Wagle Street Journal

The Day of Bhaitika: “Dinesh wake up,” someone screamed at my door, knocking. “It’s already 10. The sait for tika is at 10:30.” Oh, why can’t the sait be sometime at 2 PM, I thought, and, after thinking about the possibility for about 10 minutes, woke up. I had promised yesterday to myself that I […]

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After the South Asian Film Festival, there was the festival of South Asian Music Videos (from Nepal, India and Pakistan) in Kathmandu today. I didn’t attend the event but I am very much aware of the politics of favoritism in playing Music Video in Nepali TV stations.

When I woke up in the morning, well […]

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With the slogan DARE TO DOCUMENTary, the South Asian extravaganza of non fiction films kicked off in Kathmandu today. Four dozen South Asian documentaries “for the people of South Asia, by the people of South Asia, to the people of South Asia” will be screened in four days.

A still from Living Goddess, a film about […]

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Thanks to the exposure that the Nepali society has gotten over the last decade and the new trend of marketing the books via glittering advertisement campaign, writers becoming celebrity is becoming a mainstream in Nepali society.
“It’s sad that even after the arrival of the seventh book,” wrote a disgruntled reader from Dolakha in Kantipur […]

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From the shooting spot of a music video for a folk song Pic by Suraj Kunwar
One sector that flourished in Nepal even when the country was going through the political turmoil in the last decade was without doubt the Music. No matter what, we sang and listened to one new song after another that young […]

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Kathmandu sees many foreign language film festivals, not just Bollywood and Hollywood flicks.
One after another, it’s now time for British Film Festival in Kathmandu. The sixth edition of the yearly event was inaugurated by the British Ambassador Andrew Hall yesterday evening in Gopi Krishna Cinema Hall. Over the past several years, we have seen many […]

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