February 22-28, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Coming out of slaughter
What can we say that we haven't said before? And is there any point repeating it? All we can do is pray and mourn for the recent dead, the 3,200…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Six years later
Who has gained from the past six years of conflict? We know who has lost: the Nepali people.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The gift of time
Getting elected and staying in power are measured in days and weeks, not in the decades and generations needed for improvements in peoples' lives.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXI
Corporal punishment
Jane Fonda may claim that she discovered the after-office work-out, but we know it for a fact that it was actually the great Indian…
Nation
Small is feasible
Locally-designed and locally-financed small hydros are changing Nepal's energy future.
RAMYATA LIMBU IN SYANGE
The power of positive negativism
So, the kangresis have discovered that honesty is the best foreign-aid policy.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
Interview
"Right or wrong, the government has to be decisive."
Shyam Bahadur Pandey-Chairman of the Shangri La Group of Hotels and Resorts
History
Back at Sundarijal >5
"A cold bath is physically and morally uplifting. Morally, because the operation involves a courageous decision and action."
Review
New ways of thinking
A former Indian water resources secretary reviews Dipak Gyawali's recent Water in Nepal in the Economic and Political Weekly. He expresses chagrin that a book "of this degree of intellectual distinction has emerged from Nepal, not India".
Leisure
Travel
Himalayan spring
In preparation for the spring mountaineering season that begins next month, we look back to this season last year through the pages of High…
Nepali Society
Arty Aarti
When Aarti Chataut asks Nepali males to be guests on her discussion show Jagriti on Nepal Television, many quiver. There is something in the…
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
No bidders
No one wants to buy the Hetauda Textiles Industry. The company was shut down last year because the government decided there was no point…
Private television
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) has moved a step closer towards licensing private terrestrial television companies, over a…
Commercial bank law
The Nepal Rastra Bank is nearing finalisation of a draft umbrella act to regulate all deposit-taking institutions, a move to help clean up the…
Agri-census
The Agricultural Census is likely to be put off until next year due to the budget cuts resulting from the increase in security spending this…
Letters
Migrant Workers
Hemlata Rai's "Sending money home" (#81) was a serious review of Nepal's migrant workforce. Nepal's labour export is pumping not just $850…
Worried
Being one of the leading tour operators for Nepal and the Himalaya in Scandinavia I am extremely concerned about the situation in your lovely…
CK Lal
CK Lal's "Let them eat cake" (#78) about "Swar Samrat" Narayan Gopal has attracted the attention of this Trust. Lal's recollections are…
Finger Pointing
Rajendra Khadka has made several good points in "Diaspora in dilemma" (#77) But he suffers from the common Nepali affliction of finger-pointing.…
Just Do It?
I enjoyed Binod Bhattarai's "Can Nepal do IT?" (#79) and commend his optimism on Nepal's IT future. Yes, definitely, Nepalis are as capable as…
In this issue:
Nation in grief | Coming out of slaughter | Editorial: Six years later | Accham post-mortem | Think nationally, invest locally | Hari, the hydro-entrepreneur | The gift of time | The power of positive negativism | Free money | “Right or wrong, the government has to be decisive.” | re the climbers coming? | The more things change | Flawed panacea | Stop the carnage and talk | New ways of thinking | “A cold bath is physically and morally uplifting. Morally, because the operation involves a courageous decision and action.” | Corporal punishment