Nepal’s life is paralyzed (well not as used to in the earlier general strikes for me in Kathmandu) by the weeklong general strike called by rebels to disrupt municipal polls slated for Feb 8, and blogs are updated with the news, views and pictures of the banda.
(via BloggersNepal)
Dinesh Wagle writes about his experience of the first day of Banda in NepalBlogs.com. BloggersNepal agrees with what I believed that this banda is not sucessful as earlier used to and proves it with a photo of vehicles titled Guns can’t terrorize for ever. And they have one more post with photos from Prithivi Highway under Going gets tough, but life goes on and a commentry on it. Deepak Adhikari too have a piece on it.
Hacking of UWB! attracted Deepak and Niranjan Kunwar.
Dinesh Wagle calls the slated municipal election a drama. In his entry full with photos, he says:
Elections were full of fun, fair and festivities in democratic times. Candidates would openly go to the door of the voter and ask for the latter’ support. Voters would decide on their own, they would first register their names with the election commission, get voting card and go the polling stations to exercise their democratic right. Nothing like this is happening now.
And, he has an interesting conversation to share:
When I saw a few pro-election ‘activists’ pasting posters over a film poster on the walls of New Baneshwor’s Birendra International Convention Center (BICC), they were passing cheap jokes about the election symbol of the candidates. One of them goes something like this: “Dinvari Gamala, Ratvari Kamala”. The election symbol of the candidate was Gamala (flower pot). Kamala is one of the most common name for a girl in Nepal. (Gamala for the day, Kamala for the night).
Pradeep Chand comments on Nepali music trend.
