A Pandora’s Box Called YCL
Young Communist League (YCL) is a Pandora’s Box! You never know what’s coming out of it. But be ensured that something always comes out of it – be it good or bad.
The youth wing of Maoists has done a lot of things since the safe landing of it’s mother institution. Sometime their deeds are good [...]
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 [...]
New Buddha!?
From 40m away, he is an almost-deity like figure and that’s the least distance from where the normal people can watch Ram Bahadur Bomjam, the ‘new Buddha’, who is meditating under the pipal tree for last 6 months and 23 days – that is more than 200 days without food and water, if you believe [...]
Why I Donated to Maoists?
After reading Kantipur’s main news today (Army Warns Against Donation), I remembered the events of those days when I was chief of the administration at a school some four years ago. It was all about the donation and our position at the time. I admit that we donated a sum for the national conference of [...]
Teashop Gossiping: Rumor City’s Favorite
What things actually make Kathmandu a rumor city? There are probably a few answers, but without teashop at the chowks, rumor city would probably lose its essence. Teashop gossips seem to be a favorite morning activities of people - from unemployed youth to high class official and from a ‘know-nothing common man’ to ‘know-everything man’. [...]
