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Oh Jangpura!
I have been living here in Jangpura all these months (15 in total) making it my Base Camp to explore India, particularly Delhi. This expedition has been full of exciting experiences and successes so far. The neighborhood is near from the city center and also the famous landmark India Gate (5 km). The place is…
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India: Ten Years After
It was a sobering moment when I recently saw a plaque erected beside a wall at Delhi’s another well-known market in Sarojini Nagar. “Condolence to those who died in the bomb blast on 29 Sept 2005,” said the plaque. It listed the names/identities of 47 people. A total of 50 people died on that day.…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Kathmandu and Delhi
In Kathmandu, things are a bit chaotic for its size. By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal So how’s Delhi?” many of my friends asked me when I was in Kathmandu recently. I had stayed away from Kathmandu and lived in Delhi for a year. The question expected two different answers: Some wanted to know about…
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A Tale of Two Drivers: Delhi Autowallah and Shillong Cabbie
Some people complain while others struggle to make their lives a success. By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal In the hilly north-eastern Indian town of Shillong, music is your identity. More so in the case of a cabbie. What the audio cassette player in your taxi blares says who you are. When I heard Sanjeev…
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World Toilet Day: Delhi Public Urinals
Today is the World Toilet Day and, I am not making this up but what a coincidence, I need to go to toilet immediately. [After 5 minutes.] But it’s easy in Delhi, compared to Kathmandu, to attend nature’s call. Public conveniences, particularly for urination, are everywhere in the city (again, compared to Kathmandu from where…
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Delhi Mouse on the Birthday of Mickey Mouse
Today the world is celebrating the birthday of Mickey Mouse but in this post I am talking about the real (compared to the MM that is) rats of Delhi that are born and live in the strict human supervision. I was in the west Delhi yesterday in my first visit to that part of the…
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Protests: Delhi vs Kathmandu
They have bandas in India too, but they don’t trash the city to make their point By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here’s the PDF version of the page. The state government of Delhi recently hiked public bus fares in an astonishing manner. The Delhi Metro rail,…
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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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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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