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Category: Wagle Street Journal

  • Collateral Damage: A Reporter Lost His Job

    By Dinesh Wagle on August 5th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Nepal One TV, an Indian channel, has fired a reporter who famously scooped a live fighting between the Army and the Maoists nearly 9 months ago. The reporter complains that the network did dirty bargain with authorities to resume its service banned in Nepal…

  • The Real Cross Fire: Nepali Case

    By Dinesh Wagle on August 2nd, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Two heartbreaking stories from today’s Nepali society: “You Don’t Belong Here. Go to [king] Gyanendra’s Country.” A protestor from an anti-RCCC rally in New Baneshowr, Kathmandu this afternoon. Another photo is also from the same rally. All pics by Wagle. Before I talk about…

  • Rising Voice of Republicanism

    By Dinesh Wagle on July 28th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Are Nepalis slowly turning toward a republic Nepal? From Left: Kanak Mani Dixit, Dr. Devendra Raj Pandey, Krishna Pahadi and Dr. Mahesh Maskey. Pic by Wagle. It seems many in Nepal are republican. Everywhere, the voice of republicanism has been dominating: From the street…

  • Public Knows It All: Nepali Politics

    While returning home this evening, an interesting conversation that I overheard in a three-wheeler (tempo) made me feel fresh By Dinesh Wagle on July 19th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal It was a strange ride for me this evening. I am politically speaking here. For the first time after the (abrupt for many and planned…

  • Narayan Wagle: A Novelist is Born with Palpasa Café

    By Dinesh Wagle on July 16th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Narayan Wagle, Nepal’s top journalist, brings out his first fictional creation: Palpasa Cafe Pic by Bikas Rauniar. Other pics by Wagle. UWB has been authorised to sell the book outside Nepal. Support UWB by buying the book. (To buy the book, click on the…

  • Really. Cursed Commission Crashed

    By Dinesh Wagle on June 27th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Acquitted from one graft charge, Nepal’s ex-PM continues struggling with another The moment I heard the news about former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s acquittal form a charge related to the distribution of money to internally displaced citizens from the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund,…

  • Rallying to Keep the Issue Alive

    By Dinesh Wagle on June 26th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal Press Freedom for Democracy Nepali journalists think that nationwide rallies will help keep the issue of democracy and press freedom alive An American reporter asked me this morning about the journalists’ ongoing agitation against autocracy in Nepal. “I’m wondering if journalists feel, now more…