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When Member of Parliament Rabindra Adhikari requested me to put my views on the release of his book at this Literature Festival, I could not say no as I had also written a preface to his book. But I was really clueless about what I should say, I still am.
Continue reading “Uneasy Questions”

All of us know that there is consequences going on with Nepal and India, and China has been added as well. However, Nepal and India are mostly involved on these kinds of situation that innocent and earthquake victims have to face it. Based on recent scenerio of the Nepal, I have wrote some satire and funny tug off war between Nepal and China.

Nepal: We are almost done with our Constitution process; soon we will have our Constitution made by our own people.
India: No, Do not finish the Constitution process yet!
Nepal: Why? It’s all over. Nepalese people cannot wait furthermore.
India: Wait until our Bihar’s (State of India) election end.
Nepal: This is our final moment we cannot wait any longer.
India: Don’t pass your Constitution, otherwise there will be consequences.
Nepal: We cannot wait any longer; it’s been almost 8 year we are trying to write our Constitution.
India: We will impose blockade in borders but we will tell the world that we didn’t do it, if you bring out your Constitution.
Nepal: We will not go back now. Sorry, here is our Constitution.
India: We don’t like your Constitutions. Continue reading “TUG-OFF-WAR between Two Sovereign Nations”

The most visible impact of Indian blockade on Nepal has been on the fuel crisis it induced in the country. People have to wait in queue for hours on end to get some liters of petrol and a cylinder of cooking gas. But this is not the first instance of Indian blockade: Blockade was imposed in 1989 as well. 25 years on, Nepal has witnessed radical socio-political change – it transformed from monarchy to federal democratic republic. But to the chagrin of Nepal’s polity, the state of energy still remains in limbo. Yes, the necessity and desperation fueled by the fuel crisis in 1989 did inspire a search for alternative, such as the use of three wheeler electric vehicle safa tempo. But the storm of creative search for alternatives to fuel imports from India died away after the blockade was lifted and, Nepal became dependent on ‘big brother’ India again.
Continue reading “Energy in Limbo”

UCPN (Maoist) supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ recently went on a nationwide campaign, which he said was a part of his broader objective of lifting his party to the top of country’s politics within two years.

Will Prachanda succeed in fulfilling this commitment which he publicly made during the party’s recently held central committee meeting? Is UCPN (M)’s revival possible when its well-known ideologues Baburam Bhattarai and Mohan Baidya have abandoned it? Or is Prachanda planning a merger with the CPN (UML)? Or will the party also face the fate akin to CPN-ML led by CP Mainali?
Continue reading “Is Prachanda’s Revival Possible?”

This is my first article. I am writing it while there is a rather extreme blizzard going on outside, and as of now have officially entered into a winter depression. Sure the white snow looks majestic and beautiful, with the branches glistening brightly, and the air feeling very fresh and clean (partly because there is literally not one car or even a human being outside right now). However, I dislike winter. Immensely.
Continue reading “Painting the Sky”

I confess I hated dogs when I was young (I think I am more of a cat person). And the reason I became interested in animal behaviour was to study wild animals rather than domestic ones. My perception during my younger days was that animals should be studied in the wild rather than in those environments molded by humans. But now I study domestic animals and have come to realize that studying domestic animals gives the same fascination that studying wild animals does.

Dogs in Kathmandu are not like what we usually find in country like the one I live in currently (Canada). Most dogs in Kathmandu are not kept inside the warmth of the house with the comfort of a good owner. In Nepal, people usually keep dogs for guarding purposes. In developed countries, one might encounter a few agonistic interactions between dogs, but such interactions are plenty in the streets of Kathmandu. Although I hated dogs while growing up, my family had several dogs one after the other all through my younger days. But, I would say that not a single one of them was ‘domesticated’.
Continue reading “My relationship with dogs”

As kids, my brother and I used to return home from our not-so-tedious school day to sit in front of the family computer and play an online game. The game revolved around the Year 1066, when the Saxons of England had to deal with invaders from the North – the ‘Vikings’; and invaders from the south – the ‘Normans’. It was a game entailing cunning tactics to beat my brother, the adversary. I played this game for months on end, fascinated by both the simplicity of its layout and the complexity of actually playing the game. I was baffled as to why England was so worthy of fighting over. Why couldn’t the Vikings have just stayed in their own land? Why did the Normans have to risk countless lives just to gain control over England? What was so special about England?
Continue reading “The Things People Do”

INTRODUCTION
Every day we are used to hearing the news about the road accidents, government schools being closed, a farmer failed on growing the duplicate seeds imported from abroad, tens of hundreds of Nepali children dying due to malnutrition, people facing the death just because of curable diseases like fever and diarrhea and a common Nepali not able to teach their children in schools. On the other hand, government is spending millions of billions Nepali rupees announced for yearly economic budget and these budgets are mainly targeted in the areas like agriculture, education, health, infrastructures and poverty alleviation. But we are not being able to see the results of these investments. The common answer we can get now and then is “corruption”.
Continue reading “Corruption and Good Governance”