Headline
Nation
A new book on Kailash gives us a glimpse of the infinite
Maoists to end the six-months long obstruction of House
"We don't want to talk to the agents, we want to talk to the master"
Holiday Special
DEREK MA
Review
PRANAB MAN SINGH
Constitution Supplement
Purna Singh Rajbanshi, CA member and head of the Maoist Kochila Province
Laxman Tharu, president, Federal Democratic National Forum
Sanjuhang Palungwa, president, Limbuwan State Council
Santosh Budha Magar, president, Magarat National Freedom Front
Education
All you need is a little initiative to change Nepal
SABHYATA TIMSINA
Decisive Decade
Interview in 2000 with Maoist Chairman Prachanda reprinted from the Revolutionary Worker. Pictured is the only likeness of the man available at that time.
King Birendra released doves on his 53rd (and last) birthday on 28 December 2000 at Tundikhel. Taranath Ranabhat, parliament speaker and head of the commission of inquiry on the royal massacre, brandished at a press conference the Colt Commando rifle used by Crown Prince Dipendra. Post-massacre editorial in the Nepali Times:
It was the civilians in the countryside who suffered the most during the conflict from atrocities by both sides.
SAGAR PANT in DANG
Columnist Puskar Gautam, a former Maoist commander for Okhaldhunga, analysed the breakdown of the second ceasefire and future Maoist strategy in this comment printed in September 2003.
PUSKAR GAUTAM
THOMAS BELL in BENI
This metaphorical Nepali Times editorial after King Gyanendra's coup on 1 February 2005 tried to circumvent the military censors by replacing the word 'democracy' with 'trees'. The newspaper came out with white holes where the censors had expunged paragraphs and cartoons.
After ten years of war, Nepalis welcomed the end of conflict, and some Maoists realised it was more important to build than to destroy.
RAMESWOR BOHARA in SURKHET
A field report from the Madhes three months after the movement that changed the face of Nepal and inspired other demands for autonomy.
KUNDA DIXIT in SIRAHA
Dambar K Shrestha, Special Correspondent of Himal Khabarpatrika, recounted the attack by Maoists on 22 December 2008 in this article published in Nepali Times.
DAMBAR K SHRESTHA
As attacks on journalists continued in 2008 and 2009, Nepali Times marked Press Freedom Day on 3 May with this editorial:
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