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Jantar Mantar Voices
Democracy in Action: An example of ordinary citizens being able to voice their concerns By Dinesh Wagle Read the article as it appeared on today’s OP-ED page of the Kathmandu Post If you wish to see the great Indian democracy in action, go to a place called Jantar Mantar, near the Parliament House in New…
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The Indian Democracy
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal Here is the PDF version of the page.] A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front of the Congress headquarters in New Delhi…
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Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah
By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today’s Kantipur.] This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south…
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A Life Ordinary: Story of a Nepali Chowkidar in Delhi
By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared in the paper. Extended version of this story was published in Nepali in today’s Kantipur Koseli. See it here as it appeared in Koseli. Plus, here is my take on…
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Of Plastics and Facebook
The Post‘s Delhi correspondent is bemused by the controversy over plastics and discovers Facebook is ideal for keeping in touch with friends back home Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper. Here is the Nepali…
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Hail the Republic: How Indians Wrote the Constitution
Republic Day is both a day of celebration and introspection for India Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper.] On the 26th day of every January a grand ceremony is held on Rajpath (formerly King’s…
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Amazing Book Bazaar of Darya Ganj, Delhi
Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper.] “On a Sunday…if you keep pushing through the crowd that is always there [in Old Delhi], go past the men cleaning other men’s ears by poking rusty metal…
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Symbol of Progress [Metro Rail of New Delhi]
Dinesh Wagle Walge Street Journal [This article originally appeared on today’s Kathmandu Post. Nepali version appeared in today’s Kantipur. Click here to read as it appeared on the page of Kathmandu Post and click here to see as it appeared on Kantipur page.] Inside the Metro rail of New Delhi. Pic by DW Two reasons…
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India’s “White Tiger”
Many Indians, it appears, find it very difficult to accept that their country is still part of the third world Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article originally appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Kathmandu Post today. See it here as it appeared on the paper.] In an interview with last week’s Tehelka magazine,…
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B 19, Jangpura Extension [New Delhi-110014, India]
The Kathmandu Post intro for the following story: Our New Delhi correspondent finds his bearings in a new city [Here is the PDF version of the Op-Ed page of the Post dated 10 December where this article appeared after it was first published in Kantipur.] I live in the third floor of the pink building…
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