Congratulations Ashu.  Reading your articles here in Sajha and at Nepalitimes has always been a delight.  Hope to see you back in sajha soon as the hiatus has been long enough (don't you think so?).  All the best.

 

http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/374/BizNews/14179

Tiwari, Aryal at Himalmedia

Himalmedia announced Wednesday the appointment of Ashutosh Tiwari as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the publication house and Kundan Aryal as editor of Himal Khabarpatrika.

Aryal is a journalist of long-standing, and served as editor of the political weeklies Budhabar and Dristi and was also Secretary General of the human rights organisation Insec. He replaces Shiva Gaunle, who is leaving to be even more active at the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, where he is presently Vice-President of the Central Region chapter.

Tiwari, a Harvard graduate, set up and managed Business Service Aadhar for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Kathmandu. For the last three years, he was in Dhaka at the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) where he advised companies in ready-made garments, agribusiness and light engineering sectors. For the past five years he has also been a contributor to the fortnightly Strictly Business column in this paper

Congratulations! Ashu. Keep up great work.

 

I wish you all the best for success.

Congrats Ashu, Great job and greater chances to prove who are you .

Thank you, friends, for your warm wishes.

They mean a lot to me, especially on Sajha -- which is one of my favorite web sites and where I have made lots of friends.

Since I have long enjoyed helping others to be successful at what they do,
I see this job as a more visible way to assist my present colleagues (all 150
of them!) succeed all the more in profitably bringing out three great publications -- Himal Khabar Patrika, The Nepali Times and Wave magazine -- while having good fun at work.

As readers, subscribers, advertizers, and well-wishers, please do not
hesitate to let me know how the company could its job even better.

oohi
ashu

Quitting World Bank job over a  CEO of a media house must be pretty tough decision to make !

OR, being a CEO of Himal Media is more attractive and  respective than World Bank ?

Congratulations Ashu !!

Give Ghazal a chance in Himal re kya !

साझामा छाडापान को छ्याल ब्याल हुदा पनि आसु दाइको जमर्को जारी नै रहन्थ्यो, तेइ छ मेरो याद आशु दाइ सक्रिय हुदा र म पाहुना हुदा साझा.कम को । अहिले म सक्रिय बाट निस्क्रिय तर्फ ओरालो लागी सकें, मानौं साझामा प्रत्येकको लाइफ साइकल हुन्छ। कती साझा लाइफमा छद्म नाम बाटै छाडापनमा बिलाउछन त कति प्रत्यक्ष रुपमा चिनीन्नछन। चिनिएर, धेरै माथि पुग्नु भएको मा आशु दाइलाइ मेरो धेरै धेरै बधाइ। मेसो मिले भेटेर नै बधाइ दिउंला तर नेपालको स्थीतीले बिदेशमा भासिन झन सजिलो भएको छ। यसरी नै चौतारीबाट धेरै  साझा लाइफबाट  रियल लाइफ परिबर्तन भए तथा दौंतरी पनि म एक रियल लाइफको रुपमा लिन्छु।

आसु दाइ फेरी पनि प्रगतीको खबर सुन्न पाइयोस।

जय साझा

hey congrats and dun stop visiting sajha

congrats, your presence here makes the sajha looks more real.

Ek jamana thyo, NY times ko op-ed ra CK Lal ko nepali Times ko article napadhi pani khako pachha ra bhanya jasto. Then came the Time Select and registration in Nepali Times. Jati register gare ni password aune hoina email ma.

Ahile po jhalyassa bhaye - once upon a time there was - Nepali Times. And the waft of cowdong from mahottari .

And the waft of aromas of cowdong from mahottari .

Anyway, badhai chahi dinai birse chhu. Hope aba chahi jahile pani http://www.himalkhabar.com/ HE YUBA nabhanla bhaneko...Oh there is new one.

I am glad to see improved Himalkhabar.com. That site used to be like shitty Indian site with lots of pop up.The new layout is terrific and please don't irritate your viewers by adding too many pop ups to the site.

BTW, Congratulations !!!!

 

Dear Shirish, Nepalean, Kehoko, Gahugoro, Houston, GP-ji, Samsara and Sajhabusaima  . .

Many, many thanks for your good wishes.
I need all the best wishes I can get. :-)

********

Shirish,

I had had a great time working for WB. Learnt a lot. Met a lot of smart people from all over. Worked on some challenging/interesting assignments, and got to travel widely .. .  and I remain very grateful for all that.

It's just that, at some point in life, after one is done chasing prestige, money
and all the 'external measures of success', one has to ask oneself:

What makes him/her fulfilled in life?

Is it by being a productive plugger in a good system that someone else
has designed?

Or, does fulfillment come from being a designer of  systems in a place
where there are no systems to begin with?

Different people  will have different answers, of course, and that's fine.

For me, this chance to be creative to design an effective corporate system
at this company proved ultimately an attractive enough of a challenge
to sink my teeth into :-)

Tetti ho.

Yes, send me your gazals, and -- no promise -- but let's see what
happens :-)

oohi
ashu

Lau na, oohi Ashu is now bada-hakim of Himal? Great. Fel hunu parchha jaacha ta kati dina painchha paainchha bhanthyo euta le ho re chha -- saajhaamaa basnu parne re chha -- raamra kura sunna pani paine re chha --

Boston ka Puraana dinharu samjhe aaja

All the best --

 

As a former employee of Himalmedia (for a brief time), I can assure you the place has one of the best working environments. i loved the old Nepalitimes days.....

Good Luck Ashu....

 

  "profit..." bata protsahan vaee niskeka khabar patrika haru lay kaheley pani pratigami tatwo haru ko biruddha lekh haru lekhdainan. Paisa ko laalacha ma, yesta patrika haru ka patrakar afnoo dharma todi saamanti haru ko pakshya ma afnoo kalam chalaunchan.Yesta swartha ra awaasarbad patrakar haru desh ma manokalpit khabar haru lekhdai araajakta lai bistar matra gardachan.

Krantikari aadharsh, tyag-balidan ko vaabha vaeka, janasamudaya lai sewa garney khal ka patrika haru Nepal ma dherai nai kam chan ( Swaviman, Dishabodh etc)   ra tesma Janadesh agra panti ma auncha. Hamra saheed patrakar Krishna Sen ji  (jaslai State lay krur torture gari nirmam hatya garey),  jo Janadesh ka sampadak theeye, uuha lay kahilay pani  Janadesh lai "profitably bringing" patrika banaunu vaeena. Yes kura ma sabai sajha basi lai chetna dilaunu chahaanchu.

Wave magazine jasta uutshrinkhal chadapan lay lipta vaeka magazine lai samaaj bata tiriskar garnu parcha. Yesta magazine ko lai lai ma lagera krantikari yuwa haru ko baudhik bikash kaheley pani hundaina.

Uuhi......

R.P Luitel

Ashu
Seeing what you are doing gives us a little hope that we also can end up back in Nepal one day, happy. Nepal definately needs that angle trained in US and what best to channel it but media.
Is CEO title a common title in Nepal now? Do most private corporations (Ltd) have CEOs?
Curious.
DWI

First of all, congratulations to Ashu. I would also like to let Sajha friends know that Ashu is now a valued member of Nepal Democracy Forum (nepaldemocracy Google group) too and he has been receiving congratulatory notes from it’s members (I have yet to congratulate, but that’s because I never congratulate anybody at the forum. Mind that the majority of the messages in the forums happen to be mutual congratulatory notes and I have been trying to oppose that trend for greater good of the forum.)

 

So I take this opportunity to congratulate Ashu. Two words: I envy.

 

While I am at it, I’d like to share my musing regarding the kind of challenge I see for this media house ahead.

 

I think, until now, Himal group has been catering to the need of a section of domestic and international elites who were wary, skeptic and generally opposed to the socio-political revolution Nepal was, really was, going through all these years.

 

In contrast, Kantipur, while keeping it’s fleet of elites intact, understood the commercial value of “populism” before it was too late and exploited it in full. Result: we all can see.

 

So the challenge, rather choices, for Himal media ahead is whether it continues to cater to the intellectual need of the same class or do something like what Kantipur did or even more aggressive things in order to be ahead of others.

 

It won’t be easier from the ideological point (the conservative tilt of Himal media). However, pure corporate interests in increasingly competitive market of Nepal, which Ashu is very familiar with, just might do that.

 

In any case, I wish Ashu all the successes and despite my displeasure regarding largely conservative position the big media and the elites of Nepal took all these years, I recognize their contribution to establish the free, diverse and vibrant press Nepal enjoys now.

 

Nepe

Fabulous-jyu,

 

“For profit” media, or any entity for that matter does have certain limitation. However, “For propaganda” media has far more limitations. Nothing is perfect in life. Diversity, competition and a set of reasonable rules for that are all we can strive for and have.

 

Nepe

Ashu dai lai dherai dherai shubhakamana!!! Harvard Graduate, back to Ktm and now working for Nepali press. I think it must have been a difficult decision to make as Shirish bro mentioned earlier. But once again, congratulations and hoping to read more GOOD NEWS from Himal Media.