Symbolic symbols
Ang Kami Sherpa just broke his own record to climb Mt Everest for the 26th time last week. Also aspiring to be...
satire
Crocodile tears
I wouldn’t blame any of my valued customers if they failed to notice that May 8th was World Donkey Day. Thank you...
Freedom of the wild ass
All of us here in Assdom were pleasantly surprised this week to see that Nepal’s rankings in the World Press Freedom Index...
Driverless in Carmandu
The world is making amazing progress in automotive technology, and this means Nepal will soon leapfrog rapidly from a country of drivers...
7 ways to save Nepal
The Ukraine War has sent the price of fuel soaring, forcing Nepalis to play Russian roulette at the petrol pumps. Inflation has...
The Virtual Keynote
At the outset of today’s Zoom webinar, allow me to first thank the organisers of this 6-day Conference on Sustainable Development of...
Yankee go home. (Take us with you.)
For those of us who devour dish-information for current affairs, it is now looking like Nepal is about to declare war on...
Another Ballantine’s
Come to think of it, it was quite a masterstroke that the Baddies launched their armed struggle in 1996 just a day...
10 reasons to leave Nepal
However much we love our country, there comes a time when we have to take the bull by its horns or, as...
A tongue lashing
One of the benefits of the current pandemic is that it has institutionalised the “Namaste” as a greeting not just in the...
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