United We Blog

Month: May 2005

  • A Shopkeeper Mourns His Shop’s Death

    Nepal Case Study: Fighting for democracy and the Rato Ghar Baghbazaar Ko Patrika Pasale: Kicked out from his 14 year old place, Ram Babu Ghimire, owner of Baghbazaar News Stand, might seem like “a real nowhere man/ sitting in his nowhere land/ making all his nowhere plans for nobody.” But unlike John Lennon’s Nowhere Man,…

  • Why They Were Not Invited

    Madam Rocca is looking for Democracy in Nepal By Dinesh Wagle Isn’t she Mr [American] ambassador [James F.] Moriarty? I think Mr. [Prakash Chandra] Lohani should know about her quest. Pic by Wagle. While attending a talk program on “Nepal-US Relations Today” organized jointly by the Institute of Foreign Affairs and the American Center this…

  • Police Kick Out Students From Rato Ghar

    All Nepal National Free Student Union ousted from Rato Ghar At a time when pro-democratic parties are gearing up for a movement for the freedom of expression and people’s right to governance, Nepal Police this morning stormed into the offices All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU) at Rato Ghar (Red House) in Ratna Park,…

  • Bad Neighbors: China Accepts Indian Encroachment of Nepal

    By Dinesh Wagle KALAPANI IS OUR LAND! China has formally accepted the Indian encroachment of Nepali land Kalapani. In a revealing report published in today’s Kantipur daily and Nepal weekly magazine, Sudheer Sharma, editor of the magazine, states that in a recent trip to India, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao agreed on principle that Kalapani,…

  • Finally, Nepali Political Parties Have One Voice Now

    Nepal parties declare a road map for democracy Seven major pro-democratic political parties in Nepal created history today by agreeing upon a common agenda for the restoration of democracy. Top leaders of Nepali Congress, CPN UML, NC Democratic, Janamorcha Nepal, Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party, Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) and Samyukta Bammorcha gathered in a…

  • United We Blog! on ‘Dangerous Assignment’

    ‘When Nepal’s King Switched off the news, reporters switched tactics’ After being covered in so many media outlets around the world in a time span of two months we thought our ‘15 minutes of fame’ completed. We were wrong. [We have been covered by Online Journalism Review, Mid-Day (Mumbai), Hindustan Times (New Delhi). Well, I…

  • Nepal Democracy Movement: List of Activists in Jail

    Civil rights suspended, press freedom squelched, Democracy is on hold in Nepal since Feb 1 royal takeover. King is continuing his talks of Peace and prisons around the country are experiencing a surge in traffic: number of political prisoners is increasing like never before. Orders from supposedly independent Supreme Court are a joke for the…