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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • From Jail, Ram Chandra Paudel Hits Hard Against Autocracy

    NEPAL politics: Now is the time to critically analyze the monarchy and democracy By Dinesh Wagle on May 31st, 2005 in Wagle’s WebLog Today’s issue of Kantipur has one of the most brilliant articles in it’s Op-Ed space. Written by Ramchandra Paudel, former speaker of the House of Representatives and jailed Nepali Congress leader, the…

  • A Spectacular Show Turned Into a Sour Event: Are all poets so royal?

    By Dinesh Wagle on May 30th, 2005 in Wagle Monologues Why Madhav Prasad Ghimire stands on airport in a rainy day and why Jana Kavi Keshari gives such a royalist speech on a musical program? My today was drastically different from my usual routine. Well, what did I do? Nothing. That is why it was…

  • Q: Why I am Not Balanced? A: Tell Me Who is Balanced.

    By Dinesh Wagle on May 29th, 2005 in Wagle Monologues Some words on ABC of Nepal’s Journalism When I was in college, teachers tirelessly repeated in the classes what was written in the books: Journalism is all about ABC. Yes, so simple, teachers said, it is all about ABC: Accuracy, Balance and Credibility. While in…