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MonsterQuest

Nepali newspapers are filled with news of a “big foot”. The monster especially targets our dear Maoists leaders. This devil is to blame for all the problems that we Nepalese has been facing. YES!!!! all the problems. Of course, it is the big-foot who hypnotize our prime-minister to buy Rs.1 crore land cruiser while Mr. […]

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People’s Power

Nepal just saw a landslide victory of ex-rebels in the CA polls. It was an unexpected win even for Maoists who had persuaded the then government to defer the polls twice in one year. But , the more important thing in the people’s verdict is that they have overthrown the Nepali Congress and UML literally […]

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Mutual Responsibility

While watching a TV commercial some days back, i saw a handicapped lady going to vote in her wheelchair in rain. The commercial was giving the message that everyone should fulfill their own responsibility. That means, voter should vote and government should ensure basic needs of it’s people. We are also at final stage of […]

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The World’s Most Earthquake-Vulnerable Cities – Forbes.com

Kathmandu, Nepal ranked first in the 2001 study, followed by Istanbul, Turkey; Delhi, India; Quito, Ecuador; Manila, Philippines; and Islambad/Rawalpindi, Pakistan–all of which could expect fatalities in the tens of thousands if disaster struck. The only first-world cities on the list were in Japan: Tokyo, Nagoya and Kobe. Fatalities in these cities were estimated in […]

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Why Google will remain king of search – U.S. business- msnbc.com

The verb  “googling” has become synonymous with Internet searches, a fact that speaks to Google’s dominance. But don’t expect the verb “msn-yahooing” to become part of the lexicon anytime soon. Even with the $44.6 billion bid by Microsoft Corp. to buy Yahoo Inc., the combined company would be unable to knock Google Inc. off its […]

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Evergreen Nepal

I had written about the ‘dirty politics’ of Nepal around one year ago. I was not quite satisfied with it so, it was in one of my on-line folders just waiting to get another look. Today, i was just going through my achieve and stumbled upon this discarded writeup. I was really astonished that the […]

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MoMo and much more

MomoWhen i started working, we had 1 full hour of lunch break. I often used to go for lunch with my colleagues in nearby restaurants. We didn’t consider a restaurant, as good one unless it serves hot momo, almost every type of restaurant has a common entry in their menu and obviously that’s Momo, my favorite Momo. We used to go though menu two, three times, spent more time to decide on menu than to eat that, no consensus used to be reached unless we decide on momo, my favorite momo.

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Make me Numb

I remember as a child, when a bus collapsed in Jogimara, Dhadhing killing almost 40 people on board, Nation had mourned. Thousands of people went to the crash site for the rescue efforts. It was a national story, because Nepal rarely used to see that vigorous loss of life. Last decade made me familiar with […]

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