Ujjwal Acharya

Blogs, by Ujjwal Acharya

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.

  • Enjoy the game, accept the results

    A sport holds its thrill in two aspects. First, there is sportsmanship and second, despite knowing the skills and potential of teams and players, the results are almost always different. Sportsmanship is when rules are followed. Players despite putting in their best efforts in every second of their performance, notwithstanding the results, accept the rules…

  • Why I read Chetan Bhagat?

    “Why are you wasting your time?” A colleague asked me when he saw me reading Revolution 2020 – the latest novel by Chetan Bhagat. He probably said that because of my age (I am not as young as many of the fans of the Indian writer) or maybe because he thought I need to spent…

  • Baburam Bhattarai: the hopeless hope?

    For non-Maoist supporters, Dr Baburam Bhattarai is the favorite among Maoist leaders. For urban population, the brilliant academic record of Bhattarai, a PhD, along with his no-nonsense statements made him the hope in Nepali politics at the time when many thought politics is made dirty by the group of leaders who did nothing more than…

  • Writing Responsibly on Internet

    Internet has been the most revolutionary convergence of communication tools. The greatest beneficial aspect of the internet as a communication tool has been the possibility for each and every person with internet access to communicate globally. Communicating to the world has never been as easy as it is now. Loads of services, also collectively known…

  • Good journalism is good for journalism

    Distribution channel will change in future and we have no control over what people will use. They may use something we don’t know today. At the publishing house, we have to specialize on producing good stories. When I was in Hamburg, Germany to attend the first of three phases of the Journalism in Digital World…

  • Internet Intermediaries & Freedom of Expression

    (This post is a result of my participation in the South Asia Meeting on the Freedom of Expression and the Internet in Kathmandu, 2-4 November. This is my personal opinion but I owe to participants of the meeting whose comments may have helped me to shape this.) By Internet intermediaries, I mean those companies or…

  • Online Anonymity: Is it necessary?

    (The idea for the following post came during the South Asia Meeting on the Freedom of Expression and the Internet in Kathmandu, 2-4 November. Anonymity was discussed during a session on first day along with surveillance, security and data protection. The following post, however, is only my thoughts, not the summary of what was discussed…

  • Nepali movie seeks crowd-fund

    (Update on Nov 4, 2011: The movie crowd-funded the pledged amount in 25 days!) Deepak Rauniyar, a young Nepali film director, is attempting to crowd-fund the post production of his movie – Highway, through Kickstarter, which claims to be the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. This is first time that any Nepali creative…

  • Delicious!

    Photo by Bikash Karki of PhotoEverest.com Posted to mark the Blog Action Day 2011!

  • Historic: Bloggers sign Code of Ethics

    “This is the historic beginning in citizen journalism. Today, Nepali bloggers began a new chapter by signing their own code of conduct.” The comment by chief commissioner at the National Information Commission, Vinaya Kasajoo, was the most encouraging one for all bloggers agreeing to become signatory of the Code of Ethics for Bloggers today, July…