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Week in Review: Whiz Kid & Kathmandu Spring
First off, a quick update on my teeth. They are all fine except that I am still feeling something odd about the particular tooth in question. A few minutes ago, I took the last remaining capsule of Amoxycillin. I again went to see dentist Ajay Shah on Thursday in Kantipur Hospital. He cleared my tooth…
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The Talk of Wine & GF
Let me criticize myself first. I spent one of the most fruitless day today. Pillion riding with Devendra Bhattaria proved to be largely fruitless. Spending in front of computer proved to be fruitless. Watching a British cinema in the evening proved to be fruitless. I am now regretting why I spent more than an hour…
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Life is Boring. Life is Interesting
Man Ka Kura of a Nepali blogger: It was a boring day for me. But I don’t want my tomorrow to be like this. This picture (inside) of myself taken two years ago, I guess, [I am too old now] by photojournalist friend Nishchal Chapagain is helping me get rid of the boredom. Saturday Blog…
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Yestai Chha Saathi Mero Haal.
Yes, Pal, such is the present situation of mine. Just wanted to feel you guys over there the presence of myself in the blogsphere. After blogging regularly for two months or so, I wanted to have a different perspective: A readers one. So far, the experience has been enjoyable. I have devoted most of my…
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Beard (Daari), What a Lively Thing U R!
By Dinesh Wagle on November 20th, 2004 in Wagle Monologues Originally published under UWB banner beard (noun) hair growing on a chin and lower cheeks of a man’s face: a week’s growth of beard. a false/grey/bushy/long/white beard. Thus defines the Oxford dictionary the word beard. We in Nepali call daari to what they call beard…
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Shailaja Acharya And Uma Bharati: Are Marriage And Temper Related?
Does marriage makes one mature, or consistent or helps calm down the temper? There are some examples that show that unmarried people seem to loose their temper too quickly. They are quite unstable and saying this now and that then. On the other hand, is that so? Arguments are bound to be countered for everyone…
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The John Grisham Novel and My Journalistic Life- II
Those striking similarities between Willie Traynor, the protagonist of the John Grisham novel The Last Juror and myself that I had described in detail in one of my earlier blogs, ended just there. Grisham is a master at telling stories and, well, lecturing on how a newspaper should function. I could not disagree with Grisham’s…
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The John Grisham Novel and My Journalistic Life-I
I studied journalism with a hangover. In the early days at Syracuse, I aspired to be an investigative reporter with the New York Times or the Washington Post. I wanted to save the world by uncovering corruption and environmental abuse and government waste and the injustice suffered by the weak and oppressed. Pulitzers were waiting…
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Kathmandu In Festive Mood. And, Patent for BBC Nepali’s voice.
[Originally posted in UWB platform] The recently launched BBC 103 FM in Kathmandu has definitely changed my radio habit. Before I was a TV worm, always pressing the remote control and surfing those 40 something satellite channels available on my cable network. In a normal day, I would be in front of that idiot box…
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