30 Dec 2016 - 5 Jan 2017 #839

Nation

Year of lost opportunities

2016 was a year of lost opportunities. We will have to see what 2017 will bring.

From our archives

Stepping up the ante

19th July 2001
Even the upsurge in violence has failed to break the political standstill in government.
BINOD BHATTARAI

"Uplifting" "backward" "beneficiaries"

19th July 2001
Real social development arises out of the peoples own understandings and agreements of their situation, and their own aspirations for the future.
SIMON MOLLISON

Everybody says ho-hum

19th July 2001
The budget takes away from its own authority.
ARTHA BEED

(De)constructing a Nepali icon

19th July 2001
Bhanubhakta has been credited with making Nepali a unifying lingua franca, but some are not sure.
SALIL SUBEDI