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.

  • Should Film Censor Board exist?

    The Film Censor Board on June 3 barred the screening of Delhi Belly, an Indian movie produced by popular artiste Aamir Khan and issued an adult certification, after the distributor of the movie didn’t adhere by its direction to cut out five dialogues. The news produced uproar in Twitter generating an interesting debate on film…

  • NepalUnites for uniting Nepalis

    Social entrepreneur Anil Chitrakar was one of the presentater during the Mashable’s Social Media Day Meetup in Kathmandu on June 30. At the event organized by Xplore International in partnership with Microsoft Innovation Center – Nepal, Chitrakar spoke about NepalUnites. NepalUnites is a social media campaign popularly/satirically called the Facebook Movement and Chitrakar is one…

  • Saga of Social Media

    While social media experts and enthusiasts around the world are celebrating the immense possibilities that the computer technologies have offered, it is worthwhile to look into trends and criticisms of the social media itself The newest revolution in the way news and information are spread has been brought about by computer technologies. Internet technologies provide…

  • Social media: Just a communication tool

    As the extended term of the Constituent Assembly (CA) approached nearer making it evident that the constitution of new Nepal would not be promulgated within the stipulated time, youths started raising their voices through social media. The Facebook Generation used the social networking site effectively to express their concerns and opinions; create communities; plan and…

  • Social Communicators on CA Term Extension

    Social communicators, or the social media users especially Tweeple, followed the CA term extension night, May 28, with great enthusiasm contributing to frequently updated information and opinions. Following tweets on the night provided both information on what’s going on and opinions on what people were thinking about the events – sometimes the frustrations and many…

  • Code of ethics for bloggers

    UPDATED ON MAY 27 WITH PROPOSED CODE OF ETHICS With growing popularity of blogs in Nepal, many issues concerning blogs are emerging. One of the issues that needed to be immediately addressed is on ethical aspects of the blogs. Blogs, by nature, is free. But as Rebecca Blood put it: The blog’s greatest strength –…

  • Constructive youth engagement through social media

    At the time when the term Facebook generation is increasingly being used to refer to youths uninterested in political and social responsibilities, youths have came together to use the social media for constructive political and social engagements. Many consider that Nepali youth in today’s urban societies normally detach themselves from politics, social responsibilities and look…

  • Is blog under Press Council jurisdiction?

    Recently, Press Council of Nepal (PCN) issued a letter seeking clarification from MySansar, Nepal’s most popular blog. This is first time that PCN has recognized the presence of a blog. This incident should also encourage the government – and its agencies – to have a policy about online media. THE STORY MySansar.com published a series…

  • Nepali journalism around Anuja scandal

    Nepali journalism should learn lessons from Anuja scandal and move forward, rather than ridiculing a group of newspapers (or counter-attacking those who choose to ridicule) because this is the state of Nepali journalism – not only of a reporter or a newspaper The Story Nepal’s top national daily Kantipur and it’s sister publication The Kathmandu…

  • The joys of books

    While reading books is a diminishing habit – largely because of development of computer technologies, the best thing you can gift anyone are still books Little more than a decade ago, my father requested my school principal to come to inspect my study room and to scold me for reading too many novels. I had…