Going to Mt Everest Base Camp
To cover the world’s highest altitude marathon, the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon 2006, I am flying out of Kathmandu on Saturday. I will be going to Lukla by air and then to Namche and the base camp of the world’s highest mountain by foot. I hope the journey would be enthralling. I will be back [...]
Citizen Journalists Wanted!
Citizen journalism in Nepal would probably be more lucrative than ever.
When bloggers are getting attention and being awarded, (okay, the attention come with a price - MeroSansar was hacked and was offline for some hours today), Citizen Journalism Nepal is hiring citizen journalists (CitJo) and photographers. The job are paid ones:
As our contract reporter, you [...]
Blogger Bags Rs. 51,000
It looks like good days are coming for bloggers, especially for MeroSansar’s Umesh Shrestha. After being featured as a professional blogger in Nepali Times, America Nepal Society has annouced a felecitation to him for providing up-to-date coverage of Nepal’s event. The society would also provide him a support of Rs. 51,000, Prem Sangraula, the president [...]
Thoughts on The Royal Ghosts
Samrat without sex is better than Samrat with sex! (That is of course in what he writes.)
That was my first thought after reading more than half of Samrat Upadhyay’s new story collection, The Royal Ghosts. At that time I was really looking forward reading the title story that was the last piece on the book [...]
Blogger Umesh on Nepali Times
Nepali Times, a popular English weekly, has featured Umesh Shrestha, the first Nepali blogger to use Nepali unicode, in its latest edition. Umesh, the founder blogger of MeroSansar and the country’s pioneer in podcasts and video-casts, earned a lot of praise for his coverage during the Jana Andolan II. The article probably is an honor [...]
