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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Free Burma!
Democracy is inevitable! Understand this before killing people!
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Maoists Quit Government. What Next?
On Tuesday, Nepal Communist Party (Maoists) quit government vowing to begin an agitation and to disrupt the Constituent Assembly election. It came after five months of Maoists joining the government. The latest turn-around of the Maoists, whose 13-year-long People’s War put the country into unprecedented trouble, has ignited the fear of them returning to from
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Teej – My 22 Hour Fasting
I am writing these lines immediately after breaking my 22-hour fasting with two apples and a glass of sweetened hot water – in a particular fashion of how the Hindu women break their Teej fasting. Teej [more info at NepalHomePage and Wikipedia] is a festival known for the fasting as the women fasts whole day
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Finally, Maoists Speak Truth
“Eleven thousands people have been killed during people’s war, we have neither been able to provide education for their children nor to provide relief to them. Thousands have been disappeared, we haven’t been able to made public situation of any of them. How can we ask people for vote in such situation?†Maoists Supremo Prachanda,
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The Magic of Harry Potter
On 21 July, I knew some of the book shops had specially arranged to bring the last part of Harry Potter series to Kathmandu – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On 22, I read news about it that Kathmandu natives –especially youth and children – were thronging to get a copy. Until the afternoon
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A Pandora’s Box Called YCL
Young Communist League (YCL) is a Pandora’s Box! You never know what’s coming out of it. But be ensured that something always comes out of it – be it good or bad. The youth wing of Maoists has done a lot of things since the safe landing of it’s mother institution. Sometime their deeds are
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The Future of Gun Gyan
Some 13 years ago, probably in 2051 BS, when our bus on way to Pokhara from Palpa sped in the middle of the thin jungle with the driver sighing and uttering the Maoists, I thought, sadly, Nepal would never remain the same it used to be a few years earlier.
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Sarangkot: A Jewel of Pokhara
The greed of seeing the sun rising as a golden ball is always an elusive offer and when there are mountains tops that are glorified by the early morning rays, it’s surely a life-time experience. And, that dreams became a reality when I had a chance to travel up to Sarangkot, a must-not-forget destination in
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Some Reading Materials
To keep updated, I am posting links to two articles about citizen journalism: Voices of Freedom: Blogs and podcasts enable a powerful and authentic voice for marginalised communities sidelined by mainstream media (The Guardian, UK) The Participatory Nature of OhmyNews: Citizen reporters passionately committed to social change (OhMyNews, Korea)
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Everything for Nothing!
(Or Maybe Something Irrelevant) On Monday, May 28, 35,000 schools re-opened after 12 days of shutdown! For the records, 8,000,000 children across the nation were affected. The reason behild closure, then continuation of closure and then re-opening were all but thrash reasoning. A kind of joke! Let first have a look at the chronology of