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Nation Weekly, the Media House, Tripureshor, Nation Looks Good but Kathmandu, Nepal (Regd Board Meeting &More Club @@Himalaya The Resort, Windy Hills, Nagarkot, Bhaktapur, Nepal Tel: 6680045 - 47/80/83 | Fax: 6680068 E-mail: [email protected] Hotel Ambassador, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: 4414432, 4410432 Nagarkot Resort E-mail: [email protected] cover.pm6 1 5/16/04, 2:27 AM Wholistic Development In House Swimming Pool Creative Language Creative Art Music & Dance Science Discovery GymPlay Outdoor Activities Indoor Activities Pre-Maths Activities Computer Learning Fun-Cookery And Many Many More We believe that each child is a unique indiviual who has the potential to be the best that he or she can be. A whole new concept in learning.... 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COVER STORY ARTS & SOCIETY 30 Who Art Thou? 18 The King and Them By Sushma Joshi By Suman Pradhan The excitement of installation lies in its novelty, its use of mixed media and its While the stalemate over the choice of the new prime daring breakage of narrative. In minister may eventually be resolved one way or another, Kathmandu, installation is still a new art the inordinate delay clearly underscores the King’s form, still in the act of destabilizing the supremacy of painting. fundamental lack of trust of the parties. 32 Ram Man Dai COLUMNS By Sanjeev Uprety This league of leaders, epitomized by Ram Man Dai’s search for 11 The Gall of Gallup BP Koirala, could have included more. an all-purpose medical By Yubaraj Ghimire panacea began in 1960 when Why don’t pre-poll and exit poll 34 Diversity Unchained he started experimenting surveys quite work in India unlike in By Ujol Sherchan with various combinations western democracies? Casting of vote The 1990 Constitution was designed to of ghee, local herbs like saldhoop and in the west by and large reflects perpetuate the monolithic Hindu state as gokuldhoop and fitkiri to create individual choice. In India, and in the a check against the competing demand of Himali Malam. region in general, the individual vote the ‘Diversity.’ In this respect, the is still part of a larger ‘deal’. democracy ushered in 1990 has not been DEPARTMENTS democratic enough. 28 Leaders Classified 6 LETTERS By Swarnim Waglé 36 Bush Begone! 10 PICTURE OF THE WEEK Public intellectuals with formidable By Samrat Upadhyay 14 CAPSULES mass support, charismatic and incor- I’ve called America home for the last ruptible: these are the progressives 20 years, but since George W. Bush 35 CITY PAGE who are as much at ease in the fishing took office in 2001, and especially 40 KHULA MANCH: MILAN RAI villages of Saptari as when sharing after 9-11, I’ve lived in a political 41 BOOKS lobster meals with statesmen in Oslo. nightmare. 42 LAST WORD 5 Letters Nation Weekly, The Media House, Tripureshor, Nation looks good but Kathmandu, Nepal (Regd. 113/059-060). Tel: 2111102, 4229825, 4261831, 4263098 you will do well not to EDITOR: Akhilesh Upadhyay [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Suman Pradhan ignore issues outside COPY EDITOR: Tiku Gauchan STAFF WRITERS: Sushma Joshi, Satish Jung Shahi “ PHOTOGRAPHER: Sagar Shrestha DESIGNER: Raj Kumar Shrestha Kathmandu AD & CIRCULATION DIRECTOR: Krishna Shrestha MARKETING EXECUTIVES: Sarita Gautam and Rameshwor Ghimire BINOD SHRESTHA [email protected] MARKETING CONSULTANT: Kreepa Shrestha CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Nripendra Karmacharya Business news finally about us—and our children. 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For the week May 17-23, 2004, released on May 17 Remittance, May 16). As the article ment of ordinary characters reminds me points out, little colonies have of celebrated writer Joseph Mitchell’s pro- CONTACT sprouted on the outskirts of files in the New Yorker magazine. Just like Mitchell, Uprety elevates what could be www.nation.com.np Kathmandu and many of these settle- ments have now developed into a world boring renditions of marginalized lives by in themselves. Dhapasi, Sitapaila, Tikhe highlighting the alienated man’s will to Dewal and Kusunti, for example, have survive in the face of overwhelming odds, We prefer to receive letters via e-mail, without clusters of houses not just on the and still come out a better human being. attachments. Writers should disclose any connection fringes of Ring Road but even quite a Both the Pheri Jogi (“Not Coming Back or relationship with the subject of their comments. All letters must include an address and daytime and distance away and the neighborhoods Again,”Arts & Society, May 2) and Buddhi evening phone numbers. We reserve the right to edit are ever expanding. What the article ig- Thapa (“The Sky in his Eyes,” Arts & Soci- letters for clarity and space. nores, however, is similar construction ety, April 19-25) maintain a faith in the E-mail: [email protected] greater common good despite upheavals. Fax: 4216281 booms in cities, towns, and tiny high- Mail: Nation Weekly way hubs all over Nepal, particularly Uprety’s distillations from such narratives The Media House, GPO 8975, EPC 5620 in Tarai—along the East-West Highway, read like compassionate yet earthily funny Tripureshor, Kathmandu, Nepal. for one. Then in Biratnagar, Itahari, documentaries made by an ace director. I SUBSCRIPTION Dharan, but also in Chandranighapur, guess some people do possess the third E-mail: [email protected] Lalbandi and Birtamod. A lot of these eye after all. 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