From Nepali Times, ISSUE #874 (1 September 2017 -7 September 2017) With embankments on three sides Rautahat was ripe for disaster More than 70% of Rautahat was submerged in the flood of 12-15 August. The levees built a quarter century ago to protect this border district from the Bagmati to the east and the Lalbakaiya …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #873 (25 August 2017 – 31 August 2017) Slusser was deeply apprehensive about the impact of the 2015 earthquake on the Valley’s heritage Within two months, we have experienced the departure of art historians Eduard Sekler, Sukrasagar Shrestha, Dina Bangdel — and now Mary Slusser, author of the monumental two-volume Nepal Mandala, a …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #871 (11 August 2017 – 17 August, 2017) It is important to get SAARC back on its feet, without denying the importance of the sub-regional BIMSTEC There was once a multi-headed, consensual priesthood named SAARC which started out with seven priests and later added an eighth. It tumbled along for 30 …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #869 (28 July 2017 -3 August 2017) We must complete the projects and plans that Dina Bangdel had for Nepal There would not be many Nepalis worldwide who could give a professional tour of the Louvre’s collection of European art from the Medieval to the Renaissance to Impressionism, Modernism and Late …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #867 (14 July 2017 – 20 July 2017) Thimphu and Kathmandu must begin exchanging notes for the sake of Himalayan stability The Himalayan chain is on a geopolitical boil, with eruptions occurring in many places, and other parts ripe and ready. China and India are in confrontation on multiple fronts and …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #865 (30 June 2017- 6 July 2017) These elections were proof that the public got wise to the attempt to pit plains people against hill people Again and again, Nepal’s citizens save the day. When politicians turn craven, civil society loses humanitarian spine, and academia fails to stand up for reason …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #863 (16 June 2017 – 22 June 2017) Nepal should wake up to the reality that it has rights and responsibilities regarding the high seas The Law of the Sea is vital for Nepal as a country land-locked, because it enshrines the right of transit, as well as confirms rights over …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #861 (2 June 2017 – 8 June 2017) The man who was to have led the campaign for the restitution of Nepal’s looted statuary is no more Sukra Sagar Shrestha was a wise man who spoke little but carried a large heart, and the archaeologist’s zeal. He was a cultural activist …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #859 (19 May 2017 – 25 May 2017) Comparing three press releases of Kathmandu-based embassies this week Press releases are used by embassies in a considered manner to express nuance that the spoken word may not be able to carry. Hence, we must read them as trying to get across an …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #857 (5 May 2017 – 11 May 2017) Sushila Karki is forced out of the Supreme Court, not in disgrace but in a blaze of glory For weighing the value of one lone woman to the Nepali nation, you just have to reach back half a year ago, when the national …