New year’s wishes
TIME FLIES: This dramatic sunset over Swoyambhu is a fitting end to a momentous year. (MIN BAJRACHARYA) Across the country, ordinary Nepalis…
April 13-19, 2007
Headline
Editorial
New year, old habits
It's a new year in New Nepal. But our politicos are behaving as they always have: with opportunism and blaming everyone else but themselves.…
Columns
Guest Column by MAITALAL GURUNG
Horse before the cart
Let a referendum on the monarchy precede constituent assembly elections
State Of The State by CK LAL
An even more fateful year
Sometimes, instinctive rather than analytical readings point the way ahead
Backside by Ass
One giant leap for assdom
After years of conducting war on a war-footing the comrades have now promised elections on a war-footing. That's according to the…
Nation
Vote confusion
Public ignorance of the constituent assembly reflects political confusion
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
After peace, perhaps development
An interim economic plan to deal with the challenges of political transition
KIRAN NEPAL
Interview
Culture
Life, lived through art
Parijat wrote like no one else about loss, sadness, and the intensity of a solitary life
SHRADHA GHALE
Painting the town RED
MIN BAJRACHARYA Leonhard Stramitz and Nepal go back a long way-back to 1968. His trajectory as an artist, designer and restorer since has had…
Riding through history
MIN BAJRACHARYA The current retrospective of the work of Shashi Bikram Shah is a reminder, if one was needed, that art is not meant to be easy.…
Nature
Rising in the east
There's a lot to learn about the lush landscapes and exotic plants and animals of the eastern Himalaya
SAMPREETHI AIPANJIGULY in ILAM
Moving Target
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #344: BRING OUT THE CAVALRY
BRING OUT THE CAVALRY: Prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala returns to Kathmandu on Friday after attending the 14th SAARC summit in New Delhi.…
International
Asia's tiger economy
This week, a showdown in Kathmandu between conservationists and market enthusiasts
NIRMAL GHOSH in BANGKOK
From The Nepali Press
"A crisis if elections are delayed"
Interview with Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-M chairman, in Nepal, 8 April
Business Briefs
Business Briefs - Issue #344: Blood camp
Blood camp As a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility Everest Bank organised a blood donation camp last Sunday, called 'Give Blood Save…
Letters
Letters - Issue #344: UNDEMOCRATIC
UNDEMOCRATIC Apparently, all parties other than the eight in the eight-party alliance are required to collect 10,000 signatures to register…
In this issue:
New year’s wishes |New Year, Old Habits |Editorial: Horse before the cart |An even more fateful year |Vote confusion |After peace, perhaps development |Information-seeking |“A crisis if elections are delayed” |Camp life |Tarai blunder |Budget fisaco |Rising in the east |Follow the money |Asia's tiger economy |Ganesh-tantra |Life, lived through art |Reality cinema |Riding through history |Backside: One giant leap for assdom