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Politics of Religion and Conversion
By Dinesh Wagle A conference of Nepali and Indian ultra-Hindu rightists in Mumbai last week has decided to launch “a coordinated campaign to re-establish Nepal as a Hindu state”. Kamal Thapa, who sees his future in religion-based politics, participated. Thapa said the conference expressed concern over sinister plans being carried out in Nepal to wipe…
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Kathmandu Valley
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 younger one (at the front) was crying when we saw them. His brother was trying to put him inside the basket instead of water gallons!…
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Nepal in Intl. Media: Annapurna Circuit and Kathmandu in New York Times and Time
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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A Nepali Death in the age of Twitter and Facebook (RIP #GPK)
Nepal’s top leader dies. Nepalis all over the world react hysterically on the Web. This blog entry is a supplement to a news report that I wrote in today’s Kantipur titled: निधनको खबरले भरियो फेसबुक [Facebook filled with the news of death (of GPK)] When Girija Prasad Koirala was born in 1925 Nepal was a…
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Progressive Society: Nepal vs India
Nepal has already seen/done some of the things that are happening in India today Some arguments here Following the latest happenings in Indian politics and society is a kind of déjà vu experience for many Nepali people. The upper house of the Indian parliament last week passed a bill that provides 33 percent reservation for…
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Interesting Nepal related Facebook groups
You might want to go through this article titled “Facebook आन्दोलन” in today’s Kantipur for reference. And please, enter your email in the box on the right so that I can send you my future posts in your inbox. (source, kind of!) Facebook is becoming one of the most popular web sites in Nepal. Many…
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The Highway Kids #Nepal
It was one of those exploration trips around Kathmandu valley that Suraj Kunwar and I took in late 2008. Tired of our newsroom routine, we had decided to escape out of it and venture into rural Nepal that wasn’t very far from the capital city. [This is exactly the kind of traveling I miss in…
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From Delhi to Nepal (Kathmandu?) in a Bicycle
The IIT graduate who set off on a bicycle tour to Nepal [Here is the TKP PDF Page. Here is Kantipur Koseli Nepali PDF page] By Dinesh Wagle On his chin, Anand sports a Lenin-cut beard and a compromise. He wanted to be a bearded man, perhaps like Marx, but his girlfriend hated that. Thus…
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India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds
By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two…
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माओवादी-दाता अन्तर्क्रिया: बहुदल र आर्थिक नीतिमा शंका नगर्न माओवादी आग्रह
तस्बिर श्रुती श्रेष्ट मार्फत कान्तिपुर दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल काठमाडौं, वैशाख १२ – माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डले शान्ति, बहुदल तथा आर्थिक विकास’bout आफ्नो पार्टीको प्रतिबद्धतामा शंका नगर्न अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय समुदायसँग आग्रह गरेका छन् । संविधानसभाबाट निर्वाचनबाट ठूलो दलमा स्थापित माओवादी नेतृत्वसँग बिहीबार नेपालस्थित राष्ट्रसंघीय कार्यालयद्वारा आयोजित छलफलमा प्रचण्डले विदेशी मित्रहरूलाई ‘आफ्नै नीतिमा पुनर्विचार गर्न’ आग्रहसमेत गरे…
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