Issue #334

February 2-8, 2007

Headline

Plain speaking

Plain speaking

Moderate madhesis are being drowned out by radicals

SHEETAL KUMAR

Editorial

Keep Talking

Everyone is talking about talking, but no one is actually talking. Even so, that is better than saying they won't talk. So all is not yet lost.…

Columns

Bar none
Guest Column by SABITA B BARAL

Bar none

The Nepal Bar Association has a chance to reinvent itself

State Of The State by CK LAL

Hour of reckoning

From the fallout of his ill-judged address Koirala must salvage the last chance

Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

Thirsty for change

Why contracting out Kathmandu's water supply management is the only option left

Backside by Ass

Tantrik vs Loktantrik

Profound apologies for having cast unhygienic aspersions (Backside, # 332) on Nepal's stellar five-star establishments and implicating them in…

Nation

Young fighters

Young fighters

JB PUN New York - The Maoists should immediately begin releasing the thousands of child soldiers in their ranks and cease recruiting more…

Primate business

Primate business

MIN BAJRACHARYA The battle between animal rights groups and organisations trying to export monkeys to the US for biomedical research is set to…

Cyber-tarai

Bloggers offer solutions to the madhes crisis

Leisure

Visions and Future

Visions and Future

Inspired by the documentary Born into Brothels, which explores how the lives of children from Calcutta's red light district were transformed…

SUE CARPENTER

Star Gazing

Running rings

Running rings

Saturn's dark gleam returns, as does flighty little Mercury

KEDAR SHARMA BADU

Nepali Society

Nothing too knotty

Nothing too knotty

KIRAN PANDAY Shyam Badan Shrestha is not afraid of working hard or of taking chances. She's been doing both since she was a child. After…

Moving Target

GNU

Stand by for the Great National Unravelling

FOREIGN HAND

From The Nepali Press

In this issue:

Plain speaking |Keep Talking |Editorial: Bar none |Hour of reckoning |In the central and eastern tarai, rage, determination, and grief |Thirsty for change |Restive MJF |Upendra Yadav |No USAID |Dark deeds |Graft and riots |Money talks |Visions and futures |Past, present similar |GNU |Young fighters |Primate business |Not-so-united nations |Cyber-tarai |Running rings |Nothing too knotty |Backside: Tantrik vs Loktantrik