Kura Kaani

Have we learnt to live with stigma attached over our foreheads?

2009-01-08T00:22:00Z

By Bibhu Bikram Pant

You can call me a commoner, or a layman, or simply a Nepali. A man who has dreams of peace and prosperity, but fears to dream since dreams and aspirations are suppressed under the current affairs of the country. A man who sets out for his office every morning with the hope that the day will be good, but fears of the unknowns and bears a strange phobia that someone or something is lurking behind for an ambush. Someone has truly said - dare to dream. Today, it takes a daring to dream a great future. The question that hunts me the most today is why the f__k I didn't go aboard for study, and settle there? Was it the love of the country, or love of the closed ones, or simply my inabilities? Frankly, I do not know. But the question remains - is it a sin to stay in one's own native land and dream of a good life? Definitely not. The ground realities, nevertheless, are still the same - insecurities and uncertainties.

The biggest blow to my sense came when the holy shrine of Pashupatinath was meddled in the controversy. What greater debacle could one hope after this? Education sector was attacked, health sector was not spared, socio-economical issues were tainted – the branches of foul politics spread everywhere, but Pashipatinath?? Give us a break!! I don’t believe in craps like “desh ma aba anista hune bho, Pashupati lai pani chhodenan iniharule”. The so called “anista” has hit the nation way back. I blame politics for all what is happening, you certainly do too. But what are we doing about it? Politics, or dirty as you may, is a result of our indifference. Better late than never, we should act now. Well there, that was easy. I know it’s simple to lay down one’s frustration over words, which I am doing right now. No action whatsoever on my part to try to mend the current affairs. After all, I am also a human being – a lone man can not act in solitude, no matter how great his intentions are. This is actually what is happening. I do not have solutions, neither do you. The problem requires a joint action on the civilians’ part. Or, have we learnt to live lives with stigma attached over our foreheads and simply say “C’est la vie”.

Load Shedding = Dark & Cold

2008-12-30T03:45:00Z

By:Jules West

I challenge you to contemplate - really stop and think for a moment - what your life would be like if you had to live 10 hours of each and every day without electricity.

I hadn't gotten an email from Sudip in a few days so yesterday I Skype-called him and he reported that load shedding is now up to 10 hours per day. The reason I hadn't heard from him is that he hadn't been able to get to a computer while the power was on.

Wikipedia defines it this way:
A rolling blackout, also referred to as load shedding, is an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage. These blackouts are normally in response to insufficient resources and inability to meet prevailing demand for electricity.
I define it another way: Load shedding = dark & cold & a barrier to communication, business, development and progress. It's an everpresent feature (or should I say an everabsent feature) of the daily lives of the people of Nepal.

Here I'm quoting fellow blogger Bibek Paudel because he says it so well: "People plan their days accordingly. They sleep and wake up accordingly. Businesses and office-goers, professionals try to adjust their work and daily routine in harmony with the load-shedding schedule published by the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA, aptly called No Electricity Authority of Nepal). NEA is very good at doing it. It changes its schedule and duration time and again, citing different reasons. In summers, its usually because of the flooding at certain rivers that grains and rock try to disturb the hydro-power plants. In winters, its because most rivers originating in the mountains decrease in their volumes because the snow melts less. At other times, its because one or the other power plant needs to be closed because of technical difficulties. At no points do we learn about measures taken to forestall annual occurrences of such events."

In a country where the snow melt runoff from Mt. Everest and the rest of the Himalayan range produces a power potential equivalent to the combined installed hydroelectricity capacity of Canada, the United States and Mexico, this is ridiculous. Less than 1 percent of Nepal's power potential has been developed. Basically, Nepal has the potential to produce enough power for itself, India and other other South Asia countries, with the sale of the surplus power fueling economic development.

Some assert that this latest crisis is falsely generated for some political motive such as government officials who will benefit from the building of diesel-run power plants. Others say that the current power plants are in such terrible condition that they cannot handle the load. The rapid growth of the Kathmandu Valley population is also cited.

Whatever the real reason, its a great hardship for the people.

FEDERALIZING NEPAL

2008-12-17T17:52:00Z

By: Bipendra
Just came out of an evening of brain storming about Naya (New Nepal); the idea was to discuss some of the scholarly articles on how can Naya Nepal be "federated". In other words how can our country be demarked into various states/political regions and can they be socio-economically viable? To figure out what makes sense and what does not? It was indeed a great idea of all the people involved in organizing such an event and a way for us to "Speak Out our Mind". More than any thing else it was a great opportunity for Nepalese staying abroad to pass on their concerns to the legal entities of Nepal. I applaud the organizer Washington Nepali forum and United States Institute for Peace for providing us this opportunity.

I felt like we are still really back in a game where we are trying to weed out our differences of being from different caste system. Some one complains about being left out in the past whereas other talk about possible exclusion of minorities, yet again. It was a general consensus that Naya Nepal is needed but no one really wants to see new neighboring states with people that they have not seen before or moved in just because they seem to be under same ethnicity.

I don’t feel ashamed to confess that being a graduate student I do not know how the federal system works in Nepal; and what kind of political division are planners making. I know from media that there has been a general consensus to autonomies states based on their ethnicity, but is it just for name sake? Does Limbuwan State will only have majority of Limbus and only Limbu speaking people can dwell in such state. I know this is not true; at least I hope that this is not true. If this indeed the case, then need to educate people about it and the name “Limbuwan” is just a name; has no significance to the other people already living there and that area was historically Limbu dominant.

Have any engineering thoughts been put into demarking the states. I have a fear that if conditions of existing infrastructures are not considered in demarcation then while Kathmandu is planning on building Skyscrapers; a state in western Nepal might be scrambling to make a Jholenge pool (suspension bridge) or even fighting hard to provide a basic need of food and shelter. If enough thought is not provided into existing physical resources then we might just increase the economic gap between states. A prosperous neighbor is good to have, but then they make my house look smaller in the neighborhood.

There are lots of people with reservations and fear about the new structure of Nepal. Fear of inadequate resources, fear of isolation and fear of ethnic violence. I know this is out of question now but there were people who even questioned about necessity of new political structure or should we look into empowering the existing system without redrawing new map of Nepal.

I know there are more questions on my write-up than answers and that’s because I belong to millions of Nepali people who have not been answered in the past. Rather imposed of the new rules and regulations. Hope this does not happen this time along as I like to think that our new constitution will be so strong that we don’t need to go into its amendment every fortnight.

Let us spread the word around, lets educate and uplift our fellow citizens where were left out in the past and unite to make our voice stronger; let the people of Nepal be more thoughtful than they ever have been. Let our future generation be proud of this Naya Nepal. I believe that we can change Nepal, a change that’s direly needed and I blog at http://blog.nayanepalnews.com/ to spread my thought and assemble yours.

What I Think of the New Nepal?

2008-12-10T15:53:00Z

By: Pranay Panday

Recently, millions of Nepalese woke up to see the end of the monarchy and a fresh, new start of republican Nepal. As a student, I was never up to date with politics; however I am glad to be a part of the history in making, as history books are rewritten since the time of the Shah Kings has eternally ended. For me it wasn’t really pleasant to see the dissolution of a 240 year old monarchy, the more deserving kings that once ruled this country such as Prithivi Narayan Shah’s legacy and their flawless commitment to their country slowly disappearing. However, at the present time, I guess the only possible way we saw to a better Nepal was ending the monarchy.

But then there is an unsure feeling I have to a common headline that has been published in all newspaper; two words that slip out of every minister’s mouth, “New Nepal”. ‘How’ and ‘when’ is the only thing I think of when somebody mentions me of a newer Nepal. How will we tackle all the problems Nepal is facing? Rising fuel prices; load shedding that is bound to double up in winter; growing traffic congestion and smell from rivers that practically resemble sewers, killing the air…….so is this really the new Nepal. And you can add to that the social conflicts among the people here. Gender, colour inequalities are just the things people in societies bicker upon. When everyone has the same blood colour then there is nothing you should argue about, nor does your caste decide how you should be treated. Bribing, robbery, kidnapping is with no doubt ruining Nepal’s title as the land of gods. Books are not supplied in an entire district and these same people are expected to take over the country. for Nepal, its out of the frying pan and into the fire, problems one after the other.

Just because of the election, end of monarchy and the new parliament hasn’t made a new Nepal; the only thing that is new is the increasing number of problems. When we are never independent and always rely on others for even the smallest things then we will always be in an early stage of development. But we are all endowed in one thing or the other; humans have the power to love, share, imagine, understand and work together which is the strategy we should put in work to take anything to a prominent level.

In the past, and now as well, the situation in Nepal has been quite appalling. After the elections some of us started to hope for the best, but meantime also expect the worst. I like many my eyes were vague as I was confused for what was going to happen. But then I realized that no matter how much of a heap of mess Nepal was in, time is always passing away and even the darkest moment in Nepal will go by, eventually. So together lets reopen gates of the Shangri-las’; repaint its polluted panorama; let people from all over the world indulge themselves in Nepal’s large pool of cultures and tradition and most importantly lets try our best to restore peace in each and every corner.

Together as one nation let’s step into the new republican era and awake the magical, mystical and mountainous nation of Nepal from its deep sleep.

The Journey from India to Nepal

2008-12-09T03:18:00Z

By Uli Loskot

The overnight train ride from Kolkata to Patna does not feel as enjoyable and safe as all the other train ride adventures I have had so far. I am a bit concerned about my safety and the safety of my stuff. During the entire ride persistent beggars come through the train and people look at me with less compassion and openness, but more despair and envy. The North Indian state of Bihar, which is where I am travelling through, is one of the poorest regions in India.

I arrive dazed in Patna in the morning and take a collective motor rickshaw to the bus station, a dusty and forgotten place on the edge of town. It's a long eight hour bus ride from here to the Indian border town of Raxaul. Somewhere on the way the bus breaks down in a small village. As soon as the kids of the village see me they come running at me, and a wild, crazy mob encircles me. I take the situation in my hands by pulling out my camera and take photos with them and me. They love it!

Raxaul is a dusty border town. There is no bus that crosses the border into Nepal. The means of transportation is a horse rickshaw. I have no idea how far the actual border is, so I am being overcharged for the ride. But hey, I have never crossed a border in a horse wagon!

The Indian border is a tiny, inconspicuous house on the side of the road with an eccentric border officer. He proudly shows me a couple of postcards, pictures and things he has been given by other foreigners, goes on to charge me a border fee without a wink of his eye and marks me down in his big book. I am told later that there is no border fee, so that guy must be making pretty good money with all the travelers that come through his border.

Then we are off on the horse wagon again on a bumpy street, further on to the Nepali border. I am obtaining a visa to enter Nepal, which consists of a hand filled out preprinted sticker in my passport. The border officers are friendly, proud and handsome guys in uniforms and I express how excited I am about visiting Nepal.

The horse rickshaw driver drops me off soon thereafter on the Napali side. I am in another dusty border town called Birganj. At this point I am totally in tune with the fact that I will be stuck in an uncomfortable seat on an old bus for another eight to ten hours, riding over the foothills of the Himalayas down into the Kathmandu valley. I don't have much of a vista on this trip, its dark outside. I can feel how the temperatures have dropped drastically and there are pine trees along the side of the road, the air is brisk. When we stop for some chai in the middle of the night, which is called chia in Nepal, I slowly realize that I am in Nepal.

डी ई मिश्रमाथि गोली प्रहार र ई साहको अपहरण

2008-12-05T17:15:00Z

जनकपुरधाम ।महोत्तरी जिल्ला विकास समितिको प्राविधिक कार्यालयको प्रमुख तथा जिविसको निमित्त स्थानीय विकास अधिकारी कृष्णचन्द्र मिश्रलाइ जनकपुर नगरपालिकाको वडा नम्बर ४ को आनन्दनगर स्थित आफ्‍नै घरमा बुधबार राती गोली प्रहार गरिएकोछ ।मिश्रको छातीमा गोली लागेकोछ र उनको उपचार जनकपुर अञ्चल अस्पतालमा संभव नभएपछि राजधानी लिगएकोछ ।अस्पताल स्रोतका अनुसार डी.इ मिश्रको स्थिति चिन्ताजनक रहेकोछ ।डी.इ.मिश्रलाइ जिविस महोत्तरीमा व्यापक अनियमितता गरेको आरोप लगाउँदै गोली प्रहारको जिम्मेवारी जनतान्त्रिक तरार्इ मुक्ति मोर्चा (राजन मुक्ती )समुहले लिएकोछ ।प्रहरीले घटनामा संलग्न रहेकाहरुको व्यापक खोजी भइरहेको जनाएकोछ ।आनन्दनगर क्षेत्रमा अहिले व्यापक प्रहरी परिचालन गरिएकोछ ।घटनाकोजिम्मेवारी जनतान्त्रिक तराइ मुक्ती मोर्चा(राजन समुह)का अध्यक्ष राजनमुक्तीले लिएका छन ।उनले केन्द्रीय कमाण्डद्वारा गरिएको कार्वाही केन्दि्रय कमाण्डको प्लाटुन कमाण्डर प्र ले मुक्तीको नेतृत्वमा रहेको समुहले गरेकोछ ।यसैबीच धनुषा जिल्लामा एकजना इञ्जिनियरको बुधबार अपरान्ह अपहरण गरिएकोछ धनुषा जिल्ला स्थित खरिहानी गाउँ विकास समिति स्थित पैतृक घरबाट जनकपुर तफ आउँदै गरेको बेला इञ्जिनियर जामुन साहलाइ अपहरण गरिएकोछ ।खरिहानी गाउँ विकास समिति वडा नम्बर ३ घर भएको इ.साह जनकपुर ढल्केवर सडक खण्ड मध्ये सपही जनकपुर खण्डको सडक ठेक्केदारको कन्सलटेन्टको रुपमा कार्यरत्त रहेका थिए । इ.साहलाइ खरिहानीको गेरुवाही नदीबाट अपहरण गरिएको बताइएकोछ इ.साह र उनीसँगै रहेको परिवारजन मध्ये साहलाइ मात्र गाडीबाट पैदल अज्ञात स्थल तफ लगिएको बताइएकोछ । इं साहसँगै उनका परिजनहरु दुइवटा जीपमा सवार रहेका थिए ।जीपलाइ नदीमा दुइ घण्टा भन्दा बढी समय सम्म रोकेर राखिएको र पछि परिजनलाइ फिर्ता खरिहानी तर्फ पठाइएको थियो ।इ.साहको स्थिति अज्ञात छ ।जीप अबेर राती सम्म नदीमै रहेको थियो ।प्रत्यक्षदर्शीहरुका अनुसार दश जनाको संख्यामा रहेका सशस्त्र समुहले इ.साहलाइ पैदल लगेकोछ ।पिताको वार्षिक श्राद्ध सकेर उनी सपरिवार आजै जनकपुर फर्कन लागेको बेला दिउँसो करिब साढे चार बजे नदीमा पहिले नै कुरेर बसिरहेको सशस्त्र समुहले अपहरण गरेकोछ ।

Tomorrow: Thoughts of a Nepali Student in New York

2008-12-03T17:23:00Z

The real question is what will each of us give back to the country to which we owe our identity? Or will there be no members of our generations to shoulder the responsibility –

By Nisha Shrestha
This article titled was originally published in the Nov 1-15 issue of New York Nepali Samachar.

Still cannot get to sleep, I turn lazily to the other side of the bed. I open my eyes to glance at the alarm clock; the green digits read 2:00. Five more hours and it is going to come to life, force me out of bed to go to school, then work, and back home late at night. Time never stops, does it? Time passes away with each blink of an eye, and it is up to us to utilize it. The feeling of uneasiness grips me again; and the reason is suddenly clear. I have been thinking about my conversation with Dikshya di and Dipendra dai over tea this afternoon. I have been thinking about what next after graduation.

There are many Nepali students like me in the United States, and many more scattered in countries all over the globe, who have left Nepal in pursuit of higher education. The number is definitely substantial, as I myself have only a handful of friends back home. As students we make immense sacrifices to get that degree we came here for. We think of graduating as our salvation. We hope for an American dream, to get rich and have that perfect house and the perfect job. But what are the chances? And what about Nepal, the essence of who we are? So, when Dipendra dai and Dikshya di both voiced their decision to go back to Nepal after graduation, I had an array of emotions. Shock, admiration, confusion, respect.

My confusion is indeed justifiable. When one goes back to Nepal and gets a “good job,” one may earn Rs. 30,000 a month, which is (30,000/74) $405.40. A week’s wage here, even for a minimum paying work. There is also the question about the lack of opportunities. It is indeed tough for a country to get investors (both foreign and domestic), to invest money when it is still politically instable. Another opportunity lost, because Nepal could gain a lot from the recent trend in globalization. Over 80% of the total Nepali population relies on agriculture; over 80% of the European population were agricultural too, but in the 17th century. It was before the industrial revolution there, which transformed their society from agricultural to industrial and today to technological. Are we 4 centuries behind? It pains me to admit, but the answer sadly is “perhaps.” Perhaps, although our county has had many political revolutions, what we really need is an intellectual revolution.

Nepal doesn’t lack talent or intellect. Nor does it lack natural beauty or appropriate geographical location. I think Nepal is very capable of competing in today’s global market; all it needs really is us – we are the future of Nepal, and it is up to us to determine its fate. Most of the people that I talked to did want to go back to Nepal if there were opportunities. They talked about the prestige and respect they would have back home; the familiarity, family, quality of life and self-respect. Yet others like my friend Pariksha wanted to work here to gain more experience and earn before returning back. “I should at least reach my break-even point,” she explained like a true finance student. And a few others saw no reason for going back.

As I analyzed my confusion again, I realized that I was asking the wrong question. It is not just the question of where we will be working after graduation. The real question is what will each of us give back to the country to which we owe our identity? Or will there be no members of our generations to shoulder the responsibility – will there just be a void?

Nisha Shrestha is a 22 year old Nepali student, majoring in finance and minoring in CIS and ethics in Baruch college, CUNY, New York. She is also a Contributing Writer for New York Nepali Samachar.

अमेरिकि देउसी हेर्नुस्

2008-10-27T02:34:26Z

नेपाल बाट धेरै टाढा अ्एरिका मा केही साथी हरु ले देउसी अगृम रुप मा मनाउने बिचार गरेछ्न् र शनिबार को दिन पारेर देउसी खेलेछन् । देउसी निक्कै रमाइलो भएको जस्तो लागेर साथी हरु लाई यो भिडियो राखी दिएको छु । मन पर्‍यो भने कमेन्ट गरिदिनु होला नि त, नत्र भने मेरो तर्फ बाट पनि देउ सु रे

नयाँ नेपालको पुरानै धर्मस्थली गा बि स

2008-10-22T02:12:00Z

दिन् का दिन् ब्लग् मा लेख्नै पर्ने रे नत्र भने मेरा लोयल् भिजिटर्स् को सन्ख्या मा कमी आउने रे येस्तो पनि हुन्छ त? अब जहिले पनि नयाँ नयाँ कुरा लेख्ने टाइम् पनि चहियो अनि फेरि कुरा पनि त आउनु पर्यो नि हैन र। जे होस् अब आइ हाल्नु भयो मेरो गाउँ को रमणिय दृस्य हरु हेर्नुस् अनि आफ्नो गाउँ घर् को सम्झना गर्नुस्। अनि हिजो मात्रै मेरो घर् को धान् काट्ने रहिछ्। धान् काटेको फोटो हरु हेरेर झनै मन् कट्कटि खान्छ अनि सबैजना सङ बसेर आलु को अचार् र चिउरा सर्बदा को पात् मा खाएको दिन्हरु झल्झलि सम्झन्छु। सर्बदा को पात् भने पछि त साथि हरु छकै पर्नु भयो हो कि हैन ल भन्नुस् त न ढाटि कन। सर्बदा भनेको हम्रो गाउँ घर् को भिर् भरि फुल्ने बिरुवा हो, पात् केरा को जस्तै ठुलो ठुलो हुन्छ क्या ।

लौ त नेपाल् मा धान् कसरी काट्छन, चुट्छन् हेर्न मन् लाग्या छ भने मेरो साइट् http://blog.nayanepalnews.com/ मा पाल्नुस् न त। त्यहाँ अरु पनि रमाइला रमाइला कार्टून् हरु राखेको छु मन् पर्यो भने येसो प्रतिकृया छाडिनु भये हुन्छ नत्र भने फेरि फेरि आउँदै गर्नु होला नि त हातेमालो गरम् ला।साथिहरु लाइ भन्दिउ यो गाउँ को नाम् धर्मस्थली हो र बालजु, काठ्मान्डु बाट झन्दै हिनेर एक् घन्टा मा पुगिन्छ । अनि हाल् सालै माइक्रो बस् पनि चल्न थल्या छ रे, तर म त हिडेर या बाइक् मा जान रुचाउछु बाटो रमाइलो छ अनि माइक्रो बस् ले धेरै रोकेर दिक्कै लगाउँछ भन्या ।

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Home Minister's New Problem

2008-10-20T03:04:00Z

सुन्सान Happy Birthday

2008-10-15T01:19:00Z

नेपाल मा झन्डै १०० भन्दा पनि बढी दर सन्तान भएकी अनुपमा ले आफ्नो पहिलो अँम्रिकि Birthday एसरी सुन्सान बातावरण मा बिताइन Boston देखि झन्डै छ घण्टा गाडी कुदाएर उन्का दाजु पनी बहिनी लाई birthday को शुभ कामना दिन अाइ पुगे। तेसै बेला एस ब्लग का सम्पादक पनि टुप्लुक्कै अाइ पुगेछन् र उन्का ब्लग का लागि भनेर अलि अलि ड्रामा गरे छन्

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New Bloggers in Town

2008-10-15T00:20:00Z

Blogging सुरु गर्दा त म एक दमै नयाँ कुरा गर्न लग्या छु जस्तो लाग्याथ्यो अनी हाम्रा नेपाली दाजु भाई हरु ब्लगगिङ म एत्ती अग्गडी पुगि सक्नु भएको छ भन्ने थाहा नै थिएन । नेपाली Bloggers हरु को भिड मा अर्को अेउटा blogger थपिएको छ। खै कत्ती ब्लग गरिन्छ त था छैन तर so far so good राम्रै चल्दै छ संसार भरी का साथी भाई हरु मेरो साईट भिजिट गरी दिनु भैइराछ and I am Enjoying it. I guess I will Keep Blogging then.

I have a dream

2008-10-13T13:48:00Z

“I have a dream”, this is not my line but a famous saying of Martin King Luther Jr. who dreamt of equalizing the rights of African American in mid nineteen hundreds. I have a dream too and my dream is to make our country, Nepal a heaven. The definition of my heaven is a bit different though. Heaven to me is just a perspective and let me share my perspective of Nepal. Since we are all shouldering the era of transforming our country into new era let me call that heavenly Nepal a “Naya Nepal”

Ok! what do I dream of, I dream of Nepal with no load shedding. I grew up on an era when I had to look up the meaning of word “Load Shedding” in dictionary when it started in early 90s. Mind you, there was no wikipidia those days and I had to pay the cyber guy a hefty price per words to receive the emails that my father wrote from Netherland. Needless to say that our privacy was highly protected as he read all our emails just to count the words and not really see any thing on that email.

I dream of Nepal with no “Curfew Hours” and this was yet another word that got added into my vocabulary around mid 80s. Now for at least last fifteen years or so I have dreamt of a days without Chakka Jams or Nepal Bandha. And even so recently I am dreaming everyday about a Kathmandu valley where there wouldn't be ever lasting queue for Petrol and people could would not have to fight in the line of Kerosene. Then I dream about a New Nepal where stinking garbage would just disappear from the face of earth as if they were never there.

I dream of Nepal as a giant energy hub of the South Asia that has grown up to be the mere-source of clean hydropower energy which has contributed to be the most promising Carbon foot print reducer, a green house gas controller and Global Warming calmer. I dream Nepal of being a major exporter of the Drinking water supply. After abandoned free water supply for our country, I dream of Nepal’s water being mineralized, bottled and shipped to all of the Middle East countries.

I dream Nepal of being the safest place for tourist where they can move freely without fear for their lives and visiting both the lord Buddha’s birth place and Mount Everest. I dream of Nepal where no one in this world is allowed to be confused or misinformed that Mount Everest is in China and Buddha was born in India

Lastly I dream of Nepal where we have an uncorrupt politician who would strive harder to make these dreams of mine and other twenty some million Nepali true. Among all my dreams the biggest one is to wake up one day and find out the last decade of my time has not been wasted in petty fights and bloodbath of thousands of Nepalese and I can go and walk freely in any part of my country without being scared of getting strangled into any kind of insurgency or cross fire. And I dream of Nepal that would not have lost its course of direction for another decade.

What do you all say? If you share the same dreams then lets work towards it and let’s not wake up after a decade and again dream to make our dreams come true!!!

I have a dream!! and I blog at http://blog.nayanepalnews.com/ to make my dreams heard by million of people across the universe.

ज्ञानेन्द्र र सोव राज को २०६५ दसैं

2008-10-10T16:35:00Z

कविता मेरो हैन तर शुभ कामना चाँही मेरै हो

2008-10-08T16:09:00Z

भिम्सेन् को जस्तो शक्ति होस्
मीराबाइ को जस्तो भक्ति

डा अब्दुल् कलाम् को जस्तो ग्यान् होस्
नेल्सन् मन्डेला को जस्तो सान्

आएन्स्टाइन् को जस्तो बुद्धि होस्
नोबेल् प्राइज् को सिद्धि

बिल् गेट्स् को जस्तो सम्पत्ति होस्
दुख बाट सधै मुक्ति

मर्सिडीज् को कार् होस्
डाएमन्ड् को हार् होस्

Microsoft को सेअर् होस्
पैसा को ढेर् होस्

John Abraham को जस्तो स्टाइल्
ऐश्वार्य को इस्माइल्

आमीताभ् को जस्तो Personality
डेविड् बेकम् को Popularity

वोर्ल्ड् टुर् को टिकेट् मिलोस्

धेरै भन्दा धेरै मान्छे हरु को साथ् होस्
घर् मा सुख शान्ति को सधै बास् होस्।

बाम देव गौतम को नयाँ प्लान्

2008-10-08T03:24:00Z

नेपाल प्लस को शही कार्टून

2008-10-06T20:20:00Z

Blogging for Living

2008-10-06T01:14:00Z

When I started this web site I thought it would be really easy. Every one in this world is doing this so why can’t I. Let me very clear and commend every one who has been continuing this for so long. Could it be because they are blogging to earn their living? Huh, I don’t know for sure but I have a hunch that only 10% of the blogger out there are successful in making enough of off this blogging business. I surely don’t see how. Unless all the blogger in this planet and mars come out here and shine light upon me.

When I started Bloging I had no idea where thing are internet wise, I mean when I left the backend portion of the website development little more than a decade ago, people were still writing in HTML and as a matter of fact I remember I was so excited to learn how to make a toggle button and even more excited to create a hyperlink that would take me to some one else’s webpage with a click. Look at it today, I myself find my website primitive just because I don’t have that cool stuff yet. I don’t know if web-life has become easy or it has just become tougher and I am getting old in this tech savvy world. What I know for sure though is if it were not for this blog I would never spend a time in trying to understand why some websites look cool and some just looks stale. I now know a lot than I knew a week ago about all these blog sites and as a matter of fact not too far away from making my website little flashy itself.

Guys you tell me how can I improve and even make many of you stay and read these articles by doing so if I convince to get you to click one or more google pop-ups I would not mind that either. Common people suggest me and give me your brilliant ideas out here all right? I need to switch my blog from just blogging to make it a cause for living. I know it is not impossible though it seems unattainable for a while again I like to be optimistic and remember that ROME was not built in a night.

अली न पचेको कुरा

2008-10-03T06:20:00Z

अली न पचेको कुरा

फोटोमा देखिएका व्यक्तिको परिचय अमेरिकाको एक साताभन्दा लामो भ्रमणपछि आज फर्किएका प्रधानमन्त्रीले गराएका छन्। प्रधानमन्त्री प्रचण्डका अनुसार उनी प्रधानमन्त्री कार्यालयका ‘कम्प्युटर अपरेटर’ हुन्। छोरा प्रकाश दाहाललाई किन सरकारी खर्चमा अमेरिका लगेको भनेर विमानस्थलमा पत्रकारहरुले सोधेपछि प्रमले उनलाई ‘छोराको हैसियतमा हैन, प्रम कार्यालयका कम्प्युटर अपरेटरको हैसियत’मा लगेको स्पष्टिकरण दिएका थिए। आफ्नो भ्रमण टोलीमा सरकारी खर्च पाउने १० जना मात्रै रहेको उनको जिकिर थियो।

Nepali Student Killed in Texas

2008-10-01T14:33:00Z

NEPALI STUDENT KILLED IN TEXAS

I am once again deeply saddened, angered, dismayed and grieved with this news that we lost one more friend; I am finding it really hard to express myself. The frequencies of such news have been ever increasing. I find it an utmost urgent that we should spread this word to the younger generation back home that this country is not a bed or roses. If possible convince them to weigh their options around in their own country. Ashok Bhattarai who is the recent victim of this burglary/shoot out is not “no body” but he is a brother of entire Nepali community who are living abroad and trying to make their ends meet. We all arrive here thinking that this is the land of opportunity and it will make us a billionaire one day but see what happened.

Now his dreams are shattered and his parents’ hopes are devasted. What happened with him hurts me and it hurts me the most because I left my country a decade ago with similar hope and dreams and I could very well have been the guy behind that counter. We all know where we come from and how hard it is for us to survive in this foreign country. Let us all pray for him together and hope that such terrible news will never hit our media again. Let’s unite to make us hear. People who have succeeded to come here before our generations and own such places like 711, motels or Gas Stations use these innocent people like Ashok and pay him below minimum wage and get their work done.

Do you think the United States government is unaware of that, should not they do something? Ever worried about illegal immigrants in this country what I believe is that the government should go behind such employers and thoroughly investigate the employer so that they will not hire another new Nepali who lands in this country with hopes to change his life.

I know a lot of debate will spur with this but what if the United States provides student loan for qualified students; just like it does for the permanent resident “Green Card Holder”. I can assure you that if we are allowed to even apply for these Federal loans then we won’t be racking up our credit card bills and hence would rather concentrate on finishing up the schools than trying to work on such cheap risky places. I know most of the people who land in this country have never done any of the work that we end up doing here and we do pick such jobs, not by choice but by compulsion of circumstances.

While the Global economy is still in a mesh don’t you think the international society invests in future of these you people? Also it would be relevant to say that 80% of students who arrive here are already highly educated and any countries that are willing to invest in their future will surely get decent returns.

What do you say? Post your views and comments at http://blog.nayanepalnews.com/

See Ashok Singing a song at www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86tMTWsVV8

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