The Girl Who Wants to Scale Everest
I attended the press conference of Ms Susmita Maskey, who will attempt to become the first woman from the Newar community to scale the world’s highest peak – Mount Everest in May, 2005. The most confusing thing in the conference, which started 45 minutes late than scheduled (we utilized the time to crack jokes), [...]
A run through of what’s happened in last few days
The King started using media as a mean of propaganda. State-owned National News Agency distributed a news item in its March 14 bulletin that no newspaper wished to miss. It was about the rift in insurgents’ group saying that top leader had been expelled. All newspaper carried the news with a tag, ‘Says Royal Nepalese [...]
Yahoo! Eyes Blogosphere
After Google acquired Blogger.com and turned it into the most popular blogging service (no wonder a free one), Microsoft stepped up and bagan MSN Spaces (I feel the name is a bit odd) and now Yahoo! has come up with the beta version of its blogging service - Yahoo! 360. It is not yet launched [...]
Defying Court Orders
Two student leaders Rajendra Rai and Rup Narayan Shrestha were ordered to be released by the Supreme Court on May 16. The policemen were ready to re-arrest them inside the court premises - as soon as they came out along with their lawyers, police tried to arrest them despite protests from lawyers, journalists and followers. [...]
Attempts to Blur Borderlines
Is peace equivalent to the King’s rule? Is Royal Nepal Army’s success against Maoists is the King’s success? Are political parties and rebel group similar? Are political parties supporting insurgency?
There are attempts to make people believe all the answers to these questions ‘Yes’. But the reality is that most of the answers to these [...]
