Sol´s gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin´ air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Dip, slide east,
´tis twilight, throat´s thirsty.
Jetstream steam, ill at ease,
Before the beginning of August last year, Manidhar bista had come running ten times if he´d come once, to employ Pudke damai as a ploughman. So Pudke had ploughed
Beyond the Ganges river jMthe mountains of Nepal There lives my hairy YETI, Shi´s the fairest of them all. She´s lissome and curvatious And as Ye lis ga,
Living Out a Refugee Welcome
The situation in
Southeast Nepal
will become explosive
if the Bhutanese refugees stay there
much longer.
Meanwhile, their
leaders concentrate
on running each other down.
Standing on a high ridge and cocking an ear against the wind, I can hear the distant thunder of approaching Development. A short way down the frothing wild rapids of
POLITICS IN NEPAL 1980-1991: REFEREN-DUM, STALEMATE AND TRIUMPH OF PEOPLE POWER
by Rishikesh Shah Third Revised Edition Manohar Publishers. New Delhi 1992 [SBN817304 0206 Ks320
The first edition oflhis book
History is often accepted as an account of how good kings won battles, established empires and kept their subjects happy; and conversely, of how the bad ones oppressed the poor
Father´s Woes
Manisha Aryal´s article on Himalayan herbs belittles Nepali professionals and perpetu¬ates the inferiority complex that we Nepalis have. Aryal has covered many aspects of the
Dawn, 17 Jan 2010
IN an opinion piece in TheWashington Post on Friday, President Zardari has told his foreign audience that his government has a plan to build "a
Indra Bahdur Kapchake
The news item in the papers in late January was brief and perfunctory. A 55-year-old man had been run over by a bus in the eastern Nepal
DO YOU KNOW YOUR HIMAL?
Arnica K. Panday
How muck do you really know about the mountain world of ´South and Central Asia? Go through each multiple-choice question below, circling
