Light from darkness
JANA ASENBRENNEROVA LIGHT AFTER DEATH: Tilganga Eye Bank manager Shankha Narayan Twyana prepares medical instruments before extracting the…
Columns
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA
Hard choices
It's easy to lambast politicians, but the current crop are under extreme pressure right now
Fourth Estate by CK LAL
Following the paper trail
In India vs Kantipur in June, the truth was never adequately explained to readers
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Systemic failure
We need to find a way to change the system, not the players
Politically Cracked by INDU NEPAL
Nay to the government
When it comes to getting services the residents of Thapathali, Sanepa and Lazimpat are as dependent on the government as those of Taplejung, Simikot and Lamidada
Backside by Ass
Four down, 20 to go
So it does look like the gentlemen's agreement for unnatural political intercourse between the consenting adults of the Madhesi and Maobaddie…
Nation
Women, determined
Women like Shakuntala, Sushma and Sita have independently begun their liberation from housewives to active members of their communities
JEERAWAT NA THALANG
Review
"How can I ever forget?"
Mohan Mainali's documentary, Shadows of Hope, gives voice to the families of those disappeared during the conflict
Publisher's Note
Tail between our legs
KIRAN PANDAY It's hard to see what else the Indian prime minister's special envoy to Nepal can do to untie the knot that Nepali politicians have…
Life Times
Take me to the river
The Bagmati River Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Organiser Megh Ale of the Nepal River Conservation Trust spoke to Nepali Times about what he is trying to achieve:
Snakebite!
In the corners of the Kathmandu Valley we worry about leech bites in the summer, but imagine how much more frightening and deadly a snakebite…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
From The Nepali Press
Biz Brief
In this issue:
Light from darkness | Tail between our legs | Hard choices | The gift of sight | Following the paper trail | Systemic failure | Stuff Nepali People Like - I | The lake that was once Kathmandu | Take me to the river | As good as new | Snakebite! | “How can I ever forget?” | Women, determined | Nay to the government | Unholy alliance | E-farming | Porters, not students | Nationalist Unity Front | Maoists not for pluralism or absolutism | backside: Four down, 20 to go