press

Errata, etc

As the guardians of the Fourth Estate, it is our job to tell it like it is, and let the potato chips...

The Ass

Press for people

This year, Nepal leapfrogged to 76 among 180 countries, up from last year’s 106, in the Press Freedom Index. Reporters without Borders ranked India...

Sahina Shrestha

Onward

I'm so old that I remember a time — back in the hoary 1990s — when you couldn’t expect flair, or at...

Times change, but the Nepali Times stays the same

It was easy for me to get in the door of the Nepali Times after I first moved to Nepal in 2005:...

Marty Logan

In a surveillance state

While citizens in Western democracies try to get their governments to combat the misuse of their private data by internet companies, here...

License to lie

It is beginning to worry us in the journalism profession that the press gets bad press. Without beating the bush around, it...

The Ass

No freedom after expression

Prime Minister K P Oli spent 14 years in jail for opposing the Panchayat absolute monarchy. He was one of the main...

Rule by law

Nepal’s ruling unified Marxist-Leninist-Maoists have in the past year incrementally constricted freedom of expression, thinking no one will notice if they do...

CENSURING CENSORSHIP

Now that all three festivals are over, it is time to remind ourselves of where we left off before the holidays. Lest...

Digital detox

The surest sign that Nepal has already become an online society is the spreading practice of ‘digital detox’, where addicted users completely...