Issue #337

February 23 - March 1, 2007

Headline

Big questions

Big questions

What's a constituent assembly? Who can we trust to run Nepal?

ANAGHA NEELAKANTAN

Editorial

The undecided

The undecided

KUMAR SHRESTHA The most believable reason for delaying the constituent assembly polls is not that the election commission hasn't been able to…

Columns

Apophis now
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Apophis now

It's best to be prepared for the things that we do know will happen

The same Old Nepal
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

The same Old Nepal

This is no time for unreconstructed 'nationalist capitalism'

Eyes Wide Shut by SHEETAL KUMAR

Dignity for all

Today's ferment may not be nice but it is necessary

State Of The State by CK LAL

The ties that bind

Proof, if it were needed, that there is a common Nepali identity

Nepalipan by KASHISH D SHRESTHA

Nepal in New York

Rumours, arguments, and sly suggestions at a diaspora Democracy Day

Politics of garbage
Backside by Ass

Politics of garbage

Pretty soon this is going to be known as the land of shortages: gas, diesel, water, electricity, and brains. The only thing we have an abundance…

Nation

Going viral

Going viral

Until a vaccine is available, the only prevention against hepatitis E is safe drinking water

BUDDHA BASNYAT

Tv or not tv

Tv or not tv

Finnish media trainers remember the early days of television in Nepal

KUNDA DIXIT

Review

New city, old joys

New city, old joys

A new book of walks around the Valley is the perfect antidote to Kathmandu ennui

JERRY MEYER

Leisure

From The Nepali Press

Domestic Brief

Nepal and climate change

DHAKA - While rich governments make slow progress on climate change, poor people in the countries most at risk are providing rare good-news…

Setting Nepal to rights

An OHCHR report examining the human rights situation in Nepal in the context of the peace process up to early January this year comes down hard…

In this issue:

Big questions |The Undecided |Editorial: Dignity for all |The ties that bind |Apophis now |Going viral |The same Old Nepal |Bad intentions |Paranoid |Army ‘Maoists’ |Party gossip |Gajurel-speak |As the euphoria of the April Uprising dies down, Nepalis want the same things they always have: peace, development, livelihood |Nepal in New York |Tv or not tv |Baby rhinos in danger |Clever little dog seeks loving owner |New city, old joys |Girls of even worse character |Backside: Politics of garbage