Issue #409

July 18-24, 2008

Headline

The first president

The first president

DEEPENDRA BAJRACHARYA ONE NEPAL: A Grade One student in Dhading poses for a picture in front of a map of Nepal on his classroom wall last…

KUNDA DIXIT

Editorial

Columns

Lost in a crystal maze
Critical Cinema by A. ANGELO D'SILVA

Lost in a crystal maze

Fuzzy plot and cultural chauvinism dulls The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Holding the centre

Isolationists and integrationists vie for the Madhesi heart

Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

The long tail

Grievances are adding up against some ad agencies

Backside by Ass

Pukada, the president-maker

What's going on with the photo-section of our Maoist-controlled media? RSS transmitted a bucolic picture of Grindenwald in Switzerland with fat…

Nation

Can't wait to leave

Can't wait to leave

Despite threats, refugees from Bhutan opt for third-country resettlement

KUNDAN ARYAL in JHAPA

A new life

A new life

Young women escape abuse and find a chance to start afresh

DHRUBA SIMKHADA

Pardoning the perpetrators

Pardoning the perpetrators

KIRAN KRISHNA SHRESTHA PROLONGED AGONY: War victims like mother of a disappeared, Laxmi Maya Acharya In June 2007 Nepal's Supreme Court ordered…

MALLIKA ARYAL

The long, long wait

The long, long wait

Families of the disappeared want truth and justice

RAMKUMAR BHANDARI in LAMJUNG

American Nepali dohori

American Nepali dohori

KIRAN PANDAY The can match the quick wit and sarcasm required to master the traditional art of dohori singing with confidence and poise. And if…

International

What leaders need to lead

What leaders need to lead

Are leaders born to lead, or do they learn to lead? Are they Alpha Males or Little Big Men?

JOSEPH S NYE

Fear and want

Human dignity requires mutually dependent freedoms from fear and want

LOUISE ARBOUR

From The Nepali Press

Now you see him, now you don't

Now you see him, now you don't

A photograph of NC, UML and Maoists, while it appeared with the Reporter's Club coordinator Rishi Dhamal (in red shirt) in the The Rising Nepal…

Deadlocked

Khilbahadur Bhandari in Gorkhapatra ,11 July

Business Briefs

In this issue:

The first president |Prime Minister Dahal and President Singh |Editorial: Holding the centre |Napoleon to neo-Mao |Refugees finally find respect |Can’t wait to leave |The long tail |“No such place as Madhes” |Deadlocked |Bhanu Sarani |ow you see him, now you don’t |YCL clone |A new life |Fear and want |Pardoning the perpetrators |The long,long wait |What leaders need to lead |American Nepali dohori |Lost in a crystal maze |Backside:Pukada, the president-maker