Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

Dinesh Wagle on Nepali society

Category: Technology

  • A Nepali Death in the age of Twitter and Facebook (RIP #GPK)

    Nepal’s top leader dies. Nepalis all over the world react hysterically on the Web. This blog entry is a supplement to a news report that I wrote in today’s Kantipur…


  • 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…


  • Of Plastics and Facebook

    The Post‘s Delhi correspondent is bemused by the controversy over plastics and discovers Facebook is ideal for keeping in touch with friends back home Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This…


  • Early in the Morning: A Radio Interview and Blogs

    Blogmandu: The story of Ratnapark and the debate of men on the street. Read in Nepali. ==== Thanks to the CA election I have started waking up early in the…


  • Kindle Thy Reading Passion!

    The Kindle is a book reading/storing device whose screen uses the E Ink technology that makes the texts look like black ink on light gray paper. No backlight, no glare,…


  • CDMA Phone Revolution in Nepali Villages

    A hotelier in Timbu village of Helambu region holds the pre-paid CDMA phone set for better signal from Kathmandu valley while a customer talks. (Click to enlarge the photo and…


  • Feel Free To Browse The New York Times

    Yes, now I feel FREE to browse New York Times on the Web! Thanks to NYTimes.com and and best wishes to the site to attract more visitors (to attract more…


  • Kathmandu iPod: A Story From Nepal

    The lead: There are peculiar challenges of iPoding in Kathmandu and there is also a grim irony in owning an iPod in Nepali society. With jeans tugged into their socks…


  • Hurray! Laptops Go Wireless in Nepal

    Theme of the blog: Now you can be online from anywhere in Kathmandu and 52 other districts of Nepal, thanks to the PCMCI card distributed by Nepal Telecom from yesterday…


  • Web 2.0 in Nepal and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

    “Congratulations,” says my Kantipur daily colleague Sudeep Shrestha. “YOU have been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine.” “Congratulations to you as well,” I respond. After all, YOU are…