Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

Dinesh Wagle on Nepali society

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  • Time for Nepali Journalists to Improve Quality

    Two years after the royal takeover and censorship we have now democracy and it’s time for Nepali journalists to focus on improving the quality of their reporting. Scribes took out…


  • New Baneshwor Street and Girls

    A journalist friend of mine (who works for a different newspaper) yesterday invited me for a Nepali movie screening for this afternoon. That wasn’t strange given the trend in Nepal…


  • Watching a Nepali Movie: An Experience

    And the experience was horrible. Actress Arunima Lamsal in a premiere show of her sixth movie Abhimanyu in a Kathmandu theater on Friday, 5 Jan. Pics by Bikas Rauniar Two…


  • Elephants, Singers and Mahute

    This Mahute, an employee of Hattisar in Chitwan, shred his experience of riding elephants for forty years. His would carry kings of Nepal in the jungle on his elephants. 27…


  • Ready to Enjoy Elephant Race in Chitwan

    I think I have mentioned it already, don’t know where and when though, that work and fun come hand in hand for me. Work is fun and fun is work.…


  • State of Mind: Midnight

    It’s 12:12 AM as I am starting to type these words. Not exactly a good time to start writing a blog post. May be a right time to dream. Dream…


  • Web 2.0 in Nepal and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

    “Congratulations,” says my Kantipur daily colleague Sudeep Shrestha. “YOU have been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine.” “Congratulations to you as well,” I respond. After all, YOU are…


  • Traffic Chaos in Kathmandu

    So the winter has arrived in Kathmandu. People have started putting on thick clothes like jackets and sweaters. I got well, as of now, and back to the daily business…


  • House Arrest: Read, Sleep and Imagine

    Yesterday was the coldest day in Kathmandu as we experienced the first sign of the arrival of winter: it rained and, according to what I read in papers, mercury dropped…


  • Internet Connection in Nepal and Web Sites Problem

    Internet connection in Nepal is slow, expensive and limited. It is advanced and improved compared to how it was a few years ago. But, it seems, we are taking yet…