Wagle Street Journal

Update: Summer sandals, flip flop: Click on the link for the article that I wrote for Saturday’s (3 May) Kantipur.

No offense please, it’s brand new: DW with brand new sandals. This sandals series by Suraj Kunwar. More photos in Flickr.
Who, what, when: I, Dinesh Wagle, bought a pair of sandals today.
Where: Kathmandu Mall, New Road […]

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All photos by Yogesh Khatiwada
I have posted the photos of me looking for, finding and buying the much acclaimed book Fatalism and Development by anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista who has gone missing since 1997.
My article about the first impression of the book (and hearsay about the writer’s disappearance) will come out in Nepali in the […]

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Narahari Acharya, while giving me Nepali Congress manifesto and his book about national restructuring, tries to show me something from the manifesto that was related to our conversation. Pics by Suraj Kunwar
Sharada Sharma, writer and the wife of politician Narahari Acharya, had invited us (Suraj and I) at a small gathering of writers and literary […]

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So as we were chatting with Sharada Sharma I saw someone who almost looked like Krishna Dharabasi, the acclaimed writer of, among others, the novel Radha that I had bought an hour or so ago in the book fair in Bhrikutimandap (on Sunday, 11 May) before coming to Narahari Acharya residence.

I wanted to take his […]

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Media Watch: Nepali reporters and news outlets sometime make jokes out of themselves. While reporting news, they hardly care about facts, those facts that are usually the backbone of the story itself. Rookie reporters and careless editors are often to be blamed for such inaccuracies.
I am talking about the coverage of latest development from Washington […]

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