Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

Dinesh Wagle on Nepali society

Author: DW

  • People of Achham, Far West Nepal, celebrating Holi in Kathmandu

    Saw them singing hori songs and dancing in a circle at a private college in Kathmandu today. They don’t use Lola and want to tell the rest of Kathmanduits that…


  • Khabardar! 74 Days to Draft Constitution in Nepal

    This one is for the members of the Constituent Assembly. A board has been put up at the gate of the Constituent Assembly complex in New Baneswar, Kathmandu to remind…


  • A Cigarette (Beedi) Smoking Woman of Far West Nepal

    I was traveling to Baitadi from Dadeldhura on the day after Dashain Tika last year. Traffic was thin on the road that spiraled through the rugged hills of, among others,…



  • Meaning Behind The Mask

    By Dinesh Wagle I lost my confidence in my nasal hairs last month. I wonder how my former science teacher would react to this news. Buddha Pramod Rai had full…


  • 22 Hours in a Village near Kathmandu #Himalayas #Nepal

    Saturday and Sunday (March 5th and 6th). Location: Balthali, Kavre.


  • Bryan Adams in Kathmandu: What Does That Mean to Nepal

    By Dinesh Wagle Pic by Narendra Shrestha [This article first appeared on Sunday’s (feb 20) Kathmandu Post. Bryan Adams performed in Kathmandu’s Dasharath Stadium on Saturday.] Were things better here,…


  • Reasons to Come Home

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal I came back to Kathmandu last week after completing my two year tenure in Delhi. “Welcome back to darkness,” some of my friends said.…


  • दिल्लीबाट काठमान्डु

    दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल दिल्लीमा दुई वर्षको कार्यकाल सिध्याएर गतसाता काठमान्डु फर्किंदा केही साथीहरूले भने- ‘अँध्यारोमा स्वागत छ ।’ बिजुलीको अभाव काठमान्डुमा नौलो होइन । तर निरन्तरको र अस्वीकार्य…


  • Hello from Hyderabad, India

    A quick note. Have been traveling to east,central & south AND west India. First leg was in Puri and Konark of Odisha state. Today arrived in Hyderabad. Had boarded into…