Sorry soldiers
Documentary films have been made about Nepal's female guerrillas, and photographs of them handling assault rifles have been printed…
July 22-28, 2011
Headline
Norway mourns
The country grieves Friday's tragic attacks on government offices in Oslo and on a youth summer camp at Utoeya.
Editorial
More than half the sky
ASHOK R SHAKYA When the centre doesn't hold because the centre is so obsessed with gaining and staying in power, things fall apart. The state…
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
SEZ who?
The onus is on the government to convince us that we need special economic zones
Chalo Dilli by JYOTI MALHOTRA
Footnote to Sugauli
Two hundred years is a long time to figure out where you belong
This Is It by RUBEENA MAHATO
Surfing under surveillance
Careful, the government is peering over your shoulders
Backside by Ass
Using fowl language
RSS There has been a lot of hoo-hah about the use of foul language by politicians lately. As some of you may know, the Ass is used to spice up…
Nation
Love in a time of war
Wartime marriages between Maoists don't withstand the pressures of peace
ARUNA RAYAMAJHI
Womanpower stays home to teach, as manpower migrates
WILKO VERBAKEL THEN AND NOW: Sarita was 12, and the biggest girl in class when she enrolled after refusing to get married five years ago…
WILKO VERBAKEL in SINDHUPALCHOK
"I wanted to murder whoever did this to my daughter"
BIKRAM RAI BY HER SIDE: Krishna Tamang tends to his daughter at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. She hasn't spoken to anyone since the rape a…
DEWAN RAI
Stateless in their motherland
Citizenship provisions in the new draft constitution reek of paranoia and pseudo-nationalism
KUNDA DIXIT
Review
Tings Tea Lounge
PICS: MARCO POLLO Once upon a time—not too long ago in 2010—Ramalaya, the high-end interior design showroom, opened its Tea Room, where…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by MARCO POLLO
Life Times
A hazy future
Growing affluence in the Indo-Gangetic plains is generating pollution that is ruining our mountain views
ALONZO LUCIUS LYONS
GB syndrome
In June 2011 there were reports of patients from Yuma County, Arizona, USA with Guillain Barre (GB) Syndrome. This ailment is very well known to…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
From The Nepali Press
Biz Brief
Business happenings of the week
Handy videosCanon has launched Legria FS405, a standard definition camcorder powered by a 1/6-inch CCD and 41x advanced zoom. Quick charge…
In this issue:
Sorry soldiers | Editorial: More than half the sky | SEZ who? | Stateless in their motherland | Footnote to Sugauli | Bank robbery | A hazy future | Surfing under surveillance | GB syndrome | "I wanted to murder whoever did this to my daughter" | Love in a time of war | Womanpower stays home to teach, as manpower migrates | "He told people I was a witch" | Power politics | Backside: Using fowl language