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| I address the '10,00 March' rally in Baneshwar Chowk, Kathmandu on July 23, 2016 |
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| The '10,000 March' |
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| More glimpses of the '10,000 March' |
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| I address the '10,00 March' rally in Baneshwar Chowk, Kathmandu on July 23, 2016 |
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| The '10,000 March' |
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| More glimpses of the '10,000 March' |
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| 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch |
There are countless things that make Kathmandu an overcrowded city emanating ugliness. But there are some things in Kathmandu that emanate beauty. And there are very few that make one nostalgic about the city. Theaters, on average, make Kathmandu a beautiful city with help of performances that give a much needed distraction to the monotonous lives of the crowd-wary Kathmanduites. On some occasions, however, only nostalgia as a term can capture the essence of the emotion that is brought about by `these performances. Here I revisit five such plays from three different theaters in Kathmandu. Two of the plays from abroad were the part of the 2012 version of Kathmandu International Theater festival performed at Mandala Theater. The other three are from the Nepali theater artists from three different theater groups performed in three different theaters.
Snapshot from Court Martial (Photo: Nepali Times): Captain Bikash Pokharel, the defense attorney grills one army Havaldar for his lapse in the whole saga.
जीवनमा अफ्ठ्यारा घुम्तीहरुमा हिंडिरहँदा मैले कुनै क्षणमा पलायनलाई एउटा विकल्पको रुपमा कल्पना गरेको थिएँ, त्यसलाई यथार्थमा बदल्ने आँट गरिनँ, त्यो बेग्लै कुरा हो । त्यसबेला लाग्थ्योः मेरा समग्र दुखहरुको कारण मेरो वरपरको वातावरण हो, यसबाट साहसपूर्वक बाहिरिएँ भने नयाँ दुख आउलान् तर तत्क्षणका दुरुह दुखहरु गायब भएर जानेछन् । कति गलत थिएँ म !
The grapes Painting by Aqeel Abbas Memoir by Saguna Shah भुइँचालो A short story by Avaya Shrestha Lowest in life: A case study of three Afghan women Essay by Jiwan Kshetry भोक Memoir by Prakash Lamichhane News analysis by Ramzy Baroud The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel Extract from article by Jeremy R Hammond News Analysis by Maung Zarni |

I do not know why I often tend to view people rather grimly: they usually are not as benevolent, well-intentioned and capable or strong as they appear to be. This assumption is founded on my own self-assessment, though I don’t have a clue as to whether it is justifiable to generalize an observation made in one individual. This being the fact, my views of writers as ‘capable’ people are not that encouraging: I tend to see them as people who intend to create really great and world-changing writings but most of the times end up producing parochial pieces. Also, given the fact that the society where we grow and learn is full of dishonesty, treachery, deceit and above else, mundanity, it is rather unrealistic to expect an entirely reinvigorating work of writing from every other person who scribbles words in paper.
Somebody has said: “I was born intelligent but education ruined me”. I was born a mere child, as everyone is, and grew up as an ordinary teenager eventually landing up in youth and then adulthood. The extent to which formal education helped me to learn about the world may be debatable but it definitely did not ruin me. There were, however, things that nearly ruined me. There came moments when I contemplated some difficult choices. And there came and passed periods when I underwent through an apparently everlasting spell of agony. There came bends in life from which it was very tempting to move straight ahead instead of following the zigzag course.