Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society

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  • No Lukla For The Day

    Kathmandu: The dateline of this blog tells it all. I am still in the capital city of Nepal. I was supposed to be in Lukla, eastern region, today. But who can ignore the bad weather? Pilots? No. They too love their lives. Passengers too love their lives. I also wish to live a few years…

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  • Ready For Lukla

    If every thing goes as planned, I will be in Lukla or somewhere in Solukhumbu (Namche) by this time (10:27 PM) tomorrow. I will take a flight to Lukla early tomorrow morning and spend 3-4 days in the Everest region. I haven’t been there before but hear a lot about the place and the trek…

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  • Kavis or Poets of Kantipur

    The word poet or kavi has become a not-to-be-so-proud-of kind of word in my office. Guys address each other with the title kavi or poet. Oh..kavi, the usual way of greeting goes like this, how are you today? And the kavi ji or Mr. Poet replies, Oh..kavi ji, why are you calling me kavi? Please,…

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  • Welcoming Winter in Kathmandu

    Kathmandu is exceptionally clear today. Up in North, white and snowy mountains are shining as the sunlight hits upon their cool bodies. The view is clear. It’s beautiful. As I am typing these lines, Guna Raj Luitel is opening windows and praising the scenery that is awesome. Irony is that even though we are proud…

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  • The Day in Office, After Dashain

    The first day in office after (three-day-long) Dashain holiday means replying to a question that comes from everyone you meet: How was you Dashain? Yes, I have already written about this in my blog last year. This time too the situation was not different. “Mine was black and white,” I replied to one. “Mine was…

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  • The Disconnected Day

    Yesterday, I had to spend whole day without connected to the Internet. The connection at my home didn’t work. It didn’t work for the whole day and I felt damn lazy to go outside looking for a cyber café. Strange! I made many calls (may be more than 10) to my ISP- Enet. Enet staffs…

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  • Dinner on the Dashain Eve

    Yesterday was the last day in office before Dashain festival. Narayan Wagle (no personal relation. He is the editor of Kantipur where I work as a reporter.) had a tentative plan for the late evening. We went for dinner in New Baneshwor. Badshah Restaurant was already half-closed. No staffs were there to serve us. They…

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  • Life is Boring. Life is Interesting

    Man Ka Kura of a Nepali blogger: It was a boring day for me. But I don’t want my tomorrow to be like this. This picture (inside) of myself taken two years ago, I guess, [I am too old now] by photojournalist friend Nishchal Chapagain is helping me get rid of the boredom. Saturday Blog…

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  • Some Words on Yasir Arafat & Situation in Nepal

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    How you see Yasir Arafat, a Palestinian, who died at 75 today in a Paris military hospital, largely depends on which spectacle you are wearing on. For Israelis and some of their western allies, he is merely a terrorist, and for Palestinians and their Arab brothers, he is a father-like figure who gave up his…

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  • Congratulations President Bush! Hillary, Are You Ready?

    Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the victorious President Bush. Though I endorsed Senator Kerry’s effort for the White House, the popular and the Electoral College vote favored George W. World opinion was against Bush. But majority of the people of the “Divided” States of America voted for the continuity of the incumbent. That’s…

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