August 17-23, 2007
Headline
Editorial
Split personality
MIN BAJRACHARYA Last week's Maoist meet was supposed to be an opportunity for stock-taking and expressing a renewed commitment to the 12-point…
Columns
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA
Mainly in the plains
The madehsi perception of India is not what we think it is
Backside by Ass
Khrushchev's ghost
Given the bruising process by which India recently selected its new president (the new one is one step ahead of her astrophysicist predecessor…
Nation
Classroom No. 9
AMIR DAS RAJBHANDARI MATERNITY CLASS: Mathura Pariyar with the four-day-old baby girl she delivered in a school classroom in Bhajani, Kailali…
No news from Krishna Bhir is good news
Ever wondered why this notorious landslide is no more on the front pages?
BADRI PAUDYAL on the PRITHBI HIGHWAY
India’s thali democracy
At 60, India's castes, creeds, colours, cultures, cuisines, convictions, costumes, and customs rally around a democratic consensus
SHASHI THAROOR
After the deluge
The dalit families have been living on road embankments ever since the flood waters inundated their homes in this eastern tarai district two…
ARUNA UPRETY in MAHOTTARI
Review
A king who could do no wrong
A new biography of King Birendra by his professor at Harvard
CHIRAN S THAPA
Phoebe’s libraries
ONCE UPON A TIME: Fourteen-year-old Phoebe Coburn reading with visitors at the Magic Yeti library in Khumjung. Her project is building three…
Landscape of memory
Dwarika Das Shrestha took thousands of photographs during his lifetime but never held an exhibition of his work, except for displaying them at…
From The Nepali Press
Typhoons vs tycoons
Maoist newspaper, Janadesh, 14 August Just when the Working Journalist Act, which protects the rights, provides benefits and security to working…
Business Briefs
Business Briefs - Issue #362: THT and AP are back
THT and AP are back The Himalayan Times and Annapurna Post returned to newsstands Thursday after Maoists disrupted the distribution of the…
Letters
Letters - Issue #362: NO TURNING BACK
NO TURNING BACK Re: Editorial, 'No turning back' (#361) Your analysis that the problem now is that none of the political parties are confident…
In this issue:
Will the tough get going? |Split Personality |Editorial: Mainly in the plains |Polls or bust |Gini out of bag |Brokering relief |Prachandapath, Gyanendrapath |Forum freed |Leftie leftists |4 Weaknesses |Typhoons vs tycoons |Provocations |After the deluge |Fleeing the flood |Classroom No. 9 |Revolt is not reform |No news from Krishna Bhir is good news |India’s thali democracy |A king who could do no wrong |Phoebe’s libraries |Landscape of memory |Backside: Khrushchev's ghost