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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Peace Bond: Sign of Problems
For the first time, Nepalis were given a chance to know that the King alone is unable to run the country smoothly. The news of the government issuing Peace Bond to raise Rs. 5.5 billion is a clear effect of the lack of fund for coming fiscal year as the international donor communities have shy…
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Kumari: The Goddess Child
I am always fascinated by Kumari – the living goddess or rather a girl child worshipped as a goddess. I believe I have a special kind to attraction towards her as I never miss the opportunity to see her whenever I visit Basantpur, where her home known as Kumari Ghar is. I feel freshened whenever…
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Teashop Gossiping: Rumor City’s Favorite
What things actually make Kathmandu a rumor city? There are probably a few answers, but without teashop at the chowks, rumor city would probably lose its essence. Teashop gossips seem to be a favorite morning activities of people – from unemployed youth to high class official and from a ‘know-nothing common man’ to ‘know-everything man’.…
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The Girl Who Wants to Scale Everest
I attended the press conference of Ms Susmita Maskey, who will attempt to become the first woman from the Newar community to scale the world’s highest peak – Mount Everest in May, 2005. The most confusing thing in the conference, which started 45 minutes late than scheduled (we utilized the time to crack jokes), was…
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A run through of what’s happened in last few days
The King started using media as a mean of propaganda. State-owned National News Agency distributed a news item in its March 14 bulletin that no newspaper wished to miss. It was about the rift in insurgents’ group saying that top leader had been expelled. All newspaper carried the news with a tag, ‘Says Royal Nepalese…
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Yahoo! Eyes Blogosphere
After Google acquired Blogger.com and turned it into the most popular blogging service (no wonder a free one), Microsoft stepped up and bagan MSN Spaces (I feel the name is a bit odd) and now Yahoo! has come up with the beta version of its blogging service – Yahoo! 360. It is not yet launched…
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Defying Court Orders
Two student leaders Rajendra Rai and Rup Narayan Shrestha were ordered to be released by the Supreme Court on May 16. The policemen were ready to re-arrest them inside the court premises – as soon as they came out along with their lawyers, police tried to arrest them despite protests from lawyers, journalists and followers.…
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Attempts to Blur Borderlines
Is peace equivalent to the King’s rule? Is Royal Nepal Army’s success against Maoists is the King’s success? Are political parties and rebel group similar? Are political parties supporting insurgency? There are attempts to make people believe all the answers to these questions ‘Yes’. But the reality is that most of the answers to these…
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“Don’t Cover Ex-PM’s News Conference”
To present itself as the non-violator of the human rights and prove the political leaders are arrested just for a time being in the 61st session of International Conference on Human Rights, the King-led government freed ex-Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and some other political leaders. Deuba quickly arranged a press conference and hit hard…
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Student Leader’s Appeal II
Appeal to the International Community by Gagan Kumar Thapa on behalf of the Democratic Youth of Nepal 12 March 2005, Kathmandu After the royal-military coup of 1 February 2005, dictator Gyanendra Shah and his unaccountable military machine in Nepal has been pursuing diplomatic efforts to woo the international community to finance his totalitarian regime. The…