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  • Body, Mind & Soul

    Are you a truth seeker or merely schizophrenic? Here is some talks for those who have time and patience. Saturday Blog By Leelaraj Khatiwada The present world is full of barriers to a truth seeker, the world runs on enormous paradoxes and controversies; this elemental jargon makes a truth seeker confused. Remember it may disturb…

  • My Kind Of Call Is Restricted

    Nepal Cell Phone: No Signal For Some Journalists By Gunaraj Luintel When my plane landed in Tribhban Bimansthal two days ago, I tried to make a call from my cell phone. I heard the same message in the same irritating tone- ‘This type of call is restricted.’ I was coming back to Kathmandu from visiting…

  • Government Wants Us to Think that Airport is the World

    Travel Ban Continues in Nepal The royal government is not tired of repeating that everyone is free to travel within and outside Nepal. That’s in plain words. It does just opposite. Nepalis willing to travel abroad go to the international airport with all their documents: valid tickets, visas etc. When they are about to board…

  • Nepal Chintan: All We Need is a Good Leadership

    Nepal Chintan: Who should lead our country? By Suvecha The country is in a very sensitive situation. The once peaceful Nepal is one of the most conflict driven countries in the South Asian region. Democracy has been chucked out the door. And – right now there is no one the people can look to for…

  • 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,…