Issue #426

November 21-27, 2008

Headline

Rising from the ashes

Rising from the ashes

GOONDADOM: Nearly 2,000 subscriber copies of Himal Khabarpatrika's latest issue, featuring this expos? of the excesses by militant youth wings…

Editorial

Rebels without a cause

We tend to ignore alarmist forecasts because we think something will always come up to avert a future crisis.Here in Nepal, we have a…

Columns

Who's in charge?
State Of The State by CK LAL

Who's in charge?

Thugs and threats rule in the new Nepal

Tarai fragments
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Tarai fragments

Caste and militancy splinters the Madhes movement

No more reports
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

No more reports

It's time to start implementing those development plans

Backside by Ass

A house for Comrade Biswas

In all this high drama one thing the Maobaddies seem to have forgotten about is the 40-point demand that they presented to PM Deuba way back in…

Nation

Off the beaten trek

Off the beaten trek

As Nepal's main trekking areas get overcrowded, it's time to open up new areas

TEXT by BILLI BIERLING

One laptop per Nepali child

One laptop per Nepali child

As the morning bell rings, uniformed students of the Biswamitra Ganesh Secondary School line up in the playground STEVE MALLOCH I KNOW THE…

LINE WOLF NIELSEN in LALITPUR

Interview

Review

Maina's story

Maina's story

A powerful new feature film relates the true story of Maina Sunar

REVIEW by DEWAN RAI

Constitution Supplement

From The Nepali Press

Letters

In this issue:

Rising from the ashes | Rebels without a cause | Editorial: “Integration is the backbone of the peace process” | Who’s in charge? | No more reports | Gangs of anarchy | Press attack | We’re family | Underground with Baburam Sir | Learning from South Africa | Constitution calendar | “We can rock the CA session easily” | Off the beaten trek | The goddess of the east | Towards a Windowsless world | One laptop per Nepali child | IT’s happening in Bhaktapur | Networked cabinet | Maina’s story | Opening doors for Nepali art in London | Still yearning for justice | Backside: A house for Comrade Biswas