4 DAYS, 3 KINGS
Nepali Times has pieced together this chronology of four days in June based on exclusive interviews with high-level sources, eyewitnesses and testimonies included in the probe panel report.
June 22-28, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Elvis is alive
You can easily wake up people who are asleep. But it is more difficult to wake up someone pretending to sleep. We are still in denial: because…
Psychoanalysing a nation
(From: Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson. Garland, 1999) "Our unconscious desire not to recognise or change our destructive behaviour-because…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
From regal to royal
Was the head of government not allowed to accompany the head of state in the royal carriage because his head wasn't shaved?
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Smile, you’re on camera
Here we were, congratulating ourselves with mutual backpats about our splendid work on behalf of the poor, and where were those with first hand experience?
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
At times like these?
We need to adjust to globalisation without changing our culture. Nepal is limping back to normal, grief-stricken and shocked. Slowly people are…
Nation
At Chhauni, 1-4 June 2001
The army jeep with red lights flashing banged into two cars on the street as it careened past the Bagmati Bridge intersection and pulled into Norvic hospital at about 2200 hrs on the night of 1 June.
DR UPENDRA DEVKOTA
The Prince and I
It's been barely two weeks since we returned from Kathmandu. We woke up overcast Saturday morning to the heavy circumstances in Nepal. My…
Interview
Incarceration of innocents
Transcript of a telephone conversation last week between the author and two boys from Kalanki who were picked up by police on Friday morning at…
R KHADKA
Culture
A monument to an Indian princess
Perhaps in the darkness of the night, sorcerers still meet to change metal into stone and water into burning oil.
DESMOND DOIG
Domestic Brief
Sharpening knives
Parliament begins its budget session from Monday and King Gyanendra will address a joint sitting of both Houses soon after. There is a lot of…
Soon, the Children’s War?
There's a relatively new but alarmingly fast-growing phenomenon that needs the attention of Nepali child and human rights activitsts. The recent…
How are Nepali women doing?
Not too well, according to the World Bank. A new Bank study concludes that women's subordinate position in society is the main impediment to…
Business Briefs
Bankrupt banks
Two of Nepal's largest banks have been on the verge of collapse ("What if" NT#26). And the worrying thing is that there has been no progress…
Empty hotels
It was looking like a good summer: Indian tourists had just begun responding to Nepal's "Festival of Life" campaign. The May statistics from the…
NBE gets ISO certification
Nepal Bayern Electric (NBE), which exports engineering and electronics components to Europe, has been awarded the ISO 9002 and ISO 14001…
In this issue:
4 days, 3 Kings | At Chhauni, 1-4 June 2001 | Elvis is alive | "Editorial: From regal to royal | "“I was hit. Sruti took cradled me. Then Dipendra came and shot her.” | “Baba, you have done enough damage.” | Smile, you’re on camera | “I saw him (Dipendra Shah) coming in from the main door in combat uniform carrying two machine guns.” | “I heard gunshots and… a woman’s voice saying ‘call the doctor.’ | Incarceration of innocents | “There is a conspiracy in this country to turn our youth into drug addicts. Even the royal family is not safe.” | The Prince and I | At times like these… | A role model for modelling | Love at first bite | Same old story | Scenes from the drug war | Another new configuration | Wanted: Hard realism | “How could the Maoists stoop so low?” -- Mohan Bikram Singh | King Birendra, Ganesh Man and democracy | “Orphaned twice” | Snubbed | Defunct DDC | King, queen, rickshaw | No census | More peoples’ governments | Three Nepalis and a kayak | A monument to an Indian princess | Bhupi Sherchan On rumour and hearsay | Say Allo | Has anybody seen my teeth? | Ram goes to Brussels