July 20-26, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Moving with the times
Day by day, week by week, a year has passed since we started on this project. The idea was to chronicle, analyse and explain the enigma wrapped…
Columns
Work in progress
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.- W B Yeats
Nepal is on its own
The worsening problems of one little Himalayan country don't mean a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Nation
Sorry, Comrade, this is not Marxism
The kind of society that Comrade Bhattarai envisages in Nepal post-revolution does not need a destructive peoples' war.
HARI ROKA
Negative attitude towards positive people
The battle against HIV in western Nepal is waged in isolation of larger development processes. Children and women are the hardest hit.
HAMLATA RAI IN KAILALI
Women are dying in the far-west
The woman was more worried about an unborn grandson than the life of her own daughter.
DR ARUNA UPRETY
"Negotiate from a position of strength..."
The army doesn't want to massacre fellow Nepalis.
LT GEN (RETIRED) KRISHNA NARAYAN SINGH THAPA
Literature
Book Worm
Bhutan- Decentralization and Good Governance Dhurba P Rizal
Adroit Publishers, New Delhi, 2001 Rs 280 An analysis of the various dimensions of decentralisation from Shabdung Thuchen Nawang Namgyal until…
The Himalayan Journal Harish Kapadia, hon. ed.
The Himalayan Club, Bombay, 2000 Rs 450 Essays on the world of climbing, skiing, mountaineering training, and its prominent figures and…
Procuring Water
Foreign Aid and Rural Water Supply in Nepal Sudhindra Sharma Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu, 2001 Rs 400 What is the provision…
The Tibetans
A Struggle to Survive Steve Lehman and Robbie Barnett Virgin Books, London, 1999 Rs 1,800 Lehman's photographs capture the splendour and ruin of…
Yak Yeti Yak
Nepali Society
A voice of Nepal
Reader in Nepali and Himalayan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Michael Hutt's phone often rings with…
Travel
The magic lake
Manang is magic, and there's no better way to catch it than walking up the lovely Q-cho.
SALIL SUBEDI
The Valley’s new facade fad
Sometimes, appearance is about more than a pretty face: the Toyota building
RAMYATA LIMBU
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
One year young
The Nepali Times is one year old with this issue. In that short time it has truly become Nepal's top newspaper. We said last year we would…
Business Briefs
Public enemies
Nepal's public corporations have become a permanent drain on the economy. Most of them only have balance sheets which show losses, and many have…
Hydro growth
Electricity and gas, which comprise about two percent of the GDP, emerged as the highest growth sectors in fiscal 2000/01. The growth in this…
Letters
baburam bhattarai
Thanks to you, Baburam Bhattarai comes across as a coherent and rational person to explain the policies of the NCP(M) (#51). However, the fact…
King Gyanendra
Saubhagya Shah's "King Gyanendra's burden of living" (#51) is fraught with paeans to the present monarch. Although he tried to be confident and…
Rigts and Wrongs
Human rights activists have been raising a hue and cry over the Public Security Regulation (Letters, #51). They fail to understand that the…
Desmond Doig
It has been a pleasure to read Desmond Doig once again in your paper (“Saving Faith”). For those of us who are from Calcutta, Desmond Doig holds…
In this issue:
Still quiet on the western front | Moving with the times | Editorial: Work in progress | Sorry, Comrade, this is not Marxism | Negative attitude towards positive people | Nepal is on its own | Women are dying in the far-west | “Negotiate from a position of strength...” | Why the euphoria? | The Valley’s new façade fad | By the wayside on the information highway | Know thyself, Russia | An agenda for G-7 | Can Koizumi save Japan? | Talking through the deadlock | Cronje campaign gathers momentum | Kathmandu’s highest | The magic lake | Get rich quick | A voice of Nepal