A military beholden to the monarchy is not listening to an elected government to tackle an insurgency that seeks to topple parliamentary democracy.

There are two Nepals: the Nepal of glistening mountains and temples and wide-eyed tourists, and the Nepal that has never seen a doctor never known a full stomach.

Foreign parents often battle bureaucracy, corruption and humiliation to adopt Nepali babies.

Very small, locally-made hydro units are lighting up villages. People power seems to be driving micro hydropower.

For a country that has had decades of bitter experience with multiparty and partyless politics, an evolution to a one-party system might turn out to be just what we need.

The traditional goodwill between the peoples of Nepal and India is being systematically dismantled by unfounded and mischievous propaganda. Nepal is no match to counter it.

Part II of an occasional NT series on gadgets and gizmos, for techies and luddites alike.

If, after viewing the show, you shut your eyes, the colours and forms are imprinted, as Nabokov's Humbert said of his muse, on the inside of your eyelids.

Kathmandu, May 3:

I went to the famed Pashupati mystic Shivpuri Baba, a jovial old man with a flowing beard who claimed to be 150 years old.