Issue #44

A pioneering Thai activist says Nepal can learn a lot from Thailand's mistakes and achievements in fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Destroying is easy. Harder, and more important, is building a vision for the future.

It must surely have occurred to several wags just how aptly named "South Block" in New Delhi's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is. While the South…

How about inviting Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf on a three-day official visit to Nepal?

The party has a good chance to occupy the currently vacant "liberal democratic" band of the Nepali political spectrum that is left of the hardline royalists and right of the socialists.

Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel spoke to Nepali Times this week about talking to Maoists, Congress infighting, and the opposition…

Jhala Nath Khanal is the Standing Committee Member of the main opposition Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He heads the…

Nepali business suffers from the same malaise as politics: factionalism and infighting.

A desolate and repentant King Jaya Prakash Malla ordered a search for a suitable child.

An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts Gregory G Maskarinec Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, 2000 (Reprint) Rs 650 This book, based on…

The Dramatic Tale of how India was Mapped and Everest was Named John Keay HarperCollins Publishers, London, UK, 2000 Rs 780 The 1,600 mile Great…

An Introduction and Guide Donald S Lopez Allen Lane The Penguin Press, UK, 2001 Rs 1,300 Lopez explores different ways the final Buddhist goal…

Conversion, Contestation, and Memory Matthew T Kapstein Oxford University Press, New York, 2000 Rs 1,500 Kapstein examines Tibet's eighth…

There are many grand ancient temples in Kathmandu Valley. But thousands of Kathmanduites have forgone these wondrous reminders of the past to…

Afantastic Kathmandu night. Soothing background music as the camera trails over the city and angles down to a small house-a Disney-ish version…

Talk to your children and watch where they are clicking before we have our first cybercrime.

There are about 600 students in Notre Dame School. About 120 are Dalits or from poor backgrounds and pay no fees at all. Their education is…

After a foreign woman working in a development project moved into a village, dogs began to have a good time. One day, she noticed a malnourished…

The prime minister has taken a direct interest in the Nepal Telecommunication Corporation's Six Telecom Project. The project is to lay cables…

First the United Marxist Leninists marched to Purnagiri. Now it is the turn of the Marxist Leninists to express their nationalism. About 200…

Child rights groups are asking households and individuals not to employ children under 14 years as domestic help. A statement by CWIN appeals to…

A battle royal is brewing between Aqua, one of Nepal's most successful bottled water companies, and a rather cheeky new competitor that has…

The Nepal Tourism Board has switched gears, as is apparent from this ad which appeared in the Times of India on 18 May. Maruti is offering a…

The column by CK Lal ("Time to go", #43) on Prime Minister Koirala is just right. But what is the alternative? All politicians are involved in…

Thank you for “Garden of dreams” (#43) by Salil Subedi and Anagha Neelakantan about the restoration of Keshar Mahal. The before and after photos…

After reading your editorial “Grenada and Nepal” (#42) I had this eerie feeling that the Indian media inhabit a Borgesian world where fiction…

Saundarya Thapa has an understanding well beyond her fifteen years. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone in government, and also the Maoists would…

Here is another definition of “expert” (“Expat=expert”, Letters…

I have been following the on-again-off-again saga of Girija Koirala in your paper. What if Koirala steps down, who next? I can't see any leader…

Yours is the best paper to ever come out of Nepal. CK Lal should be commended for his analytical writings, even though some of his analyses end…