13 - 19 September 2013 #673

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NATURAL COLOURS: A horseman taking part in Mustang’s Yartung festival is framed by a rainbow in Khimkar last week. Read Nepali Times’ guide to get away from it all this Dasain-Tihar with tips on everything from hill stations in Nepal to Indian Ocean beach resorts.

From our archives

Still quiet on the western front

26th July 2001
But for how much longer?
BINOD BHATTARAI

Work in progress

26th July 2001
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- W B Yeats
CK LAL

Sorry, Comrade, this is not Marxism

26th July 2001
The kind of society that Comrade Bhattarai envisages in Nepal post-revolution does not need a destructive peoples war.
HARI ROKA

POST-MORTEM

11th January 2001
In the 36 hours of mobocracy that ruled Kathmandus streets last week, we caught a glimpse of an area of darkness in our countrys soul.
BINOD BHATTARAI