High connections
BIKRAM RAI Fifteen years ago, trekking around Gokyo meant being completely cut-off from family and friends. But today, the sight of porters…
July 6-12, 2012
Headline
Editorial
All politics is local
All the big parties are reluctant to go for local elections because they are afraid of facing the people whom they have misled for so long
Columns
This Is It by RUBEENA MAHATO
A democratic jolt
The NC and UML are dominated by failed and ageing alpha males from the past, it's time to make a clean break
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
Monsoon of the megalomaniacs
A new government made up of old leaders will mean the same old
Backside by Ass
Country going to the dogs
As an Ass, it pains me to say this, but the country is going to the dogs. I have come to this conclusion based on the news report this week that…
Nation
The healing touch
A doctor's selfless professional and personal effort has helped maintain the conscience of a humanitarian profession
SUBHAS DEVKOTA
Review
GG Machan
With restaurants growing like mushrooms (or actually faster than mushrooms) in the Jhamel lane, it is becoming harder to pick one for a dinner…
Life Times
Picking up the pieces after war
A novel shelter is helping children orphaned and injured during the conflict to rebuild their lives
SUNIR PANDEY
Latrines save lives
Community helps its poorer households to ensure sanitation and save children's lives in rural Nepal
ROBIN GIRI in DANG
Irritable bowel
A twenty-eight year old man complains of daily bloating of his stomach with abdominal cramps for ten years. He often has multiple diarrhoea…
Must See
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
It is a rare film that is made about people of retirement age. Cinema tends towards glamorising youth, and romance always seems to happen to the…
SOPHIA PANDE
International
New leader in old Bank, New!
Kim takes charge of World Bank, pledges help for health and education
CAREY L BIRON in WASHINGTON
The Bell Tolls for India's Congress Party New!
The Nehru-Gandhi label has lost its luster in India
JAGDISH BHAGWATI and ARVIND PANAGARIYA
From The Nepali Press
In this issue:
High Connections |Editorial: All Politics is Local |A democratic jolt |Wire(less) below Everest |Picking up the pieces after war |Latrines save lives |Irritable bowel |Monsoon of the megalomaniacs |Humanitarian Fallout |Bringing budget |Consensus time |“Please spare us the trouble” |The other side of trade |The healing touch |Backside: Country going to the dogs