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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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स्लमडग नेपाली
स्लमडग मिलिनायरको हविगतमा दिल्लीका झुपडबस् तीमा बस् ने नेपालीको कथा-व्यथा पनि कम्ती दुःखदायी छैन । ‘धेरै वर्स्ट छ,’ ‘खराब’ अर्थ दिने अंग्रेजी शब्द प्रयोग गर्दै हिन्दी लवजमा सुरज रानाले भने, ‘मैले सोचेको यो झुकी टुटोस, यहाँबाट फटाफट निस् कम । यहीँ खाने, यहीँ बस्ने, त कहिल्यै अगाडि बढ्दैन ।’ सोच्ने क्षमता विकास भएदेखि सुरजले मनमा त्यस्तो कुरा खेलाउन…
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A Life Ordinary: Story of a Nepali Chowkidar in Delhi
By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared in the paper. Extended version of this story was published in Nepali in today’s Kantipur Koseli. See it here as it appeared in Koseli. Plus, here is my take on…
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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 article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper. Here is the Nepali…
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Winter Flagbearers: Delhi Cold and JNU Food Festival
JNU holds its multi-national food festival in the midst of a Delhi winter that is not very cold Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper.] The hottest news in Delhi is the absence of cold.…
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Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society 