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VACANCY
A volunteer Ass is needed with immediate effect for a newspaper of records in a federal democratic kleptocratic Himalayan republic in which the…
Dasain is postponed
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe Ass has been reminded that this paper takes a break over Dasain, and we skip one issue next week. Yay! Also, there is a…
Nepal’s horrorscope
It is only when a people start worrying about their future that they strive for betterment. Contrary to what many negativists think, Nepal does…
Off-road signs
We in Nepal have to periodically remind motorists of traffic rules, and any revisions that have been made in regulations when they were not…
Awesome stuff
The Ass can’t figure out what the big deal is about PKD suddenly dashing off to Delhi. It is a time-honoured ritual for Nepal’s leaders to visit…
First, the good news
There comes a time in every journo’s career when we get tired of being the purveyors of only bad news. It is our duty to set that right, so we…
Muckraking in ‘Mandu
Nepal’s post-Covid planners need a different tactic. Trying to convince people around the world to visit Nepal because it is there is not…
Symbolic symbols
Ang Kami Sherpa just broke his own record to climb Mt Everest for the 26th time last week. Also aspiring to be in the Guinness Book is Prime…
Working our asses off
The wellbeing of every country on Earth can be measured by how much leisure time its citizens have. Industrialised nations are so productive…
Driverless in Carmandu
Photo: MANISH PAUDEL/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world is making amazing progress in automotive technology, and this means Nepal will soon leapfrog…
Still Rising Nepal
Nothing is more symbolic of the Still Rising Nepal than the ongoing view tower construction spree. It is concrete proof that Nepal stands tall,…
New election symbols
Besides defending its title as the most corrupted country in South Asia, Nepal has belatedly also been recognised in the Guinness Book as having…
License to analyse
As a newspaper of record it is our job here to report on the ongoing party conventions by sticking to the factions — and not allow facts to get…
Defending Nepal
As some of you more alert readers may have surmised by now, we live in perilous times. Besides an impending climate catastrophe and more…
Holy Matrimoney
As some of you disgustingly young whippersnappers of reproductive age who tied the nuptial knots of holy matrimony during the human breeding…
Bigger fish to fry
Many of us are suffering from post-Dasai Tihar withdrawal symptoms. This is a recognised psychological syndrome wherein an individual is forced…
Ass Tihar
You might have noticed that the Festival of Lights is called Tihar in Nepal. This is unfortunate, because that is also the name of the…
CPN (Asinine)
It doesn’t look like anyone is about to give Prime Minister Brave Lion a honeymoon period. The same folks who were baying for Oli’s blood are…
Hi-Level Mechanism
Nepal is serious about democracy, and that is why we have to keep restoring it every decade or so because we believe in government for the…
I spy
We fail to understand the big hoo-hah in India about the gobarment there using the Israeli-designed Pegasus software to infect the WhatsApp of…
Nepal’s Olympic dreams
Now the Euro Cup fever is over (“Forza Italia!”) and we have all caught up with much-needed sleep, let us gear up for the Tokyo Virtual Olympics…
Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal
Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What is less well appreciated…
Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal
Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What is less well appreciated…
All rise
We start this regular Backside column with a mandatory singing of Nepal’s national anthem. Could I request all of you at this time to please…