Issue #369

October 5-11, 2007

Headline

Slashed and burnt

Slashed and burnt

RAJESH KC BURNING THE MESSENGER: Freshly printed editions of Kantipur's eastern edition were taken out of a delivery van and set ablaze by…

Editorial

Messing with the messenger

Messing with the messenger

MIN BAJRACHARYA The Maoists call it 'direct action'. In effect it is a kangaroo court, inquisition and paranoid cultural revolution-style…

Columns

Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

Look, listen and learn

Understanding, not antagonism, is the way to better labour relations

Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Open border, closed minds

Blaming the border for the madhes crisis distracts attention from Nepal's domestic political failure

Psst...petrol's here
Backside by Ass

Psst...petrol's here

Don't expect the fuel crisis to ease till about the day before Dasain. Fed up with empty promises from Kathmandu to clear our huge debt, Indian…

Nation

Babies behind bars

Babies behind bars

PICS: GOVINDA LUITEL Two-year-old Prerana is in prison at the Palpa District Jail in Tansen. She hasn't committed any crime. When her mother,…

Interview

Leisure

Movie masala

Movie masala

Film festival celebrates South Asia's finest talent

Moustaches, warts and all

Documentary film festival brings vivid realities to the silver screen

DIWAS KC & A. ANGELO D’SILVA

Star Gazing

From The Nepali Press

Loktantra

Loktantra

Rituraj in Himal Khabarpatrika, 2-17 September

In this issue:

Slashed and burnt |Messing with the messenger |Editorial: Open border, closed minds |Ending the season of unreason |Babies behind bars |Escape to education |Look, listen and learn |Seven parties, five days |Loktantra |Celebrating development approaches in Nepal |Cosmic Dreams |"Compromise should be found" |Revolts of the righteous |Hidden treasure |Backside: Psst...petrol's here