New frontiers
KUNDA DIXIT The demand for ethnicity-based federalism stems from centuries of feudal neglect, centralisation, and the domination of hill caste…
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October 10-16, 2014
Headline
Editorial
Demography and democracy
Federalism is looking fraught, it may be wiser to address exclusion in the new constitution but leave state restructuring for later
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Columns
By The Way by Anurag Acharya
Dangers of delay
Post-festival, constitution writing will be a battle ground for competing personal and partisan interests
On The Road by Guna Raj Luitel
Dream come true
A Nepali returns to his homeland to fulfill his lifelong ambition
Backside by Ass
Attain nirvana by doing nothing
As Dasains go, this year’s festive season had a somewhat somnolent quality. Many of us logged 18 hours of sleep a day, waking up only to gnaw at…
Nation
Power cuts are here to stay
Brace yourselves: Nepal will be dependent on imported electricity for at least another six years
The Kathmandu mandala
Like the city itself, the texture of Thomas Bell’s book is deceptively fluid and anarchic
Business
Pack your gear and go
Trekking in Nepal is booming, but faces competition from a spreading road network and underpricing
Elvin L Shrestha
Shoes with soul
Interview with Dulma Clark of Soul of Africa to know more about the planned initiative in Nepal.
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Review
Nostalgic for the future
Jan Salter says her retrospective exhibition was to remind herself that she is an artist
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Food court at City Centre
When eating out with children the best place to go to are food courts- there is something there to suit everyone’s palate and you avoid whines…
Ruby Tuesday
Multimedia
Nepal in the anthropocene
Swiss photographer chronicles district transformed by human development in the last 40 years THE WAY IT WAS: The settlement of Charikot in 1973…
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Jazz comes home
Come Thursday 16 October, Kathmandu will once again groove to the sound of Jazz.
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Pressure in the mountains
What governs blood pressure control mechanisms at high altitude is largely unknown. Many doctors recommend patients with high blood pressure not…
Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD
Must See
The Maze Runner
I admit that I walked into the theater to watch The Maze Runner having done very little of my homework. Before the marketing campaign for the…
Sophia Pande
Gizmo
i-Pleasing
Give it to Apple for continuing to remain the company whose product launches are nothing short of a world event. As with its predecessors,…
Yantrick
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In this issue:
New Frontiers | Editorial: Demography and democracy | Power cuts are here to stay | RIP: Homo economicus | Pack your gear and go | Shoes with soul | Devoted to painting | Nostalgic for the future | Pressure in the mountains | Dangers of delay | Dream come true | Nepal in the anthropocene | Nepali voices in Hong Kong | PNS fan | HLPC 2.0 | Agreeing to agree | The Kathmandu mandala | Backside; Attain nirvana by doing nothing