Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

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  • The Kathmandu Post interview: When blogs were Twitter and Facebook

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    The Kathmandu Post celebrates its (and Kantipur’s) 21st anniversary today by publishing a 16-page pullout on Nepal’s social media scene. The supplement, titled “Platforms of Change“, explores how Nepalis are using the Internet and its various platforms mainly to express themselves and to connect and share and debate. In the lead article ‘Teleprinter to Twitter’, Editor-in-Chief Akhilesh…

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  • Manila

    Today’s the last and 21st day in Manila. I am at the airport to fly to an Asian capital where I plan to spend a few days before moving to another one. There was no time for me to publish any updates- words or pictures on this site- during my stay in manila except for a…

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  • Nepali Journalists’ Convention and New Leadership (tweets)

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    The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) held its two-day general convention that ended today with the election of a new Central Committee. Here are my tweets from (and about) the convention and poll results. Today’s Tweets https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65843907845566465 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65839943305539584 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65839750711476224 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65838286215720960 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65838065444331520 Yesterday’s Tweets https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65370125796249600 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65361786504876032 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65361356869742592 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65360877527900160 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65358817537433600 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65357686711123968 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65357119372791808 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65356699028029440 https://twitter.com/#!/wagle/status/65355781729554432

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  • Nepal in Intl. Media: Annapurna Circuit and Kathmandu in New York Times and Time

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    The New York Times and Time magazine are working closely, so to speak, to cover Nepal in the past couple of weeks. First came Jim Yardley, former Beijing bureau chief of the Times now posted in New Delhi, with an analysis titled “China Intensifies Tug of War With India on Nepal.” That was in mid-February.…

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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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  • 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 a rally yesterday to mark the black day (Magh 19) and demanded that the Rayamajhi Commission report be made public. Pic via ekantipur Just realized…

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  • The John Grisham Novel and My Journalistic Life- II

    Those striking similarities between Willie Traynor, the protagonist of the John Grisham novel The Last Juror and myself that I had described in detail in one of my earlier blogs, ended just there. Grisham is a master at telling stories and, well, lecturing on how a newspaper should function. I could not disagree with Grisham’s…

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  • The John Grisham Novel and My Journalistic Life-I

    I studied journalism with a hangover. In the early days at Syracuse, I aspired to be an investigative reporter with the New York Times or the Washington Post. I wanted to save the world by uncovering corruption and environmental abuse and government waste and the injustice suffered by the weak and oppressed. Pulitzers were waiting…

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