From Nepali Times, ISSUE #801 (25 March 2016 – 31 March 2016) Did New Delhi ever imagine that its coercive strategy would backfire this badly? It was the five-month blockade by India that provided Nepal’s political class with the daring to sign the deal in Beijing on Monday. Without the public opinion created as a …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #788(25 December 2015 – 31 December 2015) A win-win can only happen with a halt to Indian micro- and macro-management Much recrimination has roiled the waters of the Sirsiya stream dividing Raxaul and Birganj between September-December 2015, punctuated by three statements from New Delhi’s Ministry of External Affairs. The latest note …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #751 (27 March 2015 –2 APRIL 2015) Prof Theodore Riccardi presents historical material to enrich our lives. Nepal has evolved, sadly, as a country where history and archaeology are far down in everyone’s priority. Throughout his career, the Indologist and pioneer Himalayanist Theodore Riccardi has sought to highlight aspects of Nepal’s …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #736 (12 December 2014 – 18 December 2014) Studio 7’s The Three Paise Opera is an adaptation of the German play The ThreePenny Opera Sabine Lehmann of Studio Seven at the Hotel Vajra remains a disciple of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who challenged Hitler and was persecuted by Joseph McCarthy. …
From The Nepali Times, ISSUE #733 (21 November 2014 – 27 November 2014) Kathmandu can use its geopolitical positioning to upgrade SAARC into a dynamic regional grouping The upcoming SAARC Summit, the third in Nepal after 1987 and 2002, is happening as Kathmandu suffers deep socio-political polarisations as it tries a second time to write …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #723 (5 September 2014 – 11 September 2014) Photographs of the site of the ‘mountain-slide’ On the pre-dawn hours of 2 August exactly a month ago, a whole mountainside swept down on the village of Jure, burying at least 156 people (almost a third of them children) under tons of rock and …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #701 (4 April 2014 – 10 April 2014) What will the elevation of a Hindutva hawk do to his country, and how it will impact on Nepal? As it becomes ever-clearer that Narendra Modi will be the next prime minister of India, questions abound as to what the elevation of the …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #699 (21 March 2014 – 27 March 2014) Queen is fine entertainment, about a New Delhi girl in Paris and Amsterdam. Feeling rather inadequate for having only heard of Kangana Ranaut and never seen a film of her’s, word of mouth got me to the cinema to see the unimaginatively titled …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #697 (7 March 2014 – 13 March 2014) What could explain the international community’s disinterest in addressing wartime excesses? Nanda Prasad and Gangamaya Adhikari are on the 134th day of their fast-unto-death at Bir Hospital, being kept alive through a protein tube to the neck, but they have not been visited …
From Nepali Times, ISSUE #683 (29 November 2013 – 5 December 2013) The Hemraj-Aarushi murder case holds serious implications for Nepali society NEW DELHI — The case of the double murder of 45-year-old Hemraj Banjade (the house-help from Arghakhanchi district in Nepal working for a family in the Delhi suburb of Noida) and 14-year Aarushi …