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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RIP, Axis of Nepali Politics
Nepal has lost its most criticized and most praised political personality. Girija Prasad Koirala (1925-2010) passed away on Saturday afternoon, at 12:10 p.m. on March 20, after being the axis of Nepali politics for at least last two-decades. He led four of 18 governments since the establishment of democracy in 1990 through a popular movement.…
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Shameful
The news was: Nepal Police raided at a Bunkers’ Party at the Babylon Disco in Kathmandu and arrested and detained for a day 356 college students. The background was: Police tipped off all the media about the raid. The result was: A television station which happened to be a walking distance of the disco live…
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Cricket
Disconnected thoughts reflecting cricket and events surrounding the game Cricket has long been a sport with potential but with defeats in key matches earned Nepal a nickname of chokers. The dream of playing World Cup almost forgotten, Nepal hosted World Cricket League Division 5 – a step of the World Cup qualification and won it.…
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Lionhearted athletes
In praise of the performance of the Nepali players in the South Asian Games (SAG) 2010 Nepal was placed fifth with eight gold medals, nine silver medals and 19 bronze medals. This was not a brilliant performance by Nepal, but nevertheless, it was a more than brilliant performance from the athletes – everybody of them,…
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Troublesome gunture
Gunture n. 1. gun culture. 2. use of guns in society. Today, Jamim Shah, a media entrepreneur, was shot dead in his car at Lazimpat, Kathmandu. Shah, the owner of Channel Nepal – the first satellite television channel of the country and also of a cable television network, once was publisher of two national dailies.…
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The future of newspapers
Will newspapers still be called newspapers if they cease to print on papers? Or will it simply be the online news site? It’s kind of absurd in Nepali context to think that newspapers is facing big challenge from online web sites – especially at the time when the newspapers are actually growing. But unlike many…
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Someday, we will find a way
These days I am almost optimistic about Nepal’s political future. True, because I believe in what the world should call ‘the Nepali magic’: when it looks like we are going to worse, something good happens and we move towards better. Wasn’t it true during the 1990 Revolution? Everybody believed the then King Birendra bowed down…
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Unity
Today is Poush 27 according to Bikram Sambat calendar and it’s the National Unity Day. The government in 2007 decided to cancel the public holiday because it was the birth anniversary of King Prithivi Narayan Shah – the first king of greater Nepal. His birth anniversary was celebrated as the public holiday for his unification…
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High Level Political Mechanism?
On January 8, a High Level Political Mechanism was constituted by the chairs of three main political parties – the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML). Since it was a meeting that involved Girija Prasad Koirala, 86, it took place at…