How are we to mourn the deaths of our loved ones even as everyone else seems to have lost someone or the other? Can collective grief compensate for our personal losses?
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Dinesh Kafle
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Literary translator, English-Nepali-English.
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Nepal is in a unique position to act as a common space for debate and discussion on topics discouraged by other South Asian states.
, founding editor of in conversation with myself and
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What's up with the media and public space in South Asia? Here's a perspective by
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In this interview with the Post’s @dineshkafle & @sureshrajn , Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, talks about the challenges of running a public-spirited independent media house in an increasingly hostile political environment.
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Recent protests informed the wider citizenry of inequality and civic discontent without brutalization and the all-women march modulated feelings of unfairness and deprivation.
#loansharks #inequality #economy #Nepal
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Very interesting piece underlines the root causes of social, economic and political disorder by @pandeyavasna
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शीतभण्डार व्यवस्थापनमा यसपालि देखिएको कमजोरीले उत्पादनपछिको बजार मूल्य शृंखलामा अत्यावश्यक सुधारको आवश्यकता छर्लङ्ङ पारेको छ ।
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सुन्तला किन कुहियो त, भन्दाखेरी कुरा यस्तो आयो ।
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यस वर्ष मात्रै करिब १ अर्ब ३८ करोड रुपैयाँ बराबरको सुन्तला फलाएका स्याङ्जाका किसान महँगो हुने बेला शीतभण्डारबाट झिकेर बेचौंला भनेर मक्ख थिए तर राखेकामध्ये आधै बिग्रिँदा हच्किएका छन्
@dineshkafle
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Despite a bumper harvest this season, suntala farmers in Syangja were left scratching their head as tons of oranges stored at a cold centre rotted in suspicious circumstances. What really happened? goes to Jaisidanda to find out—
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गाह्रो छ नि ।
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खाउ त भने सुन्तला पानी, न खाउ भने दुई ज्यानको ज्यान जानी नरुऊ मायालु @dineshkafle @LamsalMadhav
Hope and despair in Suntala Superzone kathmandupost.com/money/2023/03/ via @kathmandupost
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It was a year of suntala in Syangja. But things didn't go right. Why did the mandarin oranges kept in the biggest cold storage in the district rot?
I try to find in this piece.
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Hope and despair in Suntala Superzone
Spoilage loss inhibits plan to buttress value chain of mandarin oranges in Syangja. bit.ly/42MF7wV — by @dineshkafle
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हाइप्रोफाइल बुवाहरुबीच छोरीलाई भोट मागिरहेका यी सर्वसाधारण बुवा
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Spoke with dai on the shortlisting of ‘Song of the Soil’ for this year’s JCB Prize and the future of Nepali literature in translation.
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INTERVIEW: Government should support translation of Nepali literature
The shortlisting of ‘Song of the Soil’ will hopefully make international publishers cast about for books coming out from our part of the world.
tkpo.st/3MYqdMI — by @AarteeBaral
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As his hometown becomes the epicentre of the disease ..., it seems as if nothing has changed in these intervening decades as the death of dozens and infection of thousands of citizens becomes a casual occurrence and not an aberration. writes.
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What did the nightingale mean for Satya Mohan Joshi?
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OBITUARY: Jureli chari sings the blues
When it came to chronicling Nepal’s enormously rich folk cultures, historian and culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi was without parallel. tkpo.st/3D1PguL — by @dineshkafle
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This gorgeously written obituary by my favourite @dineshkafle is something you all should be reading today. twitter.com/kathmandupost/…
Lovely. Perhaps the jureli sang the blues this morning. But as Joshi's favourite line in PB Shelly's poem 'To a skylark' says, "Sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Wrote a bit about the centenarian cultural historian Satya Mohan Joshi jyu, who passed away yesterday morning. twitter.com/kathmandupost/…
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Let the jureli chirp again.
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"Sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." The jureli will start chirping the songs of regeneration soon again, as the succession of life after death is the only Satya there is.
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Thank you sir dai.
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This transcends beyond an obituary, good one @dineshkafle
Jureli chari sings the blues tkpo.st/3D1PguL via @kathmandupost
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Wrote a bit about the centenarian cultural historian Satya Mohan Joshi jyu, who passed away yesterday morning.
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OBITUARY: Jureli chari sings the blues
When it came to chronicling Nepal’s enormously rich folk cultures, historian and culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi was without parallel.
tkpo.st/3D1PguL — by @dineshkafle
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When it came to chronicling Nepal’s enormously rich folk cultures, historian and culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi was without parallel.
An obit of Satya Mohan Joshi by
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OBITUARY: Jureli chari sings the blues
When it came to chronicling Nepal’s enormously rich folk cultures, historian and culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi was without parallel.
tkpo.st/3D1PguL — by @dineshkafle
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I donated a kidney to my former colleague Sonia. The whole experience has been life enriching beyond anything I could ever describe. Of all the things I’ve ever done in my life this has definitely been the happiest & I definitely recommend organ donation.
#OrganDonationWeek 
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An interview with former Indian national security adviser and foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon, where he speaks on the political turmoil in India and South Asia.
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In this interview with the Post's @dineshkafle and Kantipur Daily's @jagdishor, former Indian foreign secretary and national security advisor Shivshankar Menon talks about the changing power dynamics in South Asia, India's political turmoil, and SAARC.
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If you want to know what India has done to its son, read this.
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Why can't we? Why are out sentiments so fragile?
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On Politics & Prose today: Why can't citizens make jokes when the governments have continued to make a joke out of the people?
#ApoorvaKshitij #freetospeak #abuseofpower
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Longlisted! Congratulations to and (translator) on making the long list of the JCB Prize for Literature 2022.
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Tremendous news for Nepali literature!
Song of the Soil, my translation of Faatsung by , has been longlisted for the , which is given to an outstanding work of fiction by an Indian writer every year. We are beyond thrilled.
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CK Lal on PG, the indefatigable romantic.
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Flicker of the eternal flame
The Kathmandu Post | 22/08/2022
In magic realism, a narrator is allowed to blend facts with fiction and give wings to the story to offer a bird's-eye view of grim realities. Had the soul of Pradip Giri...
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"If there were anyone who could have taken his death as the most natural and inevitable event of his life, it would be Giri himself."
A must read by
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An interpreter of maladies
Pradip Giri was a quintessential Nepali public intellectual who interpreted to us our desires, miseries, hypocrisies.
tkpo.st/3c7b9hy — by @dineshkafle
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In the contemporary Nepali political sphere that usually reeks of moral turpitude and ideological penury, if there was any politician who resembled a distant cousin of Plato’s philosopher-king, it was Pradip Giri.
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An interpreter of maladies
Pradip Giri was a quintessential Nepali public intellectual who interpreted to us our desires, miseries, hypocrisies.
tkpo.st/3c7b9hy — by @dineshkafle
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An interpreter of maladies
Pradip Giri was a quintessential Nepali public intellectual who interpreted to us our desires, miseries, hypocrisies.
tkpo.st/3c7b9hy — by @dineshkafle
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If you choose to read just one obituary of Pradip Giri today, this is it. 🙏
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An interpreter of maladies
Pradip Giri was a quintessential Nepali public intellectual who interpreted to us our desires, miseries, hypocrisies.
tkpo.st/3c7b9hy — by @dineshkafle
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An interpreter of maladies
As a mortal being, Giri was a person with all the human qualities of empathy, anger and cardinal desires. Any attempt at his deification may lead to a misrepresentation of the human being that he was.
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Pradeep Giri was a leader of one political party, but he was also a political philosopher who spoke for everyone. He has left behind a legion of followers across ideological divides.
My quick obituary on the man who helped shape Nepal's public discourse for decades.
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An interpreter of maladies
Pradip Giri was a quintessential Nepali public intellectual who interpreted to us our desires, miseries, hypocrisies.
tkpo.st/3c7b9hy — by @dineshkafle
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The moral decay that undergirds Indian democracy today.
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India might have made strides in econ and tech, but morally, it is decaying. Read @dineshkafle to know more in this lucid piece
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twitter.com/kathmandupost/…What 75 years of Independence means for Indian democratic and secular values.
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Read this one by @dineshkafle.
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