Basantapur

learning to click

This is my first post for 2011! This year, the reasons (read excuses)  have been numerous.

  1. writer’s block
  2. limited electricity (16 hours or is it 18? Heck, I have given up counting)
  3. trouble finding my niche: I dabble with technology, while I have an egging  for the environment and literature.
  4. Very close friends of mine got hitched. I had to be part of their merriment. Afterall they were giving up a major portion of their lives into servitude 🙂
  5. A sblog scraper site – dhintang.com, (I am not dignifying this site by providing a link) who scrapes all my content and a whole other Nepalese bloggers’ (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)  content as well. Read perishable press’s opinion why one should take action against content scrapers.
  6. I have been oogling Android makes (read mobiles) and hoping to get one in my already negative budget.
  7. But most important of all, I have found a new hobby  – photography; and have been reading/researching incessantly on it while indulging myself into weekend photography.

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By Utsav, ago

Recollections of the peace rally in Kathmandu, 7 May 2010

I received a text from a dear friend, a day in advance of the scheduled Peace rally. Like the SMS asked me to, I dutifully forwarded it to two like-minded people; I never was going to show up though!

Turns out I did go rallying, tagging along with me a few other like-minded friends. The influx of people on the road, donning whites and carrying the Nepalese flag, was incentive enough to join. A short discussion with fellow compadres, and I found myself matching steps with other peace rallyists, on my way to Basantapur. And thus I rallied for peace; which incidentally was/is a very first for me. (more…)

By Utsav, ago