Tag: #Nepali Times Backside
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10 reasons to leave Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIHowever much we love our country, there comes a time when we have to take the bull by its horns or, as they say in…
A tongue lashing
One of the benefits of the current pandemic is that it has institutionalised the “Namaste” as a greeting not just in the Subcontinent but all…
Animule Farm
Go back to sleep, we'll wake you up when things start getting really exciting around here. Politicians are up to their ears waging party…
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…
Sons of bitches
It’s that time of year again when dogs are gods in Catmandu, and as we involuntarily get the urge to raise our hind-legs when passing a…
Meddling with medals
Every year, Nepal honours people who have imparted yeoman’s service to the nation so that things do not get from bad to worse. Thanks to the…
Filled your CCMC form?
As an adventure destination, Nepal’s policy has always been to make it as thrilling as possible for tourists who visit the country with…
Garbage in, garbage out
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe good people of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the litterbugs of Kathmandu last week to…
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…
Skeletons in the Cabinet
Coalition politics brings out the best in a democracy. The five-party anti-Oli alliance has been in grabberment for less than a month and it…
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…
Smartass lockdown
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could make…
Ass as Prime Minister
If only Eh-malay alpha males didn't have the if-I-don't-win-I-won't-play mentality, we would by now have a Tarai Fast Track, piped gas in every…
Ass as Prime Minister
If only Eh-malay alpha males didn't have the if-I-don't-win-I-won't-play mentality, we would by now have a Tarai Fast Track, piped gas in every…
Lockdown downtime
As a Backside columnist, it falls upon this scribe’s lap to urge readers to look at the bright side, stay bullish, be a beacon of hope, and…
Lockdown downtime
As a Backside columnist, it falls upon this scribe’s lap to urge readers to look at the bright side, stay bullish, be a beacon of hope, and…
Updated tourist information
Nepal’s tourism planners urgently need to update the country’s guidebooks so that visitors arriving in Kathmandu know exactly what to expect,…
Women are from Mars
Now that NASA has its Perseverance SUV and Ingenuity drone on the surface of the Red Planet, we will finally know if men are indeed from Mars.…
Zoomed out
Now that I have one year of practice of Zooming around, the wealth of experience I have amassed makes me a self-appointed expert on conducting…
Anus horibilis
Statutory Government Health Warning: The following segment contains material that some readers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is…
Erratum
As a newspaper of world records, we tell the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. However, reporters are also human, and we…
New, improved TIA
Now that G Adventures has listed Nepal as Number 1 of the Top 12 Destinations Worldwide for 2020, we can all sit back, relax and give every…
Unreal estates
Nepal is land-locked, and to make matters worser, the country is fast running out of land. Ever since we lost a third of our territorial…
Yeti was born in Nepal
Two items of news this week proved beyond reasonable doubt what we knew all along: early Homos prowled the Plateau, and the Yeti is still up…