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Delhi once again
Back in the city where I lived for two years as a correspondent. Fortunately it’s not that hot today (29c). It’s not expected to be so for the rest of the week except for Wednesday (35c), according to the Weather Channel. The heat of Delhi terrifies me. That’s the reason why I have written a couple of…
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Nepal should help Indians understand our society and people better
Excerpts of an article published in the Kathmandu Post today: Despite being so close and sharing a border there is an unimaginably high level of misunderstanding about Nepal among Indians. Some of those misunderstandings are based on rumours and hearsay (all Nepalis smoke pot) while others are created by the Indian mainstream media that is…
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India: Ten Years After
It was a sobering moment when I recently saw a plaque erected beside a wall at Delhi’s another well-known market in Sarojini Nagar. “Condolence to those who died in the bomb blast on 29 Sept 2005,” said the plaque. It listed the names/identities of 47 people. A total of 50 people died on that day.…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Kathmandu and Delhi
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 recently. I had stayed away from Kathmandu and lived in Delhi for a year. The question expected two different answers: Some wanted to know about…
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A Tale of Two Drivers: Delhi Autowallah and Shillong Cabbie
Some people complain while others struggle to make their lives a success. By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal In the hilly north-eastern Indian town of Shillong, music is your identity. More so in the case of a cabbie. What the audio cassette player in your taxi blares says who you are. When I heard Sanjeev…
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Parking Fee at Pragati Maidan…
…has been increased to Rs. 100 from Rs. 10 overnight! How much is the car parking fee at Pragati Maidan metro station? Rs. 100 for six hours. It was Rs. 10 for 24 hours until yesterday! I was astonished when learned about 10-fold hike this evening. I wasn’t insane to pay the amount to park…
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A Year in Delhi, India
Fulfilling my year-long desire today I rode in a local train in Delhi. Yes, a year has passed. Today marks the first anniversary of my arrival in New Delhi. It was a year ago on this day I had landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and arrived at B-19, Jangpura Extension to take charge…
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Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls By Dinesh Wagle as published in today’s Kathmandu Post “There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After…
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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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A Cup of Tea and Nizamuddin
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 Delhi is the tea-shop environment. Having cups of tea and talking whole lot of things in between them was part of the life there, particularly…
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