लेखक: DW
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Nora walks out
A day after watching on TV the drama of anti-bill MPs in the Indian parliament disrupting the proceedings by snatching the Women’s Reservation Bill from the house chair and tearing it into pieces on International Women’s Day, I watched a drama, as in a theatre, in an auditorium not very far from Parliament House in…
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Progressive Society: Nepal vs India
Nepal has already seen/done some of the things that are happening in India today Some arguments here Following the latest happenings in Indian politics and society is a kind of déjà vu experience for many Nepali people. The upper house of the Indian parliament last week passed a bill that provides 33 percent reservation for…
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KFC को लाईन
दिनेश वाग्ले काठमान्डूको दरवारमार्गमा अचेल कुखुराप्रेमीहरुको लाईन देख्न छाडिएको छ। तीन महिना अघि राजधानीका कतिपय मानिहरुमा उत्साह भर्दै खुलेका केन्टकी फ्राइड चिकेन (केफएसी) र पिज्जा हटका कक्षहरुमा अहिले पनि भिड कायमै छ तर, धन्य भगवान, छिर्नैका लागि मानिसहरु आधाघन्टासम्म लाईनमा उभिएको चाहि देख्नु पदैन। शायद त्यो खुशीको कुरो हो तर त्यो लाईनले त्यहाँ उभीनेहरु भोेका…
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Delhi is getting hotter
It’s getting hotter in here and it’s not your fault :P. I am not talking about global warming. I have started feeling the heat here in New Delhi as soon as the month of March began. The thought of Delhi in summer makes me sick. It’s like living in a frying pan. The only difference,…
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Facebook आन्दोलन
(यो लेखमा उल्लेखित तथा अन्य रुचिपूर्ण नेपाली फेसबुक समूहरुको सूची र ठेगाना यहाँ छ- http://wp.me/pjyem-Dw) दिनेश वाग्ले ‘सक्छौ भने नयाँ सम्बिधान बनाऊ, हैन भने नाटक नदेखाऊ।’ विशेषतः सभासदहरुप्रति र सामान्यतः राजनीतिक नेतृत्वप्रति लक्षित त्यो बोलीसँग जुनै नेपालीले पनि ‘त्यै त’ भन्दै सहमतिमा टाउको हल्लाउछ। सामाजिक सञ्जाल साईट (साससा) फेसबुकमा त्यसलाई ५ सय १६ जनाले समर्थन…
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Interesting Nepal related Facebook groups
You might want to go through this article titled “Facebook आन्दोलन” in today’s Kantipur for reference. And please, enter your email in the box on the right so that I can send you my future posts in your inbox. (source, kind of!) Facebook is becoming one of the most popular web sites in Nepal. Many…
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Happy Holi India! (and JNU Chaat Festival)
Every year the hilly Nepal and Kathmandu Valley celebrate Holi (Fagu Purnima) a day before the rest of the country and India do the same. This year it was Holi-Day in Kathmandu and Holi-Eve in India when these photos were taken in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi on 28 Feb. There’s a tradition in JNU that…
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Street Food of Delhi (and India)
The urban Indian streets are full of two things: people and food. Men and women of all ages and sizes standing around a small roadside food stall and eating is a common sight everywhere. Every market, big or small, upscale or otherwise, has several street food stalls. The trend is slowly growing in Kathmandu valley…
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आयो गुगल बज्
दिनेश वाग्ले माइस्पेस, फेसबुक या ट्वीट्टर जस्ता सामाजिक सञ्जालका सदश्य बन्न सबैभन्दा पहिला तिनमा आफ्नो इमेल ठेगाना दर्ता गराउनुपर्छ जो ती वेबसाईट प्रयोग गर्ने सबैलाई थाहा भएकै कुरा हो। ‘गुगल बज्’ले चाहि सामाजिक सञ्जाललाई नै इन्बक्स भित्र ल्याईदियो। कम्तिमा जीमेल प्रयोगकर्ताहरुका लागि। फेब्रुअरी नौ यता जीमेल प्रयोग गर्नेहरुले पहिलो साइन(इनमा गुगल बज’bout सूचना देखे जसलाई…
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The Highway Kids #Nepal
It was one of those exploration trips around Kathmandu valley that Suraj Kunwar and I took in late 2008. Tired of our newsroom routine, we had decided to escape out of it and venture into rural Nepal that wasn’t very far from the capital city. [This is exactly the kind of traveling I miss in…
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