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Nepal is closed friends
By ParasiteSingle Dear friends world over, Nepal is closed for the time being. So we won’t be able to put our views here. But you are free to put your views. Please continue to use this blogging site.
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Deconstruction at Topoban
By Vishnu Basnet A few days back I was at Osho Tapoban. It was after a long time I was there. The grand panorama of scenic beauty of the Nagurjuna hill was striking. There, Tapoban lied on the backdrop of the hills towering one after another formless and vast striking the strings of my being…
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Beard (Daari), What a Lively Thing U R!
By Dinesh Wagle on November 20th, 2004 in Wagle Monologues beard (noun) hair growing on a chin and lower cheeks of a man’s face: a week’s growth of beard. a false/grey/bushy/long/white beard. Thus defines the Oxford dictionary the word beard. We in Nepali call daari to what they call beard in English. Therefore, the hair…
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The People’s War That Was on TV
This Tuesday, Nepalese got a glimpse of what they were seeing in Tora Bora, Basra or in Falluja recently, that too, in their very own land: Krishna Bhir of Dhading, a district that borders Kathmandu. New Delhi based Nepali language channel Nepal One aired a shocking footage that depicted Maoists guerillas in victorious mood with…
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Unprecedented Footage in a Nepal TV: Network dropped off the Cable
Nepalese satellite channel surfers went through an extraordinary television experience yesterday (Tuesday, Nov 16) when a New Delhi based Nepali language network aired shocking footage of deadly fighting between Royal Nepalese Army and Maoist guerillas. The video taken by a local journalist depicted armed guerillas, mostly young, in victorious mood after their fierce and four-hour…
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Kathmandu In Festive Mood. And, Patent for BBC Nepali’s voice.
The recently launched BBC 103 FM in Kathmandu has definitely changed my radio habit. Before I was a TV worm, always pressing the remote control and surfing those 40 something satellite channels available on my cable network. In a normal day, I would be in front of that idiot box until 2 AM. Not anymore.…
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