There are fine stories behind every successful personality. This holds true in the case of the editor and novel writer Narayan Wagle also, who has two decades long history of handling Nepal's two big newspapers; Kantipur and Nagarik daily. For 16 years he was affiliated to Kantipur daily, from reporter to editor of that paper. Now he is with Nagarik which is currently running in third year. He calls himself lucky as he was the first one to get hired as a reporter in Kantipur. He is still attached to Kantipur as he was involved from the initial process of hiring reporters till the time it became an empire. He has been to 65 districts of Nepal while reporting. When he sees a familiar name of a place he has been to as a reporter he can still clearly see the images of the corners and bends. In fact some of the people's names are still fresh in his mind. He remembers that phase to be golden period of his life.
Wagle started his career in interesting political curl of our country during 1990's. That period of time made him practice all kinds of journalistic approach. When asked about his first step in journalism, he shares an interesting anecdote. Having strong urge to read extra materials beside his text books in village he stepped in the capital city Kathmandu where he spent most of his time reading thick and heavy books in American and British library. One day with his English teacher of Tri Chandra, he went to a 'Janamanch' newspaper's office for a visit. He thoroughly went through paper's every page and asked the publisher why there weren't any entertainment and art section in that paper? The publisher simply asked him to write and bring. Those words made him write for the very first time for a paper. Surprisingly that got published and he was excited which made him continue writing for that paper and later he got hired in that paper. To fulfill his thirst of reading and writing, he joined that paper.
While talking about novels he shares that 'Palpasa Café' was a product of year's long experience of visiting places and interest in writing.
According to him, journalists should work to bring out truth and during that time, if any one says we are being biased, then that should not matter to us. He says, "Hiding fact is a kind of manipulation". So bringing out truth to the society is what a journalist's work is.
