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Two years ago today (Nov 6) I left Kathmandu for Delhi. It wasn’t planned but here I am, today, back in Kathmandu from Delhi. I am in a hurry now-…
Sibling conflict and cooperation: These kids were carrying gallons of drinking water in the dokos from a tap some 400 meters below their home in a village in Makwanpur. The…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुर कोसेलीमा प्रकाशित भएको हो। चित्र: देवेन/कान्तिपुर बराक ओबामाको ‘चेन्ज’ (परिवर्तन) को नारालाई बूढा जोन मक्केनले समेत अठ्याउँदै अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपतीय चुनावमा रिपब्लिकन…
My latest in Koseli: छातामुनी पिसकोर. Previous: गुगल, गाई र रिक्सा …….. Though I have been hearing about the Kumari tradition of Nepal (all these cute girls who are considered…
दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुरमा प्रकाशित भएको हो । यसलाई पत्रिकाकै पन्नामा हेर्नेभए यहाँ क्लिक गरेहुन्छ । थप तस्बिरहरु फ्लिकरमा छन् ।. [यो लेख लेख्नु केही…
I work to make our democracy stronger. I have also been a journalist by academic training and 16 years of experience.
Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society 