Safia Mainali

  Introduction of stock market or equity market or share market in Nepal: - By Rupa Mainali The history of securities in Nepal began in 1937 when Biratnagar Jute Mill and Nepal Bank Limited offered their shares to the public. It took 24 years before the Company Act was introduced in 1964, the same year the Government Bond was first issued. Realizing the importance of a Securities Exchange Center to stimulate the capital markets, both the government and the private sector held multiple discussions to define its structure. In 1973, Nepal Government and Nepal Rastra Bank established the Securities Exchange Center Limited under the Companies Act. Initially, the Center's duties included brokering, underwriting, managing public issues, and creating markets for securities and government bonds. The institutional development of Nepal's capital market began with the establishment of the Securities Exchange Center (SEC). The government’s Industrial Policy supported this, and in 1993, SEC ...

Book Review: The Year of Magical Thinking -By Rupa Mainali Author: Joan Didion Publisher: Collins Modern Classics paperback  Published year: 2021 (first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2005) Genre: Memoir and Investigative Journalism Language: English  The year of magical thinking is a non fiction memoir narrating the author’s experience of grief and mourning after the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne and the hospitalization of their only daughter, Quintana Roo at the same time. It is one of The New York Times’s 100 best books of the 21st century. This book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. It focuses on the disorienting nature of grief and loss, and the fragility of life. About the author Joan Didion, her daughter and her husband. Joan Didion (1934-2021) was a journalist, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and screenwriter who wrote some of the sharpest and most evocative analyses of culture, politics, literature, family and loss. She ...