Umesh Shrestha (Salokya)

          Umesh Shrestha (Salokya) is the first Nepali video blogger and a well-known digital journalist. He has worked for Pahilo Post as an editor, Annapurna Post Daily as an assistant digital editor, Nagarik News as an online coordinator, and Avenues TV. Umesh was the first one to use Nepali Unicode in his blog site, but he also has podcasts, audio and video. When his blog site ‘Mysansar’ received 20 visitors in April 2005, he was ecstatic. One very eventful year and lots of blogging later his Mero Sansar site notched 67,000 visitors on a single day on 25 April 2006.