Nepali Times:Issue #106

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #106
09 AUG 2002

Headline

Unfriendly fire

MOHAN MAINALI

Nation

Talk or terrorise?

Disillusioned donors

Why are we surprised that we're losing goodwill?

PUSKAR BHUSAL

Interview

"The situation is even more alarming..."

Domestic Brief

British aid

No asylum for footballers

Optional Sanskrit

Ashoka fellows

New chief

Talk or terrorise?

Culture

Catmandu

Almost-reality TV comes to Nepal.

HEMLATA RAI

History

On love and politics

Arts

Upper Mustang in Kathmandu

An innovative stage production of a novel by Sarubhakta successfully takes on the sensitive matter of Bhotiya polyandry.

KANAK MANI DIXIT

Nepali Society

Hari Sharan nipalensis

EDITORIAL

Seeing the forest for the trees

COLUMNS

Guest Column
by ADAM FRIEDENSOHN
Fossil economy

Economic Sense
by ARTHA BEED
Private initiatives

Here And There
by DANIEL LAK
Once we were barons

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
Gods must be crazy

LETTERS

• No go

• Human terror

• Remove fees

• Open letter

• Trade, not aid

• Malaria resurgence

• Charming Rajbiraj

• "Bahun bad"

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS

• The war on minds

• Army misdeeds

• Meet the lawyer

• Koirala’s choices

• Maoists in India

BIZ NEWS

• RBB on life support

• FDI flows

• What we’ve lost

• Fly to Banaras

• Gold prices