Issue #489

February 12-18, 2010

Headline

HOT AIR

HOT AIR

BILASH RAI The High Level Political Mechanism may as well be floating high above the Nepali nation for all it has achieved in the last month.…

Columns

Dalit doubts
Guest Column by MITRA PARIYAR

Dalit doubts

Ethnic federalism will further marginalise Dalits

The storytellers
Fourth Estate by CK LAL

The storytellers

Plenty of print about what, not much about what it means

Space Cowboy
Critical Cinema by A. ANGELO D'SILVA

Space Cowboy

Immersive or embedded? Kathryn Bigelow's excellent The Hurt Locker is a moral minefield in itself

Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Federal realities

Federalism may not be as bad as it's carved up to be

3-party dictatorship
Backside by Ass

3-party dictatorship

Kingji was so chuffed with the royal welcome he got in Panauti this week that the erstwhile incarnation of Vishnu is contemplating a similar…

Nation

Self-destruct

Self-destruct

An alarming number of Nepali women are killing themselves

INDU NEPAL

Road to riches

Road to riches

Highway will bring Nepal and Tibet 'in from the cold'

JOANNA JOLLY, BBC in RASUWA

Sounding Solukhumbu

Sounding Solukhumbu

Ultrasound machines prove to be sound investments for a village in Solukhumbu

SMRITI MALLAPATY in SOLU

Publisher's Note

A healthier nation

A healthier nation

DAMBAR KRISHNA SHRESTHA This is still a land where people die of simple, preventable causes. A lung or stomach infection, easily treated by…

Life Times

Uncommon love

Uncommon love

Valentine's Day is more than a just dinner date for those who've overcome geography, society and plain shyness for love

Constitution Supplement

From The Nepali Press

Biz Brief

India offers help

The Indian Railway Board invited Nepali businessmen to attend a discussion about how railway infrastructure could be improved along the…

In this issue:

Hot Air | Federal realities | Dalit doubts | Self-destruct | The storytellers | In search of the Rupee | Space Cowboy | Sounding Solukhumbu | Nursing Nepal back to health | Road to riches | Valentine na salentine | “I guess I’m like Lenin.” | Emotional Dahal | “Dalit liberation within ethnic provinces” | Liberation without oppression | Ethnic provinces will harm the nation | Backside: 3-party dictatorship