Issue #364

August 31 - September 6, 2007

Headline

"I weep at night"

"I weep at night"

The relatives of those killed in the Kotbada massacre never got help and are still grieving

Mohan Mainali in Taplejung

Editorial

1/9

1 September 2004. The day after television news showed the brutal murders of 12 Nepalis by an Iraqi terrorist group, Kathmandu erupted in an…

Columns

New Nepal Dictionary
Ashutosh Tiwari
Strictly Business by Ashutosh Tiwari

New Nepal Dictionary

KIRAN PANDAY The faulting and the defaulting captains of our industry are not known for their sense of humour. Because of bandas, forced…

Feel-good nationalism
Critical Cinema by Diwas KC

Feel-good nationalism

Chak De India makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you proud (to be Indian)

Red herrings in New Nepal
Backside by Ass

Red herrings in New Nepal

Looking at the final list of ambassadors it would be natural enough for people to ask: "We waited 16 months for this?" It is the Maoists who…

Nation

Demolition derby

Demolition derby

The YCL are going after Pokhara's lakeside property owners

JOHN NARAYAN PARAJULI in JHAPA

Leisure

GOBAR!

GOBAR!

Now we know why cowdung is holy

NARESH NEWAR in MAKWANPUR

Moving Target

Star Gazing

From The Nepali Press

Bhutani Maoists

Bhutani Maoists

Interview with general secretary of Bhutan Communist Party Marxists-Leninists-Maoists (BCP-MLM) Biklab in Nepal, 25 August

Bad behaviour

Bad behaviour

Editorial in Pokhara's Adarsha Samaj daily, 27 August

Business Briefs

Letters

In this issue:

44935 |Editorial: Changeless change |Political ecology of the madhes |Demolition derby |Loving our little Ganesh |New Nepal Dictionary |Let’s do federalism right |Free-for-all |Bhutani Maoists |Bad behaviour |Now we know why cowdung is holy Gobar |" I weep at night" |Payback time |The cost of the gender gap |Feel-good nationalism |Equinox |Backside: Red herrings in New Nepal