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 Bloggers & Blogs
Just at the time when I am planning to write a brief history of Nepali blogosphere for The Radiant Star, Deepak Adhikari write a short entry on Nepali bloggers and me. His Nepali Bloggers Making Mark is his quick words on his own blog and how he found two of his friends had already running…
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Begging for Dowry
Dowry stories has always drawn my attention. In fact, I have written an article for The Kathmandu Post a few years ago about it which was published as the main article on a Sunday. HK Nepal has an interesting story related to dowry. It is about people disguishing as beggars to collect money for dowry…
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Do Nepali Blogs Suck?
My answer will be NO. But Deelip Khanal believes so and has added an entry. His main concern is that Nepali bloggers are biased. Every time when i see the blogs the stories are in a long page but nothing exept the words shouting against the king . It seems the bloggger are also political…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0
Ideally, this means nothing to the viewers of The Radiant Star, but for the record, I have successfully upgraded the internal script that is used to run this site to a new version. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and I have installed it in United We Blog! and NepalBlogs and even have transalted…
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Best of Blog – Beta Test II
This is my effort to summarize what Nepali bloggers are writing everyday. US-based Paramendra Bhagat is bewildered by GP Koirala’s request to postpone the elections. What did Girija Koirala mean by that? I am bewildered. It can be understood to have been a peace and reconciliation overture, soudly rebuffed by a government minister. It is…
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Best of Blogs – Beta Test I
A Royal Nepalese Army committee has submitted its report on the Nagarkot Massarce which left 13 civilians dead. The incident of guests being forced out from Hotel Yak & Yeti surprisingly caught attention of Deelip only. He questions: How can tourism develop? Appointment of new Attorney General has drawn attention from bloggers with LegalNews and…
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New Buddha!?
From 40m away, he is an almost-deity like figure and that’s the least distance from where the normal people can watch Ram Bahadur Bomjam, the ‘new Buddha’, who is meditating under the pipal tree for last 6 months and 23 days – that is more than 200 days without food and water, if you believe…
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Censoring News? Sorry, No Way!
In the era of cyber information flow, its increasingly difficult to censor anything. This was apparent when the Nepali government tried to block an interview of Prachanda, the supreme leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The government raided and shut down Radio Sagarmatha, the first non-governmental independent radio station of South Asia, which…
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Popular Nepali Blog Closed for Child Pornography
Update: The site is running now. MeroSansar, a popular blog and the world’s first blog in Nepali language, has been suspended by its hosts – blogsome.com for child pornography.
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Welcome to The Radiant Star
This is personal site of a happy couple (that is Ujjwal and Tara) where you will find personal pages of them and occassional blogs. Besides, Nepal is Blogging is a small directory of Nepali blogs; Journalism Resources is the collection of resources, tools, reports and links for students of mass communication and journalism and Let’s…