In the early '90s, there was this first Nepali electronic newsletter called The Nepal Digest (TND). It was started by Rajpal Singh in Illinois, and, for a time, was a widely circulated ONLY one electronic newsletter among Nepalis about Nepal.

Every week, TND came to your inbox as an email, filled with news about Nepal with occasional views/debates/discussions of fellow Nepalis from around the world (though for some reason, US-based Nepalis tended to be more vocal than Nepalis elsewhere).

TND started to lose its charm when The Kathmandu Post and other Nepali newspapers started putting up their Web sites. People started getting their news directly from
Nepal.

This led to a greater demand for news analyses as opposed to mere news reportage from electronic sources.

Soc.Culture.Nepal (SCN), a Usenet group, fulfilled that demand up to a point in the late 1990s. Unlike TND, which was an editor-collated product with its own weekly cycle,
SCN allowed users to post their comments and analyses and get almost-instant feedbacks from anyone wanting to respond to postings. This led to lively, if
occasionally acrimonious, exchanges of views.

One major practical downside of SCN was its totally unmoderated nature. Often Indians and Pakistanis would cross-post their various unrelated-to-Nepal jhagada on SCN.
And wading through their dross to get to Nepal-related stuff eventually became a boring and tiring chore for most SCN users.

Then came Sajha.com at the start of this century. It combined the best of SCN features
with loose moderation. This kept the Indian and Pakistani cross-posters out, and allowed pretty much Nepali-only to post their views.

Sajha's flagship section -- the kurakani section -- took off after the Royal Massacre of 2001. Later, easy-to-use chatrooms and word-of-mouth publicity helped bring in many other Nepalis to the site. A diversity of visitor's postings helped make the site interesting and 'sticky' (some say: addictive) for most visitors.

Now, in 2005, the electronic communication/info sharing process appears to have entered a new phase with the rise of Nepal-related blogs.

In the past few months, many excellent Nepal-related blogs have come up. Some of the blogs are group-blogs; some are sustained individually. Some have great fresh news contents. Others are well-written and well-presented. A few are merely entertaining. But altogether, they ARE siphoning attention -- the most precious commodity -- away from Sajha.

As a well-wisher of Sajha, I think the time has come for Sajha to redefine its mission and and differentiate itself from its 'competitors'.

What is Sajha for in these changing times?

For news?
For views?
For debates?
For announcing community events?
For sharing the photos of community events?
For social activism?

Other well-wishers of Sajha and San himself must start thinking ahead so that Sajha -- in these times of rapidly changing technologies -- does not suffer the fate of its predecessors.

Something to think about.

oohi
ashu

भउते ब्रो,
जिरा, मरिच दाईहरु नन्दि त खै उनेरुनै जानुन तर नन्दिनीको पछि लाग्या चैं
था भा कुरो हो।

अब भ्रउते ब्रोले सुनेकै होला...हरेस खानु तर चरेस नखानु भनेर (सङ्गत अनुसार
रिभर्स तिर बाट नी सुन्या हुन सक्छ..) तर जे होस (ह)रेस खानु, च(ह)रेस नखानु भन्या झै भृङ्गीको पछि लाग्नु बरु तर भिरिङ्गीको पछी नलाग्नु
बाबै....फेरि "दिप ब्रो भृङ्गीको पछि लाग्या रे छ" भनेर भऊते भिरिङ्गीको पछी
लाग्ला र.....एएएएएएए क्या हुआ, कैसे हुआ, क्यो हुआ, कब हुआ.....छोडो न
ए बातें दिनु पर्ला ...दिपले मौकामा भनेन भनेर मलाई गाल नपरोस!

:)

Nk Nk Nk,
DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN A PEDESTAL. I still remember you from the watertown days(when you were fresh off the boat). You and your valuable time ? ha ha Pls do not make me laugh. So you mean to say MISS POLITICALY CORRECT WOULD NOT SPEND A DIME OF HER TIME FOR THE DERANGED(I KNOW YOUR kind of MENTALITY, you think you are better than the average huh !) ? All you hypocrites defender of Democracy want to implement restrictions on those so called irresponsible posters(Like they are not human beings huh !) ?
I still remmember you glorifying your glamorous life(in the past) and when scrutinized turning all sour and nasty. So you too have been in that boat before nothing special.

Chor ko khutta tan bahanko yehi ho. Gu lai chalaya gandha. Rachan lai chalayo mukha bhari chita.

Bathroomcoffee. You just won't stop from your useless diatribe, would you? Listen, you stinky bathroom ko coffee. Just look at your name. What does that suggest? Do I need to say more? Glorifying my life style? Hell, I don't have to glorify my lifestyly. I don't need to. I HAVE a wonderful life. Do you want to compete? Let's see.

How about posting a pic of your dwelling and my mahal?
Our photos. Let's post pictureof ourselves. I bet I am far more beautiful than you in every category. How big is your bhundi from consuming nothing but chicken and beer?
Education. Let's post our transcirpts.
Jobs. Give the name. I bet I have far superior job than you.
Salary? Do we even need to go there?
Spouse. Category - job, look, salary.
Offspring category - intelligence. I can post the result from a reknown psychologist who did testing on my daughter. Behavioral and cognitive.
Car we drive.


Are you ready? Start and go. We will be seeing your big bhundi, let's see your guts too.


(I have noticed you came her just to gain attention from me. The talk is about Sajha, you jerk, not about me. Why don't you get this in your thick skull. I hope
San is taking notice.)

By the way I still live in Watertown.

OK
Lets, leave personal stuff out of sajha.

सान, काँ यो रमैलो बिथोल्न आ भन्या ? एक छिन चुप लाग्नुस क्या ।

मलाई त भैलो भट्याम भट्याम जस्तो लागिरा'छ ।


हाम्री NK कस्ती छिन्
चामल छाँटे जस्ती छिन्
हे औंसीबारो गाई त्यारो भैलो

छानामाथि घिरौला
को दाँजिन्छ हेरौंला
हे औंसीबारो गाई त्यारो भैलो

Bathroomcoffee हेर्दैछ
NK लाई देखी छेर्दैछ
हे औंसीबारो गाई त्यारो भैलो

Nepe Sir,

HEEEAAAHAHAHAHAHA....... this room is full of laughing gas - i must have taken in quite heavily.... hoooooohohohoho

Bhattau dai jaanus, Bhailo bhanne ma.

BHAILO..

BHAILO..

BHAILO..

BHAILO..

Tihar is some months away yet - but bhataai diyen. lu jaa...
Nice laughing with you Nepe.

as resident regent of this site, let me begin by reassuring all of you that nothing is over until I say it's over. or, until san has his inevitable midlife crisis, sells sajha to sergey brin and his cronies, buys that dreamcar convertible, and drives off into the sunset with some hot blonde half his age!

that being said, it has come to my attention through my network of sajha spies (they're everywhere, so mind what you say, and watch your "six"), that there is a certain unnamed agent frequenting this site who we shall call "schleprock". while we have yet to determine any criminal intent on this character's behalf, we have reason to suspect that wherever this personality goes, or--more specifically--whichever sites he or she visits, chaos invariably ensues. again, while no intentional malfeasance is likely, things always seem to fall apart whenever this person is around. call it coincidence, call it bad luck, call it Irritable Bhai/Bhahini Syndrome. call it what you will, as regent, it is incumbent upon me solely to warn all of you, my subjects, to maintain constant vigilance here in sajha. if you notice anything suspicious or unusual, report it immediately to me, c/o san the man with the master plan. in closing, always remember that the center cannot hold, and things do fall apart.

seacrest, i mean, sajhakoraja out...

Bhanda bhanauda neta haru deshbashi haru lai ladai afu danga pari baseka chhan. Deshbasi haru ko daridrata ko hassi udaudai.

Kathai bhari. Jai sajha

I think Sajha should add a RSS feed to my blog.

- http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com/

My blog does not have Sajha's traffic. Sajha does not have my blog's gravitas. It would be mutually beneficial. The newest article's title shows up on the feed button.

Suggestion to Sajha: don't fight the new, emerging tech, incorporate it. My blog also has audio and video components.

भनेसी कुरो के भो लास्टाँ?

अब पुराना साझालीहरु यसो सभा बस्या रे।
कुरो न सुरो त्यसै उठ्ने जस्तो छ।

Hi all, I really enjoy browsing sajha.com once I get time. I read some of your MSG, I really like to read positive as well as negative comments. ur MSG can be thrived in many different topics, so people from different profession enable to interact.
I met San dai and other friends in sajha-convention 2004 in DC-metro; however, I didn't spend much time ( coz I used to think sajha is just like bakabas...... but in reality, it works a lot, it's depend on we, how we persuade) Sajhaheties, please go and participate in sajhs- convention, if there will be in 2005. As I understand, sajha is not a message board for a particular group, such as talking about politic, ANA stuffs, sex. It has no limit to demonstrate your talent, providing information and much more........

HA HA HA !

After reading all the suggestions, I really liked the idea of blog. How about it San? I will be posting tons and tons. But of course not under my name ;)


Nepe, enjoyed your bhailo. Seriously!

NK hazur, that would be the day. But why do you want the blog? You can use Sajha as a blog if you want... ah! Are you scared of them replyin' on your thread? Just Ignore them... ha.

Oh, BTW, its been about 3 years since you wrote something that you used to write back in the old days. eh.

kala(NK)i haa

NK,

At its best, Sajha is like ball-room dancing, a group tango, if you will: You post something, others post other stuff, and conversations flow smoothly, wittily and
with joy, in a seemingly random yet surprisingly co-ordinated manner. No tension, just fun.

At other times, it's like bull-fighting: you are the matador, and you wave the cloth -- knowing that the some bull out there will get all excited to gore you to (cyber) death. The thrill then lies in exercising super-sharp reflexes to dodge the bull's horns,
to run around strategically, to still keep your swagger and to ultimately send the bull
falling to the ground. [OK, I confess that I watch too many Spanish movies!]

Still, at other times, reading postings here is like watching Tour de France over a
course of several days. There are the usual posters, of course, who return to
Sajha year in and year out. But then, there are also many others who make the
whole thing fun, exciting and entertaining.

oohi
ashu

Yeah, yeah I have noticed NK screaming at me from your name. :) Three years! Has it been that long? Time swims, doesn't it? Yeah, I don't want any one to reply. I just want people to read and then forget it. Wouldn't that be super?

Ashu, my dear, you forgot one (huge) element of your Tango analogy - SEXUAL tension! Were you so modest not to mention? Hard to believe it. Yes, sometimes kurakani is a Tango dance WITH the sexual energy - Just look at some famous female stars and replies onward. Tour de France too. Boring (to me). Sometimes like watching a French movie. Nothing happens, but everybody is sad at the end. But, mostly when I post I feel like I am that matador - tal na sur sanga. Don't you too?

And you know what? Often I read Sajha like watching MTV with sound off :)!

That ornate color run pretty fast when u press the right button huh !

NK, that is stretching it, MTV!?

Hola!

Here is a full fledged movie on my blog:
- http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com/2005/07/adding-video-clips-to-this-blog.html

All but six clips have been uploaded. Not all released yet though.

So is San's gonna add my RSS feed to Sajha or what!

(wait)

I guess not.