"I'll smash your windshield unless the prime minister resigns"
BIKRAM RAI The UML's Youth Association Nepal declared a four-day 'morning banda' this week to pressurise Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai to…
August 10-16, 2012
Headline
Editorial
Unfree and unfair
Nepal will remain poorly-governed unless we reform the electoral process with strong laws to regulate campaign financing.
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
A diverse unity
In eastern Nepal, people have come to better accept each other's culture and identity
Backside by Ass
Grin and bear it
So the grovelment has finally buckled under pressure of the extortionists to force colleges with English names to change their names to Nepali.…
Nation
Making schools safer
Functioning and undamaged schools can provide hope and shelter in the aftermath of a future earthquake in Kathmandu
BHRIKUTI RAI
Licence to ride
Hearing impaired Nepalis demand the government to reconsider laws that bar them from driving
MINA SHARMA
Blind faith
A unique cyber cafe in Pokhara empowers the visually- impaired by making the Internet accessible
CANDICE NEO in POKHARA
Business for a cause
Nepali social entrepreneurs are on the rise, but they could do with more support
ANNE RENZENBRINK
Review
Tass and tawa
PICS: RUBY TUESDAY Taas and sekuwa of yore (read about ten years ago) were shady, dimly-lit joints where the Nepali man went to cohort with his…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by RUBY TUESDAY
International
Renting a womb
India's surrogate mothers bear other people's babies to escape poverty
SHAIKH AZIZUR RAHMAN in GUJARAT
Life Times
Seeing beyond the obvious
The power of one man's photography to bring alive Nepal's landscape, history and culture
ALBAN VON STOCKHAUSEN
Changing times
Before antibiotics came to the rescue, our job as physicians was mainly custodial: we tried to take good care of patients and provided them with…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Must See
Trishna
The dexterous and adventurous Michael Winterbottom, a sometimes under-rated British filmmaker has made yet another surprising film. As ever,…
SOPHIA PANDE
From The Nepali Press
Biz Brief
Spreading wings
Dragonair, the sister airline of Cathay Pacific, will increase its services from September onwards and offer daily flights between Kathmandu and…
In this issue:
“I’ll smash your windshield unless the prime minister resigns” |Editorial: Unfree and unfair |A diverse unity |Making schools safer |Renting a womb |Seeing beyond the obvious |Changing times |License to ride |Blind Faith |Business for a cause |The 100 million party fund |Employing the nation |Strike off the strikes |Backside: Grin and bear it