CREDOS : Reincarnation — I Preena Shrestha: An unkempt bed, rumpled sheets; a desk, cluttered with papers, books and several coffee mugs. Clothes strewn on the floor, closet flung wide open; a trail of hair bands and jewellery leading to the mirror, surrounded by make-up and... 06 Feb, 2005
BIZ BRIEFS AIMA chief to visit Nepal: KATHMANDU: Sunil Alagh, the chairperson of the All India Management Association (AIMA), is scheduled to visit Kathmandu later this week to attend the 24th national convention of Management Association of Nepal (MAN). Alagh... 06 Feb, 2005
Animated and Oscar nominated Dubby BhagatKathmandu:In the Fifties there was the famous Esther Williams who was called ‘The Million Dollar Mermaid’ because she insured her legs for a horrifying amount of money. Today it is tonsils that are going to find their way to insurers.... Travel Abroad 04 Feb, 2005
MIDWAY : Nature’s gift Shubhechha Subedi: A house of walls and, a home of hearts; it was warm inside my home. I looked at the wall clock. Gosh! It was 10 am. That made it 11 hours of sleep, three hours shy of my last year’s record bout of 14 hours at a stretch! I laughed... 03 Feb, 2005
MIDWAY : Krishna Santanu Mitra:I met Rebecca while waiting for a morning bus from Pokhara to Chitwan Reserve forest. We both had tickets that assured us seats in a ‘luxury’ coach. “Tourist bus chha, two by two”, I had been led to believe. The bus that stood... 02 Feb, 2005
19 districts identified for coffee production Madan WagleTanahun, January 31:National Tea and Coffee Development Board has informed that 19 districts in the country have good potential to produce quality coffee. The districts include Tanahun, Lamjung, Gorkha, Syangja and Kaski of Gandaki zone,... 31 Jan, 2005
Rox on the roll Dubby BhagatKathmandu:We import everything in Rox except the salt and the pepper”, said Chef Narender Singh; the Rox menu which goes from Oysters and Crabs to Venison and Australian steaks makes that slight exaggeration sound true.Narender is the... Travel Abroad 29 Jan, 2005
JUST FOR YOU THE WORLD THIS WEEK:Rare monkeys welcome visitors:Two very rare twin monkeys are getting used to their new home after being born in a British Zoo. Cotton-top tamarins are an endangered species and normally live in forests in Colombia, but those forests... Travel Abroad 28 Jan, 2005
BIZ BRIEFS Smoking may be goodSTOCKHOLM: Tobacco may have at least one virtue — that of providing some protection against the onset of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new Swedish study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden’s leading medical... 23 Jan, 2005
Kill me or the cat gets it The Guardian:When the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling ‘A Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ transformed one of Japan’s best-kept literary secrets into the world’s best-known living Japanese novelist, this reviewer’s acquaintances... Travel Abroad 22 Jan, 2005
‘I didn’t know I was writing a novel’ The Guardian:Boundaries are forever melting away in the unstable world of ‘The Icarus Girl’, 20-year-old Helen Oyeyemi’s debut novel. Rooms widen and contract, floors cave in, walls “tilt sickeningly’’ as the protagonist, eight-year-old... Travel Abroad 22 Jan, 2005
A girl named Pearl I’ll tell you ‘bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat.../ I’ll tell you ‘bout the hopeless night/ Wandering the Western dream/ Tell you ‘bout the maiden with raw iron soul” — Jim Morrison, “The Wasp”This is the story of a girl who lived... Travel Abroad 22 Jan, 2005
