Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Second Impression

It should have been in the year 1997 that I was suggested by a close friend of mine to approach Mr. Sanjiv Raj Rajbhandari, the Chief of the Executive of the Mercantile Communications located at the very heart of the King’s way-Durbar Marg.

The friend even told me that if I would approach Mr. Raj Bhandari for the inclusion of this weekly into the www.nepalnews.com , an Internet based news-site prepared and designed by the Mercantile Communications-a brain child of Mr. Raj Bhandari, the next moment he would positively respond to my humble request.

Later I acted as per the suggestion of my close friend and thus approached Mr. Raj Bhandari who not only accepted my offer but also kindly told that as a barter system, his company would provide me with some money as an incentive.

It was a Himalayan surprise for me.

Since then, my newspaper is on the Internet.

I must admit honestly that whatever prestige and popularity I have earned so far for my weekly newspaper by being in his nepalnews.com website, the credit must first go to Mr. Raj Bhandari and his world famous website.

His neapalnew.com is not only popular in Europe and America but my friends residing in different corners of the world at times write emails revealing that they were in close contact with this website and enjoy my, what Sanjiv says, “typically different news analyses”.

Prof Krishna Khanal, a political scientist at the T.U once told me, Mr. Upadhayaya when I was in Hawaii, every Wednesday morning I used to get Telegraph weekly on the nepalnews.com and, as he recalled, used to enjoy reading the politics of his country while remaining in a far flung country.

This perhaps explains as to how Nepali readers living abroad for a short time or otherwise have become addicted to this newspaper.

Similarly, at a recent seminar organized by this weekly one Nepali scholar, C.D. Bhatta, currently studying at the London School of Economics, The United Kingdom, told recently at a Telegraph weekly sponsored seminar that how some of the Professors at the School move from room to room to show his students some academic/research sort of articles printed in my newspaper.

Others too have told me that nepalnews.com is very popular in the States. Most of the Universities in America and Europe more often than not logon to this website to get freshly prepared seminar papers in order to add strength and authenticity to their own research theses.

Such stories which are definitely positive ones encourage the men engaged in this paper to work hard so that more creativity and academic excellence could be added each and every week to cater to the growing needs of the Nepalese and foreign scholars.

As the chief editor and publisher of the weekly, I must be the one to get a new encouragement each time when scholars appreciate the academic articles contained in the newspaper.

I must remain ever obliged to what Sanjiv and his website did in order to enhance the prestige and the popularity of this paper. Sanjiv’s Mercantile is the one pioneer IT institution in Nepal that supported other weeklies as well.

Thanks Sanjiv for all that you did for me and my newspaper. Thanks Divas Rana for your friendly behavior exhibited towards my institution all along these years.

I can’t forget your contributions. I wish all the best to Sanjiv and his institution.

Shortly, the Telegraph weekly will have its own private website-telegraphnepal.com.

I request my august readers to logon to this new website designed by Neolinks, Pulchowk.

Don’t forget www. telegraphnepal. com