वर्ग Wagle Street Journal
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From the Constituent Assembly town (two pics)
New Baneshwar, the Constitution Assembly town in Kathmandu, looks like a battle zone. Riot police have overtaken the public spaces where on a normal day one would see people chatting over cups of tea. The extended one-year tenure of the CA will expire on Saturday midnight. Embarrassed political class is busy in high-level talks that may see…
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A trip to rural Lalitpur (outside Kathmandu Valley)
Bus ride: definitely not a joy ride. Challenges of driving on a single lane ‘highway’. I had gone to some rural villages of Lalitpur last week to see and experience the life there. All these villages are outside of Kathmandu valley though many people may think that the entire Lalitpur district lies inside the Valley.…
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यस्तै छ साथी हाम्रो हाल
More photos and videos from the journey: A trip to rural Lalitpur (outside Kathmandu Valley) दिनेश वाग्ले /कृष्ण ज्ञवाली यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुरमा पहिलोपटक प्रकाशित भएको हो । पत्रिकाकै पन्नामा हेर्नेभए: एक (पीडीएफ) र दुइ (जेपीजी)। त्यो साँझ उनका घरमा सातजना माओवादी आए । तिनलाई खाना पकाइदिनुपर्ने भो । बेंसीको खेतमा काम सकेर घरतिर उक्लिँदै थिए उनी…
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एप्पल vs गुगल [एउटा छलफल]
आखिर एप्पलले गुगललाई पछारेरै छाड्यो । ठुला कम्पनीहरुको विश्वव्यापी ख्याती (ब्रान्डको पहिचान) मापन गर्ने एउटा संस्था मिलवार्ड ब्राउनले यसै साता सार्वजनिक गरेको एक सर्वे अनुसार इन्टरनेट सर्च इन्जिन गुगललाई पछार्दै कम्प्युटर र आइफोन निर्माता एप्पल नम्बर एक स्थानमा पुगेको छ । वितेका चार बर्षयता त्यो राजकीय स्थानमा गुगल थियो । ब्राउनका अनुसार एप्पलको ब्रान्ड (नाम)…
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Pre-monsoon downpour & hailstorm in Gwarko area of Kathmandu
https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/68201043422494720 P.S.: I am a Janti today, attending friends’ wedding. The sudden downpour briefly stopped the Janti procession- to those who were on bikes. The rain was so heavy that road was waterlogged in minutes. Now it’s a sunny day again. Posted from WordPress for Android
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A piece of bus literature
Many of us may have seen those often funny and rhythmic lines written on the back of trucks. Articles have been written about them. But I hadn’t seen (or don’t recall seeing one) such lines written right on the sun shade of a bus. Usually drivers and their assistants known as khalasis (gadi sahayak) put…
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Our Poverty [and dry food to Japan]
Have a look at the following tweet by Steve Herman, a journalist for VOA, based in Seoul, Korea. https://twitter.com/#!/W7VOA/status/50426467309465600 Very interesting and true, isn’t it? Japan’s Kyodo News agency reports about Nepal’s dry food offer: Nepal plans to send dry food, particularly biscuits, to Japan to help the quake and tsunami-hit nation deal with dwindling…
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A car with two license plates. Spotted in Kathmandu
All the way from Jharkhand (JH), India to Kathmandu…with two identities…perhaps suitable for a society that is being engulfed by the rise of identity based politics. Spotted in downtown Kathmandu last week.
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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, Bryan Adams’ arrival wouldn’t be such a big deal. Over the past two decades or so Nepali society has opened up to the outside world—especially…
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Connected in Kathmandu: Complaints and Compliments
By Dinesh Wagle Soon after Tihar celebrations were over in Kathmandu last week I was in Thamel with a colleague who was leaving the newspaper for good. As he took his bike to a nearby parking lot I stood a few metres away from the entrance of the Roadhouse Café. I started fiddling with my…
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