September 28 - October 4, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Peace by Dasain
The bell has now rung for Round Three. Negotiators are being readied for talks again. The two sides used the previous rounds to size each other…
Turn, Turn, Turn
History is an endless cycle. Countries suffer untold turmoil, and return to where they started to find that all the death and destruction was in…
Columns
Guest Column by SUDHINDRA SHARMA
How indebted are we?
Foreign aid is for Nepal what colonialism or capitalism is for other countries. It is the connecting link between the nation-state and the international community.
State Of The State by CK LAL
A year after Dunai
Nations need armies to go to war. But in peacetime, they need a strong and motivated police force.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The real enemy is exclusion
Anyone who thinks the coming blitzkrieg on terror will put a stop to terrorism had better think again.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Kissing assets of arsonists
The Baddies have been getting some bad press of late for allegedly- according to some hitherto independently unconfirmed reports yet to be…
Nation
Missing in action
Two names top the list of those missing since the start of the Maoist "people's war". Dev Raj Joshi, former Nepali Congress MP from Bajura may…
BINOD BHATTARAI IN GENEVA
Drugs abuse
In Nepal, you either get too much medication or not enough. Prescribers may be far from qualified, and drug companies are cashing in.
HEMLATA RAI
Knit your way to power
Electricity in this village means high-tech solar devices and traditional crafts.
NICK BANKS
Contrived confusion
Every political group seems bewildered right now, but there is an evolving consensus: democracy may have to be destroyed to be saved.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
Business
Culture
Triumph of the documentary
Over since moving film made it possible for celluloid to show motion for the first time, artists started using the novel medium for expression.…
KUNDA DIXIT
Leisure
Slice of heaven
Words cannot adequately describe the joys of a Hermann's bakery product.
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Literature
Technology
Libraries in the age of the Internet
David S Magier is South and Southeast Asian Studies Librarian and director of Area Studies at Columbia University, New York. He is also Columbia…
From The Nepali Press
Takes two to talk
Saptahik Bimarsa, 21 September Excerpts from an interview with Krishna Bahadur Mahara
Domestic Brief
High flyers
The Royal Nepal Army has a new force to take on-the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), every time it wants to buy a plane. The PAC recently gave…
Sad SAF
The ninth SAF Games scheduled to be held between 6-15 October in the Pakistani capital Islamabad have been postponed indefinitely due to fears…
The spirit of revolution
Nepal's Revolutionary women are running short on patience. Manu Humagai of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Women's Association (Revolutionary),…
Business Briefs
Thai to fly B777s
Thai plans to fly Boeing 777 instead of its A303-600 aircraft for the daily flights between Kathmandu and Bangkok this winter. The Boeing 777…
One more bike
Another Chinese motorbike JH150T (a product of Jialing) has arrived. Sugan Trading Company, authorised seller of the bikes in Nepal, says the…
RA seeks more debt
Royal Nepal is preparing to mortgage its only debt-free aircraft to raise about a billion rupees in working capital, corporation sources say.…
Pre-paid phone cards
Phone cards have arrived in Nepal-finally. The Nepal Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) is installing card-operated telephone sets at various…
Hotel on the lake
There's a new three-star hotel on the banks of Phewa Tal, Pokhara. The Trek-O-Tel opens this weekend and offers 42 beds. In addition, says a…
Letters
The eagle is wounded
C K Lal has it all wrong in "The eagle is wounded" (#61). Saying that President George W Bush and his advisors have not understood the enormity…
In this issue:
Round 3 | Editorial: A year after Dun | Contrived confusion | Drugs abuse | The real enemy is exclusion | Knit your way to power | How indebted are we? | Libraries in the age of the Internet | "Pakistan was the condom the Americans needed to enter Afghanistan" | CIA, ISI and the Taliban | Taliban, talks and political change | Triumph of the documentary | Slice of heaven | Kissing assets of arsonists