Bridging hills and plains
After years of polarisation between hills and plains, the parties appear to have realised the benefits of integration
September 15-21, 2017
Headline
Editorial
Last but not the least
After much vacillation, the third phase of local elections is finally happening on 18 September. These were already important polls because the…
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Columns
Miss Moti-vation by Kripa Joshi
The most beautiful thing
GUEST EDITORIAL by Shekhar Kharel
Mafiacracy
Bhanu Bhattarai Who is actually running Nepal? That, as they say, is the million-dollar question. But at stake is much more than a million…
Connecting Dots by Dinkar Nepal
Civil society to the fray
You cannot wake up someone pretending to sleep
So far so good by Lisa Choegyal
Chatwin near Chitwan
When writer Bruce Chatwin visited Nepal, nothing could be ordinary
Backside by Ass
Dasain perks
As Dasain approaches, there are signs that things are limping back to normalitude with the installation of centerline steel fencing at Blubber…
Nation
Friends in deed
Women in men-less Nepali village didn't wait for government to rebuild flood-hit homes
Namrata Sharma
Voting to heal past wounds
Local elections in Province 2 bring together candidates and voters from hills and plains
The Battle for Birganj
Birganj is a microcosm of everything traditionally associated with elections: money, muscle and betrayal
Multimedia
Kirtipur in slow motion
The 12th-century town is not actively promoted by tour operators, but Kirtipur is worth lingering in
Sebastian Wolligandt
Nepali Times Buzz
Fleeing paradise
Maldives muckraker Zaheena Rasheed recounts why she had to flee country after investigative film Stealing Paradise
Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit, 63
His ideas changed the way agriculture scientists had been working in Nepal, inspiring a whole new generation to involve farmers in their research.
Yuvaraj Shrestha
Must See
Big little lies
Big Little Lies is a longer, better version of Gone Girl and Wild, both wildly successful films
Sophia Pande
From The Nepali Press
Cash and caste
Birendra Prasad Yadav in Prateek Daily, 2 September Ahead of the much-delayed last phase of local elections, there is excitement in the air…
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Biz Brief
Millennium grant
Finance Minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki signed a $500 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact on Thursday at the State…
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In this issue:
Bridging hills and plains | Editorial: Last but no least | Civil society to the fray | Chatwin near Chitwan | Fleeing Paradise | Kirtipur in Low Motion | Friends in deed | Voting to heal past wounds | The Battle for Birganj | Dasain perks