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In Fulbari, For Three Nights
in Lake Side, Pokhara I am taking a long breath! After three days of intensive seminar on conflict journalism, constituent assembly, restructuring of the state of Nepal, I am now out from Pokhara’s Fulbari Hotel. (Man, the hotel, that I always wanted to see, is great. I mean the building, the infrastructure, the compound, the…
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Small is Beautiful: From Artesia, Los Angeles
(Wagle: The following observation was written immediately after visiting Artesia, a southern LA town, also known as Little India. South Asians live in significant number and we the visiting journalists were taken there to see how they live. About 39 journalists from South Asia, Africa and South East Asia were divided into two groups. I…
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Maoists’ Nepal Banda: Day 1 of 7
Nepal Banda, the general strike, called by Maoist rebels to make King Gyanendra’s artless election drama, has made general Nepalis’ life very difficult. The Banda has, as expected, affected the lives of general public. BUT inside Kathmandu, there were quite a few vehicles running here and there with passengers packed inside. Some of those passengers…
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UWB Gone Astray
Someone other than UWB founders has taken over the Control Panel authority of United We Blog! We request the person to backtrack from the action. Sorry for the inconvenience, if any, caused the visitors of UWB.
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In Front of NHK Camera
Last couple of days were quite interesting and engaging. And a first-time experience of working in front of a TV camera. A crew of Japan’s NHK Television was following me as I blogged and reported for United We Blog and Kantipur respectively for one of their programs. They wanted to tell the Nepal story to…
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Mobile Phone and Kathak Dance
Sunday/Monday: As usual but quite busy. I don’t know how fast time is passing and I haven’t been able to do any significant work. Time is like bullet, travels fast. By the way, I haven’t been able to go for tea with Deepak Adhikari, my colleague at Nepal Magazine, in a nearby teashop. So no…
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Day of Protest and Duty of Journalist
Saturday: One of the busiest Saturdays. I was running here and there covering the protest rally in Basantapur and when I returned office I was a bit tired. An assignment was waiting for me. I had to write a long piece on monarchy in Japan: possible succession by the female member of the Imperial family…
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From Bharatpur to Kathmandu: Curfew
Friday in Bharatpur: Okay, we arrived at Bharatpur and as per the kind suggestion of our driver we went to a Buddha Air sales office to inquire about the flights to Kathmandu. To our surprise, staffs at the office were waiting for the arrival of the flight. One of them even said that two tickets…
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Biratnagar to Pathlaya
Thursday: Kumar was restless. Charlie wouldn’t move from the room before filing a report about latest development in Kathmandu to his London office. He was busy with his PDA and cell phone that was still working as he was out of Kathmandu. Mine was working too. All mobile phones in Kathmandu Valley were cut off…
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Lingering Around Itahari
Wednesday: We waited for something the whole day of Wednesday. We also talked to couple of people on the streets of Itahari. Later in the evening I met a journalist friend from Dharan with whom I was in contact for the last several months. By the way, folks couldn’t stop themselves expressing amazement of how…
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