Issue #458

July 3-9, 2009

Headline

Easy way out

Two months after the resignation of the Maoist-led coalition, it's not just the new government and parliament that are stuck: the whole country…

SUBASH DEVKOTA

Editorial

11 months to go

11 months to go

KIRAN PANDAY D Day for the completion of the new constitution is now only 11 months away. The Constituent Assembly's self-imposed deadline has…

Columns

By hook or crook
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

By hook or crook

Political power has come to mean the ability to loot the state

Wake up
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Wake up

When can we cure our myopia?

Guest Column by SEIRA TAMANG

Gendering failure?

Too early to rejoice about having women head two powerful ministries

Backside by Ass

Pants without pockets

By joining the Maoists en masse the other day and giving Chairman Awesome the red salute, Kollywood actors showed that they all deserve Oscars…

Nation

Feather fiends

Feather fiends

Nepal is emerging as a hub for the trafficking of endangered birds

DEWAN RAI

Guerrilla treks

Guerrilla treks

A new trekking route from Myagdi to Rukum follows trails used by the Maoists during the war

KISHOR RIMAL in DHORPATAN

Children of the streets

Children of the streets

A film that reminds us of the lives behind the statistics of child labour in Nepal

RONY MARGALIT

A long, tall glass

A long, tall glass

There's nothing Nepalis love more than beer, it seems, save maybe dal-bhat. But things weren't always this way. In the beer-scarce 1980s, when…

Review

Rallying to a cause

Rallying to a cause

CIRCUS BOYS: Aman and Bijay show off their medals at the National Games in May. Both were rescued from Indian circuses and are now being…

Constitution Supplement

Star Gazing

From The Nepali Press

Letters

Letters - Issue #458: CASTE AWAYS

CASTE AWAYSIs it just me who found Prashant Jha's Plain Speaking column 'Caste aways', #457) this week so shocking? Taking a closer look, there…

In this issue:

Easy way out | 11 months to go | Gendering failure? | Four bandas and a wedding | By hook or crook | Feather fiends | Wake up | Helpless state | Vigilante justice | Shadow government | Unelected ministers | Second-generation revolutionary | Clash of the committees | Guerrilla treks | Children of the streets | Darkness after sunrise | Excellencies make excellent photographers | Rallying to a cause | Backside: Pants without pockets