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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Ekushey: Nepali Lai Maya Garau!
I feel sorry that I am writing this blog in English – a language that is not my mother tongue. I also feel sorry that I couldn’t compute in Nepali. Exactly a year ago, I was in Chittagong, Bangladesh to cover Youth World Cup cricket and saw the Bagladeshi people celebrating Feb 21 as a…
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How Many Sides A Story Has?
While having lunch with Dinesh and me, Deepak talked about an incident. He told us that he along with Saroj, a reporter of Nepal Weekly, went to receive their editor at the airport when he returned from Europe. Other at his office called it palm-greasing. He replied them saying they didn’t go because they were…
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Where Does NewsLookMag Go?
I don’t know what happened but when I tried visiting NewsLookMag.com, a site that collects all the headlines relating to Nepal, it didn’t appear. It looks like either the site has ceased operation or is being blocked by my ISP. Update:Ditto with Nepalipost.com, a site operated by Nepali journalists in US. Thanks to Dinesh
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What do you think about media censorship?
Senior journalist Durganath Sharma, who off course holds the position of General Manager at the state-owned Nepal Television, asked many of my friends during a practical examination that I also attended. What should I have answered? Many had advised me before I went inside the viva-room that I should not denounce it outright.
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Making Mockery of Democracy
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. – Abraham Lincoln, 1864 Lincoln’s definition to democracy, in his Gettysburg Speech given at the height of American Civil War, is the most widely used and simplest to understand. But Nepal’s King Gyanendra either couldn’t understand it or is trying to…
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An Account from Kantipur TV News Staff on Censoring
This report was written several days ago and recounts the moment immediately preceding the coup when the military took control of Nepali broadcast facilities prior to the announcement of the coup by King Gyanendra. The army began cordoning our office premises at around 9:30 (0445GMT) in the morning, some half an hour ahead of the…
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Cats to Guard Milk: The Anti-Corruption Move
Corruption, which has been continuously spreading its tentacles, has not only cast a shadow over politics and administration, but has also obstructed the nation’s march towards progress. Corruption has struck at the very core of our society, the result of which the common man’s confidence in the laws of the land has been shaken. Therefore,…
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Celebrating Democracy Day!
This morning I woke up earlier than usual to celebrate the Democracy Day. I had a sheet of paper with the plans for the day, but unfortunately not all of them could be done. The first was to put a Democracy Day Message on my site, www.NepalCricket.com, which I couldn’t do as there were on…
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Is Media Opening Up?
A through look at today’s newspaper made me think: are media opening up a bit to defy the censorship? The obvious answer is: yes. Look at Rajdhani, Nepal Samarcharpatra and The Kathmandu Post.
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After Recovering From Fever
Somehow, all unknowningly, fever hit me, took me to bed for complete rest for two days and still now, when I am at my office, the fever is still haunting me with a feel of weakness, slight headache and aching eyes. My country is the same. Something went wrong for it for last few years,…