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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Rumor City: No Jeans / No Long Hair
This is the country of rumors: late poet Bhupi Sherchan once wrote. If he had been living in this era, he would have probably written an epic instead of a short poem on the topic. Everyday, Nepalis hear at least one new rumor. This fortnight the rumor that was heard around the city was that…
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MyGoogle: Personalized Google News
Google News was different when I browsed it yesterday morning. On a look, there was just a box of three words that made it different – Customize This Page. I clicked on it and it expanded where I can change the position of news sections, add or remove, and determine the number of news to…
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Reading Smiling Poems of Photo-Poet
Kumar Ale is a hobbyist photographer, but his photographs have earned him a unique nickname – ‘Photo Poet’. And he was on the limelight for last eight days as his photographs of smiling litterateurs were exhibited at the Nepal Art Council. I am not a frequent visitor to the art exhibition, but for the sake…
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Talking About Charismatic Sadhus
Shivaratri, or Mahashivaratri, festival has been celebrated. I wrote an entry on my visit to the Pashupatinath Temple, the most important of all Lord Shiva temples, earlier. But to talk about Shivaratri without mentioning the sages (Sadhus or Babas) will be unjustifiable to all those charismatic Sadhus, who are considered main attractions of the festival…
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Pro-Monarch Rallies: The Government Propaganda
There has been a few rallies ‘in support of the Royal Proclamation’. Immediately after Feb 1, there were a few one participated by some Royalists welcoming the proclamation. And in last week, there has been a few participated by students, clubs, government employees and many others. If you have seen these rallies, and the protesting…
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Shivaratri: Unorganized Thoughts
Today is Shivaratri – the biggest day to worship Lord Shiva (for us, Pashupatinath). At the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, more than 200,000 people will be trying to enter the temple. Not me, because I am a lazy guy and will in no way have patience to stand in queue for a few hours and…
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Security Mistreating Leaders’ Families
Student leaders have accused authority of not following the law during and the arrest of their colleagues. Talking to RFN, Pradeep Poudel, the vice-president of Nepal Student Union and Madhukar Khanal, a student leader, said that the police mistreated with the family members of Suraj Kafle, the former central member, and Asta Kumar Shahi, the…
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Blogging World: Good & Bad Story
In a last two days, two stories relating to bloggers made headlines. The first: A California judge rules that bloggers should not have the same protection afforded to journalists under US law. This wasn’t welcomed in the Blogosphere. The second was the good one: Garrett M. Graff, who writes a blog about the news media…
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Protests Against King Being Cracked Down
On March 3, about a dozen of protesters were forced into police van,then taken away, cracking down their attempt to peacefully protest against the King’s move. Dozens more students faced the same when they attempted to organize programs demanding restoration of democracy. Same day, the King’s men extended for two months the house arrest of…
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Blogging Using w.bloggar
I started using w.bloggar. This freeware, w.bloggar, is a nice software to use, because I can type offline, save my entries locally and post them when I am online without logging in to the WordPress. A good tool for the regular bloggers, find it here.