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admin May 1st, 2008
Pasni is a baby’s rice feeding ceremony, usually held at six months of age. The pasni (rice-feeding) ceremony is the children’s important occasion for which an auspicious date and time is chosen, and all the closest relatives are invited to witness and to celebrate.
The six month old child is dressed only in a Continue Reading »
admin April 27th, 2008
It wouldn’t be wrong to call Moon Lim Huiying the Florance Nightangle as she is a nurse by profession and wishes to travel to war zones to tend to wounded soldiers and in the war ground she says she will not judge the victims as friends or foes but simply as fellow human. Her liking for soldiers deepened when she got to know the Gurkhas in Singapore.
Following is poem from her to fellow Gurkhas.
“To all the Gurkhas of the world,
Can you feel my very own words,
Are you fighting like a samurai with a sword,
Or praying for your brothers to the lord.
You all are heros with no fear,
Just armoured with your weapons and some gear,
Charging into the fortress but your enemies cannot hear
Not even afraid of hearing death with your ears.
I will salute you all till the end,
Fighting not for your country and not for your land,
But for someone else’s home and their sand,
You are heros and I know you will do what you can.
I wish that I had the chance on this very night,
To curve my name on my friend’s khukri under the light,
So that he will remember when he draws this knife during his fight,
The Moon that is following his every move to strike.
I will always remember your smiles,
I still keep our photos in my files,
I hope to feel you from far even in miles,
So dont forget me when you return back to
Nepal…”
- With Warmest Regards, Moon Lim Huiying -
admin April 14th, 2008
Wondering how the elections went and what happens now? Get in-depth analysis from Nepal on a brand new podcast/online radio!
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Conversation with Prashant Jha
Conversation with Prashant Jha, Contributing Editor, Himal Southasian, talks about The Maoist wins, The Media’s Mistake, the Madeshi Vote and what after India’s “Plan A”? (12 April 2008)
Conversation with Kunda Dixit & Subel Bhandari
Looking Ahead After The Elections with Kunda Dixit, Editor, Nepali Times (10 April 2008)
Subel Bhandari, Nepal Correspondent, Agence France Presse, talks about the Electronic Voting Machine, the King Becoming Vegetarian, The Youth Votes and Gagan Thapa (10 April 2008)
We hope you enjoyed the podcasts and got an unique and diverse perspective on Nepal’s current affairs. Thank you. Happy New Year 2065!!
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admin April 8th, 2008
Press Release received from Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) Secretariat
8 April 2008
विदेशमा बस्ने नेपालीहरु ऐतिहासिक संविधानसभाको निर्वाचनमा आफू वसेकै मुलुकवाट मताधिकार प्रयोग गर्ने अवसरबाट वञ्चित भए पनि नेपाललाई शान्त, समृद्ध र लोकतान्त्रिक मुलुकको रुपमा रुपान्तरण गर्ने स्वदेश र विदेशमा बस्ने सम्पूर्ण नेपालीको आकांक्षालाई पुरा गर्न सक्ने संविधान निर्माणको निम्ति निष्पक्ष र स्वतन्त्र निर्वाचनका लागि सहयोग गर्न सवै पक्षलाई आह्वान गर्दै गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघले एउटा अपिल जारी गरेकोछ । अपिलमा नेपालमा बसोबासरत सम्पूर्ण दाजुभाइ तथा दिदीबहिनीहरुलाई ऐतिहासिक संविधानसभाको निर्वाचनमा सक्रियतापूर्वक सहभागिता जनाउँदै सफल बनाउन र विदेशमा बस्ने नेपालीहरुलाई पनि नेपालमा रहेका आफ्ना आफन्तहरुलाई निर्वाचनमा निर्भिकतापूर्वक ठूलो संख्यामा भाग लिन प्रेरित गर्न अनुरोध गरिएको छ।
admin March 27th, 2008
Press Release received from Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) Secretariat
27 March 2008
Non Resident Nepali Association - National Coordination Councils (NRNA- NCC) formed in Italy and South Africa
The Non Resident Nepalis living in Italy and South Africa have formed the NRNA-NCC in their respective countries.
The NRNA-NCC of Italy was officially launched in a meeting of a large number of Nepalis organised in Milan on March 23rd. The participant of the meeting included delegates representing Nepalis residing in various regions of Italy as well as Nepali associations. Among the participants represented were: Nepali Association of Italy (NAI), Venice, Nepali Samaj, Pisa (NSP), Nepali Association of Rome in Italy, Rome (NARI), Nepal Miteri Munch, Milan (NMM), Nepali community of Bologna, Mantova, Varese, Brescia, Crema. The Nepal Miteri Munch, Milan was formally formed at the same time.
The NRN-NCC headed by Dr. Bhim Bahadur Bam and consists of the following 9 members:
1. Dr. Bhim Bahadur Bam, Chairman, NCC National Co-ordinator
2. Mr. Rajan Kharel, Member, Representative, Milan
3. Mr. Buddha Raj Raut, Member, Representative, Pisa
4. Mr. Dev Raj Gurung, Member, Representative, Rome
5. Mr. Kersing Tamang, Member, Representative, Rome
6. Mr. Ram Kumar Rai, Member, Representative, Venice
7. Mr. Sher Bahadur Tumbapo, Member, Representative, Venice
8. Ing. Deo Kumar Gazmer, Member, Representative, Bologna
9. Mr. Ram Das Shrestha, Member, Representative, Brescia
The coordination committee has the Continue Reading »
admin March 26th, 2008
Chaite Dasain - 26th March 2008
Chaite Dasain used to be the original day of the grand Dasain festival. It is said that the main Dashain festival was celebrated in this month. But at that time people couldn’t spare their time for celebrating this great festival because of everyone being busy in harvesting crops. So, they shifted the grand Dashain festival in the month of Sept- Oct as most of the people are almost free from farming works. Some people even beleive, because people got their stomachs upset after feasting on spicy food during the warm month of Chaitra, the grand celebration was shifted to the cooler season. But the religious fervor is still evident in the celebrations of the day. People celebrate Chaite Dashain by worshiping & sacrificing buffalo, goat, cock, duck to the goddess Durga throughout the country.
admin March 24th, 2008
एस के गौचन, टोक्यो, जापान
मार्च २४, २००८
थकालीहरुको महान चाड तोरन्ल्हको समयमा पारि थकाली सेवा समिती जापानद्धारा आयोजित शुभकामना सांझ, विशाल नेपालीहरुको विच हिजो टोक्योको मेगुरो कुमिन हलमा सानदारसाथ सम्पन्न भएको छ ।
जापानका लागि महामहिम राजदुत डा.गणेश योञ्जन तामाङ्गको प्रमुख आतिथित्यतामा सम्पन्न पहिलो चरणको कार्यक्रममा सम्पुर्ण राजदुतावास परिवार, एनआरएन परिवार, विभिन्न संघसंस्थाका पदाधिकारीहरु, प्रतिनिधीहरु, समुन्द्रपारि डटकमका सम्पादक वेलु थापा र नेपाल जापान डटकमका प्रधान सम्पादक डा. कुमार वस्नेत अतिथी रहनुभएको थियो ।
प्रमुख अतिथी राजदुत डा.गणेश योञ्जन तामाङ्गज्युले Continue Reading »
admin March 21st, 2008
Holi - 21st March 2008
The ancient Hindu festival of Holi falls on late February or on early March. Allegedly named after the mythical demoness Holika, it is a day when the feast of colours is celebrated. The festival is of a week. However it’s only the last day that is observed by all with colours. Phagu is another name for Holi where Phagu means the sacred red powder and Pune is the full moon day, on which the festival ends. People can be seen wandering through the streets either on foot or on some vehicle, with a variety of colours smeared over them.
Families and friends get together and celebrate the occasion with a lot of merry making. This spring time celebration is also an outburst of youthful exuberance in which throwing colours and water bolloons (lolas) on passer- by is acceptable. But, the Indian community, that is, the Marwari class who have settled down in Nepal for centuries and the people of Terai celebrate it a day later with more pomp and ceremony.
The days prior to the last don’t have a lot happening except, the installation of the ceremonial pole called “chir’, on the first day. It’s a bamboo pole, fringed with strips of cloth representing good luck charms. It is said to symbolize the tree on which lord Krishna hung the milkmaids’ garments while they were bathing, unseen as they thought, in the Jamuna river of northern India. As the pole is put up in the street at Basantapur, the festivities and worship commences for the week. At the end of which its taken to a bonfire.
The myth following Holi, reveals that a fiend named Holika together with her brother, an atheist king by the name of Continue Reading »
admin March 5th, 2008
Maha Shiva Ratri - 6th March 2008
Nepal is the only Hindu kingdom in the world and thus the land of Lord Shiva, Lord of all Lords, for here you can feel his presence everywhere. Even in the sacred texts of the Hindus it has been stated that Mt. Kailash in the Himalayas is the abode of Lord Shiva or Mahadeva as he is also known. Shiva the Destroyer of Evil is among the most praised and worshipped of all the gods in the Hindu religion. Hindus all over the world know him through different names and forms. The country has thousands of idols and monuments, which glorify his name, the most common one being the Shiva Linga or the phallus of Shiva that represents him. For it is the Shiva linga that Hindus regard as the symbol of creation, the beginning of everything.
Shiva Ratri is the night of Lord Shiva when He himself was created by His own Divine Grace and Hindus all over the world celebrate this day with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm. Shiva Ratri literally means ‘ the night consecrated to Shiva’. This auspicious festival falls on Continue Reading »
admin March 5th, 2008
Press Release received from Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) Secretariat
युरोपेली मुलूक फिनल्याण्डमा बसोबास गर्ने नेपालीहरुले आफूलाई विधिवत रुपमा गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघ संग आवद्ध गराएका छन् । गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघ का अध्यक्ष डा. उपेन्द्र महतो, उपाध्यक्ष राम थापा र अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय समन्वय परिषदका सदस्य जीवानाथ लामिछाने समेतको समुपस्थितिमा २०६४ फाल्गुण १८ गते तदानुसार मार्च १ २००८ मा भएको फिनल्याण्डमा बसोबासरत नेपालीहरुको भेलाले गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघको फिनल्याण्ड राष्ट्रिय समन्वय परिषदको तदर्थ समिति गठन गरेको छ ।
फिनल्याण्डमा आफूलाई स्थापित गरिसकेका नेपाली बुद्धिजिवी डा. अरुण बरालको सभापतित्वमा भएको उक्त भेलामा ३ दर्जन भन्दा बढी नेपालीहरुका साथै फिनल्याण्डका लागि पूर्व अवैतनिक नेपाली महावाणिज्य दूत गुस्ताव म्याट्सन एवं फिनल्याण्ड नेपाल मैत्री संघका पूर्व अध्यक्ष मात्ती पेन्तिल्यां लगायतका फिनल्याण्डको नेपालसंग सरोकार राख्ने व्यक्तिहरुको समुपस्थिति थियो ।
उक्त भेलामा वक्ताहरुले नेपाल र फिनल्याण्ड विचको मैत्री सम्बन्ध, नेपालको विकासमा फिनल्याण्ड सरकार र त्यहाँको जनताले पुर्याएको सहयोग एवं फिनल्याण्डमा बस्ने नेपालीहरुको अवस्थाका बारेमा चर्चा गर्नु भएको थियो । त्यस्तै गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघ का अध्यक्ष लगायतका वक्ताहरुले गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघको उद्देश्य, कार्यक्रम र यसले सुरु गरेका अभियानका बारेमा सहभागीहरुलाई जानकारी गराउनु भएको थियो । सभाले डा. शम्भु प्रसाद साहको अध्यक्षतामा १७ सदस्यिय तदर्थ समिति गठन गरेको छ । उक्त तदर्थ समितिमा देवीदत्त शर्मा उपाध्यक्ष, श्यामबाबु महतो महासचिव र लिलानाथ सिलवाल कोषाध्यक्ष रहनु भएको छ । यस तदर्थ समितिले आगामी वर्ष भित्र संघ विधिवत दर्ता गरी गैर आवासीय नेपाली संघ राष्ट्रिय समन्वय परिषदको विधिवत निर्वाचन गराउने लक्ष लिएको छ । समरोहको अन्त्यमा डा. उपेन्द्र महतोले तदर्थ समितिका सदस्यहरुलाई सपथ ग्रहण गराउनु भएको थियो ।
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