End of the road
KRISHNA SINJALI If all goes well, the seven-point deal is likely to see Maoist ex-fighters finally leaving the camps (like this one, right, in…
November 4-10, 2011
Headline
Editorial
The mother of all agreements
BIKRAM RAI On the face of it, there is little new in the agreement that was signed by the main political blocs on Tuesday night at Baluwatar. It…
Columns
Guest Column by SASCHA FULLER
Why Monsanto?
Instead of improving harvests, a USAID program to push hybrid maize will make Nepali farmers more destitute
My Two Paisa by PAAVAN MATHEMA
Guilty until proven innocent
The names of alleged VAT evaders are public. Now what?
Backside by Ass
"Result Too Large to Display"
How much is Tuesday's seven-point agreement to resuscitate the peace process going to cost Nepali tax payers? The Donkey got out a calculator…
Nation
The new silk road
"Don't take pictures facing the Chinese side," a Nepali policeman stationed at the border village of Rasuwa Gadhi insists. "They don't allow…
PRASIIT STHAPIT
Rice crisis
A fungal infection threatens to blow away 80 per cent of this year's paddy harvest in the Tila Valley of Jumla, the world's highest rice…
HARIDEVI ROKAYA in JUMLA
Interview
'Bollynatyam' and the remixing of Indian dance
Born to a Czech mother and a Nepali father, Sangita Shresthova (right) was interested in dance as an art form from a young age. She spoke to…
Review
Life Times
Straight from the hip
As a young girl in Kathmandu, Sangita Shresthova used to lock herself up in her room and copy the movements of dance sequences in the Bollywood…
Hong Kong ka Nepali
Journalist Dambar Krishna Shrestha's documentary, Hong Kong ka Nepali will be screened in Hong Kong this week. Shrestha is a reporter at Himal…
Learning lessons
In the winter of 2003, deaths in an avalanche of seven school children while skiing in the Roger Pass area in Western Canada revolutionised the…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Tribute
Pralad Yonzon, 60
When Nepal's top conservationists were killed in a helicopter crash near Kangchenjunga in 2006, Pralad Yonzon lost many of his peers. But he…
From The Nepali Press
"We won't split", BBC Nepali Service
Maoist General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal' interviewed, 2 November
In this issue:
End of the road |Editorial: The Mothers of Agreements | The right to know | Why Monsanto? | Going to seed | Rice crisis | Guilty until proven innocent | Learning lessons | Pralad Yonzon, 60 | The new silk road | We won’t split | Happy PLA | Worshipping work | Death trap | Backside: "Result Too Large to Display%