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
July 3-9, 2009
Headline
Editorial
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
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA
By hook or crook
Political power has come to mean the ability to loot the state
Guest Column by SEIRA TAMANG
Gendering failure?
Too early to rejoice about having women head two powerful ministries
State Of The State by CK LAL
Four bandas and a wedding
Even the town, where the Madhes movement was born, has lost hope
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
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
A film that reminds us of the lives behind the statistics of child labour in Nepal
RONY MARGALIT
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
Excellencies make excellent photographers
With politicians blaming Kathmandu-based ambassadors of interfering in Nepal's internal affairs, you'd have thought the diplomats wouldn't have…
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
Second-generation revolutionary
A new constitution also means learning from past mistakes, says Maoist CA member
Star Gazing
Darkness after sunrise
Are you ready for the first and longest solar eclipse of the 21st century?
KEDAR S BADU
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