Issue #874

September 1-7, 2017

Headline

Flood of recrimination

Bikram Rai As the waters of last month’s devastating floods recede, bodies of the missing are starting to appear. Guddu Kumar Singh, 12, was…

Santa Gaha Magar

Editorial

Disappearance of justice

Our rulers keep sending us proof of an utter lack of humanity and morality: the historic neglect of the dispossessed, slow response to the…

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Columns

Sumana Shrestha
GUEST EDITORIAL by Sumana Shrestha

Citizens rush in

Photo: Sonam D Gurung Whenever disasters strike Nepal, citizens are the first to respond. There is an emotional outpouring of empathy for the…

Dinkar Nepal
Connecting Dots by Dinkar Nepal

Middle ground in Doklam

The climax this week in the India-Bhutan-China dispute restored the status quo, but created a new normal in the trilateral relations

Lisa Choegyal
So far so good by Lisa Choegyal

One day of life in the jungle

Long before the term ecotourism was coined, an initiative in Nepal rooted in conservation and community was hailed as one of Asia’s best

Bikash Gauchan
Comment by Bikash Gauchan

People, politics and placentas

Despite dramatic improvements in maternal survival, many Nepali mothers are still dying needlessly at childbirth

Ass
Backside by Ass

On a war-footing

Incumbent PM Dubya IV’s visit to India overshadowed Excumbent PM Maknunay’s sojourn to Pyongyang last week, and would have gone largely…

Nation

Flood and food

Many farmers in the Tarai will have no harvest until next year

Sunir Pandey

Nepali Times Buzz

Sweet original sessions

Raw, intimate and candid, online video series Yomari Sessions is back with a new season

Sahina Shrestha

Image-inations

The author imagines a land he has always yearned to go to

Tashi Sherpa

Sermon on the mountain

Last week's Nepali Times package on Christian conversion in Nepal generated vigorous debate online about secularism and proselytisation. Here is a selection of the feedback

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Window to a new future

I would not have been able to complete my high school if it hadn’t been for this school

Shreejana Shrestha

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Biz Brief

Farm to Table

The US Embassy in Kathmandu hosted a ‘Farm to Table’ event to highlight the importance to the national economy and family income of Nepal’s…

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In this issue:

Flood of recrimination | Editorial: Disappearance of Justice | Middle ground in Doklam | One day of life in the jungle | Sweet original sessions | Image-inations | The Daughters song | Ranting on HIgh | Through a eyes of a blind king | Boarder Wall | Flood and food | On a war-footing