Let’s get this over with
This campaign must be brought to a swift and effective conclusion with the least amount of Nepali blood shed.
KUNDA DIXIT
November 30 - December 6, 2001
Headline
Editorial
Just another Third World War
This is just what most of us felt should never have happened. A prolonged, messy conflict with uncertain outcome, more death and misery for…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The bastards of war
The lessons of war and everyday life are often simple and similar: equal rights, equal development. For women and men.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Look north
The newest agreement in tourism cannot remain just a paper tiger.
State Of The State by CK LAL
A state in dire straits
This time it is nothing less than the future of our freedoms that is at stake.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
One helluva move
Among the priceless items of heritage that we are in danger of losing to the relentless march of civilisation as we know it are our glorious…
Nation
Once a "foreign disease", AIDS is now a Nepali epidemic
There is no such thing as a high-risk group for HIV in Nepal anymore. Everyone is at risk.
KUNDA DIXIT
Prachanda’s war path
A blow-by-blow account of the emergence of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) from its inception, through the splits in the communist movement, its brief honeymoon with parliamentary democracy, the start of the bloody "people's war" to the present state of national emergency.
BINOD BHATTARAI
Interview
"Where decentralisation has brought development, you don’t see Maoists."
Krishna P Sapkota Chairman of the District Development Committee of Kavre.
History
Going by the Little Red Book
These excerpts from Mao Zedong's Little Red Book-from sections on the armed struggle to capturing political power, surrounding the cities from…
Travel
Nepali Society
Chatyang Master
Have Nepalis become too cynical to laugh? Ha-ha, that's a good one, chuckles Krishna Murari Gautam, who goes by his nom de guerre Chatyang…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
One who did Nepal proud
The 1960s through to the mid-1970s can be considered the golden age of Nepal's bureaucracy, when a few but able bureaucrats, led by redoubtable…
Barring children
Nepal has decided to relocate all children living in the country's jails in a commitment made Tuesday, the 12th International Child Rights Day.…
Short on passports
Those hoping to go abroad in the near future are in trouble if they don't have their passports yet. An official at Kathmandu's Central District…
Culture of preservation
Cultural conservationists have cause to celebrate. They hope the endorsement of the Kathmandu Declaration, adopted by the Ministry for Culture,…
Purposeful PAC
For once, someone appears to be taking the Public Accounts Committee seriously. After the PAC issued a notice in August threatening to make…
Business Briefs
Indosuez shares
Nepal Indosuez Bank's efforts to offload its shares and pull out of Nepal have hit another snag-petitions by board members and shareholders for…
One helluva move
Among the priceless items of heritage that we are in danger of losing to the relentless march of civilisation as we know it are our glorious…
KUNDA DIXIT
BPC bids
The government has extended the deadline for submission of bids for the Butwal Power Company up to 5 December. The bids should have come in by…
Deloitte Touche gets RBB
The Banking Reform Project inched a step forward with the selection of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as the management group for the job of turning…
Letters
$70,000,000
The 23 November attack on the army base in Dang should answer Binod Bhattarai's query in "$70,000,000" (#69) about why the army needs the new…
Terrosim and the state
I find Daniel Lak's assertion ("Two months after", #68) that US foreign policy is all right because the makers of such policy are accountable is…
Nabob of negativism
The comments and observations of Kunda Dixit in "Under My Hat" are best left under his hat. I was reading his "Mother of all inventions" (#68)…
The best
This is to convey my support to your paper and what it stands for. It is very reliable and for us, people far away from home, a wonderful source…
Girija
Re: "Deuba's gamble", # 67. Looks like Nepal is seeing some rays of hope amidst chaos with the government and Maoists talking again and the…
In this issue:
Let’s get this over with | Prachanda’s war path | Just another third world war | Editorial: A state in dire straits | “Where decentralisation has brought development, you don’t see Maoists.” | Once a “foreign disease”, AIDS is now a Nepali epidemic | The bastards of war | In times like these | Peace pretence | Who will look after us… | Look north | Shopping for humans | The end of geography | Growth in an age of anxiety | Women and the “war” | The Forbidden Truth ? | Black Friday | Alice in in Nepal | One helluva move | Chatyang Master