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In a free-wheeling interview UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Truth and Reconciliation Media: “The media is a bit Dahal spoke to Nepali Times and Himal Khabarpatrika on Thursday Bill: “It meets international confused and some like your about the need for the government and Election Commission to still standards. We Nepalis listen newspaper are a bit prejudiced aim to have elections in June. He defended his commitment to address a bit too much to outsiders. against me and our party.” human rights violations committed during the war through the Truth We have to get out of the habit of seeking international and Reconciliation Commssion and urged Nepalis not to always seek approval for everything we nepalitimes.com foreign approval for domestic issues. He did not rule out eventual do.” unity with the Baidya faction. Full interview in Nepali on Himal Khabarpatrika on Sunday. English Madhes: “I want to contest translation, podcast, and video clips online Elections: “We must push accountable to the people and elections from the Madhes and for elections in June, it is allowed to govern for full five address the grievances of the still possible. If the High years. At present, coalition Tarai and bring all Madhesis Level Political Committee leaders always need money and into the national mainstream. which I chair can convince muscle to stay in power and We can’t treat Madhesis as if the smaller parties, then the have no time to think about they are Indians.” government and the EC can stability and growth.” MURAL solve the technical issues. The Personal inconsistency: “What CITY continuation of the election Baidya: “Today’s meeting of you call inconsistency, I call page 12-13 government will be in doubt if the HLPC decided to invite dynamism and pragmatism. If polls can’t be held in June.” Baidya and Upendra to talk and I were rigid in my belief, we involve them in the committee would be stuck. I can’t just be Executive president proposal: to address their concerns about a locomotive, I have to pull “A leader should be directly elections.” the carriages along.” 2 EDITORIAL 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 TRUTHLESS COMMISSION he Supreme Court’s stay order this week on the The plot was hatched by the Baburam Bhattarai-led establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation The Regmi regime can redeem coalition, which had the most to hide. When he was TCommission, as per the parameters promulgated by itself by announcing local prime minister, Bhattarai promoted army and police the previous government and passed as ordinance by the officers involved in atrocities, he publicly coddled a president, has been welcomed by families of victims as elections in June and a date for Maoist ex-CA member who had been convicted and well as human rights activists. CA elections in November sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court, It also underlines why many of us have been harping his government’s chief spokesman was another Maoist on the need for an independent judiciary when all other commander implicated in summary execution, and he pillars of democracy have been compromised. This ruling if he wants to redeem his reputation, to immediately do ordered police not to pursue disappearance, murder or is precisely why the separation of powers is so important. three things: a) resign from his chief justice position, torture cases like that of journalist Dekendra Thapa of And it is heartening to see that even when the chief b) announce local elections in June, and c) show the Dailekh. Now, in cahoots with their former enemies, the justice has become the chief executive without resigning four main parties who is boss by setting an irrevocable Maoists are terrified about facing the consequences of from his Supreme Court post, the apex body continues to November date for CA elections. Regmi will have to their terror. fulfil its check and balance role. swallow his pride and show more assertiveness than he No one should be surprised that the Maoists would The whole idea that Truth and Reconciliation could has so far, but we cannot have this bipolar state anymore try to wriggle out of facing any punishment for have been included in a ‘package’ deal on the formation where an election government is a puppet of date-expired the violence and terror they unleashed on the of an election government was absurd to begin with. But political leadership. people. But it is truly tragic that the Nepali such was the desperation on the part of the international The Supreme Court’s stay order was in response to Congress and UML should also join this community with the state of paralysis that its members writ petitions by human rights lawyers challenging its unprincipled stand. looked the other way to fully back an election government provisions for pardon and amnesty even for those found led by the CJ. The four-party cartel willingly sacrificed justice in conflict-era crimes for the sake of political expediency, and exposed a fatal flaw in the whole chief justice project. One could say that is now water under the bridge. One could argue that we now have to make the best of what we have and try to ensure clean and violence-free elections soon. But the reason the process is stuck again (over deciding on the date for elections and bringing the guilty of heinous crimes like smaller parties on board) is because the political parties extra-judicial killings, disappearances, still want to dictate policy when they have collectively torture, and rape. The whole process of lost their moral authority to do so. The cross-party formulating the bill and the passing of the leadership that created the mess is now blaming the ordinance was shrouded in secrecy. Families of Election Commission and the technocratic interim victims were never consulted, human rights groups election council for the delay. did not have a say, and even the National Human It would be advisable for Chairman Khil Raj Regmi, Rights Commission was bypassed.

ON THE WEB www.nepalitimes.com OF MAYBE NOT JUNE is no exception. It looks as if the stamina (‘Yak Attack 2013, Tyler of my time. This is nothing but a If the main Nepali political parties government is acting in conjunction Mcmahon’, #649). If this was an demagogic rhetoric every politician THE are really sincere about helping by not promoting photovoltaic cells Olympic sport, Nepal would win gold, comes up with at the time of election O WEEK Khil Raj Regmi conduct elections, as required. But I have a different silver, and bronze. Congratulations to and that will never turn into action. then they must participate despite question regarding the upkeep of the riders and organisers and thanks to She had her chance to do the right What would you do if you won intra-party differences and partisan solar panels. Given that I need to wet Nepali Times for featuring it with such things, didn’t she? Rs 10 million today ? interests (‘Maybe not June’, mop panels every morning to remove prominence. GG Editorial, #649). No one, not even the layer of accumulated dust, how Cyclist the radical Baidya communists is it done - if it is ever done - for so TWEEPLE Fionna Heiton: Invest in quality education and ethnic outfi ts, will benefi t by many at Sundarighat? USHAKALA RAI Your top 10 twitter user list leaves in rural Nepal Anupama Mahat: I would take my parents exaggerating the current situation PV There are no political slogans here, lots to be desired. My list would for a trip just to avoid elections no matter how no grand-standing, no chauvinistic look a lot different. Best 10 Nepali Santosh Banstola: Visit the Seven much they pretend to be pro-people. If 72GW hours of power could be populism, just common sense (‘Where twitter users in terms of content Wonders of the World Make or break generated from just 10 per cent of next?’, Ushakala Rai, #649). I wish and engagement and not name Marc van Leeuwen: Buy an apartment so Kathmandu’s total area, then why not I could have Nepali Times delivered daily Gary Hyslop: Take a trip to Nepal Carter did Nepal a real generate them from home and sell Matt Wittich: Buy a new wardrobe and go disservice in 2008. I hope he has it to NEA or reverse the meter? This on holiday heard and accepted the feedback way we can even solve the energy and learnt his lesson. hunger for industries and offi ces @KC_Prasanna: Count the money to ‘Paul Krugman’ during daytime. see if it’s really 10 Mil. Don’t trust anyone Nir Kr Rai in Nepal ALTERNATIVE ENERGY @blueskysp22: I will return to Nepal Jagan Nath Shrestha can’t hide CAIRN OPTING OUT @impratapthapa: Help street children his frustration when he says ‘I was It’s good that Cairn is not coming @bakhrel1pranav: Start a restaurant and tourism business 10 when I fi rst heard about how soon to Nepal (‘Cairn may give up @ShivaniBasnet: Invest Nepal would sell electricity to India on Nepal’, Mark Williamson, #649) there were many more like Ushakala recognition: @anilbhattarai , @offi cialsudeep: Donate it and become rich. I am now 63 and because when there is no governance in the Janajati community and I wish @sarita_giri , @DeepakAdk, we have 14-hour power cuts daily. and rule of law, multinational there were many more Bahun-Chhetris @KundaDixit, @Svbel, @ How much longer are we going to companies behave badly as we see who see the need for devolution and PrashantKTM, @UjjwalAcharya. wait?’ (‘No alternative to alternative in Africa. In many under-developed affi rmative action. For the fi rst time Bhumika Ghimire energy’, Bhrikuti Rai, #649). I too countries where oil is found, the in a long while, I got a sense of hope Weekly Internet Poll #650 heard the same thing when I was economy remains the same as reading this. Wow! @NepaliTimes covered 10 and now I’m 35. I hope when I’m before or worse: eg Sudan, Chad, Mina Gurung top Twitterers. Loved handpicked Q. Do you think polls are possible without convincing the 22 fringe parties? 63 I won’t have to experience the Sierra Leone or Guatemala. Ethnic Top 10 and believe that those not same thing Shrestha is facing now. confl icts erupt and there is instability. This article is superbly written. tweeting about Nepal should’ve Total votes: 1,088 With the way political parties are Oil is only viable for Nepal if a local Thanks to Ushakala Rai for calling a been ignored. running the country, though, I don’t company owns more than half the spade, a spade. If you ever stand for @UjjwalAcharya have hope. shares or if there are Nepalis at offi ce, be assured, my vote goes to you. Concerned Nepali decision-making levels. Otherwise we Sashi B Bisht export gold at the price of a nickel. CORRECTION Foot-dragging and throwing James I thought this was an excellently The photos for ‘Yak Attack 2013’ by a spanner in the works have written article until I got to the bottom of Tyler McMahon (#649) should have been the hallmark of corruption- YAK ATTACK the page and found that Ushakala is a also credited NepalSutra. Weekly Internet Poll # 651. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com ridden corporations and the NEA Amazing feat of endurance and politician. I felt I wasted a few minutes Q. What does Nepali cricket need to improve its standards in the long-term?

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bomb in a DDC building in the polls. Tarai this week. The proposal to keep one There is now so much per cent vote as minimum BY THE WAY momentum and the parties requirement for parties to secure Anurag Acharya have invested so much proportional representation political capital on elections, quota has left smaller parties that it will probably happen. fuming, while the Election n the months that followed The question is when. And Commission’s proposed the dissolution of the ill- also, what kind of elections? amendment that allows criminal Ifated Constituent Assembly What is sure is that the pre- convicts to run for elections last year, some of us had called election environment will after six years of completing for its revival mainly because be unpredictable and given their sentence, if passed by the another election for another the large proportion of voters cabinet, will most probably assembly would be difficult who seem uninterested or invite writ petitions. Then there given the multi-polarised undecided, so will the results. are unresolved problems of nature of national politics. The Pushpa Kamal Dahal citizenship and voting rights for fact that the Interim Election has been trying to get the marginalised, particularly in Council (or should we say the disgruntled Madhesi UML the Madhes. Four Party Mechanism) has leader Ramchandra Jha to The prospect of polls in not been able to come up with defect and it is clear that the June have all but disappeared even a poll date proves that UCPN-M is looking to cash and with the festival season our suspicions were right. in on the sagging popularity preceding November we may The top leaders are of the Upendra Yadav-led DIWAKAR CHETTRI even be looking at polls next already pretending to be in Morcha in the Madhes. He has year. The challenge until then is campaign mode, touring declared that he will contest to sort out election preparations, their constituencies to woo from Dhanusha and it is likely get everyone on board, and apathetic voters with wild Baburam Bhattarai will stand ensure participation so that we promises. Election watchdogs in Morang. electoral seats from the Tarai CPN-Maoist. So obsessive and have meaningful elections. are planning the deployment There are now efforts, which now has more than half annoying is Baidya that former Even if all the hurdles are of observers. The technocratic probably inspired from the country’s population. US President Jimmy Carter, overcome and elections are held government is going ahead without, to get Yadav to re- The only group that seems before flying back earlier this sometime in the coming year, with logistical preparations, unite with the UDMF. One to be against elections and week, indirectly advised Khil the new CA will face the same but the Dash Maoists seem insider told me that there were apparently for no obvious Raj Regmi to come down hard obstacles it did last time. But even more determined not to talks and a possible alliance reason, are Mohan Baidya’s on those who try to disrupt that’s another story. let the elections happen. will come out once election Madhesi journalists from dates are announced. Siraha and Saptari told me In a not unrelated recently: “The people are in development JP Gupta, favour of elections, but the fresh out of jail, has filed frustration and anger after CA a petition in the Supreme dissolution is so widespread Court demanding that the that anyone can light a spark electoral areas in the Madhes and make it spread like be remapped according to the wildfire.” Armed groups in latest census data. If the apex the Tarai have threatened to court gives a nod, there will prevent elections and set off a be a substantial increase in 4 NATION 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650

Nepal’s youth bulge BIKRAM RAI Young voters have strength in numbers and can influence politics by electing accountable leaders

too are disillusioned with power hungry, between those who can pay their pay enough, 60 per cent of the same group corrupt politicians, but sports there offers way into colleges and jobs and those said they would stay in Nepal and ‘work a real outlet for many young Afghans. who can’t, widens every day. Youth ‘self- harder’ for a better future, only 10 per HERE WE GO (See Page 13) employment’ schemes are just a ploy to cent wanted to migrate for work. Those Trishna Rana Nepalis can’t even look to sports fill party coffers. looking for jobs abroad were slightly for escape. Like rest of our governing Cross-tabulated data from the higher at 15 per cent in the 18-24 age system, sports associations are steeped Himalmedia Public Opinion Poll bracket. s a sea of red and blue flags in corruption and their million dollar 2013 shows that more than half the The youth bulge provides the foot fluttered at the TU cricket budgets are lavished on junkets not respondents in the 18-39 age group feel soldiers for political parties, militant Aground in Kirtipur on training. Forget facilities outside the country is doing far worse than three groups, and the mafia. And as the parties Wednesday afternoon, the 20,000 plus Kathmandu, even the Dasrat Stadium is to four years ago. When asked which gear up for campaigns for or against spectators gathered to watch their home decrepit. political leader they would want as prime elections, there is a risk that they will team in the ACC-T20 finals displayed a One-third of Nepal’s population is minister, 20 per cent of the cohort said once again be conscripted as we will no rare unity that has often eluded Nepalis. between 15-39 years, but they don’t count there is no such leader and 15 cent were doubt see on Sunday. But it didn’t take long for the in our myopic and self-centred politics. undecided. Even ‘youth’ leader Gagan Nepal’s youth have to be an integral euphoria to turn into a familiar sense More than 1,000 Nepali youngsters line Thapa failed to make a mark among the part of the democratic process. They have of frustration and despair. After up at Kathmandu airport every day to youth. strength in numbers and can influence dominating UAE in the semis, Nepal escape the drudgery and hopelessness. Although they seem indifferent politics by electing accountable leaders succumbed to Afghanistan which has While the national literacy rate has towards particular parties and leaders, with integrity and vision. become our greatest sporting rival both gone up to 66 per cent and enrollment trust in the democratic process is high The two million Nepalis who turned in cricket and football. in primary schools is at an all time with 60 per cent of young Nepalis saying 18 since 2008, therefore, should be For a country that finds itself in a high, female literacy rate is plateauing free and fair elections are possible. the first to get voter IDs. There is no precarious balance between democracy off. Over half a million 15-16 year olds Ethnicity-based federalism was even guarantee they will all show up at the and extremism as it tries to recover from completed their SLC exams last month, more unpopular in this age range with 80 polling booths, but if they do they will three decades of conflict, Afghanistan’s but there aren’t enough jobs for them per cent thinking it is a bad idea. vote for the party which recognises that meteoric rise in international cricket has and not enough colleges for those who While half the respondents in the 25- the country’s future is in the hands of surprised many here. Like Nepalis, they want to pursue higher studies. The gap 39 age group said their salary was barely young voters. 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 NATION 5

BIZ BRIEFS Dream ride HH Bajaj recently launched Discover 100T in Nepal. According to the company, Discover 100T is the world’s most advanced 100cc bike powered by Bajaj’s four valve DTS-i technology, delivering the power of 125 cc with the economy of 100cc. It is available in four colours – fl ame red, brilliant blue, black red, and black blue. Money matters NMB Bank and Sharaf Exchange have partnered for inbound remittance from the UAE. This partnership allows Nepali migrant students and government schools workers in the UAE to send remittance back home through NMB Bank Sulav refused them.” Remit. Even renting the house in Born positive Kathmandu was diffi cult, landlords refused to let out rooms when they Giving back found out the children were infected. Chaudhary Group (CG) is providing scholarships Nepal’s first school for HIV positive When Rajkumar Pun and Uma to 111 students of Nawalparasi district under its Gurung read about Urmila’s story in a ‘Gyan Udaya Chhatrabritti Yojana’ that was started students takes in children others don’t want newspaper, they persuaded her to come two years ago. CG also honoured three teachers and live at their shelter and school. in Nawalparasi for their remarkable contribution in SUNIL NEUPANE that if anybody found out I would be Dattaram Rai, who left his old job in the fi eld of education. expelled.” Forced to lie to her friends, an offi ce to become a volunteer teacher one day the principal called Urmila and at the school, says: “When I heard about t is morning playtime in a told her not to come back because she this school I immediately joined up. It Hair care Kathmandu neighbourhood school was HIV positive. is really fulfi lling to teach children who Dabur Nepal launched Prostyle hair creams for men last week. Iand the children are playing in a There are tens of thousands of HIV were ostracised by society. Money is Prostyle creams are available in two variants: dandruff control yard. But nine-year-old Urmila says positive children and AIDS orphans in not everything in life, this work gives me cream and nourish and protect cream. she doesn’t feel like playing today. Last Nepal and often they are not allowed to more satisfaction than all the money I night she saw her mother in a dream attend school because of stigmatisation could earn.” and wants to write her a letter. and ignorance about the nature of Manju is 10 and also goes to school Win-win Urmila’s mother lives 600km away the virus. Now, there are schools at Saphalta, she was brought here by an LG began its ‘Celebration Year’ campaign to mark in Achham district and they see each like Saphalta HIV Shiksya Sadan in aunt after her mother died of AIDS. Nepali New Year 2070. Customers purchasing LG home other just once a year. Her father Kathmandu that have been set up “In my village, neighbours would tell appliances are entitled to win sure shot prizes with a grand worked in Delhi and returned home especially for positive children. their children not to play with me,” she lucky draw for 42 inch Cinema 3D TV to be won every 15 days. HIV positive and passed on the virus The school, founded by 28-year-old recalls, “it really hurt my feelings and I to Urmila’s mother. Urmila was born Rajkumar Pun, is home to 10 children would cry often.” positive. aged between three to ten years old, Manju and Urmila love to Helping hands Urmila’s parents never told anyone and is the fi rst of its kind in Nepal. Pun dance and after school they lead the International Money Express, felicitated its about their affl iction and enrolled her sold his house for Rs 5 million to start younger students in a dance. Urmila 13 best performing agents of IME Customers’ in Grade 1 in a government school in the school, but still needs Rs18,000 a says she wants to be a famous dancer Special Week 2013 held in February. Achham. But when her teachers found month for running expenses which he one day. The agents were rewarded based on out, they expelled Urmila. raises from charities. www.asiacalling.org understanding of the campaign, hospitality, “At the time I was taking ARV “All the children here were turned number of Ncell SIM card activation, and drugs and when my friends asked me, back from other schools,” he explains, nepalitimes.com proper distribution of gifts. I told them I was taking medicine for “they claim parents would take out Listen to podcast of this article a headache,” Urmila recalls, “I knew their children if they enroll HIV-positive 6 REGION 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 Can’t live without them Similarly, many temples South Asia’s propensity of India have the tradition of hereditary priests, usually to spawn dynasties is Brahmins. In 2006, the Tamil bewildering and is proof Nadu government of M Karunanidhi issued an order of the persistence of our abrogating the unwritten feudal mindset principle of familial succession to priesthood which was also opened to non-Brahmin castes. The irony is that Karunanidhi has publicly declared that son MK Stalin will succeed him as the party leader. Or take the scions of illustrious business families. Irrespective of their skills or talents, children often inherit companies their fathers or grandfathers established and in which ordinary shareholders are today heavily invested. You can’t readily think of a businessman, owning a substantial share in an Indian corporation, who voluntarily chose to overlook his or her children at the time of passing the baton. At least, unlike editor- owners, priests, and pervasiveness explains why son is an associate editor. The mouth: that Rahul Gandhi is businessmen, the great political people dismiss the hypocritical other acquired from a generous astonishingly talented. families of India can claim that GUEST COLUMN media outcry against dynastic industrialist, now deceased, The two illustrious editors they have to at least periodically Ajaz Ashraf succession to routinely vote a newspaper more than a run private operations and pass the electoral test to acquire pater familias to power. century old. His son is now the enjoy an unassailable right to power. It is an argument One of the most vocal critics newspaper’s managing editor. choose who oversees them. Bollywood too could cite to of dynastic succession and the It is true political parties Nevertheless, for many in the justify the domination of a few rom the time Rahul Gandhi Gandhis are two Indian media have a different role than profession, it could well appear families over two and three was appointed the vice- stalwarts who are guilty of what newspapers. It is also possible as examples of powerful fathers generations. Though children Fpresident of the Congress, they rail against. One of them the children of these two subverting meritocracy, given from these families don’t have the media have accused him of is considered the diadem of luminaries are prodigiously their role in generously granting to struggle for a foothold in the perpetuating dynastic rule. Indian journalism: he became an talented. It is conceivable their designations to their children. industry, the longevity of their No doubt, dynasty is editor at a young age, launched fathers saw in them qualities Might it not have been better career depends on their ability to antithetical to democratic a classy newspaper, joined the they couldn’t in others who for them to have designations satisfy the audience. politics. Yet, it is also true Congress briefly, returned to could fill their posts. Such which did not vouch for their Nevertheless, the presence of that dynastic succession is the journalism, and now heads a arguments echo precisely journalistic excellence and Bollywood dynasties, as is true norm outside India as well. Its weekly newspaper in which his the ones the Congressmen which did not indicate to others of all dynasties in every field, that there is ‘space for eminence’ concentrates power in a few in the two organisations, “but and stifles competition. Even none for pre-eminence”? (The in classical music practitioners words in quotes belong to one of complain about the debilitating the two who used it to criticise impact ordinary children of the appointment of Rahul extraordinary parents have had Gandhi as the vice-president of on the talented. the Congress.) To what extent South Asia’s propensity to is the ethos of the two media spawn dynasties is bewildering organisations any different from and is proof of the persistence that of the Congress whose of our feudal mindset. It is still members claim they are entitled intact due to socio-economic to run their party as they desire? inequalities and the inherited Dynastic succession ethos of the caste system that dominates religion as well. As ensures a patron-client (or raja- you enter through the imposing praja) relationship thrives in its gates of Delhi’s historic Jama modern avatars. Masjid, a board lists the It is by bridging inequalities descendents of the Bukhari that we can end dynasties, family that have been Imams not by criticising the Gandhis, for 13 generations, beginning Bhuttos, Sharifs, Koiralas, Zias, 1656. Forgotten is the fact that and Hasinas. We are as guilty as a hereditary imam is in gross they are. violation of Islam. [email protected] Now summer is seriously here, with the mercury edging close to the 30 Celsius point. However, the minimum temperature is still in the low teens which will make nights and mornings still a bit chilly. No sign of any major frontal system from the west, so what little precipitation there is over the weekend will be due to KATHMANDU local convection. The air will be dry, afternoons breezy, and if you are thinking of renewing your swimming FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY pool membership now is the time to 27° 28° 29° do it. Or head off to the mountains #650 5 - 11 April 2013 on a trek. 12° 12° 12° Overflying Everest again

BECAUSE IT WAS THERE: Charles Douglas-Hamilton on a Yeti Airlines sight-seeing flight on Wednesday (left) following the track taken by his grandfather 80 years ago. The famous picture of the modified Westland PV-3 with call sign G-ACAZ being flown by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton on the morning of 3 April 1933 towards the summit of Mt Everest (top).

planes and took off, banking to the north. They struggled against 100 3 anniversaries knot westerly crosswind and minus on Everest 50 Celsius to close in on Mt Everest. Approaching the mountain from the 3 April, 1933 80th First fl ight south-east, flying crabwise into the wind, the pilots used the updrafts 29 May, 1953 60th First ascent on the west side of the mountain 22 May, 1963 to lift them over the summit. They First American inspected the top of Mt Everest, but 50th ascent and traverse saw no signs of Mallory. Despite punctured oxygen tubes and malfunctioning survey cameras, the planes made it back safely. The pilots then disobeyed orders from London to do the whole flight one more time on 19 April and took the survey pictures KUNDA DIXIT of the southern slopes of Mt Everest First summit that made possible the first ascent landing n the 80th anniversary of the invention of powered flight and with an anti-freeze formula to of the mountain 20 years later by the first-ever flight over nine years after the disappearance prevent aviation fuel from getting Hillary and Tenzing. OMt Everest by four Scottish of Mallory and Irvine on Mt Everest. frozen. Britain was soon engulfed The 80th anniversary event pilots, the grandson of one of In fact, one of the reasons for flying by war and Hamilton and the other is part of the Prestwick Festival them took a commemorative flight over the world’s highest mountains pilots flew in the air defence of of Flight and supported by to the world's highest mountain was to find proof that Mallory had Scotland. BAE Systems, which is a direct in a Yeti Airlines Jetstream 41 on made it to the summit. It was important for Britain to descendant of Scottish Aviation Wednesday. On Wednesday, Charles, the set some kind of aviation record formed by Hamilton and McIntyre Two flimsy Westland-Wallace grandson of the Scottish nobleman since the Americans had just after their record flight. Yeti Eight years ago, Didier Delsalle biplanes with open cockpits took and pioneer aviator, Douglas flown over both the South and Airlines flies a fleet of eight 30- landed a Eurocopter AS350 off from Purnea in Bihar and flew a Douglas-Hamilton, re-enacted the North Poles in 1926 and 1929. The seater BAE Jetstream 41 turboprops, B3 helicopter on the summit roundtrip of 500km in three hours flight on a Yeti Airlines Mountain two Westland-Wallace PV-3s were which are built in Prestwick. of Mt Everest and stayed on to get to about 50 metres above Flight that took the same route as specially modified for high altitude "It was a ground-breaking top for four minutes. Delsalle the 8848m mountain on 3 April the one in 1933. flight, tested, and put into crates and pioneering flight that led set the world record for the 1933. "I got a sense of how difficult and transported by sea to Karachi directly to refinements in aviation highest ever landing and takeoff , One of the planes was piloted it must have been to fly on those where they were reassembled and technology that allowed high but the Nepal government by Colonel LVS Blacker and planes," Charles said as his plane flown to Purnea near the Nepal- altitude flights," explained Derek refused to recognise the feat Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the approached Everest on Wednesday, India border in Bihar. Barbour of BAE Systems who helped because Eurocopter didn’t Marquis of Clydesdale. "here I am looking out of the A black-and-white film made design the Jetstream 41 and was have permission to land on The famous picture of the window in a pressurised, heated of the adventure shows the pilots on Wednesday's commemorative the summit. The landing was Westland-Wallace with call sign cabin with oxygen." discussing what they should do if flight. confi rmed by the Fédération G-ACAZ flying towards Mt Everest That flight led directly to the the oxygen supply or the heating Kunda Dixit Aéronautique Internationale from the south-east became development of pressurisation, failed and whether or not they (FAI). an iconic image of the early heating, and oxygen in high- should take parachutes along (they nepalitimes.com days of aviation and Himalayan altitude flights. The engines were decided not to, to save weight). nepalitimes.com mountaineering. The historic flight specially designed for high-altitude They waited for the weather to More pictures of the fl ight See video of the fl ight in our online gallery. took place barely 30 years after performance and Shell came up clear and then climbed on to their 8 Pranamaya yoga, learn Reiki with Shanta Shakya. 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1 1 The mandala of bees painted by Daichi in Lajimpat represents Makwanpur district.

2 Kabina Shrestha, 27, works on her mural near Ideal Model School, Jhamsikhel.

3 German street artist duo Herakut completed this 25 feet mural at Bhotahiti in two days.

4 Priscila De Carvalho depicts the disturbing rise of consumerism in her mural in Jawalakhel.

KOLORING KATHMANDU

TSERING DOLKER GURUNG

or decades the white washed held in Bara every five years. wall linings of Kathmandu have Along with resuscitating the Ffought a losing battle against Valley’s sick walls, the project layers and layers of political slogans is nurturing young talents and and posters. Yuki Poudyal, the brains providing them an opportunity to behind Kolor Kathmandu, along with learn from veterans. First-timers Sattya Media Arts Collective (see box), are asked to shadow an experienced however, are on a mission to replace artist, after which they can submit the sea of red letters and give the their designs. Once their plans are battered walls of this city a much approved, they can lead their own needed facelift. mural. Eighteen-year-old Sangrachana “Kathmandu’s residents have been Chamling is one such aspiring talent treated to visual pollution all their who assisted an international artist lives. I wanted to change this by before creating her own mural at making our streets more appealing Sanepa. through mural art,” says the 27-year- As the popularity of the murals old project director who was inspired spreads through word of mouth, by street art in Philadelphia (see support for the project is gaining interview). steam. When Kolor Kathmandu posted

2 A team of local and international artists are transforming Kathmandu into the second mural city in the world

With 12 international muralists a request for aluminum ladders on including popular German street artist its Facebook page, there were plenty duo, Herakut, and 25 local artists, of takers. Recently Pashupati Paints Kolor Kathmandu has painted 25 agreed to provide supplies for the murals in Baluwatar, Shankhamul, artists. Not to miss out on the fun, Bhotahiti, Jawalakhel, and other parts people living outside Kathmandu of town so far. They receive Rs 7,000 have been asking Kolor Kathmandu to each for their hard work. The goal, come paint their home towns. says Yuki, is to create 75 murals by “It’s great to see the artists’ efforts September and name them after the 75 being appreciated,” says Yuki, “but districts of Nepal. they created the murals not for While some artists have focused themselves or for Sattya. The art on landscapes, others have chosen to belongs to the neighbourhoods. We depict social stigmas and problems want people to be inspired and take faced in their districts. Anish ownership and protect it as their Bajracharya’s Bara in Bhanimandal for own.” example pays homage to the popular www.kolorkathmandu.sattya.org Newari lentil dish which shares nepalitimes.com its name with the district and also incorporates the Gadhimai festival Watch artists in action 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 11

3 A brush with street art Was it difficult to get funds? Surprisingly, money wasn’t a big problem. Sattya is supported by Open Society Foundations, a grant-making organisation based in New York and we also receive funding from Prince Claus Fund of Netherlands.

Why did you choose mural art? We didn’t want to create art that would only be displayed at galleries and exhibitions. This is our way of reaching out to a larger Nepali public and saying we will not stand and see our city get more damaged than it already is.

Project director How do you pick locations? Yuki Poudyal tells Finding places to paint has been us her vision for the biggest challenge so far. We have a team of volunteers who go Kolor Kathmandu. around town searching for locations, but sadly people still see street Nepali Times: How did Kolor art as vandalism and are not very Kathmandu start? accepting. For most murals we ask Yuki Poudyal: When I lived in for permission from owners or Philadelphia, I was amazed by the whoever is in charge, but with some amount of art that filled the city. we just go ahead and paint. The paintings and graffiti brought a sense of positivity to the community Do you think politics and art can and inspired me to do something go together? similar in Kathmandu. Nepal is There is so much filth in Nepali fragmented at so many levels, but politics these days. It is constantly art is one way to show our unity. abused by those in power. Only if And this is why we are creating 75 we can clean up our politics can art murals to represent each district. become a part of it.

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Started in 2009 by Anya Vaverko and Yuko Maskey, GROWING ART Sattya today is a hub for artists, photographers, fi lmmakers, and writers. “We wanted a place in Kathmandu where creative people could connect, learn from one other, and share their ideas,” says Anya. The media arts collective regularly organises photography, documentary making, graphic designs, and screen printing workshops. Along with supporting Kolor Kathmandu, Sattya holds free screening of documentary fi lms and discussions in public places around the Valley – aptly called Bato Ko Cinema - as well as teaching urban farming and ways to create green spaces in a congested Kathmandu through its Hariyo Chowk project. www.sattya.org

ALL PICS: CINDREY LIU 12 GIZMO by YANTRICK Cloud BEAT IT! r Dre is a household name in the world of music. The veteran rapper, better known today as the mentor of rap icon Atlas DEminem, has moved into the business of marketing and selling headphones. Like his contemporaries Jay-Z and P Diddy, Dre seems a prodigiously talented composer intent on becoming the next hip-hop mogul. struggling with his bisexual Beats by Dr Dre landed with a big splash in 2008, becoming one of identity as he tries to finish the more famous pieces of music hardware in the market. By aesthetics his masterpiece which he titles alone, the headphones look gorgeous. Shiny black plastic on the outside, The Cloud Atlas Sextet. During a comfortable red padding on the inside with the Beats logo prominently creative hiatus, Frobisher finds displayed on either earpiece. 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He had less. previously thought it could not be Watch trailer 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 13 INTERVIEW Setting the right field Growing up in an Afghan refugee camp in didn’t play on the international level back then, but televised live back home. It was unfortunate that we Peshawar, Pakistan, Raees Ahmadzai never there was some cricketing going on. had we had to go through 35 years of war, but things expected cricket to take him so far. During have changed in the last decade. Sports has become his short but successful international career, How diff erent is cricket in Afghanistan today? a way to bring together a diverse population and the the right-handed batsman captained the When I started playing, I never expected to make next generation is keen to learn. national side and was a part of many historic money. For years I played without any salary. We wins. After retiring in 2010, he began to coach had to buy equipment from our own pockets and Your thoughts on Nepali cricket? the Afghan A team and also became a chief there was little support from our families. Now It was incredible to see tens of thousands of Nepali selector for the Afghanistan Cricket Board. cricket has grown and players can actually make a fans coming to support their home team. Like Nepali Times caught up with Ahmadzai right living from the sport. At every tryout I go to, at least Afghanistan there seems to be a lot of local cricket before his team defeated Nepal in the ACC T20 500 children turn up with their families in tow. going on and the players will defi nitely improve from this experience. However, Nepal still has a fi nals in Kathmandu. How do you explain Afghanistan’s remarkable long way to go before it can start playing with top rise in the game? international sides. Improving current facilities and Nepali Times: How did you start playing cricket? Like I said, the early years were very diffi cult. We infrastructure and building better cricket grounds Raees Ahmadzai: It was 1992 and Pakistan had had very little experience and exposure so we lost outside Kathmandu should be a priority for cricket just won the World Cup. Cricket was everywhere, a lot of matches. But our players were extremely authorities. We visited an academy near Tribhuvan you couldn’t ignore it. My family lived in a refugee professional: they devoted all their energy to the University and were very sad to see its state. Also camp in Peshawar and we started playing among game and learnt quickly. Also the government has school-level cricket needs more attention. Our boys ourselves with homemade bats and balls. We provided us tremendous support. Almost every play regular, professional cricket day in day out. looked up to Pakistani players who had just school today has a cricket team or coaching classes. Nepali players should also do the same. become world champions and tried to emulate Out of 34 provinces in Afghanistan, at least 31 them. Back then, I never thought I would go on to have offi cial teams that play in domestic leagues You are also a goodwill play at the international level and travel across the and local competitions are encouraging younger ambassador for UNICEF. What are world. players. We have good grounds in Jalalabad, Kabul, some of your responsibilities? and Kandahar. When we started in 2001 we were Most of my time as a goodwill Was it diffi cult to play cricket in Afghanistan 87th out of 122 on ICC’s ODI rankings, now we are in ambassador is devoted to raising during the Taliban years? 14th position. awareness about polio, education, health, and In some ways, cricket is a lucky game for us. Islam sports. I think peace is crucial to any kind of requires us to wear long dresses and in cricket we What do people back home think about their achievement. I tell children to take care of their do just that. Cricket also allows for lunch and tea national team? health and to work hard at school. It has to be health breaks so we can pray during those times. A lot of Cricket is the number one sports in Afghanistan and fi rst, education next, and then only sports. I have the people were happy to play cricket in those days and the people love it. A lot of radio shows broadcast same advice for young Nepali boys and girls: study we got quite a bit of support from the Taliban. We live commentary and all our matches in Nepal were fi rst, sports can come later.

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Bhat Bhateni Supermarket next Ordering fish is a dicey door. business in Kathmandu, but we When you dine at Embers, part got lucky with the pan seared fish of the appeal is choosing where scallop (Rs 400). The fish though to sit. The open-air tables in the a little overcooked and bland, was middle of the compound with compensated by the tasty mashed comfortable cushions are perfect potato and grilled vegetables. for a lunch in the sunshine and The grilled chicken (Rs 425) is a a light breeze. However, if the safer bet. Although expensive, weather is bad and the smog is with the mustard sauce quite especially heavy, it would be overpowering, the chicken itself wiser to duck into the bar was fine and filling. SOMEPLACE ELSE area, where the full-length We finished our meal with a glass windows give round of drinks. The cocktails you a nice view of are expensive, Rs 400 for a piña the garden while colada, costing about as much as sheltering you from a main dish. You might want to go the elements. for the mocktails instead (all Rs Or if you PICS: CINDREY LIU 225). Mickey Mouse - orange juice, prefer a pineapple, vanilla ice cream, and formal grenadine - was very sweet and setting, there is yet refreshing despite its kiddy name. another dining room While the garden and the with carved wooden EMBERS decor at Embers are stunning, its furniture and ornate menu needs a major facelift. The decorations that the drinks menu a page salty and crunchy all at once. The meal has to be at least worth the wouldn’t look out of longer. Out of the rather tangy crispy potato (Rs 225) was money we are dishing out. Since place in a museum. limited selection (there were less value for money. Although the the place is only a month old, we mbers is the latest addition It was a no steak or lamb dishes, portion was substantial, the thick want to give the owners benefit to Patan’s dining fraternity. disappointment when for example) we selected a cut potato slices were soggy and of the doubt and hope that next The newly built compound, E we discovered the less few starters and a couple of the chilli sauce tasted slightly off. time we drop in, the food is as fronted by shops that sell designer than satisfactory menu mains. The deep fried chicken (Rs 300), satisfying as the drinks. handbags and shoes, seems more at Embers, both the The American corn salt which was frustratingly vague in Sulaiman Daud suited to ritzy Darbar Marg than ‘booklet’ and the food. and pepper (Rs 170) was an its description, turned out to be sleepy Patan. Officially opened The menu itself is just interesting dish. Individual a better choice. The fried chicken How to get there: Embers is right about a month ago, the restaurant three pages of A4 paper corn nibblets fried in salt and strips were crispy and a good beside Bhat Bhateni Supermarket hopes to draw in shoppers from stapled together, with pepper batter, it was sweet, appetiser for our mains. in Krishna Gali, Patan. 14 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 Flu in from HAPPENINGS the Middle East

killed more than half the infected work in the Middle East or patients. However, we have to see those planning to visit need this in proper context because to take simple precautions DHANVANTARI there were 8,445 cases of SARS of that we use to prevent Buddha Basnyat, MD which 790 died. Neither the World common flu. Washing hands Health Organisation (WHO) nor the with soap and water (or hand Centres for Disease Control (CDC) sanitiser), avoiding touching eyes, etween April 2012 and has advised special screening at nose and mouth, and avoiding March 2013, 17 people points of entry for this virus. There close contact with people who are Bliving in Saudi Arabia, are no recommended travel or sick should be enough to hold off Qatar, Jordan, along with a few trade restrictions either. the coronavirus for now. tourists were infected with a While coronavirus is respiratory illness caused by the transmittable between new coronavirus. Eleven of them humans, how efficiently succumbed to the virus. Among it spreads will be vital in the dead was a British traveller determining methods of who transmitted the virus to control. For example, the two of his family members dreaded ‘bird flu’ or avian in the UK. With millions of influenza had very poor Nepali migrant labourers in the transmissibility among Middle East, the emergence of humans unlike SARS which coronavirus raises a health alarm spreads much more rapidly. for our country too. For now we will have to Coronaviruses are one among wait and observe. the many causes of common Meanwhile, cold. Although this particular Nepalis who coronavirus is an independent BIKRAM RAI SLIDE SHOW: Chief Election Commissioner Nilkantha Uprety (centre) urges entity (hence the term novel or leaders of political parties to participate in the upcoming elections at the new), this family of viruses was Election Commission office in Kantipath on Tuesday. the source of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) which caused a global epidemic in 2003. But SARS disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived. There have been no known SARS cases since 2004. The new coronavirus seems deadlier than SARS since it has

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BHRIKUTI RAI ALL EARS: Former US President Jimmy Carter at a press conference in Dwarika’s Hotel in Kathmandu on Monday before flying off to Myanmar.

DEVYANI SHIWAKOTI READY TO SELL: Newari women prepare Yomari at Patan Dhoka on Sunday during the week long Lalitpur Festival.

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annual growth, its economy was bank, suggesting that little relatively flat last year. progress had been made in If Russia’s power resources the year since the BRICS’ last seem to be declining, Brazil’s meeting in New Delhi, where BRICS without mortar appear to be more impressive, the plan was announced. In given it has a territory nearly fact, despite a commitment to Lack of unity among the highly disparate countries is preventing three times the size of India’s, launch ‘formal negotiations’ BRICS from becoming a serious political organisation a 90 per cent literacy rate, and to establish the bank, triple the per capita income disagreements about the size effort to forge an international Americans, both have different of India (and nearly twice that and shares of the bank’s capital political organisation. South but crucial relationships with of China). But in these three have not been resolved. ONE WORLD Africa joined the bloc in late the United States. Both also years, Brazil’s performance That lack of unity is has slipped: annual economic symptomatic of the BRICS Joseph S Nye 2010 primarily for political have worked to thwart efforts reasons. As O’Neill recently by India, Brazil, and South growth has slowed from 7.5 per members’ underlying told China Daily, “South Africa Africa to become permanent cent in 2010 to one per cent last incompatibilities. In political is quite fortunate enough to be members of the United Nations year, with a 3.5 per cent rate terms, China, India, and Russia ast month, China’s new in the group, as, economically, Security Council. expected in 2013. are vying with each other president, Xi Jinping, it is rather small compared to In analytical terms, it makes Like Brazil, India for power in Asia. And, in Lchose Moscow for his the others.” little sense to include Russia, experienced a spurt of output economic terms, Brazil, India, first foreign visit. He and Indeed, while the BRICS a former superpower, with the growth after liberalising and South Africa are concerned Russian President Vladimir may be helpful in coordinating developing economies. Russia its economy in the 1990’s. about the effects of China’s Putin announced a number of certain diplomatic tactics, lacks diversified exports, Indeed, until a few years ago, undervalued currency on their agreements and then travelled the term lumps together faces severe demographic and GDP growth was approaching economies. to Durban, South Africa, for highly disparate countries. health problems, and, in former Chinese-style rates. This year, Three years ago, I wrote that, the fifth BRICS summit, where Not only is South Africa President Dmitri Medvedev’s however, output is expected to “BRIC is not likely to become a they joined leaders of India, miniscule compared to the words, “greatly needs rise by a relatively sluggish 5.9 serious political organisation of Brazil, and South Africa to others, but China’s economy modernisation”. Little has per cent. Unless it improves its like-minded states.” The BRICS’ announce the creation of a is larger than those of all of changed since Putin returned to infrastructure and literacy rate most recent meeting has given new development bank that the other members combined. the presidency last year. (particularly for women), India me no reason to revise that could challenge the dominance Likewise, India, Brazil, and While economic growth is unlikely to catch up with assessment. of the World Bank and the South Africa are democracies benefited from the dramatic China. www.project-syndicate.org International Monetary Fund. and occasionally meet in an rise in oil and gas prices So, should we take today’s The five leaders’ speeches alternative forum that they call during the last decade, other BRICS more seriously than the Joseph S Nye, a former US referred to a shifting world ‘IBSA’. competitive industries have BRICs of three years ago? assistant secretary of defence order and Xi said “the potential And while the large yet to emerge, and the country Tellingly, the meeting in and chairman of the US of BRICS development is autocracies, Russia and now faces the prospect of Durban failed to produce any National Intelligence Council, infinite.” It looked as if the China, find it diplomatically declining energy prices. While details of the structure of the is a professor at Harvard organisation had finally come advantageous to tweak the it aims to maintain five per cent proposed new development University. of age. Three years ago, I was sceptical about BRICS. And despite the recent summit’s apparent success, I still am. Nearly 12 years ago, Jim O’Neill, then the chief economist for Goldman Sachs, coined the term ‘BRIC’ to describe the ‘emerging markets’ of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. From 2000 to 2008, these four countries’ share of global output rose rapidly, from 16 per cent to 22 cent (in purchasing power parity terms), and their economies performed better than average in the subsequent global recession. For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym. But then a strange thing happened: the investors’ creature came to life. In 2009, the four countries met for the first time in Russia in an 16 NATION

The stove has changed our“ lives. We save money“ and time and will probably live It is longer. Rocket Gauri Devi Bhatt, 35 science A cheap and simple stove promises to transform the lives of rural Nepali families

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rban Nepal is pre- of improved stoves and biogas occupied with power and there are 3.5 million to Ucuts, even though only go. Govind Pokharel at the 1.5 per cent of the country’s Alternative Energy Promotion energy need is from electricity. Centre (AEPC) in Kathmandu There are protests every time believes it is possible to fuel prices are raised, yet only eliminate indoor air pollution in eight per cent of Nepalis use the next four years. diesel, kerosene or LPG for “We are already installing cooking. 250,000 smokeless chulos a year Over 80 per cent of Nepal’s in 33 districts, so we just need population, mostly women, to scale up and entrust NGOs cook on firewood, straw or dried with delivery,” Pokharel told dung. A clean and cheap new us, “Nepal is not poor, we are chulo could transform the lives just poor in coordinating and of 20 million rural Nepalis, yet conceptualising.” it was difficult to get anyone Pokharel is clearly a man excited about it. with a mission. He became a it not only reduces drudgery That is changing. As one strong advocate for improved for women and improves of its last acts, the Baburam stoves when, as a 14-year-old in health, but also cuts emission Bhattarai government set a Piuthan who did his homework of greenhouse gases and black target to make all Nepali homes by an oil lamp, he couldn’t bear carbon, and Nepal can reap smokeless by 2017. Improved to see his mother suffer chronic cash benefits from the Clean cooking stoves use less than half eye and lung infections because Development Mechanism the firewood compared to open of exposure to smoke from the which can be ploughed back hearth fireplaces, they cook kitchen fire. into the community,” says Tek faster, and are nearly smokeless. “I knew we had to get the Balayar of the Doti-based Rural “You should have brought smoke out somehow, so I made Development Service Centre. this chulo when I was young, a hole in the roof and installed Every year, 7,500 Nepali it would have made my life a a chimney,” he recalls. Now, children die of pneumonia lot easier,” rues 40-year-old as a mechanical engineer with and respiratory tract infections Yasodha Tamrakar in Domada a degree from Germany in mainly caused by indoor smoke. village. “I spent all my life renewable energy, Pokharel is This, as well as incidence of carrying firewood from the committed to make every Nepali asthma and eye infections, forest, washing blackened pots, household smokeless. could be significantly reduced my eyes would always be itchy To meet the 2017 deadline, if the 2017 target is met. In and red, the children would the government has parcelled addition, AEPC estimates that cough all the time.” out improved cooking stove Nepal could save 10 million Less than a year after a promotion to the Dutch aid tons of firewood annually with campaign to introduce the group, SNV, Worldwide Fund the fuel-efficient stoves. new stoves was launched in for Nature, and the World Saroj Rai, who promotes Domada, nearly all the 115 Conservation Union. Because improved cooking stoves for households have installed the needs vary, different models SNV in the far-west, says it’s the new fireplace, called the of smokeless fuel-efficient a question of priority. “The ‘Rocket’. Demonstration effect stoves are being promoted in government spends billions is increasing demand for the the plains, hills, and mountains. subsidising LPG for urban stoves in neighbouring VDCs. In higher regions, for example, dwellers,” he told Nepali Times, Dadeldhura and Doti are on stoves need to also provide hot “but here is a technology that track to meet the 2017 target. water and space heating, in the will make a far bigger impact Nearly one million hot plains kitchens need to have on public health and women’s households in Nepal are already cross ventilation. welfare in rural areas. And there smokeless because of the spread “The Rocket’s beauty is that is reluctance to support it.” 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 17 PLUS 10 POINTS Compared to traditional chulos, the Rocket:

1 Reduces of fi rewood use by half 2 Reduces cooking time by half 3 Doesn’t need thick logs 4 Eliminates indoor smoke 5 Reduces lung and eye infections 6 Easier to clean pots and clothes 7 Saves time and reduces drudgery for women 8 Lighter fi rewood load = less risk of prolapsed uterus 9 Reduces infant mortality 109 Stoves stay hot even after fi re dies out

! ECONOMIC SENSE

Cost of stove: Rs 400 Return on investment:

Firewood savings: Return on investment: Rs12,000 2 per year weeks ! NATIONAL TARGET

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Metal shelf allows pre-heated air into combustion chamber 3.3 million

I used to spend households to be made smoke-free by 2017

6 hours and carry Insulated burn tube Narrower diameter “ increases draft, burns firewood burns 50kg of firewood away smoke more efficiently on my back“ every day, now I go once Heat concentrated below pot means Rocket technology a week and carry faster cooking smaller loads. he metal core of the TRocket (right) can be Yasodha Tamrakar, 40 crafted in rural workshops to be embedded in insulation and a traditional clay plaster of Nepali kitchens (left). It makes existing hearths more efficient by increasing airflow and allowing intense combustion so there is more heat and less smoke. First designed in Latin America in 1982, the Rocket has twice won the Ashden Award and is so named because of the roar and intense heat of the fire. 18 FROM THE NEPALI PRESS 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 Clean NEPALI TWEETS

bowled Because they’ve been let down for so long, even those who have no clue about cricket are cheering for the national team today. BBC Nepali Service, 3 April Good luck boys! #FB

The captain of the Nepali cricket team Paras Khadka in conversation with Rabindra Mishra. Yesterday he tried to avoid being noticed at the cricket ground, today the party has freed him from all internal investigations. We lost the match to Afghanistan Whose wife will he elope with next? because we didn’t put enough runs #PrachandasonPrakash on the board. If we had not lost early wickets, we could have scored more runs. Although we recovered later in the innings, it was too late. Afghanistan is a very good side. The players have greater exposure Baburam is going to watch the cricket match to professional cricket and have at Kirtipur today. In case Nepal looks like Bold and the dutiful even played with top international losing, he will clear all hurdles and send the teams. They seem to have the coach in to bat instead of our captain Paras. complete backing of everyone from Setopati.com, 2 April the fi ve accused in court. It was UGLY CONFRONTATION: Locals the sponsors to the fans to the encouraging to be supported by the of Dailekh clashed with Maoist cricket administration. locals, friends, rights activists, and cadre over journalist Dekendra As far as our players are Inspector Binod Sharma became a journalists. Thapa’s case. concerned they put 100 per cent hero after pursuing the case against into every game. But we lack a All afternoon, they’ve been requesting those accused of murdering journalist With people in power trying their domestic structure. There are no Pampha Bhusal to take the chief guest’s promotion to a DSP was halted? Dekendra Thapa. Sharma was utmost to quash the investigation, opportunities to play competitive seat at the Lalitpur Festival. Bhusal, When I took up Dekendra’s case, I meanwhile, is busy picketing Singha Darbar. transferred to Kosi and the Maoist what do you think will happen to this cricket year round. Youngsters who knew what I was getting myself into, government denied him a promotion case? want to play in the national side but following the law is more important few weeks ago. But Sharma who No one stands above the law and have no clue how to get in. than getting promoted. I want to prove WEEKLY BAZAR POLL #7 risked his life to fulfi l his duty has no people should stop trying to appease Every time there is a my worth through my work because complaints about the promotion or the those in power. We didn’t do anything tournament, it feels like Dasain. deeds speak louder than the number transfer. Excerpts from the telephone extraordinary in Thapa’s case, we Everybody wants to have fun while In weekly polls conducted with the of badges on your shoulder. Maybe interview with Kiran Bhandari: were only using the right given to us it lasts, but no one remembers us support of The Asia Foundation, those in power believe I am not worthy by Nepal’s law. I have been involved afterwards. And players who get Himal Khabarpatrika asks 375 of becoming a DSP. I want to carry on Setopati: How was the farewell? in investigations for the past 12 years no practice all year are expected respondents in 14 cities across investigating cases and trying to provide Binod Sharma: Dailekh’s people which helped me in Dekendra’s case. to win every match and unfairly Nepal every Monday for their opinion justice to victims. But there isn’t much were happy with the work I did during criticised for every loss. If we base on contemporary issues. This scope for me at the zonal offi ce, so it is my 17 months there. So all the You were recently transferred to Kosi our selection process and tryouts week’s result of interviews taken in a little disappointing. locals praised me during the farewell zone offi ce, will your experience on annual tournaments like the ACC hospitals across the country: ceremony. It is rare for an inspector to come handy here as well? T20, we will never progress. Some of the inspectors who weren’t get so much respect. It has inspired My experience won’t be of any use here Cricket Association of Nepal 1. Why are you in the hospital? promoted are planning to go to me to be more devoted towards my because zonal offi ces look after the (CAN) has to be more dynamic Fever 18.1% court, what about you? responsibilities. transfer of letters and memos, they are and proactive. It needs to go on Broken limb 16% almost like post offi ces. Not me. I have no interest to go to court talent hunts to fi nd youngsters, Stomach ache What was the biggest achievement to demand my promotion. 15.4% organise tournaments regularly, Chest pain 11.4% during your time in Dailekh? Your work was appreciated by the and sign fl exible sponsorship deals Why? Weakness I reopened many cases that had locals and yet you were transferred which can bring maximum revenue 4% I know the decision not to promote me been gathering dust for years. But the to a place where you don’t have into the game. We need a more is unfair. Among the 58 offi cers who 2. How do you fi nd the hospital’s most satisfying was the successful many responsibilities. professional setup if we want to were promoted, 50 were my junior. All service? investigation of Dekendra Thapa’s Maybe my superiors want me to rest prosper. case, which had been languishing because I have worked hard for many of them are my friends. I cannot ask Okay 51.3% for eight years. Despite sustained years and that’s why they sent me to a the court to remove them from their Bad 24.2% post to grant me promotion. They are nepalitimes.com pressure from the prime minister, place where there is so little to do. Good 22.6% attorney general, and seniors from celebrating right now, why ruin it all to Listen to the interview the police force I was able to present And why do you think your get a higher post? Don’t know 1.3% Won’t say 0.5% “Hopeful about elections” Ujyaalo Online, 2 April in the report that the election had certain shortcomings. But it was successful in selecting representatives for the Constituent Assembly. And that is what we said. The election Interview with former US President Jimmy Carter who was on wasn’t perfect, but it was safe. a four day visit to Nepal by Gopal Guragain. He met President Ram Baran Yadav, chairman How was your meeting with the of the interim electorate council, election chairman of the electorate council, commission chief, and leaders of major political political leaders, and election parties during his stay. commission offi cials? Do you think election is possible this year? Gopal Guragain: Why are you so interested The leaders of the four major political in Nepal? parties agreed to form an interim Carter: Besides the mountains and peace loving government under the leadership Nepalis, I am fascinated by the country’s history of the chief justice to break the and social mosaic. Nepal underwent a decade deadlock after the CA failed to draft Banner: Voters’ Name List Collection Centre long armed conflict, established peace, and a constitution. While this set up isn’t abolished monarchy which makes the political completely constitutional, it is crucial Newspaper: Poll equipment seized landscape more interesting. The country will go for elections and to put an end to the to polls this year and I hope to be here at the stalemate. Local elections too haven’t time. taken place in 15 years, this needs to Rabindra in Nepal 31 March be taken care of. Will Carter Centre deploy long-term or short- QUOTE OF THE WEEK term observers? What message do you have for the We have been in Nepal for a long time, trying to people of Nepal? understand not just the political but also social, Nepal needs to learn from its past Some people are trying to reopen cultural, and economic situation of the country. mistakes and move ahead. I hope “war time cases that you already made

We want to increase the number of voters the interim government will be able decisions on as chief justice. Please don’t during the upcoming elections. We were here for 60-70 days to hold free and fair elections and everyone will cooperate. listen to them because “ the Truth and in 2008 which was our short-term observation. We conducted Threatening election offi cials is against the law and those Reconciliation Commission is likely to be a similar observation at the recent election in Kenya as well. involved should be punished. formed very soon.

People say the Carter Centre’s report in 2008 declared nepalitimes.com UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal to Khil Raj Regmi, voting free and fair prematurely. Watch the interview Chairman of the Interim Electoral Council, Kantipur, 4 April The 2008 report didn’t have any such faults. We stated clearly 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 NATION 19 The conflict’s first victim Narjit Basnet has lived with the wounds of war for 16 years

BRAVE TEACHER: Narjit Basnet teaching his class at the Saraswati School in Rukum in 1996, after his left hand was hacked off below the elbow. Sixteen years later, he still teaches in the same classroom, where the only change is that the blackboard has been replaced with a whiteboard. A prosthetic arm could make it easier for him to teach, but Basnet can’t afford it.

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DHANBIR DAHAL in RUKUM he was targeted because he meagre teacher’s salary. While his injuries affect his teaching, supported the Nepali Congress in Kathmandu, the state is in fact he teaches even more and hadn’t given in to Maoist trying to pass a TRC Bill that passionately.” t had been just a week since extortion. The news of the pardons perpetrators of war As one of the first victims the Maoists declared the brutality of the attack spread crimes, Basnet hasn’t received of a 10 year war that claimed launch of their ‘People’s quickly, which is exactly what the handicap compensation that nearly 17,000 lives, Narjit I conflict wounded are entitled Basnet hopes that no one else War’ in February 1996. In the Maoists wanted in order to the capital of Rukum district, instill fear into other teachers in to even though the NC’s Ram has to suffer what he went teacher Narjit Basnet had gone the district. The plan went awry Chandra Poudel became a through and adds: “I just wish to a neighbouring village to help because Narjit Basnet did not Peace Minister in the interim they would finish writing the replace a relative’s thatch roof. die, but lived on with one hand: government. constitution and ensure peace. Little did the popular teacher a walking proof of the terror of Saraswati School principal It would also be good if there know that he would be one of war. Chandra Nepali says: “Narjit Sir was some support so I can the first victims of the war. Sixteen years later, Narjit Sir is a great teacher, he hasn’t let overcome my handicap.” At dusk, as he reached still teaches students in the same Pipal VDC seven Maoist cadre Saraswati Secondary School attacked him with khukuris, where he used to teach in 1996. hacked off his left hand, sliced He cradles books on the stump his face and back, threw him of his left hand, cut below the 50m off the road down to a river elbow, and still has scars from and left him for dead. His family the deep gash on his face and started looking for him when he left hand. He is still too scared to did not return and found Narjit go back to his home village. He an hour later unconscious and finds it difficult and painful to bleeding profusely by the river. stand up and teach, and his eyes They took him to the district tear up easily if he reads. hospital in Salle and saved his The country has gone from life. “If we hadn’t found him monarchy to republic, from war and the hospital wasn’t able to to peace, his classroom now stop the bleeding, Narjit would has a white board instead of have died,” said a relative, a blackboard, there are more Deuchan Basnet. The next day girls in his class than before, he was airlifted to the Teaching but otherwise Narjit Basnet is Hospital in Kathmandu. exactly where he was 16 years “I hadn’t done anyone any ago. harm, I had no idea they would He could get back the use attack me,” Basnet recalls 16 of his limb with a prosthetic years later, although he suspects arm, but he can’t afford it on a 20 BACK SIDE 5 - 11 APRIL 2013 #650 www.nepalitimes.com www.nepalitimes.com

Now that he is no longer Peace Minister, Padrone Dhakal is preparing to use Moonie funds Fair and lovely polls to buy his way into politics with his televangelist Family s per the Ass’ self- Jimbo’s Second Coming to Party. The Unification Church fulfilling prophecy, the Kathmandu this week was to has funded just about every Ablame game has started get official permission for his political figure in this country in earnest. The Regmi regimen Centre which, it turns out, isn’t with free trips, computers, and thought it only had to worry registered anywhere. Also to hard cash, so there isn’t anyone about the Dash Baddies, now the meet the entire cast of characters important in Nepal who isn’t Cash Baddies have also started and tell them about the need to beholden in one way or another blaming the CJ-led gubbermint make the next elections free and to the late Sun Myung Moon. for its inability to hold elections fair. Um ... what elections? Hard to figure which is worse: a in June. Chairman Awesome is FG Nepali political party bankrolled leading the charge because he by Reverend Moon, or one has correctly gauged that his Four years later, we finally supported by Kim (‘Nuke You’) popularity is at an all-time low A bit of unsolicited advice to FG find out the real truth behind Jong-un. and he secretly wants the whole Regmi Sir. Stop inaugurating the huge kerfuffle over the FG CJ enterprise to fail so he can flower shows and handicraft So the famous Mustang Max that discovery of a concealed come out smelling like roses symposia forthwith. We don’t BRB rode around in has been weapon in Jimmy Carter’s Now we understand why and maybe even lead a new want to see your mug on tv finally mothballed into a garage official car during his 2008 visit. the Dash Baddie Bund was administration. After downing a beating a madal at another Palpali inside Singha Darbar with even It turns out the gun was planted postponed till Sunday the few straight shots the other day, Felicitation Program. We just the PMO peons refusing to ride by the US Secret Service in 7th. Comrade Pompa is the PKD was overheard telling folks want to hear you announce an it. Who would have thought Carter’s official vehicle just to ex-member of the ex-CA from over at the Paris Commune: “We election date, pass a full budget, that this once-famous First test the competence of Nepali Lalitpur and the Jyapu Samaj agreed to Regmi only because and appoint justices and a CIAA Vehicle would come to such an security. Police sniffer dogs, ordered her not to spoil all he said he could hold elections chief who is not a crook. Oh ignominious end to rust away namely Inspector Ganga and the fun and games during the by June. If he can’t fulfil that yes, and tell your supporters no into anonymous oblivion? Inspector Jamuna, sniffed out Mahotsav by declaring a strike promise, he should step down.” more advertisements in papers When people mention Jimmy the weapons in no time, and smack in the middle of it all. The Technocats are convinced congratulating cabinet members Carter these days, everyone barked their heads off. As he She readily agreed. Finally, Comrade Ferocity is egging from contractor friends of remembers his gaffe in 2008 left, Carter commended Nepal at long last, we have Kiran Kaka to sabotage polls, offsprings. We appreciate the when he declared the elections Police for their vigilance. He hit upon the ultimate which proves what we had effort to pump revenue into the fair and lovely. But, guess what, should have congratulated the antidote to bunds. Tell suspected all along: Cash and Fourth Estate, but this rampant he still thinks they were (except dogs. the organisers they won’t Dash Baddies are one and the ass-licking is getting thoroughly for some minor irregularities). FG get votes in the next same. embarrassing. Anyway, the real reason for election.

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