Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

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  • Election Day Story: Pillion Riding in Kathmandu

    For the record, the Election Day Story: Thanks to the bikers, it was a relatively easy day for me. The Carters face us in a polling station in Pulchowk. How often do you ask for a lift on the road? I rarely do that in Kathmandu where different forms of public transportation could be found…

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  • Chyura Set in New Road

    Pics of Wagle by Yogesh who’s seen partly in the photo above- front. Other pics by Wagle Background: I had this idea of a story about the rising inflation, worldwide and in Nepal. I wanted the real story, human story not just the hard facts. Though I am not an a-dollar-day man (fortunately I earn…

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  • रुखमुनी रत्नपार्क

    दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल [यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुर कोसेलीमा प्रकाशित भएको हो ।] डडुवा-६, रामेछापका हिमबहादुर रानामगरलाई अगाडी राखेर जोशिदै र हात फैलाउँदै गफिएका कमल थापा ‘अब सम्बिधान बनाउन…’ उनले भने । ‘उनीहरुकै बहुमत चाहियो..,’ अर्काले बीचैमा थपे । ‘अँ, उनीहरुकै बहुमत चाहियो..,’ उनले त्यसलाई स्विकार्दै आफूलाई निरन्तरता दिए- ‘अब संविधान बनाउन (पार्टीका) एजेन्डा…

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  • Clear View of Himalayas from Kathmandu

    First the GK: Kathmandu is the capital of the country that is known around the world as the Himalayan Peopledom! But not always we see the mesmerizing Himalayas from the valley of Kathmandu though the Himalayas serve as our geographical borders with China. Because of the poor atmosphere that surrounds the valley most of the…

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  • Back in the Vally. Into the News Room.

    Final day (6 of 6) of the Hemalbu trek: Om, Nama Shivaya! Are words needed to describe this photo? 24 October: We knew it was our last day of trekking. We were going back to home. We arrived in Patibhyangyang in a jiffy and from there, after eating curd and Chokofun, we started climbing up…

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  • What Happened to the BBC World Service in Kathmandu?

    The 103 Megahertz that used to relay BBC World Service in Kathmandu valley is now starting to air the broadcast of Radio Nepal, the station that rented the 103 MHz to the BBC: समय सधै चलि राख्यो, सुई पो त घुमेनन् (Time always kept moving, just that arms -of the clock- didn’t move)! Is that…

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  • Building a House in Kathmandu

    An experience of building a house in Kathmandu (Pics extracted from a video that is posted at the end of this blog) Building a house is a lovely notion. Wow, you are building the basic block of your life. I have never built a house yet as I live in my parents’ house. The general…

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  • Week Review: Animal Nepal & Judith Miller

    I am wondering how my week passed away. I didn’t actually realize it. Only two things I remember is that I worked a lot and I wasn’t feeling very well throughout the week. Did that sound contradictory? Okay, then that’s what is the truth. It’s an old tradition for me that I suffer from cold…

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  • This Ason & That Ason

    Since the original photos of the post were lost because of a technical failure on the web site, I re-posted these photos. Some of the photos were taken in March 2005 while others in 2006. Flower women in Ason A few months ago, I was in Ason, the heart of Old Kathmandu, to see pro-democracy…

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  • Kathmandu In Festive Mood. And, Patent for BBC Nepali’s voice.

    [Originally posted in UWB platform] The recently launched BBC 103 FM in Kathmandu has definitely changed my radio habit. Before I was a TV worm, always pressing the remote control and surfing those 40 something satellite channels available on my cable network. In a normal day, I would be in front of that idiot box…

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