April 19-25, 2002
Headline
Editorial
Voyeurs
Difficult to find a cultural explanation for Nepali voyeurism. We love to gloat. Take any minor traffic accident in the capital's chaotic…
Absolute anarchy
When the sun finally rose at the crossroads town of Lamahi on Friday morning 12 March after a terrifying night-long battle, the carnage at the…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Hello, Dolly
Meeting Dolly Shah in Janakpur I marvel at how diverse and wonderful Nepal is. Here, the all-pervasive fear and pessimism of the Valley elite seems meaningless.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Bandhonomics
The more bandhs we have the easier it gets to call them, and the poorer we get.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Bandhobast
Those of you who have prematurely extirpated the lint that had gathered in your respective bellybuttons in the period immediately after the…
Nation
Was that a blink or a wink?
Sexual harassment is on the rise in Nepali workplaces. Defining it satisfactorily is the first step to preventing it.
RAMYATA LIMBU
Teasing tourists
Nepal's name is tarnished by incidents of harassment of female tourists.
PATRICIA LUSTIG
Interview
History
The changing of the guard
BP Koirala, incarcerated at Sundarijal, begins his second week in jail in the winter of 1977.
Nature
Technology
Gods of the night
The planets are getting together. Get out your telescopes.
AVIDIT ACHARYA ON PLANET EARTH
Nepali Society
Manisha, Wang and Nepal’s most famous kid
Manisha and her Chinese-American co-star Wang Lee-Hom were just beginning their film shoot in a classroom in Mahadevstan in Kavre for MTV's…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Here we go again
The on-again off-again bandh is on again at press time. Which means the arson and explosive attacks in the capital are expected to intensify in…
Via Tibet
The UN's World Food Programme is moving 250 tons of food to Hilsa to support a key road-building project in Humla. The trucks that leave…
Ghiu again
We thought the trade issues with India were settled in March when the treaty was renewed. Well no. India has decided, starting 15 May, to import…
Food for thought
The ongoing Maoist violence and the counter-insurgency operations in the mid- and far-western regions have resulted in a serious disruption of…
Girls at risk
There are about 2,650 commercial sex workers active in Kathmandu, according to a new International Labour Office-Kathmandu study. What's…
Letters
What are you doing
It seared my soul to see the picture of two Nepali girls on the Internet edition of your new year issue (#89). One of the girls was reading, and…
Arafat and mainali
Kanak Mani Dixit's thought-provoking article "Yasser Arafat, Govinda Mainali and us" (#88) is one of the best pieces that I have read in the…
Glad and sad
I was both glad and disappointed to read Dr Harka Gurung's "The Centre cannot hold" (#88). I was glad because at this time of crisis Nepal's…
Hail to the chief
I was very impressed by what our Royal Army Chief said about the situation of this country (“Who brought the nation to its present condition?,”…
Wishful thinking
Puskar Gautam appears to be engaged in a bit of wishful thinking (“Chinks in the Maoist armour,” #89) about the state of desperation among the…
More rave,less rant
Notwithstanding CK Lal's self-indulgent exercises in pomposity ("Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full," #88) I thoroughly enjoyed Puskar Bhusal's…
DR camrade
Paul Bacon's reply to Baburam (#87) was very powerful. Dr Comrade and his followers have stepped up their cruel activities all over the country…
Sathi
I join your other readers in thanking Hemlata Rai for her article (“Someone I can talk to,” #88). I am a regular listener of this programme, and…
Feedback
I regularly visit your site (www.nepalitimes.com) and it is wonderfully updated. Your reporting and columns are original and analytical as well…
What about us?
Yet another bheri-bheri entertaining Under My Hat. But "'Sup Dudes" (#89) begs the question: "What about my generation?" Have you no hope for…
In this issue:
Another post-mortem | Absolute Anarchy | Editorial: Do our banners yet wave? | Was that a blink or a wink? | Hello, Dolly | Teasing tourists | Wild parties | “Give us six more months.” | Bandhonomics | Demolition man | Return of egrets | Another oil shock? | Invasion of the Culture Snatchers? | Yankees come back | Defining terror | If it’s Belgium, it must be Nepalis | The changing of the guard | Bandhobast