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  • 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…

  • Reading Between the Lines of Royal Decisions

    Will Nepal’s HR Commission work for people? By Dinesh Wagle on May 28th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal I do not know how many decisions the government took yesterday, but two of them made me scratch my head. One about the National Human Rights Commission and the other related to the release of several political…

  • United They Vowed To Bring Back Democracy

    By Dinesh Wagle on May 27th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Nepal parties show their strength in Kathmandu Nepal Protest: This was the biggest rally against royal takeover. All pics by Wagle. For more pics of the event, go to Jana Andolan-062 (May27) album here. In one of the biggest demonstrations against the Feb 1…

  • House Revival is Better Than PM Nomination

    Thapa as Nepal PM wont be restoration of democracy If everything goes as planned, Nepal will see yet another royal nominated Prime Minister in the name of Surya Bahadur Thapa (pic by Wagle) within this week. For the last four days, rumors have been spreading like wildfire in Kathmandu about Thapa’s return to the top…

  • 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…

  • 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…