Issue #828

September 30 - October 6, 2016

Headline

Cashing in on politics

Bikram RaiSlow Flight: Saimon Tamakhu, 13, whose house was damaged by the earthquake in Bhaktapur, flies a kite by its ruins. Families in the…

Shreejana Shrestha

Editorial

Unhealthy politics

Govinda KC is once more using hunger to strike at the heart of the mafia that runs this country’s medical industrial complex.

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Columns

Nation

True patriot

Madhav Ghimire was a man of substance and grace, and we must remember him by celebrating a life devoted to Nepal.

Cashing in on politics

For the moment there is only Rs 343 billion in the kitty for reconstruction.

Shreejana Shrestha

Nepali Times Buzz

Staging the past

Iranian photographer and filmmaker Azadeh Akhlaghi has been recreating Iran’s tragic past through conceptual and staged photography

Tanvi Mishra

Born to be free

Instead of riding them to observe wildlife, elephants themselves are now tourist attractions

Lucia De Vries

Must See

Ghostbusters

This film does not fail because of the women, it fails, as with other bad remakes from past years because the director has not taken risks.

Sophia Pande

From The Nepali Press

Biz Brief

Easier stopover

Qatar Airways, Qatar Tourism Authority and Qatar’s Ministry of Interior have increased transit visa stays in Qatar from 48 hours to 96 hours.…

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In this issue:

Cashing in on politics | Editorial: Unhealthy Politics | True Patriot | No-woman's land | Born to be free | Preserving the intangible | Blackmailing academia | Deathly silence | Reconstruction grant is Dasain allowance