May 2020
Opinion
Nepal is too big for ad hocism
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRI country of 30 million is not small. A country that cannot spend 70% of its development budget […]
May 28, 2020
Opinion
Nepal’s accidental leaders
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRI henever Nepal’s political ‘leaders’ ask us what they should be doing, our response is usually: “When you […]
May 16, 2020
COVID-19
Nepal’s future normal
Photo: MANISH POUDEL ho would have thought that a time would come when the price of oil would be below […]
May 4, 2020
April 2020
COVID-19
Will politicians pass the COVID-19 test?
Photo: BIKRAM RAI t is the fifth anniversary of the big earthquake that shook us all on 25 April 2015. The […]
April 21, 2020
Opinion
Work for food
Photo: SEAN SHOEMAKER e must all look beyond these times of fear and uncertainty and plan forward to Dasain, Tihar […]
April 8, 2020
March 2020
COVID-19
Common sense is uncommon in fighting COVID-19
Photo: BIKRAM RAI he whole world is now using vocabulary that we assume everyone, everywhere, will understand in the same […]
March 29, 2020
COVID-19
Global thinking and local action on coronavirus
Photo: BIKRAM RAI lobalisation is credited with raising over two billion people in the world out of poverty. The money […]
March 17, 2020
Nepal’s history foretold
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI hen the Nepali Times was preparing to launch two decades ago, many Nepalis were sad, frightened and […]
March 5, 2020
February 2020
Opinion
What next for Kathmandu: bottled air?
Photo: BIKRAM RAI epal has restructured its polity and installed local, provincial and central governments. People have been promised economic […]
February 17, 2020
Opinion
Read and let read
Photo: BIKRAM RAI he past decade has seen a dramatic rise in the number of book publishers, book stores and […]
February 4, 2020