Most of these blogs are here for archival purpose that I have written from 2004. These days, I prefer to write my occasional blogs at Medium page.
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The Great Red Roadshow!
Welcome to Nepal – a nation rich in diversity. And, to ensure that you get taste of many of the cultural aspects of the country in a short span of time, ‘we’ bring you the Great Red Roadshow! The Great Red Roadshow is a blend of culture, music and more [more is a surprise… witness…
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Experiences of live webcast / blog
[This write-up includes experiences of live webcasting/live blogging two events in Nepal and a brief review of two most popular live blogging web services – Coveritlive and ScribbleLive.] Webcast: a conjunction of website broadcast, information dispersed to a large audience via the Internet which could include streaming audio, streaming video, visual aids or live demonstrations.…
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Thoughts on Mayur Times
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger took everyone by surprise – for its unique narration of a story that any novelist would not have thought a bestseller idea. His second book – Between the Assassinations – was not the page-turner compared to the first. Narayan Wagle, our own novelist, received similar response with his Mayur Times.…
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Inspiring citizen heroes
Yesterday, my publication celebrated the first anniversary of Republica and Nagarik national dailies with the Republica Nagarik Summit. The summit, experiences of (and interaction with) five selected citizen heroes (‘those who have worked for others selflessly’), was a new concept that many participants liked (and thanked us for). For a few of us (the hobbyist…
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A Day at Ghalegaon
I spent almost 20 hours at Ghalegoan, Lamjung – a popular tourism destination for community based rural tourism and left wondering why exactly the village is so popular during the return trip on a jeep through rocky risky road (that took almost three hours to reach Besisahar – the district headquarters). To say, the village…
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New Year 2067 Hope
Hope is a big thing. It’s the thing that keeps us happy and alive. With every occasion, we feel happy – for we hope that the occasion will bring us goodness. New Year is one such occasion that brings more hopes that any other occasion. The first day of a New Year is a beginning,…
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The April Uprising
From April 5 to 24, we mark one of the greatest displays of people’s power. The Jana Andolan II or the April Uprising of 2006 was a landmark people’s movement that ended monarchy and Maoists’ People’s War establishing a more reformed democracy. But more than that, it was a splendid example of what people of…
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Priority to negativity: Newspapers’ grim face
An early morning cursory look at the newspapers – and their headlines – generally gives no good feeling. Mostly there are news that are more likely to dampen our enthusiasm. News about strikes and political impasse; and when available, news on violence, accident, death, conflict and bad works dominate media and importantly front-pages of the…
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Docs, heart is important, isn’t it?
Last week, a few hours before some doctors at the TU Teaching Hospital decided to close-down emergency service as a part of their protest, I was there for a not-so-emergency case that required an operation. The consultant doctor who was seeing the patient for months was there ready to perform the operation. But the agitating…
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Maoists, lead now
When Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda visited Girija Prasad Koirala at a hospital on March 17, Koirala told him to shoulder the big responsibility of the peace process. Probably Koirala, who passed away three days later, foresaw his demise and wanted leaders to know the importance of peace process and the need for unity…