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Author: UWB

  • Curfew Monologues

    By ZaDed It is 5:15 pm on my table clock. The news just got over. Thank God! The anchor added: “We’ll be back with the 6 o’clock news soon.” 6 o’clock news. The hell with all the news channels. I am bored to death, sick of being given every minute details of what is going…

  • What Happened in Gongabu?

    Armed police fired more than hundred rounds of real bullets as the bloodiest people-police clash at Gongabu injured more than 130, some of whom are serious Gongabu was as of yesterdays tense. The scuffle between people and police was going on. During one of the chasing, two of the demonstrators entered a house. They didn’t…

  • April 11 Photos

    People-police clashed at Gongabu where armed police force fired more than 100 rounds of real bullets injuring more than 130 Photos by Shruti Shrestha & Santosh Acharya The usual beginning.

  • Republicanism Inevitable

    BY PREM DHAKAL The way chairman Gyanendra is responding, by acting to be oblivious, to the people’s movement has cleared all the doubts, if there were any, about the king’s commitment toward the people. Hearing the people’s pleas and making them hear his opinion has been the mantra of King Gyanendra right from the days…

  • General Strike Day VI

    Afternoon Update by Deepak/Tilak/Saroj Kirtipur, 12:45 PM Surprisingly, today there was no protest until afternoon at Kirtipur. Security personnel were guarding the Naya Bazaar entrance that saw massive protest yesterday.

  • State Plays Dirty Game

    Home Minister Kamal Thapa and the state is trying to prove that there is Maoists infiltration in the demonstrations. The state-own Nepal Television, Radio Nepal and Gorkhapatra are using the Maoists press release to prove their point. NTV even interviewed four people who said they were Maoists and brought to Kathmandu for demonstration. The goverement…

  • Hats Off to Democracy Fighters

    Text By Krishna Poudel Photos by Sailendra Kharel At this moment of time, I wish I were in Nepal being part of those thousands on the street defying the curfew orders, asking the military to open fire if they could, and caring nothing but the absolute democracy. The puppets of Royal Regime have warned of…