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31 Oct - 6 Nov 2014 #730

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Editorial

Better safe than sorry

Columns

The deadline

by Damakant Jayshi

Inconvenient truths
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GUEST COLUMN

by Donatella Lorch

Value-added hiking
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Cross Cutting

by Ashutosh Tiwari

World champion country
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Backside

by Ass

World’s 3rd worstest airport
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Top 10 Treks

By: Nepali Times

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Nation

Walking with the times

Trekking needs to change with the times because of expansion of road network, outmigration of men from rural areas, and demands of trekkers for better facilities.

Kunda Dixit in POKHARA

Walking with the times

Hudhud and the Himalaya

This is an abridged version of the quick deficiencies analysis by Project Himalaya

Hudhud and the Himalaya

Mulde Peak

Dobato-Khpora route is catching on among trekkers who want to get away from the crowds on the main Ghorepani-Ghandruk trail

Kunda Dixit

Mulde Peak

Rape as a weapon of war

Perpetrators of conflict-era sexual violence walk free as women suffer in silence and fear

Tufan Neupane

Rape as a weapon of war

Married to the military

Nepal’s ‘conflict wives’ have been invisible and ignored

Trishna Rana

Married to the military

Nepali Times Buzz

“I would like to help Nepal in a practical way”

Interview with Kumud Dhital, the world's first surgeon to perform a dead heart transplant.

“I would like to help Nepal in a practical way”

Ebola in Asia

There is no question that an Ebola outbreak in South Asia will be very difficult to handle considering the region’s poor health infrastructure.

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Ebola in Asia

Review

The stone amidst the wood

Architectural historian, Niels Gutschow, brings together the work of artist and draughtsman, Bijay Basukala, and photographer Kishor Kayastha in a series of books.

Someplace Else by Kunda Dixit

The stone amidst the wood

Dabali Restaurant

Dabadali Restaurant not only provides a respite from the traffic noises of Thamel but surprises with the quality and variety of food.

Someplace Else by Ruby Tuesday

Dabali Restaurant

Must See

Manakamana

Manakamana is a structurally formal, but groundbreaking documentary which requires a great deal of patience on the viewer’s part.

Sophia Pande

Manakamana

Gizmo

It’s got curves

With its silver brushed metal of the base stand, to its thin bezel, to the ribbon of chrome around the edge, the HU9000 is one of the best looking tvs in the market today.

Yantrick

It’s got curves

From our archives

Dolakha high

16th February 2012

Nepali-Swiss couple fulfill their life-long dream of running a resort in Charikot

Blood bricks

16th February 2012

A new certification system for bricks aims to remove exploiting and pollution from brick-baking

LUCIA DE VRIES

Minting money, Nepal

16th February 2012

5 February

Chequemate, Nagarik

16th February 2012

Gajendra Bohora, 9 February