Issue #832

November 11-17, 2016

Headline

A Trump World

Diwakar Chettri Donald J Trump’s victory in the US presidential election this week shocked Americans and sent shock waves across the world. Here…

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Editorial

Tamashas over

Nepal’s rulers still swing from one extreme to another: either needling neighbours needlessly or kowtowing to them

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Columns

Ass
Backside by Ass

Life without water

After gooseberry wine, the most overrated liquid in the world is probably water. Cosmologists tell us that life on other planets in our galaxy…

Nation

I am an amchi

Marpha meeting of practitioners of Tibetan medicine plan revival of the healing tradition

Sabine Pretsch

The guardian of the shadows

Austrian architect Götz Hagmüller’s forthcoming memoir promises to be a homage to Kathmandu Valley’s heritage

Sebastian Gansrigler

A Trump World

What Donald J Trump's victory means to Nepal, especially the country’s tight balancing act between India and China.

Om Astha Rai and Smriti Basnet

Business

Nepali Times Buzz

War is the crime

Photographer Stephen Champion goes from covering war between men to war on nature

Lucia De Vries

A chariot through time

Exhibition that documents 40 years of the Rāto Matsyendranāth festival in photographs

Bruce McCoy Owens

Old traditions, new meanings

Though the dance drama tradition still retains its religious values, it has taken a far more significant meaning

Rishi Amatya

Doctor strange

Despite the exquisite visuals, it is the heart and the humour in the writing that wins the day

Sophia Pande

From The Nepali Press

‘Bizarre and baffling’

Kantipur Excerpts of Interview with Krishna Jung Rayamajhi, a former Supreme Court justice who headed the judicial commission that investigated…

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Biz Brief

Agents award

Qatar Airways held its Agents Award Night to recognise its travel trade partners at Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathmandu this week. A total of five…

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In this issue:

A Trump World | Editorial: Tamashas Over | I am an amchi | An eye for Kathamndu | The guardians of the shadows | War is the crime | A chariot through time | Old traditions, new meanings | Bizzare and baffling | Jumla gets nearer | Life without water