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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Bloggers on Media
If morning shows the day, then the Year 2007 is going to interesting for the bloggers. Two magazines this month ran the stories of bloggers and blogging:-) In VOW (Voice of Women), Rosha Basnet invited Darshan Karki (Zade), Sujana Upadhyay and Archana Shrestha for a regular column – My Cup of Tea. The World of…
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Will Online Media Topple Newspapers?
One of the discussion topics on the recently held Bloggers’ Voices – a gathering of Nepali bloggers – was the old-yet-alive debate of online media versus mainstream media. As the bloggers, a few of us talked about chances of online media in overtaking the newspapers in Nepal (sadly, all of us who advocated in the…
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Bloggers’ Voices: The Gathering
A dozen of Nepali bloggers gathered at the Freedom Forum on the historic day (Magh 19 – the second anniversary of King Gyanendra’s seizure of power beginning a crisis in the country which turned out to be an opportunity for Nepali bloggers) for the first-ever almost formal bloggers’ meet. Participants of the Bloggers’ Voices: (standing)…
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Invitation to All Nepali Bloggers
Join Fellow Nepali Bloggers for A Cup of Tea! An invitation for all Nepali bloggers (And also those interested in Nepali Blogosphere) This is a gathering of Nepali bloggers to talk various issues (all bloggers are free to talk on any issue they want) plus the formation of Bloggers Association of Nepal (BLOGAN). Venue: Freedom…
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Lofty dreams for a little game
“What’s the national game of Nepal?” “Uh… Dandi biyo?” Officially Nepal doesn’t have a national game but for many Nepalese the traditional game played with two sticks is our national game. The game, which is popular mainly in the hinterlands, is played just for fun and has no universal set of rules. “But no more,”…
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Delightful Reading
My friend Deepak Adhikari has written an article about blogging in NepalMonitor.com titled (Some) Thoughts from Nepal on Blogging. An unprecedented numbers of visitors logged on to the blog and demanded more up-to-the-minute updates on events unfolding in Nepal. That was the time when I actually realized the power of the medium called blog. At…
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On Citizen Journalism
Easy to say – blogs are a form of citizen journalism. It looks like a mid-way for all those supports and/or criticize the theory that believes blogs are a form of journalism. What I dislike about it is not the views or the definition of the citizen journalism itself but the way people, even citizen…
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year 2007! Let’s wish that 2007 will see Nepal’s all problem solved and we will all live in peace without any fear. What new year resolution you have? I want to blog regularly.
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Blogosphere Predictions 2007
With 2007 knocking on the doors, I am wondering what will happen in those 12 months next year in the Nepali blogosphere and what buzz can those blogs create. Off course, I have no study or research to make out predictions, but let me share what I think will happen to Nepali blogosphere next year.…
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Why Nepalese Blog (or why people blog)?
This is an attempt to peek into the insights of the bloggers – of course through Nepalese bloggers – to find out why they blog. There are all sorts of bloggers, and their motives of blogging can be different, and this question may seem absurd to answer without specifically dividing bloggers into various groups, but…