innocent
Can't you remove the prime minister through a vote of no confidence, which is a constitutional process? A A vote of no confidence is a political…
Maoists want monarchy
After the second national convention of the Maoists, it appears that there have been changes in their line of thought and that they have chosen…
South Asian Soviet Federation
It is necessary to analyse some of the main points in Comrade Prachanda's paper presented at the second convention of the Maoists held recently.…
Maoist red corner for inspector
The Maoist people's court issued a 35-day warrant against police inspector Govind Pariyar in Ramidadda yesterday. Inspector Pariyar has been…
Domestic Brief
Arterial sclerosis
Last monsoon, a landslide at Krishnabhir on the Prithvi Highway cut the capital off from the rest of the country for two weeks. Experts now say…
Kofi Annan comes to Nepal
UN General Secretary Kofi Annan's last-minute decision to visit Nepal on a two-day tour 12-13 March is being interpreted as a diplomatic…
No Indian meat and fish
Europe isn't the only place anxious about diseased livestock. Eastern Nepal, too, is worried in the wake of about 100 deaths last week due to an…
Third party for verification
Four international human rights organisations working with the Nepal-Bhutan joint verification team at the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern…
Spring climbing
Twenty-two mountaineering teams have been permitted to climb in the Nepali Himalaya this spring although more teams are expected to join as the…
Delhi sneezes.
Indian finance minister Yashwant Sinha did not to have a SAD-special additional duty-in his budget proposal this year, but has introduced…
NOC, NOC
Nobody wanted to tell us why six tankers carrying diesel adulterated with over 50 percent kerosene took three days to off-load their fuel into…
Business Briefs
Taking stock
The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) Index took a 22 percentage point tumble last week, leading to fisticuffs at the exchange between retail buyers…
Still diluting diesel
The long-overdue government inquiry on fuel adulteration has not yet presented its report, and predictably, rampant mixing of diesel and petrol…
Channel Nepal still on
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MOIC) has renewed the satellite broadcasting licence of the Spacetime Network, which had earlier…
Excellence in industry
The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has instituted an award to recognise excellence in industry and is seeking…
Radisson prize
The Radisson Kathmandu has been awarded the 2000 Radisson President's Award. The annual prize is given by the Radisson Hotels & Resorts in…
Letters
Great ploughman
The announcement of Prachanda Path, the 'new' ideological lodestar of our insurgent Maoists, can be construed to mean a number of different…
Tibet
As a Nepali citizen of Tibetan origin, I have seen our government showing growing intolerance towards Tibetans living in Nepal. At last week's…
In this issue:
Dateline Rolpa | Government’s peace offensive | Look who's evil now | Editorial: What the Left can right | Sharing the load | An ill wind from the West | The craft of graft | Promising everything to those who have nothing | Lessons from the Andes | The long monopoly | Convenient conventions | The wireless war | Raiders of the lost arks | “Foreign” Britain | Mainstreaming the Left | Asia’s newpolitik | Of divine street walkers | Mother of all marathons | Unholy holi | Recipes for disaster | Shooting from a new angle