Wagle Street Journal

Does marriage makes one mature, or consistent or helps calm down the temper? There are some examples that show that unmarried people seem to loose their temper too quickly. They are quite unstable and saying this now and that then. On the other hand, is that so? Arguments are bound to be countered for everyone […]

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How you see Yasir Arafat, a Palestinian, who died at 75 today in a Paris military hospital, largely depends on which spectacle you are wearing on. For Israelis and some of their western allies, he is merely a terrorist, and for Palestinians and their Arab brothers, he is a father-like figure who gave up his […]

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Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the victorious President Bush. Though I endorsed Senator Kerry’s effort for the White House, the popular and the Electoral College vote favored George W. World opinion was against Bush. But majority of the people of the “Divided” States of America voted for the continuity of the incumbent. […]

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By Dinesh Wagle on November 20th, 2004 in Wagle Monologues
Originally published under UWB banner

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. […]

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[Originally posted in UWB platform]

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 […]

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I studied journalism with a hangover. In the early days at Syracuse, I aspired to be an investigative reporter with the New York Times or the Washington Post. I wanted to save the world by uncovering corruption and environmental abuse and government waste and the injustice suffered by the weak and oppressed. Pulitzers were waiting […]

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