Month: June 2005

Dr Tulsi Giri in Willful Defaulters’ Blacklist

Nepal’s Vice-chairman of Council of Minister Among Wilful Defaulters Nepal Bank Limited Fact Sheet Let’s look at the face of our vice-chairman of Council of Minister from a different angle – an angle provided by this morning’s main story of The Kathmandu Post and Kantipur daily. Dr Giri who remained in exile for 18 years…

June 11, 2005
Tundikhel Mourns the Forceful Departure of its Guests

By Dinesh Wagle on June 8th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal No easy breath in Nepal’s famous open air theater: Gauri Kala Upadhaya, 58, from Jumla, West Nepal, lost her belongings in the forceful evacuation. All Pics by Wagle. Tundikhel is mourning now. This open air space in the heart of Kathmandu is mourning the…

June 8, 2005
Freedom Will Prevail, Autocracy Will Expire

By Dinesh Wagle Updated on 03 AM GMT June 9: Police released all journalists this morning who were arrested from a protest rally in Kathmandu yesterday. Journalists were requested to sign a paper that stated, not exact wordings, “Some people who were arrested today for ignoring the prohibitory orders…have been released..” They didn’t mention specifically…

June 8, 2005
Sawari Terror and Dui Kinara Enjoyment

Watching a Nepali feature film after a traffic hassle By Dinesh Wagle After two days of delay, my Dui Kinara (two banks/sides), a Nepali movie, plan finally materialized. Devu Babu, as I call him (the witty Devendra Bhattarai), was there with his hunger of Tulsi Ghimire cinema. We enjoyed the movie in Biso Jyoti cinema…

June 1, 2005