Useful idiots
CHONG ZI LIANG This week's political crisis is the perfect time for the parties to pay attention to the real issues that 28 million Nepalis are…
Columns
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
You get what you deserve
Establishing a meritocratic economy will improve our political system
Backside by Ass
Caught red handed
After three years during which he contradicted himself and said diametrically opposite things to different people, PKD finally got caught "red"…
Nation
Feeling the pinch
As foreign workers return, Myagdi is buffeted by the global financial crisis
KONG YEN LIN in BENI
Life after dark
With or without lights, life goes on in Kathmandu's gallis
TEXT and PICTURES by CHONG ZI LIANG
Lighting a lamp
Activist's work shows there is no point just cursing the darkness
KUNDA DIXIT in UDAYAPUR
Without a trace
For the families of the disappeared, knowing where their loved ones are is more important than reparation
MALLIKA ARYAL
Constitution Supplement
A federal eco-system
Let's also take ecological regions into account when delineating future federal units
SUSHIL BHATTARAI
Amiable bureaucracy
The civil service in the new federal Nepal should be efficient, result-orientated and approachable
SHYAM PRASAD MAINALI
Star Gazing
Arts
A play in which nothing happens- twice
MALLIKA ARYAL Departing from its usual larger-than-life theatrical productions, this year Studio 7 is daring to perform Samuel Beckett's most…
Music
New age folk
Over the last five years the band Kutumba has revived forgotten folk tunes from villages and brought them to the mainstream music scene.…
From The Nepali Press
Maoists tricked UNMIN
A video of Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the combatants in Shaktikhor cantonment in January 2008 was broadcast by Image Channel on 6 May. In it,…
Rajanspeak
Former Indian Ambassador to Nepal KV Rajan in an interview with Navin Singh Khadka of the BBC Nepali Service, 6 May
Letters
Letters - Issue #450: CRISIS
CRISISThe president may be the supreme commander of the country as you argue in your online edition ('Constitutional crisis',…
In this issue:
Second chance | Useful idiots | No one won | Yadav vs Dahal | You get what you deserve | Feeling the pinch | Maoists tricked UNMIN | Positive move | Admit it | Impeach Yadav | A federal eco-system | miable bureaucracy | Life after Dark | Without a trace | Lighting a lamp | A play in which nothing happens–twice | Planets abound | There goes the neighbourhood | Backside: Caught red handed