Nepal Magazine


The Nepal Magazine was a weekly national magazine published by Kantipur Media Group in Kathmandu, which also published Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post. The magazine focused on national socio-political matters of Nepal, with satirical pieces on current affairs and trends of the country, along with lighter stories of lifestyle and arts. Nepal had the country's largest circulation for a weekly news-magazine, according to the official data released by Press Council Nepal in 2016. Basanta Basnet was the Editor. After the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, Kantipur media group stopped publishing Nepal Magazine along with its other publications.

History

Nepal Magazine was established in 2000 as a fortnightly magazine. It had been covering political issues along with photo story, movie review, celebrity gossips and literature. Its two notable annual publication are Plus 2 College Ranking and Person of the year. Nepal was generally regarded as leading and influential nepali magazines, along with Himal Khabarpatrika.

Editors

The magazine has been under five editors so far, Vijay Kumar Pandey, Tirtha Koirala, Kishor Nepal, Prashant Aryal, Sudheer Sharma, Narayan Wagle and Basanta Basnet .

Notable staff and columnists (past and present)