High and dry
HARIZ BAHARUDIN This year’s World Water Day on Saturday 22 March has the theme water and energy. In Nepal the two are inextricably linked. The…
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March 21-27, 2014
Headline
Editorial
Mixing oil and water
Flames of fossil-fueled vehicles set on fire by street terrorisers on Wednesday morning had to be doused with precious water
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Columns
Here We Go by Trishna Rana
Nuisance value as a strategy
What do you expect from someone who still admires Mao and Stalin?
Look Out by Ajaz Ashraf
Citizen journalists in the citizen party
India’s Aam Aadmi Party fields seven journalists in April’s elections
Backside by Ass
Relocate Kathmandu
Comrade Awesomeful misses having the spotlight on him as the most powerful alpha male in Nepal. This is why he has lately been giving interviews…
Nation
Manakamana, the film
Manakamana is a structurally formal, but groundbreaking documentary which requires a great deal of patience on the viewer’s part.
Hariz Baharudin
Flour power
Improved water mills are transforming rural Nepal with efficient agro-processing and electricity
Ayesha Shakya
What to do while waiting for the Melamchi mirage?
Don’t ask what the municipality can do for you, just start storing your own rainwater.
Bhrikuti Rai
High five
Crossing the seven seas to climb all the seven highest mountains in seven continents
Nimadoma Sherpa
Business
Inspired-by-Hillary
Harshwanti Bisht was awarded the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal for her work in protecting the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand.
Athar Parvaiz
Review
Of family and reunions
Prajwal Parajuly has had quite the literary debut. Even before the release of his first book, The Gurkha’s daughter, this native of Gangtok was…
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Embassy
The name is fitting enough, positioned as it is on Lazimpat’s embassy-laden lane and aims to cater to the embassywallahs and Kathmandu’s hoity…
Ruby Tuesday
Nepali Times Buzz
Nepal’s last car carrier
Cars are supposed to carry people, but in Nepal people carried cars
Suraj Kumar Bhujel
Call for greener Kathmandu
Photographers suggest ways to manage the waste problem that has plagued Kathmandu in this latest exhibit
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Touch of class
Queen is fine entertainment, about a New Delhi girl in Paris and Amsterdam.
A new bite
The viral illness called Chikungunya came to the world’s attention in 2005-2006 after five decades of obscurity. During this time, there were…
Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD
Must See
The Monuments Men
It’s always puzzling and a bit of a shame when a perfectly competent director makes a sub-par film. George Clooney’s latest endeavor The…
Sophia Pande
Gizmo
My café
Yantrick’s workdays are littered with coffee breaks, but with the boss raising a skeptical eyebrow from his cubicle, such trips to the office…
Yantrick
From The Nepali Press
In this issue:
High and dry | Editorial: Mixing oil and water | Nuisance value as a strategy | Finding vanishing planes | Inspired by Hillary | Manakamana, the film | Nepal's Last Car Carrier | call for greener Kathmandu | Touch of class | Of family and reunions | A new bite | Citizen journalists in the citizen party | Flour Power | What to do while waiting for the Melamchi mirage? | Between Left and Right | Dangerous for men too | High Five | Backside: Relocate Kathmandu