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

I'd rather go have lunch with your seven dollars!

:-)

PS. That Bush photo attraction: it is called cowboy Bush.

This is one becoming one weird thread.
Watching MTV with sound off? Sounds like something Kurt Cobain did.
How does Paraminder's video fit into all this?
If NK and Qallu are each others' nemesis, who is Nemesis?
Which drug is bathroomcoffee taking?
When is San paying us dividends for our time investment?
Is the movie over yet?
Opportunist of the year award goes to Qallu.
Kalankisthan you need to get pissed sometimes katthi khit khit?

crypto, like i said, nothing's over until I say it's over. btw, there's an award waiting for you, too, at the podium.

San PAYING divident? He will ask YOU to PAY. My suggestion - Pretend you are not enjoying a whole lot!

के हो "एन के" ले त मलाई गाँठे गोटा तिनेक बर्ख घर खाएर माईत आकी पुल्पुलिएकी छोरी
सम्झाइन । मेरी बास्सै।

त्यस्तै ऊस्तैका बोली त गाँठे भुईँमा नझर्दै ड्याम की ड्याम भेटन थाले दनक।

I just noticed the title of this thread.

End of Sajha? Mr. Ashu Mani Chattopadhyaya, what do you mean?

I think Sajha will stick around in its water cooler form.

NK. What is this sexual tension talk?

I am for peace and comraderie among Sajhaites. Cyber faces.

Another interesting thread:
- http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/openThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=22725

- http://www.paramendra.com

You just noticed the title after you already posted couple of postings. Parminder can you get real?

I think it might be a good thing if sajha comes to an end. Since I have visited this site, my productivity at work has decreased from 9 to a 2 from a scale of 1 to 10. I don't feel like doing any work, learning new things. Sajha is just too distracting and been very bad for my career. I am sure there are many who are affected like I am. When is the sajha switch going to be turned off?

Sounds like Hawa_ko is kind of bitter about the dictations he has received from the dictator. Hami pani sunum na :)

hehe!

Yesto, kura chadi dau.

Tara one thing we do share in common, we both dont beilive in a freedom of speech that spreads chaos.

"Pade Queen No. 1
(chakman's sidekick)"

Nattu tere muh me ghi aur saakar, ghaati tak, tu hadi ghopte. Khale masta karke, aur chakman ke cha* ke badale me mai tere muh se nikalungi

beginning of SAJHA - THE GENERATION NEXT

There is no end, it's just a continuation....

Cryptonite गुँइठे, चूप लाग!!! Superman सम्झिस कि क्या हो? haaaaaaa!! (कुरो चाँहि ठिकै गर्या होस ल जा)

Uday Uncle... It ain't over till the FAT LADY sings re... eh.. and going by the उल्का चण्डिका's and फूलका थुङगा's in Sajha, we don't have any FAT lady in sajha re.. eheh, and भएमा पनि our fat ladies can't sing re...

Bumped into this thread while doing some search. Interesting conversation from 10 years back!

You were wrong 10 years ago and you are still wrong.

You are Fired!

@Donald Trump, let's make sajha great again!!!

Sajha is already great. Some people comes every year bark about quality and leave without notice.

It was a joke facebook :D

@MlnNNpl - Yes I will make Sajha great again by Building a Giant Wall.

Huuuuuuggggggggeeeeeeeeee one ????