Mobile Phone and Kathak Dance
Sunday/Monday: As usual but quite busy. I don’t know how fast time is passing and I haven’t been able to do any significant work. Time is like bullet, travels fast. By the way, I haven’t been able to...
View ArticleMaoists’ Nepal Banda: Day 1 of 7
Nepal Banda, the general strike, called by Maoist rebels to make King Gyanendra’s artless election drama, has made general Nepalis’ life very difficult. The Banda has, as expected, affected the lives...
View ArticleIn Fulbari, For Three Nights
in Lake Side, Pokhara I am taking a long breath! After three days of intensive seminar on conflict journalism, constituent assembly, restructuring of the state of Nepal, I am now out from Pokhara’s...
View ArticleIn A Nepal Monastery Ramon Magsaysay Jr. Talks About His Dad
[Here is another report on the visit of Magsaysay Awardees in Nepal] The senator son of former Filipino President talks about what it feels like to be a Magsaysay. Plus, hear him praising Gmail!! In...
View ArticleKathmandu Bus Ride: [Mis] adventure!?
Traveling in Kathmandu isn’t always easy. Actually it’s never easy especially in public vehicles. It’s different case if you own a bike or, perhaps, a car. Even if you have a bike, you will become a...
View ArticleA Reporter in a Marriage Ceremony
Falgun 7 [19 Feb] was a day that I will not forget. I didn’t get the Kantipur excellence award that Kantipur Publications, where I work as a reporter for Kantipur daily, gives to best the...
View ArticleLe Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!: French Ambassador’s Wine Party in Kathmandu
The New Beaujolais has arrived!: Chief Election Commissioner Bhojraj Pokharel and the French Ambassador Gilles-Henry Garault in the “Beaujolais Day” party. Pic by Bikas Rauniar 15 November: I am not a...
View ArticleBeaujolais Day in Nepal: Wine Talk With a French Teacher
Continued from previous blog: Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!: French Ambassador’s Wine Party in Kathmandu I am basically an introvert (except on the web of course), and I find it quite difficult to...
View ArticleFrench Ambassador’s Wine Party: The Dutch Guy With Helvetas
Continued from previous blog: Beaujolais Day in Nepal: Wine Talk With a French Teacher How about this bearded man? I am not sure about his nationality but that’s fine. He must be a European. Yes, he...
View ArticleMeet the Chinese Wife of the French Ambassador
Continued from previous blog: Wine Party: The Dutch Guy With Helvetas [Here is my article in Kantipur daily about the Beaujolais Day wine party: फ्रेन्च वाइन कूटनीति] Behind every handsome ambassador...
View ArticleEveryone Wants To “Volunteer” For UN
Anjila Mul, 22, and Sujita Amatya, 22, who got Bachelors in Science (Environmental Science) degree from Biswo Niketan College a few days ago, had gone to the “exhibition” hoping to get recruited as...
View ArticleAn Evening in Nagarkot: Drinking Soup
A sudden trip to the hilltop that is famous for the views of sunrise. So that is how my day started. I wasn’t prepared when my colleague at Kantipur Girish Giri asked me to join him on a motorcycle...
View ArticleIn the Peopledom of Gorkha
Self-portrait. Dinesh Wagle The district of Gorkha, in my mind, was always a very remote place. That was before I went there last month (in the first week of March). I couldn’t go outside the district...
View ArticleThe Krishna Dharabasi Autograph
So as we were chatting with Sharada Sharma I saw someone who almost looked like Krishna Dharabasi, the acclaimed writer of, among others, the novel Radha that I had bought an hour or so ago in the...
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