Nepali Times
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Headline
Nepal is about to auction off its first private mobile telephone licence. Nepalis finally have a chance to get cheap and efficient cell-phones. Or do they?
BINOD BHATTARAI

Nation
Ten years ago, Peru went though a Maoist insurgency eerily similar to what is happening in Nepal today. What then can we learn from the Sendero Luminoso?
GYAN JUNG THAPA

The real problem is with the dogs, monkeys, and cows that roam the runway at Nepal's only international airport. And the humans who can't seem to do anything about them.
HEMLATA RAI

There are many Nepals. The Nepal of Kathmandu Valley, the Nepal of the district headquarters, and the Nepal of areas like Ikudol.

After Dasain, it is back to square one on the Maoist front.

Hundreds of Nepali women are waiting to join their husbands in the United States. The humiliation of visa procedures has made many of them give up hopes of a normal married life.
DURGA POKHAREL

Davo Karnicar skies down Everest and into history books.


Leisure
When one social carnivore reneges on the contract and neglects the other, it is the end of a beautiful relationship and the beginning of a problem.
SALIL SUBEDI

Sports
The captains of Nepali sport have never learnt to play straight.
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY

Nepali Society

Culture

Review

Literature

Domestic Brief






Conservation
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY in LELE

 
EDITORIAL

COLUMNS
State Of The State
by CK LAL
Comrade Nepal pedals to work

Economic Sense
by ARTHA BEED
Nepal’s "1.6 economy"

Here And There
by DANIEL LAK
The unbearable sweetness of being

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
Between Dasain and Tihar

LETTERS

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS

BIZ NEWS


 

SPECIAL

Madesh Special

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