Issue #41

If the men on the frontlines get an impression that they are fighting to preserve a system that is not responsive to their needs and leaders who are corrupt, then Army deployment will be doomed even before it starts.

Kathmandu Valley is turning into a refugee camp for people fleeing both the Maoists and the police from insurgency-affected areas.

Maoist threats to private schools have hardened the position of the moderate left as well, even though party cadre send their own children to private schools.

It'sa familiar story: a great Nepali export item rides an international fad, there is exponential growth, then a bandwagon effect as everyone…

The pradhan mantri and the pradhan senapati can't figure out who is supposed to take orders from whom. The answer is clear: neither.

The annual Kathmandu book fair, beginning Friday, will be the biggest ever.

We need to remember that the Buddha was a radical and a reformer.

A completely serious and learned survey of Swayambhu by a foreign agency has concluded that the number of monkeys always remains the same.

Kathmandu valley is alive with the sounds of nibbling, tasting and downright chomping in at least 12 languages.

NT staffers pick their favourites. There's a suspicious abundance of daal-bhaat and Japanese restaurants, which leads one to believe reports are…

Driven by Inspiration

A Tibetan Love Story Kate KarkoHodder and Staughton, Great Britain, 2000 Rs 800 Karko's comfortable upbringing did not prepare her for meeting…

From Kathmandu to Kandy Anne Mustoe Virgin Publishing Ltd, Great Britain, 2001 Rs 1,680 Mustoe, an English schoolteacher, made an amazing…

Memoir of an Arab Woman Fay Afaf Kanafani Penguin, India, 1999 Rs 472 The birth of Kanafani (Nadia) coincided with the end of WWI and the…

Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, 2001 Rs 895 Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Mumbai apartment block, lies dying on a staircase landing.…

The annual Kathmandu book fair, beginning Friday, will be the biggest ever.

Young Malika Rana wants to be a tennis star.

Gold medal-winning Tika Bogati's hopes of coaching young marathoners may be dashed by the NSC.

As the summer progresses and the golfing greens get greener, one-day golfing tournaments are happening all over the Valley. The most recent was…

Dutchpainter Ed Vanderkooy is obsessed with beautiful women and with Asia. He has roamed from Bali to Tibet, from Mustang to Shanghai in search…

Our future is bracketed by two writers. George Orwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we hate. Aldous Huxley feared we would be…

Excerpts from an interview with Padma Ratna Tuladhar Nepali Jagaran, 23 AprilThe various meetings between the Maoists and the palace have led…

As soon as it was confirmed that the government would be deploying the army in Maoist-affected areas, the Maoists panicked and held an emergency…

Left-wing students unions were waiting for the SLC exams to end to begin their protests. The students' groups interested in organising the…

he Maoist attacks in many areas of the country, especially in Rukum, Dailekh and Dolakha, have created panic in the minds of policemen, as this…

The All Nepal Women's Union (Revolutionary) is going to start an agitation against the publication of pornographic books and against anything…

It is one of life's ironies. Babu Chiri fell to his death on the mountain he had summitted ten times while he was out taking pictures at Camp…

Nepalis generally don't sunbathe, and we don't have any beaches. But dermatologists have warned that Nepalis are not immune to a variety of skin…

Approximately 60,000 people were left foodless, waterless and charpi-less for 17 hours last week when landslides at Krishnabhir and a couple of…

The Supreme Court has given its verdict. It is of the opinion that the controversial Citizenship Bill sent to the Palace for royal approval…

The UML's madhav kumar nepal is the happiest man around, having forced the country to sdhut down for three days to fight girija koirala on his…

The Nepal Tourism Board began its long-awaited offensive in India last week, luring Indian tourists with everything from ?Priority Puja? at…

A surprise awaited UNESCO experts who met in Kathmandu last week to finalise a concept for the reconstruction of the Mayadevi Temple at Lumbini.…

Carpet exports were down by about eight percent in mid-March from Rs 6.31 billion to Rs 5.79 billion. Exporters say inferior quality exports…

Continued growth in total exports (overseas and to India), and a slowdown of imports kept the trade deficit at Rs 27.39 billion in mid-January,…

Court-appointed governor of the central bank Tilak Bahadur Rawal says he's willing to discuss the timing and practicability of the directives…

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is planning a campaign to attract Nepali tourists, the first time the island nation will actually be promoting…

Now you can get the Nepali Times from the Nepalnews.com site on your Palm or PocketPC device. Visit this link for the service and instructions:…

Daniel Lak is right that foreign aid and development are legitimate subjects for journalists (Here and there, #40). Development should be a…

Here are a few points regarding your exclusive "More guns" (# 40): For $10 million, one cannot get 50,000 new assault rifles-maybe the figure…

With due cognizance to the true violation of human rights that this poor man from a poor country is facing in a foreign land ("Govinda" #39),…

I was outraged at Robert Liden's letter (#39) about Barbara Adams' column. The words he used, "politically correct" and "left-wing nonsense"…

“The inevitable enemy” by Shixiong Ni (#39) was brilliant analysis. But, Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State says: “China is not an…

Thanks to Prashanta Aryal for his well-researched, detailed report on RNAC (Pull up, pull up...#40) The message was clear: curse the politicians…