Issue #360

August 3-9, 2007

Headline

Editorial

Unnatural disasters

Unnatural disasters

NEPAL PHOTO AGENCY Every year it is the same story: monsoon rains gushing down the mountains create floods downstream in the plains. The…

Columns

Taking stock
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Taking stock

What is happening to stock prices?

Could be worse
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Could be worse

Looking from Afghanistan at Nepal's failure to get its act together

Beyond tokenism
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Beyond tokenism

Is it too much to expect Kathmandu's rulers to take madhesi grievances seriously?

Guest Column by BISHNU RIMAL

Half revolution

The debate about inclusivness has excluded class

SPAM is GON
Backside by Ass

SPAM is GON

That's with our leaders that they sneak off to India at the slightest excuse? And when they do, they do a 180 degree turn on what they were…

Nation

Web pioneer

Web pioneer

Mahabir Pun put Nepal on the information technology map not by complaining about how the poor didn't have access to computers, but actually…

Interview

Star Gazing

August sky

August sky

This month, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury are performing some fancy celestial dances close to the Sun, and will not be visible to us. However,…

KEDAR SHARMA BADU

From The Nepali Press

Junglis

Letter to the Editor in Kantipur, 1 August

Business Briefs

Letters

In this issue:

100 days to go |Unnatural Disaster |Editorial: Half revolution |The revolt of the aristocrats |“Business shouldn’t be the government’s business.” |Taking stock |Prachanda vs Kiran |Insult to flag |Hand-in-hand |Junglis |Pro-Hindu |Dailekh bridges the digital divide |Web pioneer |It’s a wiki world |Exlied to Cyberia |Could be worse |Beyond tokenism |INGMAR BERGMAN 1918-2007 |Backside: SPAM is GON