Harm reduction
Trust our rulers to try to wreck what is working. In a country where there are so many other priorities (ensuring there is no famine by winter,…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
The theatre of life
Theatre makes life understandable, and to understand is to endure
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Exit strategy
Leaving a business venture is just as important as entering
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA
Win-win-win
MKN should use his India trip to take Kathmandu-Delhi-Beijing ties to a new plane
Backside by Ass
To Russia with love
he Donkey's quote of the week is attributed in the local press to a Kangresi student leader at TC who, after being apprehended with a khukuri in…
Nation
What can I do ?
On climate change, time to think globally and act individually before it is too late
MIKI UPRETI
Post mortem of an epidemic
A lethal combination of decades of state neglect, the war, and slow-moving government machinery
KALENDRA SEJUWAL
Rajeev goes to Jajarkot
MIN RATNA BAJRACHARYA When news first filtered out in May that people were dying in his home district of Jajarkot, and increasingly impatient…
Beating malnutirion
Twenty one civil society organisations across South Asia won grants for their proposals to battle malnutrition in the region during a program…
Business
Electric transformation
Himal Power energises the local community in Dolakha for development
DAMBAR K SHRESTHA in DOLAKHA
The power of a good example
For those in government and elsewhere who find giving people access to quality education and affordable health a formidable challenge, the…
Review
Constitution Supplement
Sharing water resources
Water resources will be the next contentious issue in a federal Nepal
RATNA SANSAR SHRESTHA
International
Afghans go to polls
A peaceful election on 20 August critical for South Asia's security
ANITA ANAND in KABUL
From The Nepali Press
Biz Brief
Toshiba launch
Dickson Poon, regional manager for South Asia at Toshiba Singapore talked to Nepali Times last week about the market in Nepal. Nepali Times: How…
Letters
Letters - Issue #464: FOOD
FOODI would like to thank the Nepali Times for its timely articles on the consequences of this season's failed monsoon (#463). I was lucky…
In this issue:
Win-win-win | The theatre of life | Electric transformation | The power of a good example | Exit strategy | Community education | Treatment by torture | Cantonment tales | Include whom? | Sharing water resources | “A people’s assembly” | What can I do? | Post mortem of an epidemic | Jung Bahadur’s “tip” | Beating malnutirion | Rajeev goes to Jajarkot | Afghans go to polls | Picking up tempo | Backside: To Russia with love