"Nalini Singh may sue Kantipur Publication"

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Nepal 1 TV vs Kantipur Publication
"Kishore Nepal still the Editor of the Nepal Magazine"
Nalini Singh my sue the Kantipurians

B G Corner
June 08, Kathmandu

The Kathmandu media circle has been hardly hit by a new gossip today that Nalini Singh may sue the Kantipur Publications. The new row between the Nepal 1 TV and the Kantipur Publications is said to be centred on Kishore Nepal who left the Kantipur's Nepal Magazine last month to join the Nalini's notorious Nepal 1 TV.

According to the Blog Gossip Corner source, though the new issues of the Nepal magazine have come to the print with Sudhir Sharma's name as the editor the Kantipur Publications still claim Kishore Nepal to be with them. "You can see the Ekantipur, the official website of the publications, which claims Mr. Kishore Nepal as the Editor of Nepal" the source said.

Meanwhile, lately it has been learned that Mr. Sharma may be dissatisfied with the Kantipur management for not recognizing him as the editor of Nepal.

The Dishing the Dirt tried to contact the Publications Director to know about the matter but the Ext. 1606 was very busy this evening.

Hello cheerfully irresponsible Kantipurians!
Will you change yourselves first before teaching
lessons to others?
Down with your breaking news
that always flays the government and its agencies only for not updating their
sites.

HMG or Nepal government? Sudhir Sharma or Kishore Nepal?
Or, is it the same thing?

Shame, shame!

Lethal weapons with Nepali mediamen

Guns with Nepali Journalists

According to a scoop published in a recently published tabloid, some mediamen in
Kathmandu own lethal weapons.

In the scoop titled "Sabdhan! Yi neta sanga banduk chhan" (Beware! These leaders have gun" in Nayapatrika, Parshuram Kafle writes that Yugnath Sharma Poudel, the publisher and editor of Ason Bazar Sapthahik, owns a gun of 11 bore. Likewise, Mahendra Sherchan, the president of Utsarga Prakashan and publisher of the Rajdhani Dainik, has two licensed guns. Further, Kafle writes that Bidur KC, a royalist scribe, also has a registered airgun.

Source: Naypatrika
Editor: Krishna Jwala Devkota
सावधान, यी नेतासँग हतियार छन्
पर्शुराम काफ्ले/नयाँ पत्रिका

World Press Freedom Day Gossips

Press Freedom is the lip service only.

How free we are? We work under our editor, the editor is under the management, the management runs after profit and other interests. We are only puppets.

So let's exploit blogging as freedom for expression.

How did you do mark the big day in Nepal? Did you participate in the rally in Kathmandu? Did you listen the speeches?

I am marking this day by posting these gossips. I don't know how much true they are. Why don't you write your view?

Gossip no.1

NTV did not get new name

On the auspicious occassion of the World Freedom Day, Minister Mahara wanted to change the name of the Nepal Television which for him and his party appears to be feudal; but his party headquarters could not decide whether to rename it as the Maoist Televison (MTV) or Prachanda Vajan Mandal (PVM) on time.

MTV would sound ultramodern and capitalistic with American imperialist discernment. The words Vajan in the fullform of PVM TV would give an impression that the Maoists are theist. So none of the names could be unanimous.

Gossip no.2
Maoists to nominate their people on top posts
Dr. Rishiraj Baral will head the Nepal Television. Rajendra Maharjan has chances to be nominated as a member of the NTV Board.

Gossip no. 3

Bahun in Gorkhapatra

Om Sharma will lead the Gorkhapatra Sansthan. Maoists are not above brahiministic attitude? Why was Shyam Shrestha rejected at last moment Prachanda has to answer.

Gossip no. 4

Another bahun in the RSS

Komal Baral, The Janadesh chief will head the Rashtriya Samachar Samiti (RSS). Taranath Dahal will not get chance to complete the honeymoon period.

Gossip no. 5

Scoop dumbed in Kantipur

A scoop was dumped in the Kantipur recently. People say there was an immense pressure from the management to not publish the piece.

Who is the reporter? What was his story about? Hello Kantipurians, is anything cooking in your team?

Gossip no.6

Bloggers banned in APCA house

The THT editor Ram N Pradhan has ordered his people either to stop blogging or be ready for some action. Pradhan believes that bloggers are whistle blowers. He doesn't want to let others know that he has now been forced to work under his Indian deputy.

Gossip no. 7

APCA Nepal management fears of strike. Major Joe discussed about the firing of some staffers last month with Shree Acharya and Pradhan duo of THT and Annapurna.

Gossip no. 8

Nepal1 strikers had locked up Sushant Jha some days ago to create pressure to the management. But the Indian Embassy requested the Nepali authorities to rescue him. Police intervened and Jha was freed.

Gossip no. 9

Clean chit to Dhamala?
The Nepal1 TV strikers declared Rishi Dhamala traitor last week. But still he pretends to be for the agitation. On May 2, he was seen speaking in favor of the strikers.

Though declared traitor, Dhamala could not be outcasted. Has he got clean chit or the strikers too are double-crossing?

It has been said that the strikers do not want to give up the option of reconciliation with Nalini despite their big talks.

Who wants to lose the means to earn the bread and butter?

Gossip no. 10

Minister Mahara has been ordered by Chairman Prachanda to fall silent in the Nepal1 uproar. It is believed that Prachanda talked to Nalini Singh and promised not to launch any campaign against her.

Prachanda wants to see the Nepal1 TV in the Maoists favor. Maheshwor Dahal, who has been recently nominated the advisor of the Ministry of Information and Communication is said to have advised Minister Mahara that Nepal1 TV if could be brought in the Maoists favor it will be of great help for propaganda dissipation.

Gossip no. 11

Nalini Singh has talked to Sujata Koirala again. Sujata has promised that she will try her best to protect the former's
interests. Sujata in return wants to see the Nepal1 TV as the mouthpiece of the Sujata lobby in the Nepali Congress.

A lady reporter insulted infront of Prachanda

"Rishi Dhamala is sexist"

In the Prachanda's "Meet the Press" in the Radisson Hotel, Lazimpat, a lady reporter was mad at the self-declared "Number One Reporter of Nepal" who was mediating the program today.

When interrupted by Mr. Dhamala, while asking questions to Prachanda, she yelled amid the program: How can you dictate others?

After the program, in the lobby and outside the premises, these comments where heard:

1. "This flatterer Rishi is anathema in the name of reporters."

2. "Rishi is a broker. But why does Prachanda obey him?"

3. "Nalini Singh has bought him. He is in the mission to influence government officers and leaders such that the broadcasting license would be granted to Mrs Singh's new TV channel. Mr. Dhamala has carried 'reward' to officers and influential ministers."

4. "He arranged the meeting between Nalini Singh and Prachanda some months ago."

5. "He always misbehaves with lady reporters. He is sexist."

6. "He works as a manpower agent. He has swindled some people who want to go the Golf for foreign job. He gets commission from the Agencies."

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New Year Gossips

Baisakh 1, 2064 Gossip

Today I begin with some hearsays that I have heard from my blogger and reporter friends.

Let me restate it: These are hearsays and I have no input except where "I" or "My…" will be mentioned.

Gossip no. 1

United We Blog! But the team is divided. There is no controversy that UWB!, though in English, is the pioneer blog from Nepal. Erstwhile Nepalis living abroad used to "blog". Wagle Dinesh and Acharya Krishna Prasad aka Ujjwal founded this blog in October 2004. Both are journalists with the Kantipur.

UWB! was the platform for other bloggers too. Many reporters from Kantipur publication were other contributors. Gunaraj Luitel, Deepak Adhikari, Bashnet etc wrote at different occasions.

UWB! is the most popular blog in English. Wagle and Acharya claim that even King Gyanendra and Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai visit this site regularly.
UWB! was hacked in the end of 2005. Wagle thinks royalists believed that this site tainted King Gyanendra's image. Wagle asked democratic NRNs in the US to pay for the site to make it unhackable.

When the UWB! started earning nice sum of money from ads and visitors, Acharya and Wagle got divided. They do not have very warm relation now as it used to be earlier.

"Money divided them." The source close to them claims.

Another source in the Kantipur claims that Wagle has been recently rebuked for leaking "Kantipur exclusives" via UWB! by the management.
Though he was sometime back warned by his editor that he might be fired if he did not concentrate on the regular job, Wagle is concentrated more in blogging and working as translator for a reporter of a foreign news agency.
Many reporters at the Kantipur is not happy with the editor at the favoritism to his kin Dinesh.

Gossip no. 2

Ujjwal started Nepalivoices. In this blog, he writes about blogging and Nepali-blogosphere. He started listing URLs of Nepali bloggers.

He along with KP Dhungana of Hamroblog and Tajimm Mohammad of Neppal proposed an organization of Nepali bloggers: Bloggers Association of Nepal (BLOGAN).

They formed BLOGAN before organizing the meetings that was attended by only a few bloggers in January and February this year in the Freedom Forum, Kathmandu. But the working committee has not been formed yet. Reportedly, Taranath Dahal, the president of the Freedom Forum and now the chairman of Rashtriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), is said to be the patron of BLOGAN. He provides BLOGAN financial help.

NEW:KP Dhungana is nephew of TN Dahal. So he manages the Freedom Forum for the meetings even in holidays.

Gossip no. 3

One can see logo of BLOGAN displayed in many blogs that say they are "proud member of BLOGAN".

Both KP Dhungana and Ujjwal Acharya claim that they are the president.
But nobody knows who is the president of BLOGAN and what this association does.

One of the attendants of the BLOGAN meetings say that it is platform of Bahuns and Chhetris only.

Gossip no.4

Umesh Shrestha of MeroSansar claims that he gave up the job of reporter only to become full time blogger. He claims that his blog is the first in Nepali Unicode font.

His blog is the number one in terms of visitors as well as comments.

Among bloggers, he earns the most. The sum he collects a month exceeds $300. He has unique way of making money. He not only publishes advertisements but also requests the commentors abroad to click the ads.

Also, he asks donation for running the blog. Recently, he asked visitors of his site to help a kidney failed patient for surgery. He got a handsome sum of money from the money collected.

Some months ago, reportedly he was threatened by some Royalists. But it is said that it was propaganda by Umesh aka Solokya to become popular.
Umesh promises to pay his reporter friends at different newspapers to get exclusive news beforehand it is published. But he hardly ever keeps his promise.

Gossip no. 5

KP Dhungana is a reporter and works for the Rajdhani Dainik. He has Hamroblog which is another very popular blog in Nepali language.

He writes about political gossips. He is anti-communist. Though he tries to be democratic with some inclination for the Nepali Congress, it is said that he was member of the Student Wing of the Rashtiya Prajatantra Party. His family has good relations with Pashupati Shusher Jung Bahadur Rana.

One of my friends in Dubai who reads Hamroblog and writes comment says that Mr. Dhungana sends emails to his readers to contribute by clicking the advertisements such that he could earn more.

Gossip no. 6

There WAS another very popular blog till last month. Somebody anonymously wrote this blog. It was popular because the blogger was girl who used to write about love and sex very openly.

You got any image? I am talking about Saynasomething.

But Saynasomething has stopped blogging now. First she said that her Gmail password was hacked. After some weeks, her blog collapsed.

But that was a dodge. She decided to discontinue this blog because of the past contents.

She has come above-ground now. She attended the BLOGAN's meeting on February 17.

You can see her photograph Here.

Though she never published her full face, if you had noticed Saynasomething's eyes and hairdo in the "Avatar" (somebody behind me told me that the photo in one's blog is called "avatar".), you will agree that Anbika is Saynasomething.
Why did she decided to discontinue the earlier blog? Will she come with real name now?

There is a magazine called Voices of Women (VOW). In January, VOW had published an article about Nepali female bloggers and their photographs. Editor Shalinee Wadhwa invited Saynasomething also. But Sayana could not dare to be publicized as Anbika. But Anbika, who worked for the Samaya Weekly earlier and also a mass communication student, felt that she missed an opportunity to be popular.

Rosha the best friend of Anbika suggested "to kill Saynasomething". Now Sayasomething is dead.

A person who is acquainted with her, on the condition of anonymity, claims that Sayna's blogs were semi-fictious. Only Rosha can tell the fact. Will you Rosha?

Gossip no. 7

Wagle was not invited at BLOGAN's meetings. That meant he wouldn't have any role in BLOGAN.

But Wagle did not care because he had another project in hand. He started http://www.nepalvista.blogspot.com . Now this project has been developed into Nepalvista

Gossip no. 8

Vahsek, Keshuvko, Keshav Koirala, Keshav P Koirala, KK, AIDSe, HIVman, Notmystery, Matyangra… etc.

If you have seen comments in most of the Nepali blogs with these names, don't get confused: it is the same person.

Keshav was reporter then assistant editor at The Himalayan Times. This longhaired and mustachioed has left the job of journalist now. He teaches Biology in KU. He has many blogsites where he publishes ads. Rather than on content, he is concentrated on money making only.

Some of his sites are:

http://keshuvko.blogspot.com ,

http://abouthivaids.blogspot.com ,

http://keshuvko.wordpress.com ,

http://keshuv.wordpress.com,

http://itsnotsecret.blogspot.com

Recently he has started http://yosansar.com/

http://matyangra.blogspot.com/ this is also his site.

Since he has relations with Ujjwal Acharya of Nepalivoices, Keshav has some position in BLOGAN. Ujjwal's wife is Keshav's cousin.

In response to to Jhan Charitrahin Cheli's article in UWB! a comment was published that leads to a new blog site of a so-called 'Charitrawanchela'" .

Though he denies, this "charitraban chela" is said to be Keshuvko himself. It is said that his girlfriend, a former journalist who is in the US now, had told him the names of the members of "Charitraheen Chelis".

Since he gave some hints about her in that blog, it is said that "Chandrika" is very angry at him. Because "Chandrika" is said to have some family ties with "Sharma" mentioned in the blog, "Sharma" reprimanded her cousin for disclosing about her to "Charitrawan chela."

Now this multiple-personality-genius regrets for publishing that offensive piece because it cost him his girlfriend.

Gossip no. 9

It is said that BLOGAN has planned to organize International Blogger's Summit in Nepal in 2008/2009. Before that members of BOGAN will get opportunities to participate in similar programs abroad.

KP and Ujjwal have decided to go abroad to take part first. Deepak Adhikari and Harsha Man Maharjan will get second chance.

Gossip no. 10

Archana Shrestha has started Nepali-Bloggers. In this site she has listed links of most of blogs of Nepali bloggers.

Though her site is useful finding out the blogs, there are some errors. Many sites are repeated.

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xxxxx On special reqest of AS (email plus comment) and HK (comment).

But the keywords were: nepali-bloggers, hacked, underconstruction, dispute

Gossip no. 12

There is one very intellectual blogger called Blogdai.
http://www.blogdai.blogspot.com

Most of the readers believe that Blogdai is none other than Narayan Wagle, the editor of the Kantipur Daily.

When I meet him, I will ask him and tell you next time.

• Additions

(I got an email this morning in which it has been claimed that Blogdai is not Narayan Wagle.
"It is Deeepak Adhikari".

The link of Blogdai's site is http://nepalnow.blogspot.com/ instead.

(Thanks for the correction, AM Jee. But are you sure who Blogdai is? I believe Blogdai is an old man working abroad.)

Addition:

Another reader wrote me and asked whether Anbika is Anbika Giri.

I suggest you to see the Nepalivoices' link above, CK jee. I don't know who is who.

Request:

You readers and bloggers can be my source of more gossips. So mail me at mailatgossipcorner@gmail.com

Happy New Year 2064.

About Me and my motive behind blogging

About

Me and Dishing the Dirt: Gossips just About Nepali Blogosphere

I work in a media house and I have seen my colleagues longing for scoops. But I am not going to reveal who I am and also whether I work for print or electronic media
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Except for a couple of occasions, I haven't blogged. But I have been an avid blog-reader for years (since UWB! was born.). That may be why my colleagues call me Blogparasite. In real time, I have decided others to read me. But I don't know whether I can be a real blogger.

I am tired of reading blogs on regular stuff like politics, writer's experiences and puking daily diaries. One thing that irritates me most is the mere pasting and publishing of nonsense content of emails and ditto news from newspapers or online news portals.

I was unfamiliar with why the number of bloggers escalated in a short period. A close friend, a blogger, suggested me to start blogging. I did not know that one can start a blog without paying a penny. Earlier I believed one needs Mastercard or Visa to pay for blogsite. A colleague helped me to open an account in Wordpress. I wrote an article and published it.

Last week, the friend, "Open an account in blogspot… You can earn money."

"Money from blogs?" I was unaware that in Nepal it is/was possible. However, I had read stories about bloggers abroad who have given up their earlier lucrative jobs only to be full time bloggers.

"By publishing advertisements in your blog-site."

To be honest, for me, computer is a typewriter that is attached to a TV. I can type, I can put CDs and watch movies, and can use internet. This is all what computer means to me. Except these things, I don't know more to do. I even can't work with laptop; it has no mouse and it is difficult to type on it. My colleagues, though behind my back, laugh at the mismatch: nature of my job and my lack of conversance.

I asked him how to publish ads. His answer amazed me. One can earn more than 100 dollars from a blog-site. He did not hid that if I applied for a publisher account through him, he too would get some commission. So be it; be it soon. Ha-ha-ha. Next month on, I will very easily earn amount more than half of my salary from the job for which I have to labor very hard. Money from blogs has lured me into temptation.

But I won't blog only for money. I will try to be different to the extent I can. Since I began my career from one of the weeklies that is/was popular for "sensational" content that is always overstatement, I have learnt how to convert something less important into an attractive and sensational piece. Thanks to ^A^ and ^R dazu

I will try to post something readable and epigrammatic. I believe you bloggers and readers can be my source of blogs. You can help me be different from others.

I will write about bloggers and journalists. I will write about anonymous as well as with-the-real-name Nepali bloggers that are most read. Gossip will be my mantra.

You can reach me at mailatgossipcorner@gmail.com and mailtogossipcorner@gmail.com