Reflecting reality
DEWAN RAI More than 150,000 people from all over Nepal have been in the mountains of Dolpo for the past two months, scouring the high meadows…
June 15-21, 2012
Headline
Editorial
The assassin creed
The unsolved murders of Ranju Jha and her colleagues as well as that of Justice Rana Bahadur Bam will aggravate impunity and weaken the state.
Columns
Comment by DEWAN RAI
Despair and hope in Dolpo
"Politics is only for the leaders. We never expected anything from the constitution."
This Is It by RUBEENA MAHATO
Paradigm shrift
Media loses its political independence when it becomes unviable as a business
Nepal One by AMRIT GURUNG
Singing for Nepal
Following Siddhicharan Shrestha's footsteps to his beloved Okhaldhunga
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
The messenger is to blame
The platform for debating national problems has itself become a part of the problem
My Two Paisa by PAAVAN MATHEMA
Keep politics aside
We can't let politics hold the country's economy hostage
Backside by Ass
National unity grovelment
It's a myth that the Maobaddies have two factions, they actually have at least five. Let's see: MBK is numerically the biggest sub-group, PKD is…
Nation
Yarsa land
Over-harvesting and lack of regulation have ruined the cash crop on which Nepal's Himalayan dwellers depend for survival
DEWAN RAI in DOLPO
Money, modernity and madrasas
Faced with lack of funds and state support, madrasas struggle to survive and reinvent themselves
SABIR ANSARI in BIRGUNJ
Review
Alice
When Nakul Sherchan returned to Nepal after living in Japan for 14 years, he had a clear vision of what he wanted. He dreamt of setting up a…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by RUBY TUESDAY
Life Times
A roving ambassador for the birds
Outgoing US envoy is ecstatic that he could spot and photograph the elusive spiny babbler
WEIRD psychology
In a 2010 article in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Joseph Heinrich and colleagues showed that many important studies in psychology were based…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Must See
Fantastic Mr Fox
A delightful name for a delightful film - based on an equally captivating book written by the late great Roald Dahl who has invented stories to…
SOPHIA PANDE
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Biz Brief
Summer on wheels
Pepsi has announced the first winners of its Drink and Drive summer offer. The winning number for the Bajaj Discover bike is 42885865. The…
In this issue:
Reflecting reality | Editorial: The Assassin Creed | Paradigm shift | Singing for Nepal | Keep politics aside | A roving ambassador for the birds | WEIRD psycgology | The messenger is to blame | Despair and hope in Dolpo | Yarsa Land | All eyes on Shital Niwas | “NA is now a Maoist army” | Doctors reach out | Money, modernity and madrasas | Backside: National unity grovelment