Nepali Times

We all know what Nepal's horizontal land area is. But what if we flattened all the mountains into a roti, and measure the entire surface area? Nepal could then be the size if the subcontinent! So maybe we should say there are six directions in Nepal: north, east, West, up and down.

Community training and individual responsibility are the tragic lessons of Gujarat.

Globaliation is inevitable: the question is on what terms. We have to make sure that poor people are included in the process.

No other crown could be so fantastically devised, so priceless. It is a glitter of closely set diamonds and pearls, hung with drop rubies and emeralds the size of plums and atop it, clasped by more diamonds, is a cascade of bird-of-paradise plumes.