Nepali Times:Issue #151

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #151
27 JUNE 2003

Headline

A big hole in our budget

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA

Nation

Gold rush in Dolpa

The Himalayan viagra harvesting season brings tens of thousands of fortune seekers to this harsh region.

MAARTEN POST

Why they love to hate GP

Girijababu's impatience with the left's timidity before royalty may carry a deeper meaning.

PUSKAR BHUSAL

Domestic Brief

Bhutanis in limbo

Children suffer sexual abuse silently

Nepali Society

Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley

Travel

‘We withhold action on the proposed tourism boycott...’

History

Back at Sundarijal >38

\'I miss GM a great deal."

Review

A cartoon is worth a thousand words

SANJIVE MISHRA

Leisure

Way to the top

Want to be a mountaineer? Now you can train in technical climbing right here in Nepal.

JANAKI GURUNG

Book Worm

Peace Keepers

EDITORIAL

Keep Talking

COLUMNS

Guest Column
by DIPAK GYAWALI
Of Foreign Hands and Grand Designs

State Of The State
by CK LAL
Imperious power

Economic Sense
by ARTHA BEED
Come together

Here And There
by DANIEL LAK
Gender agenda at the Hotel Blue Sheep

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
Corrections

LETTERS

• Poll

• Hearts & Minds

• Monkey Business

• Education

• Taxus

• Zoology

• Curtains

• Tibet, Tibet

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS

• The long road home

• Foreign students

• Another witchhunt

• ‘Not incompetent’

• Trading places

BIZ NEWS

• Nathu La and Nepal

• FNCCI sponsors girl education

• Small is beautiful

• Fortified relaxation

• Solar power