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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Citizen Journalists Wanted!
Citizen journalism in Nepal would probably be more lucrative than ever. When bloggers are getting attention and being awarded, (okay, the attention come with a price – MeroSansar was hacked and was offline for some hours today), Citizen Journalism Nepal is hiring citizen journalists (CitJo) and photographers. The job are paid ones: As our contract…
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Blogger Bags Rs. 51,000
It looks like good days are coming for bloggers, especially for MeroSansar’s Umesh Shrestha. After being featured as a professional blogger in Nepali Times, America Nepal Society has annouced a felecitation to him for providing up-to-date coverage of Nepal’s event. The society would also provide him a support of Rs. 51,000, Prem Sangraula, the president…
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Thoughts on The Royal Ghosts
Samrat without sex is better than Samrat with sex! (That is of course in what he writes.) That was my first thought after reading more than half of Samrat Upadhyay’s new story collection, The Royal Ghosts. At that time I was really looking forward reading the title story that was the last piece on the…
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Blogger Umesh on Nepali Times
Nepali Times, a popular English weekly, has featured Umesh Shrestha, the first Nepali blogger to use Nepali unicode, in its latest edition. Umesh, the founder blogger of MeroSansar and the country’s pioneer in podcasts and video-casts, earned a lot of praise for his coverage during the Jana Andolan II. The article probably is an honor…
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Nepali Blogs as Alternative Media
(This is an article I wrote for another purpose a few months ago.) Nepali blogosphere is an example of how a handful of people can use the internet easily to establish an alternative medium of information; and also how a political turmoil can foster the way for the citizens to emerge with their own media.…
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Nepali Photobloggers Hog Limelight
There are not many photobloggers in Nepal and as far as I knew only four are there. But nevertheless they are making their marks and hogged limelight during the people’s movement that concluded recently after the King gave up the power. On April 23, Rajesh KC’s Phalano.com probably became the first Nepali blog to be…
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Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace
I was in Manila, Philippine for four days, April 18 to 22, to participate in the conference called Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace organized by South East Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). The conference was held in a time when the people’s movement in Nepal was as its height.…
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Stance Changes with Govt for State Media
It is always difficult to be in-charge of the state media as the person should be ready all the time to change the overall stance of the media anytime the government changes. Its probably the most undesirable task for the professional journalists. Gorkhapatra, The Rising Nepal, Nepal Television and Radio Nepal are four state-run media…
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Blog Rocks!
Blog coverage of ongoing fight for democracy in Nepal shows the beauty of blogs The ABC of journalism and blogs are different. Journalism is all about accuracy, balance and creditability; blogs are accurate, biased and critical. Blogs have a few advantages namely interactivity (thus more democratic for discussions) and quick (thus serving the audience with…
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Our Own Cartoon Story
I would call it a sad event. Nepal Samacharpatra, a national daily, published a cartoon on Sunday that explicitly accused Kantipur Publications, the leading publishing house in the country, of propaganda and yellow journalism. The cartoon, published three columns on the front page, shows four members of the International Media Mission that recently visited Nepal…