Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

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  • Hail the Republic: How Indians Wrote the Constitution

    Republic Day is both a day of celebration and introspection for India 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.] On the 26th day of every January a grand ceremony is held on Rajpath (formerly King’s…

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  • Amazing Book Bazaar of Darya Ganj, Delhi

    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.] “On a Sunday…if you keep pushing through the crowd that is always there [in Old Delhi], go past the men cleaning other men’s ears by poking rusty metal…

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  • India’s “White Tiger”

    Many Indians, it appears, find it very difficult to accept that their country is still part of the third world 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.] In an interview with last week’s Tehelka magazine,…

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  • B 19, Jangpura Extension [New Delhi-110014, India]

    The Kathmandu Post intro for the following story: Our New Delhi correspondent finds his bearings in a new city [Here is the PDF version of the Op-Ed page of the Post dated 10 December where this article appeared after it was first published in Kantipur.] I live in the third floor of the pink building…

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  • बी १९, जंगपुरा एक्स्टेन्सन

    दिनेश वाग्ले यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुरमा प्रकाशित भएको हो । पत्रिकाकै पन्नामा देखिएको स्वरुपमा हेर्नेभए यहाँ क्लिक गर्नुस् । एक महिनाअघि नयाँ दिल्लीको इन्दिरा गान्धी अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थलमा ओर्लिएपछि पि्रपेड ट्याक्सी चालकलाई मैले गन्तव्य बताएको थिएँ- ‘बी १९, जंगपुरा एक्स्टेन्सन ।’ करिब ४५ मिनेटमा हामी एक्स्टेन्सन आइपुगेर ब्लक बी खोजिरहेका थियौं । चार मिनेटमा हामी ‘बी’…

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  • Dinesh Wagle Has Moved to New Delhi, India

    Gopal Khanal, right, gave me a tour of India Gate, New Delhi’s one of the famous landmarks, last week. Here is my contact details in New Delhi. Late in September I was inside a travel agency on the Nepal-India border of Sunauli. I wanted to go to Delhi and then to Mumbai and Goa. There…

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