Category: Deeplog

  • No Farewell to Arms?

    By Deepak Adhikari Wednesday saw contradictory statements (aired by BBC Nepali Service) by top-notch negotiating leaders of ongoing dialogue (or is it over?). Though, the committees headed by Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Home Minister Krishna Sitaula looks irrelevant after summit level talks between Prachanda and the Prime Minister, they made two different statements…

  • Forgotten Fighters of April Revolution

    Meeting half a dozen Janaandolan (People’s Movement) victims who are trying to cope with post-treatment life, our blogger probes beneath their dreams, desires, anxieties and sorrows and concludes that they have become forgotten heroes. By Deepak Adhikari When one enters into the building of people movement victims’ residence managed by Janaandolan Martyrs and Victims Welfare…

  • The Days of Maoist Comrades Have Come VI

    UWB Photo Blog By Shruti Shrestha Prachanda’s Call:Maoist detainees in Nakkhu jail after they ended the hunger strike upon the request from their supreme leader Prachanda

  • Bed No: 407

    Our blogger undergoes knee surgery and returns hale and hearty from a hospital bed to narrate his ordeal By Deepak Adhikari When I opened my eyes, I was lying on bed no: 407 of Medicare Hospital, Chabahil. I was only half-conscious; things appeared hazy to me. After a while, Dr Chakra Raj Pandey, Dr. Raj…

  • Importance of Being Girija

    Girija Prasad Koirala, the PM designate, has accepted the greatest challenge of his political career. His performance and delivery in coming days will eventually write the leadline of his obituary. Flowers and Thorns: Koirala has a history of a beleaguered PM and an appealing opposition leader Pic by Prakash Mathema By Deepak Adhikari When Seven…

  • Curfew Conundrum

    A glimpse of how incessant curfew has made everyday life miserable. By Deepak Adhikari I was reading today’s The Kathmandu Post when my brother informed about the 9am to 8 pm curfew today. It was 8:45 am and there was no way I could be office within fifteen minutes. I could have driven my Hero…

  • General Strike Day XVII

    By Deepak Adhikari Sea of Humanity: Afternoon Updates: As the rain stopped, state has cut off the mobile phone lines. But, Mero Mobile is still working. The state has again resorted back to brutality. In Kalanki, security forces opened fire at few protesters. Similarly, in Thapathali and Tripureshor area, gunshots were heard. At least three…