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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Nepali Blogger Threatened
Umesh Shrestha, the blogger behind hugely popular MySansar.com, has been threatened of ‘action within 24 hours if he publishes anything that directly or indirectly supports Maoists or terrorists’. An email with subject line reading ‘last information’ by Maoists Defense Group, an anti-Maoists group not known so far, has threatened him. Bloggers Association of Nepal (BLOGAN)
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Links Updated!
NepaliVoices.com has listed a large number of Nepali blogs on the sidebar. But since the number of such blogs has grown highly, I am changing the policy for the listing. Now on, I will do occasional (hopefully monthly) checking of all the blogs listed and will remove the blogs that haven’t been updated for a
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At Pokhara, Again!
Just after a month of my last visit, I am once again at Pokhara. This time to cover the final of the Aaha Gold Cup – a football tournament. I came with a few journalists friends and it was a nice journey. The football final was very interesting as it saw more than 15,000 spectators
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Challenges for Sports in New Nepal
When the whole state is going through the process of restructuring and every sector is being put in line with the concept of “new and prosperous” Nepal, nobody is saying anything about sports. This is, no doubt, the biggest disadvantage that the sector has for decades now. Sports are always the less priority sector for
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Ignoring Blogs!
An afterthought on Harsha’s comments on exclusion of blogs from the media content study during the period of Royal Rule in Nepal. Khoj Patrakarita Kendra (Centre for Investigative Journalism) has published a book, Sankatkalma Samachar(News during Emergency ). It is a content analysis of main print media in Nepal for three months of the state
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Just a Note
Today is Feb 21 – the International Mother Languauge Day. I probably wouldn’t have remembered it, hadn’t I visited Bangladesh three years ago to see people celebrating the day. The day sparked for their independence from Pakistan and that’s why they are fond to celebrate the day. I had written an entry on this day
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Challenges for national sports in New Nepal
When the whole state is going through the process of restructuring and every sector is being put in line with the concept of “new and prosperous” Nepal, nobody is saying anything about sports. This is, no doubt, the biggest disadvantage that the sector has for decades now. Sports are always the less priority sector for
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Thank God! It’s Back Now!
Thank God! My personal blog, The Radiant Star, is back online. Ask a blogger what is his biggest problem running a blog. His answer, almost surely, will be that it’s hard to find the time and issue to blog on. Ask a blogger, without a blog for some reason, what he misses. The answer will
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Revisiting Bloggers Meet II
If you want yourself to be different, then write differently so that people can enjoy you. And, its more true for us, the bloggers, when we write about the same event. The Bloggers Meet II held on Feb 17 at Freedom Forum was attended by 12 bloggers and some of them, and other, wrote about
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A Dozen It Is!
THE SECOND BLOGGERS’ MEET IN KATHMANDU! A few new faces, but the second bloggers’ meet held at Freedom Forum today had the same number of participants – 12. And, the best part of it was every participant was seen enjoying the talks and tea! Discussion centered on plans for future that included holding blogging workshops,