Outside, looking in
TOH EE MING After turning out in huge numbers five months ago to vote in a new government and Assembly to write the constitution, the people are…
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April 4-10, 2014
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Editorial
Urgent need for a sense of urgency
To say that the government is on autopilot would be inaccurate because that presumes it is on a pre-planned flight path
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Columns
Southasia Beat by Kanak Mani Dixit
Modi’s momentum
What will the elevation of a Hindutva hawk do to his country, and how it will impact on Nepal?
By The Way by Anurag Acharya
The shaky pillar of Indian democracy
This month’s Indian election is a battle to preserve the country’s founding principle of secularism
Look Out by Ajaz Ashraf
The vote in Varanasi
The battle for India’s soul is being waged in the Hindu heartland in next week’s election
Backside by Ass
Replacing hammers and sickles
The latest from the Bolsheviks at Balkhu is that the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Marxist- Leninist wants to lose Comrades Karl and Vladimir…
Nation
Healthy makes wealthy
Making traveller’s health a priority could attract more tourists to Nepal
Hariz Baharudin
Dolakha farmers learn to adapt
Local innovation and experiments to cultivate new crops are making villagers better equipped to face a future with an uncertain climate.
Nina Holmelin
Too little, or too much freedom
“We used to have lots of don’ts but now we have lots of do’s”
Business
Kadoorie in the land of Gurkhas
Hong Kong electricity tycoon willing to help Nepal, but not yet ready to invest in hydropower
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Review
The Kumari story
When Nepal opened up to the outside world in the 1950s and the first early tourists started coming in, they were mandatorily required to…
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Dan ran
Dan Ran is by far my most favourite Japanese restaurant in the Jhamsikhel area. It opened its doors around 10 years ago and was one of the first…
Ruby Tuesday
Multimedia
Infographic: Lok Sabha elections
Text: Anurag Acharya and Ajaz Ashraf Infographics: Ayesha Shakya The largest democracy in the world is going to parliamentary polls for the 16th…
Ayesha Shakya
Nepali Times Buzz
Change within, change without
ICIMOD’s multimedia exhibition has engaged a range of Nepalis, and may trigger the shifts in mindset needed to adapt to climate change
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Giving and receiving
Surya Nepal Asha Social Entrepreneurship awards outstanding changemakers
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Staying in Nepal
What percentage of the new medical graduates from the growing number of medical colleges will stay in Nepal? Of those that stay in Nepal, what…
Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD
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Rwanda's rebirth
KIGALI – Twenty years ago this week, the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsis, the most brutally efficient killing spree in history, began. As the…
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From The Nepali Press
In this issue:
Outside, looking in | Editorial: Urgent need for a sense of urgency | Modi’s momentum | Healthy makes wealthy | Kadoorie in the land of Gurkhas | Dolakha Farmers learn to adapt | Change within, change without | As the light went down | Giving and receiving | The Kumari story | Staying in Nepal | Too little, or too much freedom | The Shaky Pillar of Indian Democracy | “The vote in Varanasi” | The Muslim myth | Highways of death | Lost and confused | Lording over the grassroots | Backside: Replacing hammers and sickles