United We Blog

Author: UWB

  • One World, One Dream: Salute to the Olympic Spirit!

    The Summer Games have begun in Beijing today in a spectacular fashion. This is one of those rare moments when the majority of the will be watching the same thing-on their TV sets- at the same time with, perhaps, the same emotions. The world is taking part in this grand ceremony of sportsmanship and celebration…

  • Nepal’s Presidential Election: Victory of Anti-Maoist Forces

    By Bishnu Pathak The 100-day marathon of uncertainty after the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) election finally ended on July 21, 2008 when Dr. Ram Baran Yadav of the NC-UML-MJF alliance won the run-off with 306 (52%) out of the 590 ballots cast. The Maoists candidate Ram Raja Prasad Singh was defeated with 282 (48%)…

  • New Nepal, New Thoughts

    By Bhupendra Khanal Efforts to form the first ever Maoist-led government in Nepal are going on. The new government will have many challenges going forward and they will have to work actively and aggressively. It is challenging but not impossible. Here are my suggestions for the new Nepal Government. 1. Integration to Global Economy Free…

  • British Belles Bethi (Plant Paddy and Dance)

    Saturday photo blog: British girls and boys and locals of Ghattitaar village of Ilam district in eastern Nepal take part in paddy plantation in tune with the Bethi tradition. The tradition has almost disappeared in other parts of the district though it has survived itself in this village. While some farmers are starting to plant…

  • Covering Bhutanese Refugees in America

    Saturday blog: A reporter’s notebook Bhutanese siblings Dilli Prasad Odari, 20, Man Maya Odari, 25, Yani Maya Odari, 22, stand in the doorway of their Pittsburgh apartment. Pic by Andy Starnes/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Deepak Adhikari On the chilly winter mornings in Kathmandu, I would nurture a dream. It was not an American Dream per se.…

  • Dogs and a Piece of Bone

    By Dinesh Wagle This is a typical third world story, the story of poverty and frustration and greed and anger and feud. For poor and deprived, every opportunity however small that may be, comes as an equivalent to the piece of bone for hungry stray dogs. Those people fight like those dogs. I am talking…

  • Dogs and a Piece of Bone

    This is a typical third world story, the story of poverty and frustration and greed and anger and feud. For poor and deprived, every opportunity however small that may be, comes as an equivalent to the piece of bone for hungry stray dogs. Those people fight like those dogs. I am talking about the current…