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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Websites of Nepali Politicians
The latest to join the fray is Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. The much-hyped website is that of former finance minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai. The almost unknown blogger is former science minister Ganesh Shah. The ‘Nepali Congress’ leader website is that of Narahari Acharya. And, ‘coming soon’ is Gagan Thapa. Probably most of these websites,
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Online Media in Nepal: Short History
(This is a very short history of online media/journalism including that of Nepal that I had prepared a few years ago for my term paper. Updated with beginning of internet in Nepal on June 28.) Internet is relatively new media. It was only in the late 80s and early 90s that the World Wide Web
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On Chaukathi, a short film
Threshold or Chaukathi, a 30-minute film made by my friend Deepak Rauniyar, was officially the first film to be selected to be screened at Cannes Film Festival. There were two more from Nepal same year. Despite being screened at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival in Kathmandu, where it was adjudged the third-best film, I
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Changing faces of Nepal’s news sites
In last few months – three top news sites of Nepal namely eKantipur.com [the new name for KantipurOnline.com], TheHimalayanTimes.com [the online venture of APCA House which publishes The Himalayan Times English daily] and the old gold NepalNews.com changed their designs [and updating frequency]. Here are the two screenshots of these sites for comparison: eKantipur in
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Time to wake up!
Barbarity! Inhumanity! Heinousness! Atrocity! Savagery! These are the synonyms that my small dictionary offered to me as I searched for the right word to define the incident that happened today at Chabahil. Sadly, I believe none of these exactly represent what I want to call it! A mob attacked a stationary microbus parked on the
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Happy New Year!
Thanks to friend Dipesh Shrestha for the photo.
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5 Truths About Blogging
(or 5 Bitter Things You Must Know Before You Start Blogging) Last week, I received an email from one of my friends that read: Please provide me some information on how to start good blogging and earn a few bucks from it! It was not the first time I have been asked in that way.
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Stories from Manakamana Trip
Travelling was not easy; especially after facing a non-sense strike and fuel crisis, but it was full of fun. I left Kathmandu for a short-trip to Manakamana Temple. It trip was supposed to be completed in 24 hours but it took almost 50 hours. A two-hour strike on highway at Kurintar destroyed our plan and
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Fagu Purnima: It’s all about colors
Red for victory; yellow for happiness; blue for peace; orange for joy; green for wealth; pink for love and purple for health: may all these colors blend you and result a new color called your life. So goes the only sms wish I received on Fagu Purnima [or Holi – the festival of colors]; it
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My interview in the ACC website
Just for record. Here is my interview as published in the official website of the Asian Cricket Council.