Issue #886

December 1-7, 2017

Headline

Last lavish lap

Jiyalal Sah By successfully holding the first phase of parliamentary and provincial elections early this week, and gearing up for the last phase…

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Editorial

Performance vs promises

Bikram Rai A ruinous 10-year war brutalised Nepalis and pushed the country back decades. When that conflict ended in 2006, there was great hope…

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Columns

Kripa Joshi
Miss Moti-vation by Kripa Joshi

Gratitude

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can see the colours. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Anil Chitrakar
1/2 Full by Anil Chitrakar

Banking on connectivity

Our collective prosperity depends on first turning our hard borders into soft ones

Lisa Choegyal
So far so good by Lisa Choegyal

Returning to Chitwan

Nature has reclaimed Tiger Tops, once Asia’s best wildlife lodge

Ass
Backside by Ass

Upwardly mobile

Whatever you do in Saudi Arabia, don’t use your mobile phone on a domestic flight. The poor chap was sentenced to receive 20 lashes with a wet…

Nation

Last lavish lap

As Election Day draws closer, candidates are trying to outdo each other in wooing swing voters, and win power

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Multimedia

Working Women

Working Women

Extraordinary lives of ordinary women through pictures

Sanjog Rai

Nepali Times Buzz

The English Surgeon

In his new book, pioneering British neurosurgeon ponders the end of his own life and his work in Nepal and Ukraine

Niraj Shrestha

Must See

Justice League

The thing that Justice League has going for it is that it is short and rather sweet at just two hours in length

Sophia Pande

From The Nepali Press

Biz Brief

Celebs join in

Manisha Koirala, Rajesh Hamal and Sunil Thapa are joining Malcolm McDowell, Michael Imperioli, Scott Glenn, Nuno Bettencourt, Chris Adler,…

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In this issue:

Last lavish lap | Editorial: Performance vs promises | Banking on connectivity | Returning to Chitwan | The English Surgeon | Working women | The freedom to be free | Backlash against the backlash | Who is funding the campaignning | Voter's now | Political theory versus reality | Upwardly mobile