September 14-20, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Crying wolf before Mao’s tiger
While the terrorist attacks on American civilian targets confound the mind, the Maoist problem back in our Himalayan mid-hills will not go away.…
Columns
Borderlands
On the frontier, hearts and minds are different from those in the hinterlands in either direction.
The tooth, and nothing but the tooth
In all the hullabaloo last week about the discovery of the Tibetan Wild Ass (Latin Name: Equus asininus) in Upper Mustang, one small bit of news…
Nation
Climbing low
Mountaineering expeditions are on a downturn, and not only because of political instability.
RAMYATA LIMBU
23.2 million Nepalis
The early results of the 2001 census: our population is growing and moving.
HEMLATA RAI
Hard labour
Young Nepalis seeking jobs overseas are cheated at every stage of the employment procedure. And once they are abroad, in debt and unsure of their rights, they work in some pretty appalling conditions.
HEMLATA RAI
Business
Leave Royal Nepal alone
Royal Nepal Airlines had to jettison its Europe routes to keep afloat. But will it be enough?
BINOD BHATTARAI
BPC on the block again
A typo has cost a Norwegian-Nepali joint-venture for BPC its Rs730 million bid.
BINOD BHATTARAI
Leisure
Literature
Translating Bairagi Kainla
A respected literary figure once joked that I probably didn't translate traditional chhanda (formed) poetry because that is harder to translate…
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Economy
Leave Royal Nepal alone
Royal Nepal Airlines had to jettison its Europe routes to keep afloat. But will it be enough?
BINOD BHATTARAI
BPC on the block again
A typo has cost a Norwegian-Nepali joint-venture for BPC its Rs730 million bid.
BINOD BHATTARAI
Travel
A ghostly philosophy".
In the last three months, thousands of words have appeared in the international press about Nepal. After the 1 June massacre, the focus is now…
Nepali Society
Shiba’s healing touch
What Shiba Sharma has done for her village of Sisaniya in Dang district cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Being a trained nurse has…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Budhathoki murder
Police are looking for a member of the Bhutan Revolutionary Free Students' Force, a youth organisation that has claimed responsibility for the…
Fr Charles Law SJ
Fr Charles A Law, Jesuit educator, noted poet and social worker, passed away last Sunday evening. Fr Law came to Nepal in 1958, when he worked…
Expect the worst
Here's something to worry about. A report by the Japan International Co-operative Agency (JICA) says over 20 percent houses in Kathmandu Valley…
Power thieves
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is in a fix. It hasn't been able to collect dues amounting to Rs 2 billion. And it is not people like you and…
Baby steps
Finally children from the carpet industry have a chance to go to school-thanks to a committee of carpet industry owners, labourers and the…
Letters
CK Lal
CK Lal's "The power of one" (#58) is poor analysis spiced up with convoluted thinking and double entendre. In his remarks on the 1816 Treaty of…
Violence
Reading Dr Aruna Uprety's description of her brave work in western Nepal, ("Women are dying in the far-west," #52) I am frustrated. How could…
Whodunit
In "Naranyanhiti whodunit. Who cares?" (#58) Kanak Dixit sounds preachy in his attack against the press and intellectuals. He fails to point out…
Tale-ban.com
Daniel Lak's "Tale-Ban.com" (#58) was an eye-opener, but perhaps biased. Afghanistan may have entered the Dark Ages, but that might be because…
In this issue:
Kamikaze | BPC on the block again | Crying wolf before Mao's Tiger | Editorial: An unstable tripod | Fighting an invisible enemy | Hard labour | Borderland | Climbing low | 23.2 million Nepalis | Corruption index | Taxing issues | Leave Royal Nepal alone | A ghostly philosophy | ...and the hope of farce | American diplomacy | Missed opportunity | "Slash and burn" | Safety nets | Prachandaís family calls | Koirala phobia | Leftists of Nepal, unite | Brothers in arms | MLs unification proposal | Winner in shock | MJ return | Translating Bairagi Kainla | Instant history for the uninformed | On the Nepali literary scene | High fliers | Shibaís healing touch