Issue #377

December 7-13, 2007

Headline

What are they waiting for?

What are they waiting for?

BILASH RAI After months of dilly-dallying, the Maoists appear to be finally overcoming their fear of elections and trying to iron out a deal…

JB PUN

Editorial

Fooling all the people all the time

Fooling all the people all the time

PHOTOGRAPHER The seven parties deliberated on the extension of UNMIN's mandate until they were blue in the face. What they should have been more…

Columns

Guest Column by NILAMBER ACHARYA

Five-point solution

There are ways to end the present political deadlock

Critical Cinema by A. ANGELO D'SILVA

Into thin ice

Of all the films in this year's Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), none quite matches the charm of H?kan Berthas'…

The bottom line
Backside by Ass

The bottom line

It's when the great revolutionary Lekhnath Neupane appears on the TV show hosted by the openly bisexual Ujju Darling that you know that the…

Nation

Hydropowered education

Hydropowered education

Colleges in eastern Nepal are paying staff by selling power to the government

SHAILEE BASNET in SANKHUWASABHA

Review

Wider than life

Wider than life

ALL PICS: KISHOR KAYASTHAWhen Kishor Kayastha was nine years old and growing up in Bhaktapur, he took his father's precious box camera out of…

21st century Maoism

21st century Maoism

The Maoist People's War in Post-Vietnam Asia Thomas A Marks White Lotus, Bangkok 2007 pp 434 $40 Maoism is the most effective method of…

Star Gazing

Starstruck in Karnali

Starstruck in Karnali

A clear night sky in the mountains makes a stargazer's dreams come true

KEDAR SHARMA BADU

Update

From The Nepali Press

In this issue:

What are they waiting for? |Fooling all the people all the time |Five-point solution |Throwing justice to the wind |NRs, IRs and the $ slide |Conditions for elections |Corrupt Kodari |Dips-in-waiting |Wider than life |Hydropowered education |Starstruck in Karnali |$liding dollar |2-track revolution |21st century Maoism |Into thin ice |The bottom line