Issue #623

September 21-27, 2012

Headline

Choosing election

Choosing election

BIKRAM RAI BIGGIES: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the UML's Jhalnath Khanal and the NC's Sushil Koirala…

KUNDA DIXIT

Editorial

Columns

Zero sum game
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA

Zero sum game

The recourse to new elections is the result of mutual distrust among the parties, rather than the need to seek a new mandate

10 cunning ways to cut load-shedding
Backside by Ass

10 cunning ways to cut load-shedding

For all of you who were thinking of temporarily emigrating to New Zealand this winter to escape the daily 20-hour blackouts, let me sound the…

Nation

Taking nature back to people

Taking nature back to people

Six years after Nepal's top conservationists were killed in a helicopter crash, communities work to conserve their legacy

BHRIKUTI RAI in KAILALI

Vanishing public services

Vanishing public services

Post boxes, trolley buses, ropeways have all faded from the landscape of Kathmandu's memory

DAMBAR KRISHNA SHRESTHA

Review

Shangri-La Kitchen

Shangri-La Kitchen

If you're craving warm, fulfilling soup and stew to beat the chill then Shangri-La Kitchen's gyakok is the ideal concotion

SOMEPLACE ELSE by TRISHNA RANA

Life Times

Early birds get the prize

Early birds get the prize

Urban Nepalis are slowly warming up to bird watching as was evident by the surge of photographs that Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN) received during its first bird photography competition last month

Giving rabies a shot

Giving rabies a shot

Taking timely vaccination shots is the best safeguard against rabies

DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD

Must See

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton

The film is so well written and directed that it is an organic almost living entity, it will live on in your mind

SOPHIA PANDE

From The Nepali Press

Biz Brief

Sleek ride

MAW enterprise, the sole distributor of Skoda has launched the luxury sedan Skoda Rapid along with three options Active, Ambition, and Elegance.…

In this issue:

Choosing Election | Editorial: Intolerance of tolerance | Taking nature back to people | Giving rabies a shot | Zero sum game | Huddled masses yearning to rejoin families | A difficult dream | The politics of Tij | Electoral passage | Better late than never | Vanishing public services | Backside: 10 cunning ways to cut load-shedding