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Parking Fee at Pragati Maidan…
…has been increased to Rs. 100 from Rs. 10 overnight! How much is the car parking fee at Pragati Maidan metro station? Rs. 100 for six hours. It was Rs. 10 for 24 hours until yesterday! I was astonished when learned about 10-fold hike this evening. I wasn’t insane to pay the amount to park…
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A Year in Delhi, India
Fulfilling my year-long desire today I rode in a local train in Delhi. Yes, a year has passed. Today marks the first anniversary of my arrival in New Delhi. It was a year ago on this day I had landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and arrived at B-19, Jangpura Extension to take charge…
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Face Value: Being a Nepali in India
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me! By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official webpage of the Post. I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out.…
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Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls By Dinesh Wagle as published in today’s Kathmandu Post “There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After…
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From Delhi to Nepal (Kathmandu?) in a Bicycle
The IIT graduate who set off on a bicycle tour to Nepal [Here is the TKP PDF Page. Here is Kantipur Koseli Nepali PDF page] By Dinesh Wagle On his chin, Anand sports a Lenin-cut beard and a compromise. He wanted to be a bearded man, perhaps like Marx, but his girlfriend hated that. Thus…
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A Lot Can Happen Over Coffee
By Dinesh Wagle [Here is PDF version of the article] In New Delhi’s old commercial hub, discontent is brewing over cups of coffee. The caffeine has jumped out of the cafe and reached the court. A civic agency has threatened to close down a 57-year-old coffee house located at the top floor of a shopping…
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A Cup of Tea and Nizamuddin
06/06: A version of this entry is published in today’s TKP. Here is the PDF version. Nostalgia: One of the many things that I miss about my Kathmandu life in Delhi is the tea-shop environment. Having cups of tea and talking whole lot of things in between them was part of the life there, particularly…
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Jantar Mantar Voices
Democracy in Action: An example of ordinary citizens being able to voice their concerns By Dinesh Wagle Read the article as it appeared on today’s OP-ED page of the Kathmandu Post If you wish to see the great Indian democracy in action, go to a place called Jantar Mantar, near the Parliament House in New…
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The Indian Democracy
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal Here is the PDF version of the page.] A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front of the Congress headquarters in New Delhi…
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Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah
By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today’s Kantipur.] This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south…
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