Many Hindus actively practice, promote and protect untouchability, the caste-based discrimination. There are several layers of untouchability in Hindu society but the most visible is the one against the Dalits (collectively those…
I got very angry when I saw this notice pasted on the walls of Guhyeshwari temple complex today afternoon. My blood is still boiling- six hours after I first saw…
I first visited Dharan in 2001. I was on my way to Kimathanka, the remote and smallest village of Nepal by population bordering China. I stopped for a few days…
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…
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.] Indian Hindu Rightwing…
तीन समुद्र वे अफ बंगाल, हिन्द र अरेवियनको मिनल हुने सुदूर दक्षिण भारतीय नगर कन्याकुमारीमा सूर्योदय पर्खिरहेका दुई कन्या (माथि) र सूर्य अस्ताउँदै गर्दा गोवाको कोल्भा विच दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले…
भगवान नदेखेपनि थुप्रै नेपाली मन्दिर जाँदा मनमा शान्ति महसुस गर्छन् । किन ? दिनेश वाग्ले/ सुरज कुँवर यो लेख आजको कान्तिपुरमा प्रकाशित भएको हो । रातको ११ बज्नै लाग्दा र…
My latest in Koseli: छातामुनी पिसकोर. Previous: गुगल, गाई र रिक्सा …….. Though I have been hearing about the Kumari tradition of Nepal (all these cute girls who are considered…
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