BIRTHDAY BLOG: Today happens to be the third birthday of United We Blog!, Nepal’s pioneering web site. But, as in a person’s life, UWB has also gone through many ups and downs. They say, history repeats. It has been repeated, albeit in the form of tyranny raising its ugly head. We celebrated the first [...]
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At a time when some people are trying to create rift between the Madhesi and Pahadi (lowland-hills) communities in Nepal, we look at some exemplary personal stories and marital bond between folks from Madhes and Pahad.
Sanjib Mishra and singer Nalina Chitrakar
By Deepak Adhikari
Sanjib Mishra, executive director of Urban Pixel had not set foot in Balari [...]
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Baluwatar area, the official residence of Prime Minister of Nepal, was virtually captured by Maoists. In the bizarre twists of events, it seems that Maoists not the SPA is in the helm of Kathmandu.
By Deepak Adhikari
Talks can’t break! No Monarchy! reads the placard on the girl’s chest.
Seeing is believing, they say. This turned out to [...]
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By Deepak Adhikari
Wednesday saw contradictory statements (aired by BBC Nepali Service) by top-notch negotiating leaders of ongoing dialogue (or is it over?). Though, the committees headed by Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Home Minister Krishna Sitaula looks irrelevant after summit level talks between Prachanda and the Prime Minister, they made two different statements that [...]
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Meeting half a dozen Janaandolan (People’s Movement) victims who are trying to cope with post-treatment life, our blogger probes beneath their dreams, desires, anxieties and sorrows and concludes that they have become forgotten heroes.
By Deepak Adhikari
When one enters into the building of people movement victims’ residence managed by Janaandolan Martyrs and Victims Welfare Forum in [...]
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UWB Photo Blog
By Shruti Shrestha
Prachanda’s Call:Maoist detainees in Nakkhu jail after they ended the hunger strike upon the request from their supreme leader Prachanda
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Our blogger undergoes knee surgery and returns hale and hearty from a hospital bed to narrate his ordeal
By Deepak Adhikari
When I opened my eyes, I was lying on bed no: 407 of Medicare Hospital, Chabahil. I was only half-conscious; things appeared hazy to me. After a while, Dr Chakra Raj Pandey, Dr. Raj Rana and [...]
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Girija Prasad Koirala, the PM designate, has accepted the greatest challenge of his political career. His performance and delivery in coming days will eventually write the leadline of his obituary.
Flowers and Thorns: Koirala has a history of a beleaguered PM and an appealing opposition leader Pic by Prakash Mathema
By Deepak Adhikari
When Seven Party Alliance (SPA) [...]
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A glimpse of how incessant curfew has made everyday life miserable.
By Deepak Adhikari
I was reading today’s The Kathmandu Post when my brother informed about the 9am to 8 pm curfew today. It was 8:45 am and there was no way I could be office within fifteen minutes. I could have driven my Hero Honda Splendor [...]
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By Deepak Adhikari
Sea of Humanity:
Afternoon Updates:
As the rain stopped, state has cut off the mobile phone lines. But, Mero Mobile is still working. The state has again resorted back to brutality. In Kalanki, security forces opened fire at few protesters. Similarly, in Thapathali and Tripureshor area, gunshots were heard. At least three people could [...]
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Ram Baran Yadav is the First President of Republic Nepal:
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