December 28, 2001 - January 3, 2002
Headline
Editorial
2002-A year to live decisively
What a year it has been. 2001 was the kind of year you would not even wish on your enemy. It started with irrational street riots, the deranged…
On a more positive note
On a more positive note Most of Kathmandu's urbanisation woes are management problems. Given the political will and sound administration they…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The more things remain the same
I wish we were doing more to help the poor and less privileged. I wish I could tell my children that the future is bright.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Shareholder scare
How should shareholders realy behave? How should markets be regulated? Will we ever know?
State Of The State by CK LAL
The paradox of power
With the emergency, Sher Bahadur Deuba should be the most powerful prime minister we've ever had. So how come he is the most powerless?
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Legally binding new year resolutions
I have this sneaking suspicion that I may not be speaking just for myself when I make a public confession that the trouble with new year…
Nation
The Nepali art of war
A former Maoist commander assesses the war so far, and predicts future rebel strategy.
PUSHKAR GAUTAM
Interview
Business
The Maoist war has exposed the government’s most vulnerable flank- the economy.
Even without the war against the Maoists, the economy was in tatters. Now, it needs to be rushed into intensive care. The medium term prognosis…
BINOD BHATTARAI
History
Back at Sundarijal >1
Starting this week, Nepali Times will serialise the previously unpublished diaries of BP Koirala from the period immediately following his…
Economy
The Maoist war has exposed the government’s most vulnerable flank- the economy.
Even without the war against the Maoists, the economy was in tatters. Now, it needs to be rushed into intensive care. The medium term prognosis…
BINOD BHATTARAI
Conservation
Travel
Zhangmou’s capitalist paradise
It is nine in the morning, but across the bridge in Khasa it is already noon. Everything is ahead of its time in this Patpong on the Bhote Kosi.
SANGEETA LAMA and RAJENDRA KHADKA in ZHANGMU
Happenings
From The Nepali Press
Follow the money
Ninety percent of the money supposedly being spent in the health sector never ever reaches the people it is meant for. Most of it is spent on…
Domestic Brief
Tourism vs terrorism
Just when things seemed to be getting from bad to worse for tourism, the government has taken damage control measures. It decided this week to…
SAARC refugees
The roughly 100,000 Bhutanese who have lived for the past 12 years as refugees in Nepal are hoping that next week's summit of South Asian…
Enrolment up
A mid-term review of Nepal's biggest education project, the Basic and Primary Education Project (II Phase), has revealed major gains in…
Business Briefs
Tightfisted no more
The Nepal Rastra Bank has lowered the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) requirement of commercial banks to release additional funds for lending and has…
ADB portfolio 2001
2001 was perhaps a terrible year for Nepal's economy, but it was not as bad for the Asian Development Bank in Nepal, as we were told at a…
Chinese tourists handlers
The government has begun a process of selecting 100-150 travel agents to handle the Chinese tourists expected to start arriving next year. The…
Apple of Nepal’s eye
It has been another average year for Mustang apples: only half of the roughly 1,500 metric tons produced in 2000-2001 could find markets. The…
Letters
4+36
Thank you for providing the full text of the interview with Chief of Army Staff, Prajwalla SJB Rana (#73). However, the frequent reference by…
Promod Khakurel
CK Lal's "Worrying about Nepal in Paris" (#73) was excellent. I was honoured to meet him in Paris, and was impressed by the man's simplicity,…
Media
Although you were trying to draw lessons for Nepal during the emergency, I was intrigued by your comparison of western media coverage of the…
Denial
Re: "Sex in the Valley" (#61), I hope we all are honest enough to face the realities presented by the pre-marital sex bar graph (men 45%, women…
In this issue:
A year of living dangerously | 2002: A year to live decisively | Editorial: The paradox of power | “The Summit is not just a photo-opportunity” | 2001 Flashback | The more things remain the same | The Nepali art of war | Consensus charade | Polymer rupees | Shareholder scare | “When problems come, they come in swarms…” | Economic emergency | Zhangmou’s capitalist paradise | Cannabis and the brain | No illusions | Proceed with caution | ‘India should not interfere in Nepal’ | Defying tradition | Back at Sundarijal | Tigerwalla | Legally binding new year resolutions