Issue #451

May 15-21, 2009

Headline

Nepal's turn?

Nepal's turn?

SUBHAS RAI After marathon meetings and shuttles all week, it now looks more and more likely that the UML-NC+15 small parties combine can reach…

DEWAN RAI

Editorial

There they go again

There they go again

MIN RATNA BAJRACHARYA Countries in fragile political transition have to be governed differently from stable democracies. Transitional politics…

Columns

Do or die
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Do or die

"Either we finish what we started, or we get finished."

Operation Democracy
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Operation Democracy

Nepal needs to look beyond South Asia at how democracies manage their armies

Guest Column by KUL CHANDRA GAUTAM

The jury is out

What an irony that a party that hasn't renounced violence and keeps its own army wants "civilian supremacy

Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

Office politics

In Nepal, it's not just the government that is politicised

Khaire Bhai by TOM OWEN-SMITH

Not red enough

International communists weigh in on the Nepal revolution

Backside by ASS

Civil society supremacy

Stalwarts of the civilian society have been demonstrating their supremacy by joining nationwide protests by krantikari buffalos this week. But…

Nation

Close to the edge

Close to the edge

The Kusunda are not just facing poverty and alienation, but extinction

KONG YEN LIN in GORKHA

Hard nut to crack

Hard nut to crack

How a near death experience with a peanut turned into a life saving dream

Alternative investment

Alternative investment

CHONG ZI LIANG Prithvi Bahadur Pand? is no stranger to those acquainted with the Nepali banking sector having worked first at Himalayan Bank and…

Culture

A generation awakens to hip hop

A generation awakens to hip hop

ALL PICS: CHONG ZI LIANG STEP UP: (l-r) Nepali b-boy Naresh Darlami performs an 'elbow freeze'; a Thai judge demonstrates a move at a b-boying…

Leisure

Electric 'car'-nival

Electric 'car'-nival

MIN RATNA BAJRACHARYA Most of Kathmandu's battery-operated vehicles will be joining a charity electric car rally next month to raise money for…

Constitution Supplement

What about Dalits?

What about Dalits?

KIRAN PANDAY Ethnicity has taken the central stage in the debate on federalism. Languages and regional criteria have also been mooted.Janajati…

Yam Bahadur Kisan

From The Nepali Press

Batsayan in Kantipur, 10 May

Batsayan in Kantipur, 10 May

We thought it was a machine to build roads, turns out it is to establish people's supremacy! Sign: People's supremacy Newspaper: NC and UML…

Biz Brief

Seamless banking

All 29 branches of Everest Bank now operate as a single bank with online communication and transfer of data as the company has upgraded its…

Letters

Letters - Issue #451: VIDEO FIASCO

VIDEO FIASCOWe have now heard from the horse's mouth about the real strength of the Maoist PLA? somewhere in the vicinity of 7,000 combatants.…

In this issue:

Nepal’s turn? | There they go again | The jury is out | The master manipulator | Do or die | Hard nut to crack | Office politics | Alternative investment | What about Dalits? | Many tongues, one voice | Semi-automatic autonomy | Close to the edge | Not red enough | The Tharu | Operation Democracy | Electric ‘car’-nival | Festivals of the Valley | Nepal to the Nile | Backside: Civil society supremacy