When I heard this word “ROOM TO READ “, I thought it must be a library. I heard this word for the first time when it was going to donate two computers to “Pawan Madhayamic Vidhalaya”, Parasi which was established by my grandmother late Pawan Devi Shrestha. She has not just established this school, but she has also written a novel called “Pratigya” quite many years ago. We did not know that she is the first Nepalese woman to write a Nepali novel from mainland Nepal. Anyway, I will be writing about her soon in my blog.
Let’s talk about Room to Read. Well, we all must have to thank Mr. John Wood for his hard work, devotion and love toward educating the world to change the world. In his book “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” he has written about all the hard times he had to faced, why he was inspired to leave Microsoft to change the world and how happy he was when he saw his dream in reality.
Initially, he wanted to help the school in remote areas of Nepal and established this organization. But now it has become a global organization which is working towards changing the world, to educate people, to change their life style and most importantly to make their life easier through good education. Many poor people from so called 3rd country like Nepal, Vietnam and African countries are benefited by this organization.
We were expecting some improvements in the security of the Nation after the formation of new cabinet. We got Mr. Bam Dev Gautam as our new Home Minister and as soon as he was sworn into that post he announced that he will improve the security and will take action on illegal activities of YCL and Youth Force.
But the current scenario is different, the government is not able to stop these wings of Maoist and UML and their activities are increasing by the day. In recent days, due to these forces, curfew had to be imposed in Dhankuta.
As for Kathmandu, our minister targeted the night life. He asked all the entertainment things that are run in Kathmandu valley. They should be closed by 11 pm in Kathmandu, 10 pm in Patan and Bhaktapur 9 pm. Don’t you think it is a straight interference on Human rights? We have rights to party, go to disco and pubs at night. Is this a type of democracy we were looking for?
Gai Jatra is a festival celebrated by the Newar community of kathmandu valley every year since the malla period. We see newars celebrating this festival in different cities where there is strong pesence of newars. Now a days we see other community also particiapting in this festival. It is one of the most popular festivals of Nepal. This festival comes just a day after Janai Purnima. The festival commemorates the death of people during the span of a year. Gai Jatra is a healthy festival which enables the people to accept the reality of death and to prepare oneself for the life after death. The festival of cows is one of the most popular festivals of Nepal.
It’s boring, really boring to watch Hindi movies now a day. Last night I watched a movie called ugly aur pugly. I felt that it has a very poor presentation in every aspect in that movie. May be since I have already watched the Original story movie “My Sassy Girl” which is a Korean movie. I don’t know if that movie too is a remake of some Hollywood movie.
When I watched this movie I really felt bad. Is Bollywood really become so poor in recent years? Aren’t there any good writers to write a story for a movie so that they do not need to make a remake of some Hollywood and Korean movies? Now I doubt if all the Hindi movies we watch are remake from some other language movies which we are unaware of.
What is polymer note?
“Polymer banknotes were developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and were first issued as currency in Australia in 1988. These banknotes are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) which greatly enhances durability of the banknotes. Polymer banknotes also incorporate many security features not available to paper banknotes, making counterfeiting much more difficult.” – From wikipedia.org
A Rs. 10 Polymer Note
In February 2002, for the first time in Nepal’s history, Nepal Rastra Bank (Central Bank of Nepal) issued a 10 rupee polymer banknote. We were pretty much excited to see how a polymer note looks like. As the time passed by there were many issue regarding such kind of notes.
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?
I support Local Empowerment. So, I’m sharing this Everest Base Camp Trek to promote a new way of trekking where trekkers can empower the local service providers like lodges, guides and porters by booking services directly through them. #empoweringthehimalayas #freetriptoeverest
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