Living off the land
DEVAKI BISTA The monsoon hasn’t yet been officially declared as “failed”, but it is mid-July and only 30 per cent of paddy fields in Nepal have…
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July 11-17, 2014
Headline
Editorial
The politics of everything
Why carve up the country into supposedly autonomous states, when there is no economic base for that autonomy?
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Columns
Here We Go by Trishna Rana
The generation gap
Nepal’s ageing political leadership is running out of time in more ways than one
By The Way by Anurag Acharya
When the hammer comes down
It is no longer enough to condemn the wrong-doers, they must be named and shamed
Backside by Ass
Moving the goalposts
Moving the goalposts After staying awake two nights in a row watching the World Cup semis, the Ass is writing this week’s column while fast…
Nation
The great Himalayan traverse
Adventure tourists give trekking in Nepal a whole new meaning by doing wilder, longer routes
Matt Miller
Living together
Women in live-in relationships are even more vulnerable when things go sour
Mina Sharma
Post-conflict stress syndrome
Psychological scars of conflict on young survivors take longer to heal
Taylor Caldwell
Review
Swoon lake
Kathmandu based dance group Anzel crew’s rendition of the Russian classic has rough edges
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Walter’s Mitho Mitho
Kathmandu is spreading. The edges of the city creep further and further outside the ring road like pizza dough, turning this large city into an…
Matt Miller
Multimedia
Danger: Men at work
Pictures: Milan Poudel On the fourteenth story of a new high rise apartment rising up on the outskirts of Kathmandu, an Indian construction…
Prashant Gnawali
International
The battle of single mothers
The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country’s former war zone.…
Amantha Perera
Nepali Times Buzz
Gosainkunda Festival
On 9 August, 2014, the eve of Janai Purnima, Gosainkunda Lake (4300m) will be the venue for the climactic enactment of the greatest Vedic story.…
Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD
Must See
The Lego Movie
Believe it or not, The Lego Movie is more or less the The Matrix – but with millions of Lego figures. Once again, Hollywood, seemingly having…
Sophia Pande
Gizmo
Picture This
Fed up with the sub-par picture quality on your mobile device, and thinking about stepping up to a DSLR camera? A major sticking point, when it…
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From The Nepali Press
No discrimination
Interview with Man Bahadur Nepali, the newly appointed Chairman of the National Dalit Commission, Himalkhabar Patrika, 6 July
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In this issue:
Living off the land | Editorial: The Politics of Everything | The generation gap | The great Himalayan traverse | The battle of single mothers | When the hammer comes down | A minority within a minority | Danger men at work | Swoon lake | Gosainkunda Festival | Schnitzel or Asado? | Not so happily ever after | Living together | Justices retreat | Stuck in transit | Shamelessness | No discrimination | Post-conflict stress syndrome | Time doesn’t heal | Backside: Moving the goalposts