चाेखाे माया डट कम: जन्मभूमि नेपाल र नेपालीहरूमा समर्पित

It was a particularly lean period in the life of yours truly. We are not at all interested about your salad days, the low and high points of your career, you guys might fume and dismiss this piece. Of course, it is your sovereign right to reject outright the mini-autobiography of a desk hand, who is no longer part of this thriving industry that never ceases to produce masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece and take English journalism from Nepal to dizzying heights, day in, day out. Without further delay, lemme clarify to one and all: This is not the auto-bio of an ever-struggling desk hand. There have been – and are still – very successful names, who can wax eloquent in fluent English and Nepali on how they changed the face of journalism. These golden pages are reserved for them.     Now, back to the particularly lean period of his career. Yours truly had just quit a job, feeling that the deadline pressure of the odd-hour job was a bit too much (he was...

Fortunes of a nation rise and fall. Regimes come and go. But no regime should undermine core national interests of a country for short-term gains, no regime should sell a country down the river for the sake of prolonging its stay in power. Unfortunately, this is what has happened if we look at the history of Nepal, whether it's the case of the 1950's Peace and Friendship Treaty, the Koshi Treaty, the Gandak Agreement and the Mahakali Treaty, among others. The country is at this pass because of the myopic vision of different political forces that have ruled this country.  They say: A stitch in time saves nine. If prevailing political forces of the yore had been proactive enough (of course, they raised this issue, but not so relentlessly), the disputes over Kalapani-Lipulek-Limpiadhura region would not have taken this proportion and its resolution would have been far easier.  But it's a welcome development that different political forces have come together in claiming t...

For the past few days, the Kalapani-Lipulek-Limpiyadhura has remained the lead story for the Nepali media. In a rare show of unity, Nepal's political parties from the left, right and the centre have come together against India's territorial aggression of Nepal's region of strategic importance close to the China border, formalised by cartographic aggression, though the ruling political party is a bit reluctant when it comes to using all avenues to resolve issues of Indian encroachment upon Nepali territories even as student wings continue to hit the streets against this aggression. This is substantiated by the fact that a) Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli chose to not attend an all-party meeting meant to discuss the aggression and find a way out b) Co-chair of the ruling CPN (CPN), Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', toning down his rhetoric a bit, said it is too early to internationalise the issue (take the issue to the United Nations?) for obvious reasons c) The politica...

टिलपिल टिलपिल आँखा। उमेरले पाका तर तेजिला, चम्किला, स्वस्थ देखिने, टाेलछेउकै पसलमा बसिरहनुभएकाे बुढेसकालकाे साथी अर्थात् लाैरी बिसाउँदै। छाेराछाेरी विदेशमै छन् शायद। स्वदेशमै भए पनि आआफ्ना कार्यव्यापारमा व्यस्त हाेलान्, नातिनातिना टिकटक, फेसबुक, ट्विटर, इन्स्टामा व्यस्ता हाेलान्। श्रीमतिजी हुुनुहुन्छ, हुनुहुन्न थाहा भएन। मनमा अनेकानेक कुरा खेल्न थाले। सेताे हुँदै गएकाे केशराशि -- राशि भन्नु नै के छ र, मरूभूमिकरण भैसक्याे कपालकाे, गन्न मिल्ने केही त्यान्द्रा बाँकी हाेलान् -- ले तर्साउन थाल्याे। सुख्खा आँखा रसाउलान् जस्ता भए मेरा। मन कटक्क खायाे, ढल्दै गरेकाे उमेरकाे त्रासदीले गाँज्न खाेज्याे । तरै पनि अलिकति साहस बटुलेँ । आफू पाे civilian भइयाे त पितापुर्खाकाे त सैनिक पृष्ठभूमि नै हाे । सश्रद्धा नमस्कार गरेँ। मुसुक्क मुस्काउनुभाे। मनका ढाेका खुलेजस्ताे भाे। अनि कुराकानी शुरू भाे। उहाँः कति वर्ष पुगेँ हाेला बाबु म? म (अनुमानका भरमा): ७५ पुग्नुभाे हाेला। ठट्टा गरेकै हाेइन, मलाइ खासमा उहाँ ७० तिरै हुनुहुन्छ जस्ताे लाग्या थियाे । उहाँः हाेइन बाबु, म...