Indrajatra, one of the major Jatra (festivals) celebrated in the Kathmandu valley is a major occasion for any Newar residing in the valley. All of us belonging to different religions have festivals of our own and celebrate and rejoice them. Any festival celebrated in the country is seen with equal respect. Even the government has announced public holidays for many of the festivals celebrated by people from different clans.
The significance of Indrajatra need not be described to any one, be them be residing inside the valley or not. It is one of the major festivals celebrated in the valley for several days; with chariots of Ganesh, Kumari and Bhairav being taken around many city areas. There had always been a system in which a small amount of budget had been allotted for the occasion.
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The recent Sapatakoshi river flood has caused catastrophic damage to lives, livelihoods and infrastructure to an already fragile part of Nepal. According to Red-cross (Nepal), around 54,000 people in the Kusaha, Haripur, Shreepur, Loukahi, and Bhokraha Village Development Committees (VDC) of Sunsari district are displaced.
The initial Damage and Emergency Need Assessment carried out by Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) has shown that more than 54,000 people living in the eastern belt of the Saptakoshi River have been displaced so far as the river changed its course through densely populated human settlements on 18 August 2008. According to the assessment, 8 Village Development Committees (VDC) are badly affected, and some others are still at risk of flooding.
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Administrator’s note: This is a guest post from Mr. Anup KC who is currently in Sydney, Australia.
It’s just pretty sad to see and a tragic too when people can’t see what’s happening around them and in their society and the country itself. So, blind by their arrogance and hypocrisies, self contained and f%#@ing blaming attitude of Nepalese that their blind and dumb politicians of present Nepal could do nothing but to lead the country to astray; as they are not fit for this 21st century. They are too old, crippled and outdated.
They have got no idea of what so ever is happening besides there 3 km radius which is why they all (including all ranas, kings, and all political parties) believe that country is running smoothly and performing well and all we need is stability. STABILITY is what you say we need and all we do is sit stable, quiet in our house dreaming of future turning blind eye to what is happening today in country without realizing; today makes tomorrow. Hence, your no effort to do anything today will lead to nowhere tomorrow.
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I was asked by my friend Ashish Thapa to read this news on BBC. It was about Food shortages grow in rural Nepal. How many of us are aware of this news? I was really surprised to read the headline of the news. Many things ran in my mind, asked myself many question.
What! Food Shortage in Nepal? Can this happen in my country? How can this happen?
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Nepal is going though a transition period, it is understandable that various issues that were neglect or just shrugged off before are bound to rise for public scrutiny. The problem is not that these issues are just or unjust but the problem is the lack of understanding and abiding the rule and norms of a democratic process.These various politicians claim to be a part of a democratic system and yet it seems they dont understand the very essence of a democracy. The recent issue of “ Ek Madesh Ek Pradesh“ is one of those very issues that is far more volatile and no decisions can be made until it goes through the whole constitutional assembly process. The way these political parties are holding the nation on a ransom is totally unacceptable.
It is a very sensitive issue altogether, it is an outright division of a nation based on ethnicity and has a tendency to segregate and hinder the whole united Nepal frontier that is so much need to help us progress and break the vicious cycle of cultural and religious dogmas that have done a lot of damages already. The politicians fighting for this so called tag need to look at the simple fact that within those areas, it’s not madeshies or pahadiyas or tharus or any other ethnic groups that live there its Nepalese who live there, irrespective of what you look like you are a Nepali.
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Taking aside other different multiple access technologies, there are three FDMA, TDMA and CDMA highly being used and acclaimed.
FDMA - The available frequency range is divided in to frequency slots and each slot is provided to each user or for purposes. 1G was totally based on this technology.
TDMA - Similar to FDMA, but here available time frame is divided in to a limited time slots and in each slot data of different user are trasmitted. Europe used this technique to develop GSM, 2G standard mobile.
CDMA - Neither frequency nor time are used, rather code to transmit data of different users within a wideband. North America used the technique to develop IS-95, 2G standard mobile.
It may seem tough to understand these technologies in such above languages. These all techniques are being used by us in our life unknowingly.
FDMA - Whatever one needs something, give him a portion of something. In FDMA case, something is frequency as a channel. This is the simple and easy process that we are using in our daily life since when FDMA term wasn’t in existence.
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Since the massive use of internet in Nepal, for past few years we have seen many Entertainment website in Nepal. These entertainment website have proved itself as a good platform for uprising stars in entertainment field.
Especially for the female model, it has been a god’s gift. Many established model came through internet magazine like cybersansar.com, netnasha.com, thikthak.com, clickdharan.com, butwalcity.com, parichaya.com to name a few.
If we see the history of Nepali modeling field or entertainment market, i remember Dolly Gurung, who’s “Wai Wai” advertisement around 2 decade ago was a massive hit on Nepal Television, I still have a vivid image of that advertisement. I think she was wearing short skirt.
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Nadir Karim is bowled by Mahaboob Alam |
It was one of the great moments in the history of Nepali sports. Nepal’s cricket teams bowler Mahaboob Alam took all the 10 wickets ongoing ICC World Cricket League against Mozambique. This tournament is road to 2011 ICC cricket world cup.
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It seems like soon we will have nothing to be proud of being a Nepali. We are losing our Identity, the identity of Nepal and being a Nepali, the Culture of our Nepal and the traditions.
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| Lumbini, Birth place of lord Buddha |
Let’s talk about Lumbini, it is a birthplace of Lord Buddha and it lies in Nepal now. Unceso has already listed it in its World Heritage Site, but we still hear from the Indian side that Buddha was born in India, and they have named the place with the same name just other side of the boarder. What does this means? They are not afraid to say that Buddha was born in India, I heard from my friend who studied in south India that there they are taught that Buddha was born in India and Nepal is a part of India, I have no idea how much truth is there in it, but that is what we have been hearing. They used to have fight with their Indian friends on this issue. As a proof we can take the issue of Indian movie star Mrs. Madhuri Dixit. When she arrived in Nepal few years back, she said that she thought Nepal is a part of India or similar kind of statement which drew a big attention in Nepal.
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Bio Fuel Production A crime against Humanity.
Cost of food is now buzz word these days and news channels are flooded with news covering reason behind sudden rise in the cost of Rice and Wheat. A World Bank survey reveals that total reserve of Rice has gone down alarmingly and it is in lowest level for decade. Some of the major reasons behind lower production of Rice and ultimately rising cost of food may be summarized as follows.
- Rampant Urbanization with less and less cultivable land.
- Global warming has caused unusual pattern of weather.
- Switching of Food production to Cash crops like Sugarcane.
- Bio fuel production from crops like Maize and Mustard is widely encouraging farmers to shift toward it instead of Rice and wheat.
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