Hemang Dixit

There & Here

In those days Ms Nani Maiya Dahal fought in the elections with very meagre funds but against all odds won in Kathmandu. Of course Mr. Trump too has won against all odds for at one time his chances of getting the Republican nomination and winning the

By Hemang Dixit Jan 06, 2017

Is SAARC Outdated & Defunct?

There was even talk of having a common currency like the Euro. At the starting of this process there was a feeling that perhaps the big ‘shark might gobble up the small ones.

By Hemang Dixit Sep 15, 2016

Westminster/Presidential?

What the British left behind in India was the ‘First past the post Westminster System’ to be a part of the lives of the people here. Following the partition of 1947, India started with a Governor General and became a Republic in 1950 but the indire

By Hemang Dixit Aug 31, 2016

The Land Of Young Mountains

This poor mountainous country of ours has always been savaged by onslaughts of Nature. Gen. Brahma SJB Rana’s book on the earthquake of 1890 (1934 BS) lists it all

By Hemang Dixit Aug 11, 2016

Birds Of The Same Feather

We have now gone full circle. It turns out now that the state coffers have been opened to party wallahs, the money has been distributed left, right and centre but the fact remains that many of the poor and the needy following the earthquake are stil

By Hemang Dixit Aug 01, 2016

Seckeep or Secout ?

The recent referendum in the UK where BREXIT or BREMAIN was the option with the possibility of the UK having to leave the European Union (EU) within the next two years has caught the world’s attention

By Hemang Dixit Jul 08, 2016

Thoughts on Education

A point to remember is that in both the UK and in the USA one can be prosecuted for not sending one’s children to school. In the States one is even allowed to educate ones children’s by one ’s self too

By Hemang Dixit Jun 23, 2016

Our One-Upmanship Government

By Hemang Dixit Jun 02, 2016

Lies at Every Stage

By Hemang Dixit May 20, 2016

Brown Sahibs & Late Latif

Well, they left India but true to the Macaulay heritage, the Indian Babu that they developed and perfected during their three and a half Centuries rule took their place as the Brown Sahibs or Western Oriented Gentlemen (WOGs) to rule India.

By Hemang Dixit May 05, 2016

On An Eating Spree

It must be noted too that the 7th Potato Festival was due to be held at Hemja in the second week of April. The holding of it caused much concern for the locals charged the governmental authorities for supplying them rotten seeds.

By Hemang Dixit Apr 22, 2016

A Matter of Cover Ups

This semi-government concern had been the sole supplier of energy products in the country, and though massively in the red for a number of years was not putting its house in order.

By Hemang Dixit Mar 30, 2016

HOODWINKING FOR EVER?

By Hemang Dixit Mar 17, 2016

Oli Ko Boli, Ke Garne Bholi?

Sad fact is that many Indians do not have much of an idea about Nepal. Surprisingly there was an image in Facebook where two rectangular pieces of cloth were hanging on the two sides of a lamp post, possibly in Delhi or Bhuj for the State Visit of P

By Hemang Dixit Mar 04, 2016

CRY OUT -- ‘PAKHLAS’ Cry Out – ‘Pakhlas’

If the current intraparty elections of the Nepali Congress is anything to go by, here too the candidates backed by the veterans Koiralas, Prakash Man Singh, Gagan Thapa at Morang, Kathmandu 1 and Kathmandu 4 respectively seem to have fallen by the wa

By Hemang Dixit Feb 19, 2016

Thought for Future Action

At this point I recalled that our previous and then PM Sushil Koirala had, as he took office stated that local elections would be held within six months and that the constitution would be brought out within one year.

By Hemang Dixit Feb 06, 2016

Eggs in One Basket

Then during days of Panchayat Rule the industries gifted by China and Russia, such as the Agriculture implements, Sugar, Cigarettes, Paper, Leather and Brick & Tile factories served the Nation with their various products. But the world was changing

By Hemang Dixit Jan 22, 2016

Hope & Despair

Thanks to this anti-people blockade, instituted by our ‘Friend for Eternity’ India, things are in a hopeless state in Nepal. The electric transformers of the various localities in most cities perhaps are going, ‘Bong’, ‘Bong’ as they explode.

By Hemang Dixit Jan 02, 2016

Go, Going and Gone

Nepal is a country of migrants. People have been coming and going from this place since the time of the Mughal invasion of India. Many fled here but finding the mountainous country inhospitable have moved on elsewhere to survive too. We Nepalis ha

By Hemang Dixit Dec 12, 2015

A Time of Distress

The astute British allowed the import of as little machinery and raw materials as was necessary so that the material produced in Nepal was just ‘adequate for the needs of the country’ and would not affect the trade that the British were conducting bo

By Hemang Dixit Nov 27, 2015

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