Rishi Dhamala,

His education: 8 किलास फेल

तर उसले सबैजसो पत्रकारलाई उछिनेको छ । कमल थापा होस या, भरत मोहन होस या प्रचण्ड । कांग्रेसले त ऋषि हाम्रै हो भन्छन । उसले सबै खाले सरकारबाट पैसा र पदक (यी महासयले ज्ञानेन्द्र सरकारबाट गोर्खा दक्षिण बाहु पनि पाउन सफल थिए) लिएर काम गर्न सफल छन । अहिले प्रचण्ड सगं पनि राम्रै दोस्ति देखिन्छ ।

जे होस सच्चा पत्रकार हुन यिनी।

really, isnt he like president of reporters club or something.......i remember him seeing him in his over coat in samamkhusi but really i am impressed if he is just 8 class passed...thats almost like american dream..............highschool dropout and making it...he deserved that gorkha dakshina bahu if he got it..................that should be nepali dream.......education is always overrated anyway

rishi dhamala is a opportunist..

we all are opportunist, and we should be too.

Hats off too rishi Dhamala.

He is all time joker in Nepalese journalism.

The problem with Nepal is that Mobs and goons are journalists and the illterates here (SPAMmer terrorists) believe in illeterate journalists. Did someone say: state of the State?

I have seen 14 year old journalists in Nepal and they write for Kantipur...state of the State...

Ha...ha..
Nowadays he is carrying a mike of Nepal 1 TV.He is doing misuse of his post and responsibility. and there is no any suits for him as news correspondant coz his presenting style is very upseting.

डाहा गरेर मात्र हुन्छ? All journalists should learn from him, how to apprear on camera? Previously, I used to ponder how come this guy apprear on every pictures of nepali media. Now, sometimes, I used to get surprized not seeing him on pictures. How come a cameraperson take pictures of Nepal's politicians without Dhamala on it? There must be something wrong with the event or the cameraperson.

Anyways, he is a good mood refreshing person for me. Everytime I see his picture, I can not help myself laughing. Like.. shardar ji.. and jokes by number... Number 12.. ha..ha..ha...

TIMI MU**JEE HARU AARUKO KURA KATNA BAHEK K GARNA SAKCHHAU?STOP THIS NEPALI PARA KO KURAUTEE CHALAN!
JAHELE PANI AARU KO KURA KATEKO BAHEK KEHI SUNINNNA!!
oo god!!!

People, especially journalists who chest-thump about their own importance, do not seem to understand that because of profound technological changes, journalism is becoming more and more merely an activity.

That means, journalism today -- even in Nepal -- is less of a profession than what it
was even 5 years ago.

If you read well, write well and can argue well and have access to data/information, snyone can set up blogs, web sites, add bits of podcasting features and so on and on and DIVERT readers' attention away from reading the mainstream media.

And, seriously,who has time to read Kantipur online after you have had your daily fix of, say, blog.com.np and few other non-stream outlets of information?

In this context, someone like Rishi is to be praised and commended for being the most ACTIVE "journalist" in Nepal. He gets people to talk publicly about issues of national importance. His events are widely covered by the mainstream media.

Because he appears to get along well with everyone, that trait makes him -- inteterestingly enough -- the most NEUTRAL journalist there is in Nepal.

Rishi has become a brand unto himself: a brand of someone who can get just about anyone on the phone in nepal and get information about it.

That's power.
That's influence.

True, some people never tire of talking about lack of formal educational credentials -- as a reader, I'd worry if my medical doctor were only "class-8 pass" . . . as for journalists, I, as a reader, don't care how educated they are so long as they provide news and informnation to the public in ways NO ONE ELSE CAN.

And that's what Rishi has been doing for several years.
Hats off to him.

oohi
ashu

have seen several College graduate who could not write a error-free paragraph.
What matters is how well Rishi does his job -- I would care less if he is an 8th grader or has a PhD.

कुरा काटेको होइन, यो मान्छेको खुबी, पढाई बिना पनि अचम्मै होइन त। शाही सरकारबाट पैसा खाएर लोकतन्त्रको नारा पनि लगाउदा चाहिं चित्त बुझेन । यिनको इतिहास कांग्रेस भएपनि पत्रकारिता चाहि अल्लि भाटे छ । यानि जो पाउरमा आयो उसैलाई उचाल्न सक्ने ।भाट प्रबिति पनि त खुबी नै मान्नुपर्छ स्पेसियलि पत्रकारिता जस्तो व्यवसायमा ।

AS LONG AS GUYS LIKE RISHI DHAMAL IN NEPAL , WE WILL NEVER PROGRESS AND DEVELOP. I KNOW THIS GUY PERSONALLY WHO USED TO STUDY IN KALIMATI, WHERE HE USED TO ASK MONEY WITH ALL PEOPLE WHO CROSS FROM HIS SCHOOL,

HE FAILED THE SLC TWICE AND WENT TO JOURNALISM WITH HELP OF SUJATA KOIRALA, HE IS THE ONE USED TO VISIT ARJUN NARSINGH KC, HE KNOWS THE DAMN SECRET ABOUT SUJATA, WHO IS HAD AFFAIR WITH KC. THIS GUYS IS WITNESS, FROM THAT MOMENTS, HE TRY TO BLACK MAIL TO SUJATA AND GET MONEY AND ESTABILISHED UNNION SO CALLED PRESIDENTS.

As far as I know, Rishi has never claimed to be a saint.
Nor has he propped himsedlf up as some sort of a "role-model journalist".

He does what he does.
He acts; other react.

Given how utterly biased - and I would say, irrelevant -- journalism prizes are in Nepal, Rishi will NEVER win any of those mainstream prizes. That's fine. [Will Matt Drudge, for instance, ever be be given a Pulitzer Prize for commentary?]

I judge Rishi -- whom I know only through his work and NOT personally -- by one result only.

That is, in an ideologically balkanized Nepal where one group of people never talk to another group of people just because they have different ideas, and in a place were because fragile egos, all sorts of jhagada and kich-kich going on and on, this guy gets all kinds of people to come and speak at his Reporters' Club on issues of national importance.

Sure, he's a self-promoter.
But so what?

Sure, his educational credentials are not that great.
But so what?
Since when have we started requiring our newspeople to have their PhDs?

Sure, he has hung out with all sorts of people.
But so what?
As a reader, I'd rather have a journalist who has access to all sorts of sources and people than the one who only has a few predictable sources.

My point is simple: As a consumer of journalism, I accept Rishi as a vital part of the eco-system of Nepali journalism. He has created a unique niche for himself, and that's great in a back-biting, dog-eat-dog, nasty and ideologically riven world of a Nepali profession.

oohi
ashu

The question is is he a Bill O'Reilly, Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh kinda reporter OR is he Peter Jennings, Walter Kronkite, Tom Brokaw, or Bill Leherrer kinda reporter ?
If the the guy runs a Jerry Springer kinda show then yeah PEOPLE are talking but does it hold any substance ? or is he merely just makin bread 'N butter. he he

I mean Jim leherer

Most of the journalists of Nepal are black mailers. They call people's house late at night and threaten them to expose their names in the newspaper for some petty bribary if they do not provide them with cash. They do this frequently and is rampant.

I think he did his SLC from Jana Prabhat School.

People like Rishi Dhamala are genius.
Hats off to his Caliber.

Sad is thing is that, people like him lack one thing. Ethics.

Here is what The Nepali Times, arguably Nepal's most influential weeky print-newspaper, had to say more than 3 years ago about Rishi Dhamala.


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The Man in the Middle

- http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/139/NepaliSociety/3418

From Issue #139 (04 April 03 - 10 April 03

Many who saw the pictures of Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand shaking hands with Baburam Bhattarai at the Convention Centre on Monday wondered who the man in the middle was. It was none other than Rishi Dhamala (centre, pic right), the flamboyant chairman of the Reporters’ Club Nepal, adroitly squeezing himself between the two so the cameras could catch him.

The occasion was the sixth anniversary of the club, and as it turns out, the prime minister wasn’t told that the wily Dhamala would get him to shake hands with Bhattarai.

To his detractors, and they are legion, Dhamala is a self-seeking publicist who uses his club to shamelessly promote himself. But even his critics credit Dhamala with a nose for news that turns a Reporters’ Club function itself into a news event.

Asked why he didn’t warn his guests about the nature of the anniversary function on Monday, Dhamala told us: “I wanted to show that the process of reconciliation had begun.” Although his intended message got twisted, the function got more public interest than most other face-to-face events conducted by the club so far.

Dhamala is not a modest man, that’s for sure. He is often seen sitting sandwiched between celebrity invitees so he is always on the front page of newspapers and on television. “Look, I don’t purposely get into the limelight,” he says testily. “But I deserve credit for what I do.”

In the last six years Reporters’ Club Nepal has invited even the most inaccessible and media shy public figures for the pleasure of being grilled by Kathmandu’s hacks. Controversial political leaders, timid bureaucrats, diplomats, ministers and prime ministers from home and abroad have all gone through the wringer.

Dhamala says his job is symbiotic: the journalists get access to figures they could not otherwise interview, and his guests get to talk to the entire press corps at one go. Whatever one may say about his abrasive style and self-publicity, Dhamala is self-made. He was jailed for hawking anti-Panchayat newspapers when he was just a high school student.

The 30-year-old political science graduate was a full-time journalist until he founded Reporters’ Club six years ago. Now he says he is ready to hand over the club to his successor and return to reporting again. “I crave for the rush of producing a daily newspaper,” he confided.

But it isn’t hard to imagine that beneath all that there is a political animal struggling to get out. “Yes, I would like to ultimately get into politics, and I have strong grassroots support in my home district of Dhading,” he admits. In that case, all this exposure and rubbing shoulders with politicians will be useful.

But isn’t he running out of guests to invite to his forum? Who is left? Rishi Dhamala doesn’t hesitate with the answer: “The king.”