Articles
  • 22 August 2010
    Op-Ed: Developing Nepal, One iPod at a Time
    Bishal Thapa
    The *iPod may be Nepal’s best and last hope for a better future. Its history parallels many of Nepal’s recent developments and offers a fresh, new prospect unlike anything in the past...
  • 5 August 2010
    Water in a Bottle
    Shuva Laxmi

    Taps in Kathmandu may be running dry but drinking water is just a phone call away. Water processing plants sprouting up like mushrooms in villages on the outskirts of the valley offer a choice between often untreated or contaminated water...

  • 25 July 2010
    Here's to Our Teachers
    superuser

    Here's to our teachers, all good and all bad. Some of who have lit the way for us, prepared a path, beating down the bushes, clearing away the thorns, while others have hindered us, scarred us emotionally, even tortured us...

  • 8 June 2010
    Mother Tongue
    superuser

    by Yoshina Gautam, Jebin Gautam and Aashish Jha

    Genes and languages preserve history, just as stones, art, and bones do. While a lot of effort has been directed towards preserving archeological sites and studying genetics, very little is...

  • 18 May 2010
    Op-Ed: Facebook Flakey Much
    Prarthana Gurung

    So, we’re Facebook friends, but are we friends? Flakey people piss me off. “Flakey” according to urbandictionary.com, means being “unreliable or fickle,” and before you give me a hard time for using it as a source...

  • 2 May 2010
    Op-Ed: A New Rebellion
    Ayushma Regmi

    When the traffic police seized my license recently, I had no reservations in throwing a tantrum. If there was one thing I had learned from my three years in Delhi, it was that in South Asia, tears are a valuable bargaining tool for women. An ordinary person hates to see a woman in tears...

  • 25 March 2010
    Op-Ed: An Incomplete Democrat
    Siddhartha Thapa

    The demise of Girija Prasad Koirala will undoubtedly lead to a political re-alignment in Nepali politics. Koirala was without a doubt the most influential politician in Nepal. What was truly unique about Koirala’s political strategy was his ability to fuse...

  • 15 March 2010
    Bad Behaviour
    Khushbu Agrawal

    “I was forced to quit my job because of constant harassment from my boss,” says Reena (name changed), a young woman working for an international organization. Reena decided to quit her stable job after her employer started sexually...

  • 27 February 2010
    Op-Ed: Upstairs, Downstairs
    Sujana Upadhyay

    The problem with living in a country with so many diverse ethnic groups is that every other face looks different. It makes it easy to feel alienated, and to alienate. Santosh Shah recently discovered this. The news of the ‘airport incident’ first came to me through Facebook, and it both angered...

  • 18 January 2010
    Op-Ed: Homeowners, Take a Stand
    Yuko Maskay

    The mad beast of 7.0 magnitude that is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 people in Haiti and injured tens of thousands last week, hits home. Not only because Haiti, like Nepal, is one of the poorest countries in the world, but because according to BCPR's...