Issue #660

June 14-20, 2013

Headline

Waiting to get the politics right

KUNDA DIXITA Nepali Congress poster shares a tree trunk with a sign declaring the village of Kalikasthan in Achham open-defecation free (pic,…

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Editorial

Impatient patients

Politicians may think they have more pressing matters in their hands, but the poor state of healthcare is symptomatic of massive political failure

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Columns

Anurag Acharya
By The Way by Anurag Acharya

Breaking views

As elections look more probable, the mainstream media also becomes an extension of the political parties

Ass
Backside by Ass

Clueless in Kathmandu

After petroleum tanker drivers went on strike recently to be allowed to steal fuel en route from Amlekhganj to Kathmandu and taxi drivers staged…

Nation

Close to the edge

In a remote corner of eastern Nepal, villagers log timber to barter for food from Tibet

Sunir Pandey

Crowdfund globally, act locally

A hospital in one of Nepal’s poorest districts that has provided better medical care than hospitals in the capital

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Free-for-all healthcare

Equitable, just, and quality healthcare is never free, it requires state investment

Duncan Maru and Roshan Bista

Review

Mama’s curries

If you like curry and look for not expensive Indian taste in Lalitpur then this is the perfect place to go

Juanita Malagon

International

Bosphorus blues

More than a clash between democracy and autocracy, the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey points towards a class conflict

Ian Buruma

Nepali Times Buzz

Picture perfect

The bird’s eye view image of the crowd during Rato Machhindranath gained immediate fame among millions across the world

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High devotion

Pilgrims are generally unprepared to meet the challenges of high altitude and harsh weather

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Must See

Stoker

A violent and very disturbing indeed film and so, in its own way, vintage Chan-wook Park

Sophia Pande

Gizmo

Book Review

Nepal’s wild west

The book gives us a glimpse of the Nepal’s remote western region’s rich cultural heritage

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Nepali Tweets

Nepali tweets

Kamal Kumar For a day every year, sales of Gorkhapatra would skyrocket. With SLC results being published online, even that is gone. #SLC Gagan…

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From The Nepali Press

Weekly bazar poll #16

In weekly polls conducted with the support of The Asia Foundation, Himal Khabarpatrika asks 375 respondents in 12 cities across Nepal every Monday for their opinion on contemporary issues. This week’s result of interviews about Nepalis’ opinion on their political leaders:

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Holy matrimony

Umita Basnet interviews chairman of Reporters’ Club Nepal Rishi Dhamala and wife Aliza Gautam on Himalaya TV

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Biz Brief

Flying high

Qatar Airways released the first image of its Airbus A380-800 from the manufacturer’s Toulouse assembly line in France. The four-engine jet…

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In this issue:

Waiting to get the politics right | Editorial: Impatient Patients | Breaking views | Bosphorus Blues | Close to the edge | Picture perfect | tying the north-south-south knot | High devotion | Holding up half the district | Crowdfund globally, act locally | The curse of the contraceptive | Reunity of the unified | Fall and fall | Holy matrimony | Backside: Clueless in Kathmandu