Responsibility to protect
BIKRAM RAI In this prolonged political uncertainty, ad hoc populism passes off for governance. Hoodlums set fire to school buses like this one…
July 20-26, 2012
Headline
Editorial
Certain Uncertainty
The lawlessness all around is a result of politics being stuck in a deadlock within a stalemate
Columns
Its The Economy by CHANDAN SAPKOTA
Budget discord
A caretaker government can't do much more than a stop-gap budget, but improving the investment climate should be a priority
This Is It by RUBEENA MAHATO
The uncritical mass
In a country where politicians get away with murder, one can't really blame their student protégés for setting fire to school buses
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
Anger management
Attacks on private schools are a manifestation of the class divide in education
Backside by Ass
Extending the Extended Central Committee
This was bound to happen. After blowing up government buildings with employees inside for a decade, the Maobaddies are now terrorised by bomb…
Nation
No man's land
Six years after the end of the war, land continues to be the sticking point in the peace process
ANURAG ACHARYA
United for truth and justice
Six years after the war, victims on both sides are coming together in their fight for truth and justice
ANNE RENZENBRINK
Review
Coffee and conversations
There are several reasons to head down to Moksh Complex: music, food, yoga, books. And now you can add one more to the list: coffee. Less than…
Pumpernickel
PICS: ANNE RENZENBRINK If you choose the name Pumpernickel to sell bread and cake in Nepal, you better do it well. Pumpernickel, the popular…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by ANNE RENZENBRINK
Life Times
Seti's orphans
Two months after the Seti flashflood, victims struggle to overcome the disaster and rebuild their lives
CANDICE NEO in POKHARA
After the flood
AVIA CLUB NEPAL THE DAY AFTER: Captain Alexander Maximov of Avia Club Nepal took this photograph on 6 May showing clearly where the rock face…
Nepali diarrhoea
With the advent of monsoon, gastroenteritis (diarrhoea) outbreaks will follow. The communicable disease hospital in Teku will suddenly see an…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Life Times - Issue #614: Events
Events Sam Shepard's True West, American playwright's acclaimed play brought to you by The Poetics Theatre Company. Rs. 200 for adults, Rs. 100…
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From The Nepali Press
"We never demanded ethnic states", Kantipur
Interview with Rajkumar Lekhi, president of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, 15 July
In this issue:
Responsibility to protect |Editorial: Certain Uncertainity |The uncritical mass |The little green car |Budging on the budget |Setiʼs orphans |After the flood |Nepali diarrhoea |Anger management |No man’s land |United for truth and justice |United by loss |“We never demanded ethnic states” |“We have become a whole” |“Why arenʼt we given visa on arrival?” |Flunking elections since 1990 |Rafting versus hydropower |Backside: Extending the Extended Central Committee