A video report on the Luxury cars of Nepali media owners and other businesspersons in Nepal. I have gathered the information about 10 businesspersons for the following video report.
Kailash Sirohiya Luxury Cars
The chief of Kantipur publication, Kailash Sirohiya is a family man with two sons and a wife. The publication publishes:
Kantipur, a Nepali daily
The Kathmandu Post an English daily
Saptahik, a weekly magazine for youth
Nepal, a weekly magazine
Nari, a monthly magazine for women
The interest on the car of the Kantipur Media Group Chairman Kailash Sirohiya was raised when an accident in Kathmandu was kept kept a secret by the police. The incident happened in the second week of December of 2015. The vehicle involved was a Volkswagen car, allegedly driven by one of the sons of Kailash Sirohiya, Sambhav Sirohiya. Sambhav was one of the three injured in the accident according to Republica news (read the news here).
The Volkswagen was going towards Thapathali when it went out of control and crashed into a lamp post and a pillar. Following is the photo of the vehicle that was upside-down after the accident. Continue reading
The 18-year-old girl from Gorkha, popularly known as TarkariWali after her photos went viral online, is being offered another movie. The producer of ‘Jung Bahadur Ko Coat’ has made an offer to Kusum Shrestha a day before the release of the movie in theatre. The producer, Yogendra Khadka has told that his upcoming project has a character of a down-to-the-earth village girl, suitable for Kusum.
A few days ago another producer/director had offered Kusum a role in his movie ‘Lamfu’. The movie ‘Lamfu’ was announced in 2013 but the production didn’t start in the last three years.
In the meanwhile, Kusum is busy talking with journalist. Although she is not that good in talking, she was featured in separate interviews in NTV and Kantipur Television. Talking to the Kantipur journalist, Suman Kharel, Kusum also sang a song. While watching the interview, Kharel did most of the talking and Kusum filled the blanks.
Watch the following video for the full report:
I had talked in more details about Kusum Shrestha in the following post: Continue reading
MaHa comedy – Kantipur Starring – Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bamsha Acharya, Jitendramahat Abhilashi, Kiran KC, Surendra KC, Nilkaji Shakya, Uma Gurng, Nilkaji Shakya, Sabita Gurung, Narendra Kansakar etc. Director – MaHa
Watch the full comedy ‘Kantipur’ in three parts:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Credit – MaHa Sanchar
About MaHa Comedy ‘Kantipur’
The comedy serial, ‘Kantipur’ is written, directed by MaHa. The story, script, dialogue is jointly written by Madan Krishna and Haribamsha. The child artist in the serial is Bikal Malla. Actors Saroj Khanal and Mausami Malla are the guest artists of the comedy telefilm. The telefilm was produced by MaHa Sanchar in BS 2064.
The comedy video was made to create awareness on the cleanliness of a Kathmandu city. In the serial, Madan Krishna is featured as the god of death, Yama Raj.
Viewers Comments on ‘Kantipur’
Thank you ever so much about time we needed a secluded channel just for the wonders and magic they’ve created. so grateful i love you maha jodi thanks for making my childhood. (by Saya Gurung).
Best and evergreen comedy serial. (by Hari Pageni)
Brings back the childhood memories and those days of the past. Thank you MaHa. (by sunita karki)
The CPN Maoist chairman Prachanad has moved to a new residence in Lazimpat from his earlier home of the last five and half years, in Naya Bazar.
Kantipur published a photo of a red brick house as Prachanda’s new house. But, Prachanda son, Prakash Dahal, has posted a facebook wall post, accusing the newspaper of publishing the building of Everest Bank as their home.
Although various media have told that the new residence is their own, Prakash said in his Facebook profile that the new house is also rented for a limited time. To the question about the rumor that the house was their own, Prakash replied:
The photo below is the actual residence of Prachanda (Photo credit – Nagarik).
In Nepalese context, it is not easy to believe in politicians. These days, it is even harder to believe the newspapers or media.
Talking about irresponsibility of Nepali media, Nepal Samacharpatra and Avenues TV published a "Research Based" news by researching a comedy article – saying that Bollywood actor Amitabh Bhachchan has Nepali roots. But, even after a lot of ridiculation, the media houses haven’t felt the need to clarify their news.
Let’s hope, Nepali newspaper will act a
bit more matured in the future and we we will always be told the truth!
Annapurna Post, Kantipur Publication’s Kantipur Daily and Republic Media’s Nagarik have reached into an agreement to increase the price of the Nepali dallies by 100%. The dailies that cost Rs. 5 were priced double at Rs. 10 on December 14, 2011. On the surface, these three newspapers used to be considered rivals of each other.
In response, Kunda Dixit in his Twitter post, told, "Dead tree newspapers are dinosaurs, start reading them online and save the environment."
The longest notice about the price hike is published by Annapurna Post. Nagarik published the second longest and Kantipur published the shortest notice to explain why they have decided to hike the price.
If a Kantipur journalist, Aashis Luitel, is to be believed – people buy newspapers to listen to their ranting.
If you buy newspapers for news, better stay away from Kantipur. Aashish Luitel thinks he is the only person in Kantipur and tells people not to buy the newspaper if you don’t like his views.
Another user has rightly told the journalist that newspaper is not a blog. I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t listen.
After all, Aashis Luitel is also human – has to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to express te real feelings!
Twitter.com is a micro-blogging platform where people can share their 140 character long messages. Politicians, celebrities, and businesses use Twitter to update their followers about the latest happenings. Newspapers usually post the headlines and links to the articles. General users use it as a tool to keep themselves updated on the topics of their interest. In addition to following, they also use it as a chat and discussion forum.
What surprised me most of Kantipur is their "official" Twitter page. What was the need to lock it?
I can understand general peo
ple locking their Twitter account. They want to make a close circle and don’t want their posts to be shared out of their community. But, what is the secret within Kantipur community? I thought newspapers are transparent and they write for the mass. May be, Kantipur’s journalism is different.
Shall I send the "follow request" ?
It is worth noting that, in the last few weeks, Kantipur started to publish random and personal twitter posts in its Friday special section. They even tried to act as "moral police" and called one of the Twitter user’s boss to complain about the twits he was posting.
Anuja Baniya was praised everywhere for the news about her returning a bag containing Rs. 9.1 million and a diamond necklace to the rightful owner on April 9. This news was first published in Kantipur Daily and was covered in a number of other newspapers. Even the President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav called Baniya to appreciate her deeds.
But on Friday, a question was raised on the validity of the story when Baniya requested Kathmandu Police to find out the number of Poudel. Baniya told that the number was deleted from her mobile.
The photo on the newspaper itself was a fake. Anuja is the one on the left whereas the photo on the right is that of her friend Mamata Adhikari
Kumar Baniya, cousin of Anuja, told that he couldn’t believe the story of Anuja finding money and returning it.The President´s Office had also asked Morang Chief District Officer to cross-check to find out the truth behind the incident.
The Morang’s CDO has transferred the responsibility to Sunsari’s CDO Ram Prasad Thapaliya saying the matter did not fall under his jurisdiction.
Baniya claimed that she indeed found the bag and returned it to its owner. She has appealed Poudel to come in front of public.
Poudel is said to have withdrawn the sum from IME, Itahari, and traveled to Dharan to purchase land for his daughter. However, IME Itahari´s manager Darshan Shrestha, said that nobody had withdrawn that much money from the branch since April 2.
UPDATE: Kantipur has told that the news was incorrect and has apologized for the mistake
UPDATE: The threat materialized on the Friday’s edition of Kantipur. Although the photo of the Twitter user is not used, they have published the name and designation of another Twitter user. They even went ahead to complain the boss of the KETO (means – “little boy” in Nepali).
Original post:
Oh My God… this is unthinkable! And, it is happening in Nepal!
The journalists of one of the leading publication in Nepal, Kantipur were threatening one of the Twitter users – telling:
“We are going to publish your name/photo in story along w/ur death-threat..” (Let’s make a deal otherwise) “.. respond to our question…”.
And the “death threat” reads – “if *** were in front of me he would have been the second one to die.” (Attached below)
Does a death threat starts with an “IF” ?
Now, we need to understand the pretext before jumping into conclusion. Why Prabhat had to be so angry in the first place. He wrote an article in aakarpost saying (translation):
I had always asked them not to publish my Twitter post. They acted as if their 1 million readers won’t buy their newspaper if my Tweet are not published. Then, when I asked the reason for such an action, they ignored me. When I got angry they came back to threaten me.
The issue of people being unhappy of the publication of Twitter post was being debated for some time. It was everybody’s relief that, the week before they even told that – only Twitter posts mentioning @HelloShukrabar will be publish (see the unhonored announcement below).
In sharp contrast to their own announcement, the publication came as a surprise with purely personal and useless collection of twitter post (a copy at the end). The result:
@nepaldiary – got fired due to the publication of his post in Kantipur daily. Please refer his comment in this post.
@PR4BH4T – was threatened and forced to quit Twitter (link posted above)
@webg0ru – got fed up and left Twitter based on the behavior of the journalists
@nepaleeidiot – left Twitter feeling awkward
@schwafnil – left Twitter, saying “I don’t hold the responsibility of clarifying anyone of my thoughts or motives behind publishing a certain tweet.”
In response to the job loss of @nepaldiary, because of the Twitter post published in Kantipur, the journalists have quoted a proverb sounding like “you got what you deserve.”
@nepaleeidiot’s response before leaving Twitter:
After all these events, our journalists are feeling the proudness of winning the debate – teaching the “incompetents” the lesson.
#tweetdebate is also to be blamed
I think, it was a mistake to choose the title of the debate – “Sneaking Journalism”. That title itself gave negative message to the journalist and they started taking the “defensive stance”. The logic couldn’t penetrate the defensive shield and hence the debate turned out to be one-sided.
Background
The Twitter section in Friday edition of Kantipur daily when Bryan Adams performed the concert in Kathmandu. The Twitter post was really nice and to the point. It was nice to read and feel good about it. But, what followed was the disaster. Here is the recent publication that was the cause of all this out roar:
This is the third post I have written about publication of Twitter in a National Daily (hoping this to be the last). Previous posts were:
The disclaimer: This is my personal view and I don’t necessarily endorse all the views of the linked articles. I don’t know anybody involved, in person, and I don’t have anything against the journalist or the Twitter posters.
The #tweetdebate of last Friday was interesting and it involved the gray area between the legal and ethical boundaries ! The main issue of the debate was that Kantipur, in it’s Friday special (Hello Shukrabar), was publishing unauthorized twitter posts, that were not meant for wider circulation.
I appreciate the journalists of Kantipur who took their time to answer few of the questions. It was in stark contrast to my previous experience of getting a third-grade-citizen-like treatments. Although they never answered the main questions raised in the debate it was a step in the positive direction.
One of the Twitter user sent me this cut of the Kantipur’s publication to explain why he is against them publishing tweets of a general public.
Are you a Twitter user? The micro-blogging platform in which you can’t type more than 140 characters (yes, it is character, not words).
In the recent time, Twitter has become very popular in the world. Some Nepali have also started using it. Encouraged by its popularity in Nepali users, Kantipur Daily has started publishing a section called "Sataka Twits". In the section one of the reporters copies twitter posts of his/her friends and publishes. When I saw the section last week, I felt a bit uneasy. The section this week is really awkward. One guy, in the published post is telling that he has borrowed his friend’s password to check-out the lady friends there (I thought his name deserves to be removed in the following cutting of the newspaper).
A disclaimer first: I don’t know anybody, in person, in Kantipur publication; they have never done any harm to me or anybody I know. Nobody has told to write this article and I have nothing personal to gain or loose by writing this article.
A Nepali weekly, published by once the biggest media house in Nepal, Saptahik, has claimed itself to be targeted to "EVERYBODY" and is publishing contents inappropriate for the children. I have raised this question more than a couple of times and have used every possible medium of communication to get reply from the concerned journalists in Kantipur publication. But, to my dismay, they have chosen to keep themselves in closed door.
Note: This article follows the previous article – Movie review – How is it done? in which Raunak has talked about how a good review is written. In this article, Raunak is analyzing some Nepali movie reviews.
At the time when Hindi movie Ravaan featuring Avisekh Bacchan and Aiswarya Rai was released (June 18, 2010), Nepali daily Kantipur published a review of the movie after a few days of the release. The review mentioned that the movie also featured Manisha Koirala and Govinda. The article appreciated their role even if they appeared briefly in the movie. I had watched the movie on June 19 (before the review was published) so I had to ask a friend for the DVD of the movie to confirm the error in the film review. There was no mention of Manisha in casting and she never appeared in the movie.
Kantipur Television has started its program in the USA from Nov. 17, 2010. The program is being broadcasted through a DTH company Dish Network. With this deal, Dish Network has become the first network to offer Nepali TV in the USA.
The TV is offered as a free preview initially in the Network’s channel no. 757.
We wish Kantipur TV all the best in their new venture in the world’s largest economy, the USA.
Kantipur didn’t know when Miss Nepal 2010 was held (at least its loyal readers don’t). Last time, I questioned their loyalty to their readers and specifically asked for their explanation. I wrote emails to the kantipur officials, with the links to those posts about Miss Nepal and Kantipur. But, they played deaf (attached email screenshot), yet again! It was not the first time I didn’t get a reply from them. Last time, when I wrote about Smita Thapa and Maya Bazin, my emails didn’t get any reply.
A hat-trick of no replies is enough to prove that that the Kantipur officials are self-centered, short-sighted, and don’t know their responsibilities.
