Snakes and ladders
PICS: BIKRAM RAI Nepal's governance is like a game of snakes and ladders, as this image from Thursday afternoon at Singha Darbar shows. The date…
November 23-29, 2012
Headline
Editorial
Slapstick politics
It is no longer enough to say that the Maoists are out to grab power, when the only way to prevent that is to pave the way for elections by joining an interim-government.
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
Making us sick
Unhealthy politics is turning into an epidemic that has infected hospitals and schools
Worldwide by MICHAEL SPENCE
President Xi's Singapore lessons
China's new leader must learn from Singapore's experience with legitimacy of single-party rule through growth and eliminating corruption
Nepalipan by TIRTHA B SHRESTHA
Help save the Chure Hills
They say Nepal is 'landlocked', but it looks these days more like a country without 'locks'
Backside by Ass
Plutocracy of the Red Elite
The nation is still reverberating from The Slap that Comrade Ferocious got on his cheek while shaking hands with karyakartas at the Baddie Tea…
Nation
Bad prescription
Political appointees threaten medical schools with mission to train rural doctors
KIM LAMA
People and power
Nepal's rural communities are taking electric power into their own hands
ANURAG ACHARYA in BAGLUNG
Review
Backyard
Incredibly reasonable prices, modest and simple food make Backyard a favourite joint among young Nepalis and expats
SOMEPLACE ELSE by RUBY TUESDAY
Life Times
Our ama, our hero, New!
Graphic journalist tells the story of Pushpa Basnet and her children through comics
Examining tests
With a plethora of tests available, medical screening can sometimes do more harm than good
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Arts
Must See
Dangerous Liaisons
The Chinese adaptation of the 1988 film is worth watching for its elegant, restrained filmmaking that brings to life the abjectness that can accompany falling in love
SOPHIA PANDE
Nepali Tweets
Tweets of the week
Why is the PM addressing the nation today? To put his face on page 1 in tomorrow's newspapers and push the news of the civil society and…
From The Nepali Press
In this issue:
Snakes and ladders | Editorial: Slapsticks politics | Making us sick | Bad prescription | President Xi’s Singapore lessons | Bliss in ten days | Examining tests | Paranoid politics | people and power | “Never again” | A slap in the face of security | Help save the Chure Hills | Backside: Plutocracy of the Red Elite