Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIHowever much we love our country, there comes a time when we have to take the bull by its horns or, as they say in…
One of the benefits of the current pandemic is that it has institutionalised the “Namaste” as a greeting not just in the Subcontinent but all…
Go back to sleep, we'll wake you up when things start getting really exciting around here. Politicians are up to their ears waging party…
As some of you more alert readers may have surmised by now, we live in perilous times. Besides an impending climate catastrophe and more…
It’s that time of year again when dogs are gods in Catmandu, and as we involuntarily get the urge to raise our hind-legs when passing a…
Every year, Nepal honours people who have imparted yeoman’s service to the nation so that things do not get from bad to worse. Thanks to the…
As an adventure destination, Nepal’s policy has always been to make it as thrilling as possible for tourists who visit the country with…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe good people of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the litterbugs of Kathmandu last week to…
It doesn’t look like anyone is about to give Prime Minister Brave Lion a honeymoon period. The same folks who were baying for Oli’s blood are…
Coalition politics brings out the best in a democracy. The five-party anti-Oli alliance has been in grabberment for less than a month and it…
Nepal is serious about democracy, and that is why we have to keep restoring it every decade or so because we believe in government for the…
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could make…
If only Eh-malay alpha males didn't have the if-I-don't-win-I-won't-play mentality, we would by now have a Tarai Fast Track, piped gas in every…
As a Backside columnist, it falls upon this scribe’s lap to urge readers to look at the bright side, stay bullish, be a beacon of hope, and…
Nepal’s tourism planners urgently need to update the country’s guidebooks so that visitors arriving in Kathmandu know exactly what to expect,…
Now that NASA has its Perseverance SUV and Ingenuity drone on the surface of the Red Planet, we will finally know if men are indeed from Mars.…
Now that I have one year of practice of Zooming around, the wealth of experience I have amassed makes me a self-appointed expert on conducting…
Statutory Government Health Warning: The following segment contains material that some readers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is…
As a newspaper of world records, we tell the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. However, reporters are also human, and we…
Now that G Adventures has listed Nepal as Number 1 of the Top 12 Destinations Worldwide for 2020, we can all sit back, relax and give every…
Nepal is land-locked, and to make matters worser, the country is fast running out of land. Ever since we lost a third of our territorial…
Two items of news this week proved beyond reasonable doubt what we knew all along: early Homos prowled the Plateau, and the Yeti is still up…
