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Nation Weekly Discerning Media TEACHERS IN CONFLICT||| PLASTIC MONEY ALL THAT JAZZ CIAA DOES IT AGAIN AUGUST 29, 2004 VOL. I, NO. 19 efb| !#, @)^! aif{ !, c+s !( www.nation.com.np TOURISM SLUMP? RS. 30 ISSN 1811-721X BLOCKADE cover.pm6 1 8/21/04, 4:22 AM YourYour MedicalMedical billbill.. PlanPlan ForFor YourYour GoodGood HealthHealth Now.Now. We are experts at designing managing and administering customized health & benefit plans through insurance & self-funding schemes. This supports your unique health objectives and addresses one of your toughest health care challenges (both at corporate & individual level). We provide quality health care services through network hospitals while containing the bottom line impact of skyrocketing health care costs. 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I, NO. 19 By Satish Jung Shahi in Naubise COVER: Gaurav Shrestha Business has been bad since the blockade www.nation.com.np COVER PHOTO: Sagar Shrestha 19 Angry Press By Ajit Baral The Nepali press is finally angry about Maoist murders 25 Leave The Teachers Alone By Sunil Pokhrel 161 teachers have been killed in the civil conflict 28 More Bite By John Narayan Parajuli The CIAA has become more proactive BUSINESS COVER STORY 32 Charge It! 21 Gone To The Dogs By Indra Adhikari By John Narayan Parajuli More and more Nepalis are Big increases in the number of tourists visiting Nepal in recent months holding on to their plastic had buoyed spirits in the industry. After the bomb attack at the Soaltee, all money bets are off. INTERVIEW: Hotelier Yogendra Shakya ARTS & SOCIETY 34 Voices Together By Satish Jung Shahi COLUMNS PROFILE Sathsath is a radio magazine aired every Wednesday on Radio Sagarmatha FM 11 Catch Them Young 42 The River Guide 102.4. Its focusstreet children By Satish Jung Shahi By Bandita Sijapati From a rafting guide to being an anti- dam activist, its been a long ride 36 It Pays To Learn Art By Ajit Baral 27 Law And Order Until the early 90s, artists had limited By Jogendra Ghimire LIFESTYLE choices 47 All That Jazz DEPARTMENTS 30 On Migration And By Aditya Adhikari Omar Of The Pacific Not many tourists come to Upstairs. 6 LETTERS By Swarnim Waglé This is natural, for its discoverable only 10 PICTURE OF THE WEEK through word of mouth. 14 CAPSULES 38 A Sovereign 16 BIZ BUZZ Summer SPORTS 17 MILESTONE By Samrat Upadhyay 50 Star Attraction 44 CITY PAGE By Sudesh Shrestha 52 SNAPSHOTS 40 Mobile Wherever U R As the first Nepali athlete to qualify for 56 KHULA MANCH: RAMACHANDRA GUHA the medal rounds in the Olympics, By Kunal Lama 57 MOVIES Sangina has already done enough 58 LAST WORD 5 Letters You are guilty of glorifying the violent Maoist movement NAVIN THAPA Massage parlors to invest in education for all or put KUNAL LAMAS PIECE READS LIKE A people at the center of development, it thinly-veiled argument for promoting is going to be left with having to make Nepal as a sex tourist destination à la desperate choices: promoting sex as a Thailand (Massage Parlors, No Laugh- tourist industry, however obliquely; re- ing Matter, August 22). Note the dead ducing poverty by actually exporting giveaway: The empty hours after col- poverty to Gulf countries, and even Iraq; lege and the raging hormones? As if and having to forever treat guests like massage puts out the fire in the loins, Gods even when they are here to get you unless of course he means full-body and your country like all these smug- massage Thai style. glers (one Brit got away because even I think Lama is simply doing his bit our Supreme Court judges apparently to revive the Nepali tourism industry. mistook him for God), bio-pirates, One need not be a rocket scientist to pedophiles and honey eaters. Is any- know that sex sells. Besides there is no body listening? dearth of Nepali girls who wish to marry HARI SHANKAR ADHIKARI tourists, and no dearth of impoverished BALKHU parents who want to sell their daughters to the circus or sex industry. The cli- Medias Maoist menace mate for this has never been better: ter- I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU WOULD ror in the hinterland, increase in the use pictures of young Maoists in number of orphans and the jobless, and Makwanpur who, in fact, boast that they the rise of consumerist society. are out to If Lamas idea is to turn Nepal into a ring the brothel or a playground for the rich like Valley Thailand, I have nothing to say. Money (Chokehold, doesnt talk; it swears, said a wise man. Conflict, August Put the freshest and youngest girls at the 22). Your intent service of 70-year-old foreigners. I have could well be to tell seen it all in South East Asia. Like he the readers how wrote: When she is only 16 or 17, far disturbingly away from home, skills and education young the limited, and jobs hard to come, hey, Maoist soldiers would you say no if: the money is good; are. But you the hours are decent; all the clients de- have also ended mand only one thing which, more or less, up glorifying comes so naturally to everyone . their violent Charitrahin chelis will love you for movement, espousing this view. which owes However, my only qualm with a large bit Lamas sex promotion is that it sounds of its suc- like the last pistol shot of a dying man. cess to By that I mean if Nepal consistently fails the un- 6 AUGUST 29, 2004 | nation weekly discerning media. Isnt it all clear what everything else, dwindles with famil- they are up tothe Kathmandu block- iarity, and gives rise to a palpable de- ade, bombs left and right, school clo- tachment. The feeling, then, is in- Nation Weekly, The Media House, Tripureshor, sures? variably momentary. Kathmandu, Nepal (Regd. 113/059-060). Tel: 2111102, 4229825, 4261831, 4263098 Moreover, he says of the people of EDITOR: Akhilesh Upadhyay NAVIN THAPA Patan. it is they who possess the [email protected] HATTI BAN deepest connection to traditional cul- CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Suman Pradhan COPY EDITOR: John Child ture; it is they who have the most claim SENIOR STAFF WRITERS: Sushma Joshi, Satish Jung Shahi, Tiku Gauchan Proud Nepalis to the works on display. Agreed. But STAFF WRITER: John Narayan Parajuli IT IS VERY REFRESHING TO BE ABLE having established that fact, does the PHOTOJOURNALISTS: Sagar Shrestha, Das Bahadur Maharjan DESIGNER: Raj Kumar Shrestha to read Nation Weekly here in Mary- writer still think the same people with EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Indra Adhikari, Yashas Vaidya land. I read with relish Deepak Thapas the deepest connection to traditional AD & CIRCULATION DIRECTOR: Krishna Shrestha Nothing to Say on the recently held culture need placards to inform them OPERATING MANAGER: Ashish Bhattarai MARKETING EXECUTIVES: Sarita Gautam, Rameshwor Ghimire Miss Nepal pageant and quite agree with of their most cherished possessions, if, [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION OFFICER: Bipin Raj Ojha his views (A Little Word, August 22). indeed, they are the ones with genuine [email protected] Lets take pride in being Nepalis, speak understanding of our culture, as the ASST. SUBSCRIPTION OFFICER: Jeshna Karmacharya DISTRIBUTION: Angiras Manandhar the language with perfectionto the essayist points out. MARKETING CONSULTANT: Kreepa Shrestha envy of those who cant speak it well Besides the tourists, it is the people CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Nripendra Karmacharya and work on improving our English like us, the ones educated in English PUBLISHER: The Mirror Media Pvt. Ltd skills too. Your paper is getting better medium that the placards are meant for. AD ENQUIRIES: Tel. 4229825, 4261831, 4263098 and the whole team deserves praise. Though I agree with the writer that COLOR SEPARATION: ScanPro, Pulchowk, 5548861, 5552335 there should also be Nepali placards, PRINTING: Variety Printing Press, 4278869 DISTRIBUTION: R.B. News, 4232784, 4244679 ROBIN SHARMA if that is what he implies, but it will Nation Weekly is published every Monday by The Mirror Media Pvt. Ltd. PHILIP MERRIL COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM serve a very small audience. It is un- All Rights Reserved. The reproduction of the contents of this publication, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, U.S. wise to assume that the majority visit- prior consent of the publisher. ing the museum are deprived of basic Vol. I, No. 19. For the week August 23-29, 2004, released on August 23 Contradictory arguments English comprehension skills. And as CONTACT ADITYA ADHIKARIS PIECE ON CUL- he himself hints, it is the other minor- ture made for a very interesting reading ity who seek greater understanding of www.nation.com.np (Contours of Culture, The Essay, Au- the museum artifacts. Even if the plac- gust 22). Well versed in both language ards were in Nepali, I doubt if many and analysis, the writer makes some very Patan residents would venture into We prefer to receive letters via e-mail, without pithy arguments. Patan Museum. Much like their rou- attachments. Writers should disclose any connection I have reservations about some of the tine lives, the museums too are taken or relationship with the subject of their comments.
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