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| hehe |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:01 AM
I was so curious to know about Ashu since I started visiting Sajha and read his beautifully written postings. I know there was a long thread about who Ashu is and how he looks. I came to see him today in the Nepali Tmes. I would like to congratulate Ashu for becoming a columnist in Nepali Times. I would love to see your writings in other editions with interest.
Congrats once again
Hehe
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:37 AM
Yeah, i saw it too. Congratulations Ashu bro on becoming one of the Nepali Timers. I read your piece on the music industry, and you did raise some valid questions regarding the use of no. in determing the scale of industry(-ies) in Nepal. Yeah, what do the nos. tell? Also, you wrote it in such a way that people who are not familiar with Economics, for example me, can get it, enjoy it and learn some inside kura haroo.
The choice of words is excellent.
One thing I don't understand about the established English writers of Nepal : Why are they so keen on making things complex and way too technical by drawing unnecessay examples, using big words and making comparisions that just goes beyond a lay-man's head?
I hope you will refrain from this practice and keep on updating us with what's happening inside the "industries" in Nepal, of course with the same simplicty that you write here in Sajha.
a freak..
PS: Disagreeements and constructive criticism(s) welcome or not? :-). I didn't find anything to disagree with you on that piece, but hopoefully I will find something to disagree with in the next issue.
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| Dr. No |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:40 AM
Ashu, keeping yourself pretty buzzzzzzzzy, huh?
Good for you. Is this person your long-lost twin?
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/cim/people/tiwari.htm
;) Just had to do it!
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| hehe |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:40 AM
If anybody wants to see Ashu and his article, here is the link:
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue134/strictly_business.htm
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:40 AM
in the next issue
read it as:
in the next issue and many more issues to come.
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| surya |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 08:10 AM
Here we go again!
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| M.P. |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 04:00 PM
Yeah, it was a pleasure to see Hon. Ashu's picture in the current issue of the Nepali Times. From his postings here at Sajha, I had thought he was a thin man, with sort of Charlie Chaplein (sp?) moustache, and a slightly pointed bahun-nose, and ...(well, let me not go into details, I am going to get offensive)..somewhat like Mahesh Acharya. If he is alternating his column with Arthabeed, it is going to be kind of contrast! :)
I hope Hon. Ashu's writing for the Nepali Times does not reduce his visit to Sajha and his sharing of humor, adventures, and news with the rest of us here. If his visits to this site become less frequent, that will reduce the rate of 'social capital production' and someone like Hon. Ashu should not let that happen (I am being a little shelfish, and talking on behalf of we, all the dumb ones, though)!
One more wish, I hope his English does not get complicated. If we stop understanding him, that's a loss to us again!
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Isolated Freak wrote: One thing I don't understand about the established English writers of Nepal : Why are they so keen on making things complex and way too technical by drawing unnecessay examples, using big words and making comparisions that just goes beyond a lay-man's head?
---> There are exceptions though. I think Samrat Upadhdhya's Guru of Love, that has been much applauded by most of the readers, is written in simple and plain English.
But there definitely seems to be a competition going on, may be unintentionally, between Nepali writers in English. I think it was in the last issue of the Nepali Times that a letter regarding this was published. The letter stated that it was hard to understand Kunda Dixit's humor. I have a feeling that his columns are excellent and reach to the concerned place/authority immediately, but they are often hard to understand. When something can not be understood well, even the funniest joke in the world becomes lame.
I, as a reader, hope that our journalists/columnists write in a language that even not-from-boarding-school people can understand. I think journalism and literature are two different things, and when Paul Krugman's pieces become much easier to understand than that of CK Lal, we have every right to suspect that the failure in the part of our journalists is one of the causes--trivial it might be-- leading to the present crisis.
It is people like Baburam Bhattarai, who do not have anything concrete to say, who should be using grandiloquence in language as a mean to deceive people. There is no reason why journalists should do that.
My 5 paisa.
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| paramendra |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 04:48 PM
I just read Ashu's piece. It is decent. Nice to see people venturing into the mainstream media. That gives Sajha added legitimacy, not that it needs any.
Keep talking, Ashu, all I have to say.
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| U_2 |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 05:54 PM
Congratulations!! Finally, we get to know how you look. Wishing all the best !!
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 07:35 PM
Hey, that was a good piece, Ashu. Rather than attacking other media, you started from criticizing your own newspaper, which is a good thing, and a rare thing in Nepali media.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 10:19 PM
Thank you hehe for posting info about that piece in The Nepali Times.
Appreciate it.
Isolated Freak:
When it comes to writing clearly, simply and vigorously, I tend to folow a number of role models. Two of them stand out. One is George Orwell (notwithstanding the recent attack against him in The New Yorker by Louis Menand). And the other is Paul Krugman, an economist at Princeton who writes twice a week for The New York Times and who's been voted the Columnist of the Year by a newspaper guild.
As for disagreements, I'm sure we'll have plenty of chances for those, as more of my pieces appear in TNT.
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Dr. No.
Appreciate your sense of humor.
Regret to inform you that person is NOT my long-lost twin. :-)
Still, think about it: Logically, even if that person were indeed my long-lost twin brother, would his name too be Ashutosh? Names, after all, are what that separate even identical twins, hoi na ta?
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M.P.
Don't worry.
I have enjoyed being on Sajha, and, despite my new commitment, I will still be visiting Sajha to share news, views, info and adventures with you all, thereby adding to, ahem, collective social capital.
Good to know that you too like Krugman's writing style.
As for my photo, well, it's actually about two years old: As soon as my hair grows back,
I am going to schedule a photo session at Photo Concern in New Road, and give poses that will shame even Kollywood actresses :-))
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Paramendra,
You are a prolific and engaging writer yourself. You too should start writing for Nepal's newspapers. In Kathmandu, English language newspapers (5 English dailies, 3 English weeklies and more English monthlies) are desperate to get hold of people who can write.
So, choose your pick, and start making a name for yourself, yaar.
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U 2
Thank you for your comment.
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Biswo,
I'll count on you and others to provide criticisms, feedbacks and counter-arguments to what I write. After all, it's only by reasoning together, by arguing together -- in a high- trust, ideas-are-supreme environment -- that we can push one another to more excellence. As you know, I am always for vigorous idea-related conflicts that add to more knowledge, and one can go for those kind of conflicts without losing
respect for/dismissing the other side.
Thanks everyone for reading that piece of mine. One can't cover the world with 700-800 words, but I'll do my write about what I know about Nepal's businesses, finance and economy.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Dr. No |
Posted
on 03-Mar-03 11:45 PM
Hey Ashu,
I guess you are right. The twins more than likely wouldn't share the same name. I know that kid is a lot younger than you. Your logic is pretty sound; no wonder Mr. Jha, the math teacher, always had good things to say about you.
BTW, I also happened to check TNT piece with your photo. I haven't seen you in years and you look quite different from what I remember you as. The write-up was exxcellent as expected. Glad to hear that you are going to be contributing twice a month. Imagine you and your nemesis Mr. Lal writing for the same paper!
So, how come everyone is coming back to business and finance? Pie from Zen to Yen and you from bio-chemistry to economics? Do you teach your clients about the balanced scorecard...pioneered by Dr. Kaplan and Norton from HBS? Just checking?
Ashu, how about getting R.D. Tuttle as the speaker for one of the Business Forums to shed some light on the gaming industry in Nepal? He has managed to monpolize it totally. I wonder if he'd be willing to talk about it!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 04-Mar-03 02:26 AM
Hi Dr. No.,
I wouldn't call CK Lal my nemesis, but that's OK.
As to why everyone's coming back to business and finance, I don't know.
Pie, I think, decided to go to HBS after working for an HBS grad in Singapore for
two years. He applied to only two schools, and decided not to go to Wharton.
I, however, went along neither a straight path, nor -- to the delight of my critics --
a particularly well-devised career plan, and I am all the more happy for it.
A combination of passion, eclectic interests, sheer luck, muddling through here and there and a dash of iconoclasm, I suppose, have taken me where I am today, and I can't wait to see how rest of the life unfolds, bringing further surprises, twists and turns, successes and failures.
And I wouldn't want to have life any other way. Who wants to live the safe, conventional life with a typical house on the suburb with 1.8 kids? :-))
Re: RD Tuttle -- excellent suggestion. Will certainly keep in mind. Yes, he owns ALL the six casinos (including the new ones at Radisson and Hyatt) operating in Nepal.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| DifferentlySane |
Posted
on 04-Mar-03 11:02 AM
woohoo....finally we get a glimpse ( actually its more than just a glimpse) of the entp sajha celeb...Ashu the great!!
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| sajan |
Posted
on 04-Mar-03 11:34 AM
Ashu ji is the person needs to be appreciated. He seems to have a charismatic personality while writing or presenting any sort of issues. His way of expressing ideas, feelings and points are extremely fact. I too love to go through his posts frequently.
Keep it up Ashu jee !
Wish you for better future too !
Thanks !
Sajan
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| MainBatti |
Posted
on 04-Mar-03 02:33 PM
>>>A combination of passion, eclectic interests, sheer luck, muddling through here and there and a dash of iconoclasm, I suppose, have taken me where I am today, and I can't wait to see how rest of the life unfolds, bringing further surprises, twists and turns, successes and failures.
---> That's pretty poetic, dude!
---> What is that 1.8 kids joke about? One kid and a pregnant wife?
MainBatti, March 4, 2003.
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