July 27 - August 2, 2001
Headline
Editorial
No honeymoon for Deuba
This being his second time in Baluwatar, Sher Bahadur Deuba does not need a political honeymoon period. Nor should he expect one. But he could…
Columns
A whale of a tale
There are many geo-political uses for an overseas development aid budget.
Whither education?
The problem with education is more than the private/ public debate.
Imagine no secrets
I have just been given a potentially catastrophic piece of breaking news that a female gecko has slipped into my CPU through its A-drive slit…
Nation
Rolpa’s lessons
Military force is only a means, and not an end by itself. It has to be deployed judiciously, decisively and in conjunction with other elements of state power.
SAMRAT RANA
Learning to read
Modern Literary Nepali is a book published under the SOAS South Asian Texts Series by Michael Hutt. Hutt has previously made the world of Nepali…
PRATYOUSH ONTA
Book Worm
Mapping the Tibetan World Yukiyasu Osada, Gavin Allwright, Atsushi Kanamaru
Kotan publishing, Tokyo, 2000 Rs 1,560 Much more than a guidebook, this volume contains detailed maps, travel, accommodation, food and cultural…
The Treasury of Good Sayings
A Tibetan History of Bon Samten G Karmay, ed. and trans. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 2001 Rs 640 The first English translation of the…
Selected Fiction Manoj Das
Penguin Books India, Delhi, 2001 Rs 400 A collection of 28 short stories and a novella by one of India's most mature and rewarding authors. The…
The Book of Shadows Namita Gokhale
Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2001 Rs 320 Part ghost story, part erotic romance, The Book of Shadows explores the nature of reality, love and…
Yak Yeti Yak
Nature
Liquid assets
Two recent books on Himalayan water demystify and demythify this precious resource.
MADHUKAR UPADHAYA
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Crowds in the city
The numbers just keep growing. Preliminary results of the National Census 2001 say the district of Kathmandu has a population of close to 1.1…
Civil servants on drive
From lokta to magnetised diskettes. The Nepal government's Nijamati Kitabkhana (record office) has finally entered the cyber age. The country's…
Taxing the old
If you have a vehicle over 15 years old, prepare to pay up. In addition to the regular transport tax that vehicle owners are required to pay,…
Japanese judge detained
Yasuhiro Muraki, one of the three Tokyo High Court judges who decided on the continued detention of Govinda Mainali on 19 May, 2000 is behind…
Blockbuster royale
Sixties matinee idol Dev Anand wants to shoot another blockbuster in Nepal. But this time the Hare Ram Hare Krishna hero doesn't have hippies in…
Letters
Un-Intiligentisia
It is difficult to understand why Nepali intellectuals detest your columnist CK Lal so much (Letters, #51). He is the sole sane voice in the…
Stone age
The only news from Nepal on the Internet seems to be about Maoists and their activities. What do they really want? Terrorism is not going to…
Facades
Nepali Times has knocked architecture off its pedestal and brought it down to the realm of public debate ("The Valley's new fa?ade fad", #52).…
In this issue:
Deuba’s to do list | After Kali Gandaki | No honeymoon for deuba | Editorial: The lion roars again | “The focus must be on a political consensus” | Women and men wonder: how will the Bill change their lives? | A whale of a tale | A generation of failure | Miles to go | Rolpa’s lessons | Whither education? | Liquid assets | “Killers in Blue” | The alchemy of violence | Multiple casualties | Cult in crisis | Queen as ruler | Moving in, and on | Make it public | National government | What now, Prachanda? | “Small things we do” | Whose fault? | Sporting alchemy | Fit, for Nepal | Doig’s kind of Kathmandu | Imagine no secrets | Poonam’s dream-come-true