We all were waiting for the result of the Indian idol 3, when Darjeeling’s Prashant Tamang was crowned Indian Idol 3, the first thing as a gift of being Indian idol was a Nepali Dhaka Topi from his mother. That is so emotional moment for all the Nepali I guess, it is the identity of being Nepali.
Where ever you live in this earth, but the Khukuri and Dhaka topi had always been Nepali’s identity in this world. No one will ask u from where you come from if you are wearing Dhaka Topi and Khukuri, they will straight away ask you, ” are you Nepali?” they won’t bother to ask you, If you are from Nepal, Darjeeling, Sikkim or Bhutan. Continue reading »
Nepal Television is a government own TV Channel of Nepal. It’s used to be a sole Nepali TV channel for long time. This channel has helped Nepali to learn many things for many years and it gave many ideas about Nepal’s religion, culture, society, villages, and Life style of different part of Nepal to people who wanted to know about Nepal.
But since last year especially from the 2nd people’s movement, there have been certain changes in Nepal television too; it has become democratic in different way. It has forgotten that it is a national channel and government own, it has many responsibility towards Nation.
I felt bad when I saw the newsreader in this channel wearing western dress. Previously they used to wear our national dress Daruwa Suruwal by men and Sari by woman. Is this what we wanted as a change, as a New Nepal?
When I was in junior class, there was a Nepali book Mahendra Mala published by Janak Sishya Samagri Kendra which is a government owned publishing house. There was a chapter about Gods. In that chapter there was some picture of all the gods from all religion and the chapter was about that there is just one god and different religion gave different name to the god.
The time when I was in junior class, Nepal was under His Majesty’s Government and was the only Hindu Kingdom in this world. If the government wanted then it would have just gave us a lesson through that book that only Hindu religion is good, all other religion is not that good as our religion, our god is great, but we were not taught that. The book and the teachers taught us that there is one god who is known to us by different names in different religion.
Why Nepal needed to be made secular country, what benefits did we get? A decade back, off course the government policy was to stop people from changing religion, but with the new constitution that rule has be abolish, people are free to change their religion.
Nepal’s political demonstration and burning tire had been synonyms to each other. Tire is always related to political demonstration and protest in Nepal. I have been seeing the burning of tire in Nepal since the 1990’s people movement. Many questions are raised for the effects on public health due to tire burning. Even the parliament took decision to not to burn tire for protest and demonstration, but the same parties who passed that resolution are burning tires in every demonstration that they make.
People of Nepal already accepted the dirty politics going on in Nepal, now we are forced to accept the dirty air to breath, they have made the natural environment also dirty, the air we inhale to live is impure, don’t know what that air is going to effect in our health.
Today August 6th 2007, I was on my way back home from teku, I saw few kids near Machali Paati smoking, that scene really made me stop my bike. I was watching their activities. It was really amazing to watch them smoking that way. It seems like they have been introduce to smoking habit for long time. I could not see any fear in their face, they looked so relaxed. They were in their own world, having fun with each other making fun of each others, joking and laughing, and giving a pose for the camera while they continued to smoke.
Boys giving pose while they smoking
When my camera focused on them, they saw me and they were more excited to get captured by my camera. They started giving different pose and started to smoke in different style, same time one of the guy spoke out, “dai (brother in nepali), will you give us some money if we allow you to take more of our picture”. I said ok, so they ran towards me and started asking me to give them some money. Who is to blame for their such actions?
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Boys giving pose while they smoking
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