Khumbu hopes for spring
Despite the emergency, trekking and mountaineering may lift Nepal's sagging tourism.
RAMYATA LIMBU
January 25-31, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Hoping for hope.
Nothing perhaps symbolised the waffling and thumb-twiddling in Nepal's present political leadership as much as the answer Prime Minister Sher…
.And Hopelessness.
The Maoist strategy is to spread hopelessness. To show that this country has no future. And they are doing it with devastating effect by…
Columns
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Black or white
Times are bad, but we now have a chance to set our revenue house to rights.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Watching Baywatch
Many of you have taken me aside at parties in the past few months to ask me deeply personal questions about my TV viewing habits. This is very…
Nation
No exit for Indosuez?
Credit Agricole is by now so sick of legal tangles in Nepal, it is getting ready to pack its bags and go.
BINOD BHATTARAI
In a spider’s web
The Maoists are turning from a political group with terrorist leanings into a terrorist group with some political leanings.
RAGHUJI PANT
Vile Valley air just got viler
The cement factory may have closed, but multiplying brick kilns are making our air quality worse.
HEMLATA RAI
SAARC’s forgotten triangle
One man's ethnic cleansing is another's preservation of nationhood.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
Interview
"The government needs to take the private sector into confidence."
Rabi Bhakta Shrestha-President of the FNCCI
History
Leisure
A House for Mr Rai
Why do most Kathmandu home builders think foreigners want to rent houses that look like they have been transplanted from Beverly Hills?
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Technology
CAN Info Tech Ver 8.0
Get a glimpse of the inroads the 21st century is making in Nepal.
GAURAB RAJ UPADHAYA
Nepali Society
Robin’s Nepal
Outspoken 6'5" Robin Tamang of the cult rock band Robin 'n Looza sees no contradiction in his many avatars: mechanical…
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
Taxes=Inflation
Now every Nepali home-not just the rural teacher, political party worker or police constable-will face the brunt of the Maoist insurgency. Last…
VDIS update
The government has extended the date for Voluntary Declaration of Income Scheme to mid-February 2002. It was hoped that the drive, initially…
Letters
The great unifier
Thanks for Hemlata Rai's excellent article on Prithvi Narayan Shah ("The Great Unifier", #76). However, a few points need elaboration. Who ruled…
Development, not war
I agree with Binod Bhattarai's "Meanwhile, in the rest of Nepal." (#76). It is the rural people who always suffer from state of emergency. But…
Colin Powell
It's pretty clear that everybody is baffled by Colin Powell's unexpected visit. But the manner in which both your editorial "We and the west"…
Foggy
CK Lal's column on the tarai, "The sun will come out tomorrow" (#76), was, well, foggy. If winter crops have caused the fog should we then stop…
Polls
The Nepali Times/Nepalnews.com weekly polls give a grossly inaccurate view of what a majority of Nepalis think. It only reflects the opinions of…
Back to Sundarijal
A quick note to say I read Nepali Times regularly and when a section on history was included in one of the issues with BP Koirala's diary I was…
Not first
At the end of Vijay Kumar's "Down, but not out" (#77) you state that he was one of the first journalists allowed to visit the frontline in the…
In this issue:
Khumbu hopes for spring | Hoping for hope | Editorial: Let them eat cake | In a spider’s web | Vile Valley air just got viler | Selling our soil | SAARC’s forgotten triangle | Black or white | Not banking on Nepal | “The government needs to take the private sector into confidence.” | CAN Info Tech Ver 8.0 | Pakistan’s missed chance | Upping the anti | Marxists or fascists? | “The sameness with sameness” | Watching Baywatch | Robin’s Nepal