I dreamed a dream that tickled pink,
Exactly in the manner how you think.
Where we longed for nothing and were satisfied,
Without caring what world thinks outside.
Many a year has passed and gone,
You know and I know nothings’ been lost and everythings’ won.
Traversed many paths my friend, soon - very soon we will have the moment again.
That [...]

Walk in the Mountains
-Hitesh Karki
We kept on waiting for the plane to arrive. While half of the group including myself had already landed in this beautiful place, half were supposed to come in the next flight and hence the wait in the runway. The clouds would not just allow the flying machine pass through it [...]

If one were to be completely honest with his or her own self, I am sure the recent days must have come as a pleasant surprise. The papers don’t look the same for they now have another tale to tell, stories of how what seemed like a never event is soon to materialize. Its not [...]

-Hitesh Karki
I get irked and peeved with no one but myself. And quite frankly I do not think anyone needs any reason these days to feel irritated for that’s the only thing you can find in abundance, every thing else is in short supply. In the course of last couple of days, I had a [...]

Not so long ago we all hated the fact that all we nepalese cared for was the guest of the program and not its intentions. There was a time when we would see the same face at least four times in a news, provided he is not Rishi Dhamala poking his head right next to [...]

I wake up to the mundane morning confronting the headline which reads loud and large. “We will not hamper the elections.” Not so long ago we all thought that that was they all came for. Now once again there is no dearth of people who would not hesitate to say ‘I told you so.’ You [...]

As I reach the corner of the street in between Gaushala and Sifal, the road next to the small forest opposite Pashupati, a diminutive figure whose personality seems to have been emboldened by the fact that he had a red star on his cap and wore fatigues, asks me to stop. He is inside an [...]

‘So what is it that you will remember about this place once you go back’. This happened to be the question I had posed to my American guest en route to airport on board a Toyota Hiace van as he was about to bid farewell to this city. He incidentally did not happen to be [...]

There was never even a remote chance of we crossing our paths but then as fate would have it, we met. It’s not that we met when we ‘met’ for we had been meeting for quite sometime, albeit not in the real world but in the virtual one.

Thanks to my carelessness, I have been berated and scolded numerous times from all sorts of people, especially the dear ones. I am not punctual, not tidily dressed up, and often not affected by what is supposed to be a serious matter. There has hardly been a day where I have managed to get things [...]

It’s almost like the airplanes. Every time I watch them flying, for reasons unknown, I just can’t take my eyes off them, till they disappear. I am sure I would be pretty much right if I were to say that the sight of planes landing and taking off is something we all have [...]

It was late in the night, way late by the Nepalese middle class standards where you normally go to bed after having your meal after the 8 pm news. I have not been following the ritual in spite of hailing from the same class for one or two sports update has almost become my sleeping [...]

सम्झना ले अत्याईदिन्छ
मानौ संसारै अर्कै छ उनको,
नत पुग्न नै सक्छु म त्यहाँ
नत सुनीन नै सक्छु म त्यहाँ
व्यथा पनि कथा पनि, मेरो यो हर दिनको।
नत गीत गाउने कुनै रहर नै छ मेरो
लाग्छ त्यो त मात्र एक बिवस्ता,
अनि बेला बेला मा
अनायास त्यही गीत नै साहारा बन्छ
एक्लै एक्लै बस्दा।
भोलि नी म एक्लो नै हुन्छु रे
कसैले भनीसक्यो मलाई,
चुडीसकेको गीतार [...]