United We Blog

Month: February 2006

  • United We Blog Request

    United We Blog! is going through pretty rough time. After more than a year of running blogs, we are blaming ourselves for not being computer geeks and able to quash repeated hacking of the site. We hope to be back on our own server as soon as we setup a secure website. We were downed…

  • Deserted Voting Booths of Nepal

    By Dinesh Wagle Very few people are participating in Nepal’s municipal election that is boycotted by political parties. A man looks for his name in a Voters’ list outside a voting booth in New Baneshwor. I went around a few voting booths to see how the election process was going on. I saw no people…

  • People Indifferent To Election

    By Ujjwal Acharya ‘People are not interested’ is the conclusion after half-a-day monitoring of municipal poll booths in Madhyapur Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal “How many so far?” “Six, then two– total nine.” Two-and-half hours after the voting began, a friendly policeman guarding the gate of Adarsha Secondary School, Sanothimi told me. I was with the Kantipur…

  • Deserted Voting Booths of Nepal

    – By Dinesh Wagle Very few people are participating in Nepal’s municipal election that is boycotted by political parties. A man looks for his name in a Voters’ list outside a voting booth in New Baneshwor. I went around a few voting booths to see how the election process was going on. I saw no…

  • People Indifferent To Election

    – By Ujjwal Acharya ‘People are not interested’ is the conclusion after half-a-day monitoring of municipal poll booths in Madhyapur Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal “How many so far?” “Six, then two– total nine.” Two-and-half hours after the voting began, a friendly policeman guarding the gate of Adarsha Secondary School, Sanothimi told me. I was with the…

  • Images of King’s Municipal Election

    Election in Nepal: Burning Tires To Protest The Poll They Don’t Want Election: Pro-democracy students burnt tires to protest the king’s Municipal Polls in Dilli Bazaar, Kathmandu. Pic by Bikash Karki General Goes To Cast His Vote: Royal Nepal Army Chief Parajung Thapa gets out his vehicle and heads toward a voting booth in Pashupati…

  • Election Day: Kathmandu Silent

    By Dinesh Wagle On the day of municipal election, uneasy ‘peace’ covers Nepal’s capital city It’s like a double Nepal Banda in Kathmandu today. Today is the fourth day of a week-long Nepal Banda (general strike) called by the Maoists. So there were very few vehicles running in Kathmandu roads in the last few days.…