Nepali Times
Guest Column

Investing in the future
Foreign direct investment is essential next year and beyond to boost economy and create jobs

Why Monsanto?
Instead of improving harvests, a USAID program to push hybrid maize will make Nepali farmers more destitute

It's the economy
"Nepal's toughest challenge is not concluding the peace process or drafting the constitution, but rather building an economic future"

Forgotten futures
The focus on the constitution has taken attention away from the plight of the families of the disappeared

Point of no return
We need an extension, leaders understand very well that politics does not operate in a vacuum

Hydrocratic dreams
Using hydro-dollars to mitigate our trade deficit with India is a myth

Won't take it lying down
Why Bishendra Pashwan ended up throwing a chair out of the window

Grounded too long
Let's unshackle our national airline from the clutches of politicians once and for all

The next Nepali revolt
Nepal's many political changes have come to nothing because nothing changes with the politicians that we have

Nepal Guest Year
Time to replace the word 'tourist' with 'guest'

Straddling two boats
Nepal's politicians pay homage to one definition of politics while exploiting another

A default state
The far-west isn't "far", it is being denied resources

We know what works
Devolving power to local user groups ensures participation, transparency, accountability and development

Learning from Peru's transition
Political haggling can be removed if the transition is led by technocrats

Juicy gossip
The Dabur scandal betrays contaminated minds rather than packets of juice

Win-win-win
A trilateral agreement with India and China may be the only way to move forward together

An open letter to the Big Guys
We young MPs must rise above the party line and remember that we, too, represent the people

10+2 for public health
Nepal's public health successes are extraordinary, but a 10-fold focus supplemented by a healthy body politic is needed to consolidate our achievements so far

Romancing power, courting a constitution
Musical chairs for the prime ministership have obscured the whole of the constitution-writing process and the bones of contention within it

The intellectual dilemma
Why can't the Maoists and the intellectuals who support them understand what joining the constitutional porcess means?


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