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Limping all day long with a mule caravan to reach Rukumkot
(Oct 22 note: Photos related to this post will be posted later this week.) Ten minutes to the walk, I felt a pinch on my knee. Left side of the left knee. It was 6:40 am. I was heading downhill to Kankri. I was told that the village was about 30 minutes of walk…
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A tractor ride and the highway
To the plains, I traveled a distance of about 96 kilometers in the past 36 hours. Of those thirty-six hours, I spent almost 11 hours in Jeeps (four in total including a Hulas Mustang) AND a tractor with six wheels. Of those 11 hours 2 may have been spent taking breaks and waiting for the…
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From the hills [Baglung Bazaar]
Long and mostly tiresome bus journeys.From THE valley to the almost plain to the lap of the giant hills where I always love to be in. This moment is on the 30th hours of the journey that has already seen many faces- many of them happy some sad and filled with frustration. A few of…
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The Earthquake that Rocked Us [भैंचालो जसले हामीलाई हल्लायो]
[This is a bilingual post. यो पोस्ट दुइ भाषामा छ। Read a news report on the earthquake here] The alarming (or positive, depending on your perspective) aspect is that the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Kathmandu and eastern Nepal this evening had its epicenter located 272 kilometers east of Kathmandu, as reported by the the…
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Yet another Nepal banda. Bus burnt (no one killed).
Kathmandu: A small group of criminals set a passenger bus on fire at the Manohara bridge early in the morning today (around 4:30 am). The bus was coming out from a garage in Balkot, Bhaktapur, to ply on the Nepal Yatayat route, according to my colleague Makar Shrestha who reached at the stop some 15 minutes after…
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From the Constituent Assembly town (two pics)
New Baneshwar, the Constitution Assembly town in Kathmandu, looks like a battle zone. Riot police have overtaken the public spaces where on a normal day one would see people chatting over cups of tea. The extended one-year tenure of the CA will expire on Saturday midnight. Embarrassed political class is busy in high-level talks that may see…
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A trip to rural Lalitpur (outside Kathmandu Valley)
Bus ride: definitely not a joy ride. Challenges of driving on a single lane ‘highway’. I had gone to some rural villages of Lalitpur last week to see and experience the life there. All these villages are outside of Kathmandu valley though many people may think that the entire Lalitpur district lies inside the Valley.…
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Just before the raindrops touched the earth
New Baneshwar, Kathmndu.6:41 pm NST. Posted from WordPress for Android
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Registered for Voter ID Card
Got myself registered with the Election Commission of Nepal this afternoon. They needed my (Nepali) Citizenship Certificate and some additional information that are not printed in nagarikta. I was required to be present at the EC registration office in my village so that the Logitech 1.3 MP web camera attached to a Dell laptop could…
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Aayal Nigam… no oil
This shaded trail leads to the central offices of one of the most controversial and inept government entities (corporations) of Nepal. Seen today. No, they were not staging sit-in protest to demand efficient fuel supply in the country. Attached to this is a key government office where hundreds of people flock every day (during office…
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