Pakistan confronts U.S. Afghan strategy

A protestor in Peshawar holds up a placard against U.S. drone strikes, a point of contention in the fragile U.S.-Pakistan relations. File photo

from The Hindu

M. K. Bhadrakumar

The Pakistani military leadership wishes to draw a redline for the U.S.' covert operations so that Washington will be compelled to deal with militant Afghan groups through the single window of the ISI.

In his 22nd visit also, Admiral “Mike” Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States armed forces, failed to achieve what he couldn't at the previous 21 calls he made to Pakistan since assuming his assignment in the Pentagon in October 2007. Yet, of all top U.S. officials, Mr. Mullen is projected by Washington as a dogged believer in America's cooperation with the Pakistani army leadership.

भिसी तुलबहादुरको आँसु

राजेश राई
हजाराँ गोर्खा सैनिकले जापानी र जर्मनको गोली छातीमा थापेर बि्रटिस साम्राज्य बचाइदिए　। बेलायती भव्यताका प्रत्येक भित्ताहरूमा गोर्खालीका रगत, पसिना र आँसु पोतिएको छ　। गोर्खालीले बलिदान नगरेको भए बेलायत आज संसारको शक्तिशाली राष्ट्र बन्दैनथ्यो ।

Afghan Officials Try to Limit Damage From Prison Break

Ahmad Nadeem/Reuters

Inmates that escaped from a prison in Kandahar were recaptured and presented to the media on Tuesday

from New York Times By ALISSA J. RUBIN 

KABUL, Afghanistan — Government officials struggled on Tuesday, but with limited effect, to contain the damage from a spectacular jailbreak that freed 475 inmates, most presumed to be Taliban fighters, from southern Afghanistan’s largest prison.

From a Qaddafi Daughter, a Glimpse Inside the Bunker

Aisha el-Qaddafi, daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, at a pro-government rally in Tripoli on April 14.

from New York Times
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
TRIPOLI, Libya — Aisha el-Qaddafi, the daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, likes to tell her three young children bedtime stories about the afterlife. Now, she says, they are especially appropriate.

“To make them ready,” she said, “because in a time of war you never know when a rocket or a bomb might hit you, and that will be the end.”

‘High food prices, a new threat to Asia'

This April 18, 2011 photo shows impoversihed children at a village in Palamu district, Jharkhand. Almost 52 per cent of the population in Jharkhand lives below the official poverty line. According to the ADB, more Indians will face poverty due to price rise. Photo: Manob Chowdhury

from The Hindu

Special Correspondent   

Resurgent global food prices, which averaged 10 per cent in many economies and posted record increases in the first two months of this year, may push nearly 30 million Indians and 64 million people in the Asian region into extreme poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday.

माओवादी नेतालाई यी मन्त्रालय

माओवादी मुख्यालय पेरिसडाँडामा केन्द्रीय समिति बैठक जारी छ। अध्यक्ष प्रचण्ड र वरिष्ठ उपाध्यक्ष किरणको दस्ताबेजमाथि केन्द्रीय सदस्यका वक्तित्वकला pani प्रतियोगिता जारी छ।

(माओवादीको यति चाँडो र यति लामो बैठक नहुँदो हो, माओवादी बिट हेर्ने हामीले के लेख्दाहम् हँ? खरिपाटी राष्ट्रिय कार्यकर्ता भेलायता जे निर्णय भए ती कार्यान्वयन नगर्ने भनेर आलोक प्रवृत्ति भनेजस्तै माओवादी प्रवृत्ति बनिसकेको छ।)
माओवादीको एउटा थेगो जस्तै छ जुन बैठक बस्छ त्यसलाई 'ऐतिहासिक बैठक' भन्ने। तर निर्णय भइहालेछ भने नि कार्यान्वयन गर्ने कार्यक्रम कहिल्यै नल्याउने। माओवादी संस्कृतिजस्तै बनिसकेको छ यो पनि।

Two Schools in Afghanistan, One Complicated Situation

By EDWARD WONG

The schoolhouse at the end of the world is a simple affair. Made of concrete and painted gray, it bears the white star of the Central Asia Institute, the nonprofit group co-founded by Greg Mortenson. The group says it has built more than 170 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Maoist Chairman Prachand and Senior Vice Chariman Kiran's Pol. documents

 माओवादी अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहालद्वारा केन्द्रीय समितिको पोलिटब्युरो बैठकमा प्रस्तुत प्रस्तावको सम्पादित अंश

'शान्ति र संविधानको पक्ष्ामा दह्रो उभिनु सही’

वैशाख ११ -
तात्कालिक राजनीतिक प्रस्ताव
एक वर्षका लागि थपिएको संविधानसभाको समयसीमा जेठ १४ गते नजिकिँदै गर्दा देशमा राजनीतिक संकट पनि चुलिँदै गएको छ । जनताको आवश्यकता र आकांक्ष्ााअनुसार संघीय गणतन्त्रात्मक संविधानमार्फत परिवर्तनलाई सम्बोधन गर्न नचाहने, राष्ट्रिय स्वाधीनताका विरुद्ध राष्ट्रिय आत्मसमर्पणको पक्षपोषण गर्ने, सामाजिक न्यायसहितको परिवर्तन र राष्ट्रको आत्मनिर्णयको सूनिश्चिततालाई केन्द्रविन्दुमा राखेर शान्ति कायम गर्न नचाहने र संविधानसभामा माओवादी एवं उत्पीडित वर्ग, जाति, क्ष्ाेत्र र लिंगको बलियो प्रतिनिधित्व सहन नसक्ने दलाल प्रतिक्रियावादी शक्तिहरू आफ्ना विदेशी मालिकहरूको इसारामा संविधानसभालाई औचित्यहीन सिद्ध गरेर भंग गर्ने षडयन्त्रलाई तीव्रता दिइरहेका छन् । यसमा पनि हाम्रो गौरवशाली पार्टी एनेकपा माओवादीलाई कमजोर र छिन्नभिन्न पार्ने रणनीति उक्त षडयन्त्रको केन्द्रविन्दुमा रहेको तथ्य सजिलै बुझ्न सकिन्छ । यो प्रतिक्रियावादी रणनीतिका विरुद्ध परिवर्तन र राष्ट्रिय स्वाधीनताका पक्षधर आमनेपाली जनता भने अहिले पनि आफ्नालागि शान्ति र संविधानसभाको सफलताको अपेक्षा र पक्षपोषण गरिरहेका छन् । संघीयता, गणतन्त्र, धर्मनिरपेक्षता, सामाजिक न्याय र संविधानसभाको प्रमुख बाहकका हैसियतले प्रतिक्रियावादी षडयन्त्रलाई परास्त गरी जनताको अपेक्षा पूरा गर्न एकीकृत नेकपा माओवादीले महत्त्वपूर्ण प्रभावकारी र निणर्ायक भूमिका खेलोस् भन्ने जनचाहना रहेको यथार्थ पनि स्पष्ट नै छ । राष्ट्र र जनताको यो आवश्यकता र अपेक्षाप्रति निश्चय नै हाम्रो पार्टीको निकै ठूलो जिम्मेवारी छ ।

अनुजाको खबर शंकास्पद देखिएपछि झस्कियो शितल निवास

नागरिक 
रोहित राई, धरान, वैशाख १०- बस यात्राको क्रममा ९१ लाख रुपैयाँ र हिराको हार भेटे पनि सम्बन्धित ब्यक्तिलाई बुझाएर इमान्दारिताको नमूना प्रस्तुत गरेको भनेर एकाएक चर्चामा आएकी अनुजा बानियाँ र सो घटनाको विश्वसनियता माथि प्रश्न उठेपछि राष्ट्रपति कार्यालय शितल निवास झस्किएको छ। विभिन्न सञ्चारमाध्यममा शुक्रबार सो घटनाको विश्वासनियतामा शंका रहेको समाचार प्रकाशित भएपछि राष्ट्रपतिका स्वकीय सचिव ललित बस्नेतले मोरङका प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारीलाई टेलिफोन सम्पर्क गरी घटनाबारे यथार्थ बुझ्न आग्रह गरेका थिए। 

'९१ लाख फिर्ता गर्ने’ अनुजा प्रहरी अनुसन्धानमा

घटना कपोकल्पित हुनसक्ने प्रहरीको शंका
नयाँ पत्रिका
प्रेम बास्तोला 
सुनसरी, ८ वैशाख
देशैभरि अनुजा बानियाँको इमानको बखान छ, तर सुनसरी प्रहरीले उनीमाथि अनुसन्धान सुरु गरेको छ । उनले बसमा भेट्टाएको ९१ लाख रुपैयाँ र हिराको हार फिर्ता दिएको दाबी गरेकी छन्, तर पैसा फिर्ता लिने र प्रत्यक्षदर्शी नभेटिएकाले घटना कपोकल्पित हुनसक्ने प्रहरीको शंका छ ।

राष्ट्रपति रामवरणले भने, 'स्याबास् अनुजा !'

From Kantipur Daily
'स्याबास् अनुजा’

एक्कासि राष्ट्रपतिले टेलिफोन गरी धन्यवाद भनेपछि उनी फुरुङ्ग परिन्
बालकृष्ण बस्नेत,हर्ष सुब्बा
काठमाडौ, वैशाख ७ -
'अनुजा नानी, म रामवरण यादव । नेपालको राष्ट्रपति । चिन्यौ मलाई ?'
साँझ ६ बजे नसोचेको फोन आएपछि इटहरीमा रहेकी २२ वषर्ीया अनुजा बानियाँ फुरुङ्ग भइन् । राष्ट्रपतिले स्याबासी दिन फोन गरेको थाहा पाएपछि उनले तत्काल नमस्ते गरिन् । अरू बोल्न सकिनन् ।

Dahal swings back to peace, constitution

	POST B BASNET / KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, April 20:  Ditching the official party line of revolt, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has swung back to the line of peace and constitution floated by Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai. In his three-page political document presented at the party politburo meeting on Wednesday, Dahal emphasized the need to conclude the peace process and constitution-drafting to safeguard the political achievements made so far. “There is a real risk of counter-revolution if we don´t put in best efforts to conclude the peace process and constitution drafting,” a politburo member quoted Dahal´s document.

Teenage girls have 'tougher time growing up than boys'

Agencies

London
Teenage girls have a tougher time growing up than boys the same age, and they are more likely to fall sick, says a new study.
Researchers have carried out the study and found that teenage girls are more likely to skip meals in a bid to try and lose weight, and often smoke and drink more alcohol than boys, 'The Observer' reported.

The new front line of modern warfare

BY STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL

From the outset of my command in Afghanistan, two or three times each week, accompanied by a few aides and often my Afghan counterparts, I would leave the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul and travel across Afghanistan -- from critical cities like Kandahar to the most remote outposts in violent border regions. Ideally, we left early, traveling light and small, normally using a combination of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, to meet with Afghans and their leaders and to connect with our troops on the ground: Brits and Marines rolling back the enemy in Helmand, Afghan National Army troops training in Mazar-e-Sharif, French Foreign Legionnaires patrolling in Kapisa.

Nepali honesty that stayed warm in today’s cold affection

HARSHA SUBBA 

DHARAN, APR 20 -

She found a bag containing Rs. 9.1 million and a diamond necklace and returned it to the owner after three days. Twenty-year-old Anuja Baniya found the unclaimed bag on a bus while she was travelling in Dharan.

Indian American’s book on cancer wins Pulitzer Prize

PTI  

AP/Scribner India-born Siddhartha Mukherjee (in picture) won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for his latest book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," on Monday, April 18, 2011.

Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee’s acclaimed book on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category.

किन जान्छन् प्रचण्ड एकान्तमा ?

पार्टीको अन्तरविरोध र १५ जेठपछिको राजनीतिक रणनीति तय गर्ने पोलिटब्युरो बैठकको पूर्वसन्ध्यामा माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्ड राजधानीबाहिर छन्　। प्रतिवेदन लेख्दा प्रचण्ड सधैंजसो किन एकान्तमा जान्छन् ? उनका राजनीतिक सहयोगीहरू भन्छन्, 'लगातार करिब १० घन्टा एकान्त पाउन काठमाडौंमा असम्भव छ, त्यसैले उहाँ बाहिर जानुहुन्छ　।'
 नेत्र पन्थी
नयाँ पत्रिका

काठमाडौं, ५ वैशाख

पार्टीको विवाद र राष्ट्रिय राजनीतिमा माओवादी रणनीति तय गर्न माओवादीले ७ र ८ वैशाखमा पोलिटब्युरो बैठक बोलाएको छ　। बैठकमा पेस गर्ने राजनीतिक प्रस्ताव तयार गर्न प्रचण्ड सोमबार दिउँसो चिसापानीस्थित पातलेवन भेनेड रिसोर्ट पुगेका छन्　।
आफ्नो निवास नयाँबजारमा रहँदासमेत प्रचण्डको भेटघाटमै दिन बित्छ
प्रचण्डका पूर्वस्वकीय सचिव तथा माओवादी केन्द्रीय सदस्य एवं सभासद् जोखबहादुर महरा प्रतापले पनि शान्त ठाउँमा बसेर प्रतिवेदन लेख्नका लागि प्रचण्ड एकान्त ठाउँमा जाने गरेको सुनाए
　।

Dahal at resort to mull strategy

POST B BASNET / KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, April 19: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal reached a secluded resort on the outskirts of Kathmandu Monday to chart out the party´s new strategy in the face of constitutional crisis that looms after May 28, the deadline for constitution-drafting. Dahal, accompanied by his son Prakash and nephew Samir, is at Pataleban Resort on the border betweenKathmandu and Dhading districts. Party leaders say Dahal will prepare a political document during his overnight stay at the resort, after reviewing the party´s current tactical line of urban insurrection and thrashing out new political programs aimed at concluding the peace process and constitution-drafting.

'London Taliban' target women, homosexuals

Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death.

Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremist group Taliban, in a bid to impose Sharia Law in Britain.

According to police investigations in the Tower Hamlets area of London, other targets of these Islamist extremists include homosexuals.
Some incidents have been reported that include the placing of stickers on public walls, which state it is a ''gay-free zone'' and the daubing of paint on posters for clothing shops featuring women in bikinis.
In response to such incidents, Ghaffar Hussain, of the anti-extremism Quilliam Foundation, said that the intimidation was the work of ''Talibanesque thugs''.

France arrests Muslim women as ban on niqab begins

PARIS: Police in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils on Monday as a ban on full-face coverings went into effect.
The women, part of a demonstration that erupted in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, were detained for taking part in an unauthorised protest rather than for wearing their veils.
But, in theory at least, French officials can now slap fines on Muslim women who refuse orders to expose their faces when in public.

The Journalist Who Dared To Dream

Anjali Joseph wanted to redefine nationhood and the boundaries that divide the world. In the writing circuit, she's known as the futuristic writer with fire in her belly. She dismissed the tags of nationhood in her debut novel to understand modern identity in her book Saraswati Park, she's trying to search for a new identity.

धोका नै उसको स्वभाव

 From Naya Patrika
बंगलादेशी लेखिका तसलिमा नसरिनको प्रतिबन्धित आत्मकथा ँउत्तल हावा’-बंगाली भाषा)को अंग्रेजीमा 'वाइल्ड विन्ड’का नाममा अनुवाद गरिएको छ, त्यसको पहिलो खण्ड नेपालीमा ँसंघर्ष’ यसअघि प्रकाशित भइसकेको छ । यो पुस्तकको दोस्रो खण्ड ँप्रेम र जीवन’ फेरि खोजी प्रकाशन गृहले भर्खरै प्रकाशन गरेको छ । विकास बस्नेतद्वारा अनुवादित र भोगीराज चाम्लिङद्वारा सम्पादित यस पुस्तकको अंशः

रुद्रको चिट्ठी पाउनेबित्तिकै फेरि म ढाकातिर हान्निएँ
।

Decision Looms for Laos Dam, but Impact Is Unclear

Justin Mott for the International Herald Tribune

Fishermen from Huoay Souy village net the waters of the Mekong River, which teems with hundreds of species of fish.

By THOMAS FULLER

HOUAY SOUY, Laos — The Mekong River is so brown with silt as it passes this impoverished village, it could be called liquid dirt. For millions of people downstream this is the color of life: the Mekong, teeming with hundreds of species of fish and rich in minerals, has for centuries been the lifeline of villages and towns stretching from the rocky rapids of Tibet to the lazy meanderings of the river in the Vietnam delta. On Tuesday the four countries that share the lower reaches of the Mekong River will announce whether they agree to the construction of a controversial dam, a decision that could forever alter the character and natural diversity of one of the world’s longest and most bountiful rivers.

Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

By DAVID CARR

YOU are at a party and the person in front of you is not really listening to you. Yes, she is murmuring occasional assent to your remarks, or nodding at appropriate junctures, but for the most part she is looking beyond you, scanning in search of something or someone more compelling.

Military reckons with the mental wounds of war

Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordnance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments, now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments. Ownbey and his wife, Sandy, recently bought a home in Hedgesville, W.Va., and he often commutes with her more than two hours each way to attend appointments at the Natinal Naval Hospital in Bethesda. (Photo by Whitney Shefte --

Story by Greg Jaffe | The Washington Post
Sunday, July 18, 2010

The 300-pound bomb blasted Marine Staff Sgt. James Ownbey's mine-resistant truck so high that it snapped power lines before it slammed to the dusty ground in western Iraq.

How politics protect gun dealers

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By James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 24, 2010; 6:00 AM

Under the law, investigators cannot reveal federal firearms tracing information that shows how often a dealer sells guns that end up seized in crimes. The law effectively shields retailers from lawsuits, academic study and public scrutiny. It also keeps the spotlight off the relationship between rogue gun dealers and the black market in firearms.

Five myths about the future of journalism

Gallery: Life at The Hoya: A look at Georgetown University’s student newspaper.

By Tom Rosenstiel, Thursday, April 7, 10:06 AM

There are few things journalists like to discuss more than, well, themselves and the long-term prospects for their industry. How long will print newspapers survive? Are news aggregation sites the future? Or are online paywalls — such as the one the New York Times just launched — the way to go? As media organizations plot their future, it’s worth discarding some misconceptions about what it will take to keep the press from becoming yesterday’s news.

नन्दिता दाशलाई फ्रान्सेली सम्मान

 मुम्बई, वैशाख ३ -भारतीय अभिनेत्री तथा निर्देशक नन्दिता दाश फ्रान्सको एक प्रमुख नागरिक सम्मानबाट पुरस्कृत भएकी छिन्। फायर, अर्थ, भवन्दर लगायतका फिल्मकी हिरोइन दाशालाई नाइट अफ दी अर्डर अफ आर्टस् एन्ड लेटर्सद्वारा सम्मानित गरिएको हो। उनलाई फिल्मको माध्यमबाट भारत-फ्रान्सको सम्वन्ध विस्तारमा सहयोग पुर्‍याएवापत यस्तो सम्मान दिइएको हो।

How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?

Antonio Bolfo for The New York Times

Catching Up Temporary relief for the sleep-deprived on trains and in airports in the New York area.

By MAGGIE JONES

We all know that we don’t get enough sleep. But how much sleep do we really need? Until about 15 years ago, one common theory was that if you slept at least four or five hours a night, your cognitive performance remained intact; your body simply adapted to less sleep. But that idea was based on studies in which researchers sent sleepy subjects home during the day — where they may have sneaked in naps and downed coffee.

चित्रमय किराती अनुहार

संयोग, नयाँ वर्षको दिन मेरो छुटि परेछ। बिहीबारे छुटि।
के गर्ने? कान्तिपुर सिटी कलेजको नाउँमा बैतर्नीको साइत गर्ने।
कसरी? मार्टिन चौतारीमा जाने। मिडियासम्बन्धी बुक मज्जाले पढ्ने। अनि बैतर्नी तर्ने थालनी गर्ने।

नयाँ वर्षमा करोडभन्दा बढी एसएमएस

नयाँ वर्ष रोल्पाको मेरो गाउँमा अहिलेसम्म मनाएको मलाई याद छैन। आफू त नयाँ वर्ष र जन्म दिनजस्ता दिनलाई पर्वको रुपमा नमनाउने संस्कृतिमा हुर्केको मान्छे! त्यसैले यी दिन आउँदा अहिलेसम्म पनि मलाई पर्व आएजस्तो लाग्दैन। तर साथीभाइ भने मरिहत्ते गर्छन्। घर छाडेदेखि नयाँ वर्ष पर्वको रुपमा मनाउने कुरा सुन्दैआएको छु, तर, अहिलेसम्म मनाइएको छैन। सायद मनाइदैन पनि होला। 

नेपाली युद्ध साहित्य

१० वर्ष लामो जनयुद्धले छिचोलेको नेपालको अनुहार सिर्जनात्मक लेखनमा आउनेक्रम जारी छ। मात्रात्मकरुपमा सन्तोषजनक देखिए पनि गुणका हिसाबले आएनन् कि भन्ने ठाउँ मनग्य छ। नेपाली युद्ध साहित्यबारे टीकाराम उदासीले दाङबाट छापिने नयाँ युगबोध दैनिकमा छाँगोपांगो केलाएछन्। युद्धले उब्जाएका सिर्जनाबारे जान्न चाहनेका लागि  'अच्छै ' होला भन्ठानेर यसमा राखेँ है !

Strongman Out, Ivory Coast Is Reviving

First time, I'd heard Ivory Coast through the famous footballer Drogba. And, he also had played in the last World Cup. Now also, he is known as the top most footballer in the World.

And, last August I met a friend from Ivory Coast. He was Koffi Kra Michale Bembele, information officer. I forgot his Ministry's name, jus I remembered his minister. She was female.

Would You Sign My Kindle?

My Guru and friend MP Kharel took a Kindle Book yesterday. First time, I'd seen this book in the hand of Tilak Pathak, political correspondent of Nagarik Daily News Paper. He had shown me various books in his Kindle and had also given a long lecture about its utility.

Kailasha: A heavenly experience

I'm Sufi lover.

I also like Kailash Kher.

I like, specially, his singing style and unique voice.

I think, everybody has to dig own road in his career. That must be own and unique. So, every new road is risky for everybody. Somebody can and somebody lost him/her self within digging period.

Perhaps, I think, so, Kher dug his own new road of the singing style with unique voice. And, finally, he sat heart of the music lovers.

'नो डिजिटल नम्बर प्लेट'

आफू त ११ नम्बर गाडीवाल परियो।
बिहान नयाँ वर्षसँगै निस्केको पत्रिका हेर्दा पो थाहा भयो ,आजैदेखि डिजिटल प्लेट हटाइएछ।
लौ है गाडीवाल साथीx< ,चेतना होस्। 

The girl from Yemen

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by Tawakkol Karman The revolution in Yemen began immediately after the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January. As I always do when arranging a demonstration I posted a message on Facebook, calling on people to celebrate the Tunisian uprising on 16 January.
We agreed that we could not let this historic moment pass us by, and that we too could spark a peaceful revolution to demand an end to a despotic regime.

फाँटमा सिसिटिभी, कर्मचारी बाहिरै

दाम्लो खाने गाईलाई दाम्लोdf गोबर लगाइदिने चलन छ, गाउँघरमा। तर गोबर लगाइदिए पनि खान छाड्दैन रे। त्यस्तै भएछ, नेपालका  कर्मचारीकf ताल। काम राम्ररी गर्लान् भनेर सिसिटीभी राखिए केही सरकारी कार्यालयमा। संस्थानहरुमा पनि। तर कर्मचारीले टेरे पो !

र्क्मचारी आए/नआएको हेर्ने हाकिम नै अफिस आउँदैनन्, होला। अनि के लागू हुन्थ्यो?

नेपाल टिभीमा काम गर्ने पत्रकार साथीहरुले भनेको याद आयो। अध्यक्ष भएर डा.ऋषिराज बराल आएछन्। हाकिम कोही पनि टेबलमा देखेनछन्। कोही भएका पनि गफिदै गरेका, काम नगरेका भेटेछन्। 

(उनलाई यस्तो रिपोट गरियो पनि होला, जो सरकारी कर्मचारी र हाकिमको त संस्कृति नै हो। हाइ काढ्दै, जुम्रा मार्दै र अरुका कुरा काट्दै बस्छन् भनेर सरकारी कर्मचारीको बारेमा किस्सा बनेको होला, 'सरकारी काम कहिले जाला घाम।')

New iPhone app to count calories of your food

It was raining when I woke up at 6:30 am. My Guru and close friend MP Kharel had suggested me to go Bipasyana to maintain my health and to fresh mind which can be helpful for creative writing. But I did not yet.10 days is very long time for the Small Kamaiya like me from the private media house. I've interest. I don't know, that day comes or not, Ram Jane.

But, Guru's suggestions flew in air. I don't care anything for my health—like eating, exercise. I know,  I've to do but not in practice. What to do?

लोडसेडिगंले झन्डै मारेन उर्जामन्त्रीलाई

मेरा ब्लग गुरु केपी ढुंगाना र सहकर्मी पोष्टबहादुर बस्नेत हिजो राति अबेर मात्र अफिस फर्किएका थिए, मनमोहन मेडिकल कलेज पुगेर। १२ बज्ने तर्खर गर्दैथियो, सायद।
ऊर्जामन्त्री घोषणा गरिएको केही घण्टामै गोकर्ण विष्टमाथि खुकुरी हानिएको सूचनाले साँझपख सनसनी मच्चिएको थियो। मन्त्री पदको सपथ नखाँदै खुकुरी खाएपछि के हुने हो यो मुलुकमा? सुनियो, लोडसेडिङको मौकामा दुई युवकले मन्त्रीमाथि खुकुरी हाने।

बिपी, प्रचण्ड र भारत

कृष्णज्वाला देवकोटा

बिपी र प्रचण्डको दिल्लीसँगको लडाइँ नेपाल भारतको उपनिवेश हो कि सार्वभौम देश भन्ने लडाइँ हो । नेपालको विदेशनीति कुनै पनि सर्तमा भारतविरोधी हुन सक्दैन, तर भारतीय हस्तक्षेपको अहिलेको क्रम रोक्न नसके नेपालको कुनै विदेशनीति नै बाँकी रहने छैन ।

(कुनै याम थियो जुन बेला काठमाडौंबाट घोराही पुग्ने दैनिक पत्रिका र साप्ताहिक माया मारेरै पढिन्थ्यो। (अचेल? काठमाडौं छिरेपछि पत्रिकाका शीर्षक हेर्ने र आफ्नो बिटका समाचार भए पढ्ने।)मधु दाइ (मधुसुदन बैद्य)को प्रगति पुस्तक सदनअगाडि बसेर टीकाराम उदासी, उदय जीएम, गंगा बीसी, केएल पीडितलगायतका साथी पढ्थ्यौं, पालैपालो। मधु दाइnfO चिनजानको घुस हालेर फोकटमा पढ्थ्यौं। जाँदाखेरि एउटा किने पुग्थ्यो। (दाइले त भन्दैनथिए त,र लाजले हामी आफैंले किन्थ्यौं।)

How to Read Poetry Today

Tom McGhe

 

I was also poet in my pimple age. I used to see poems in every moment, may be in river may be in jungle.

I think, this age is most memorable for everybody. So, everybody wants to back this age again and again. And, everybody wish to back which is never possible.

Why people wish what never can get? I don't know.

Yes, I'm telling something pimple age and my poetry.

Anna Hazare calls off fast

"Why Nepali media do not cover the news of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement?" 

Perhaps, seeing the face of Nepali news paper, Sudeep (Shrestha) dai, research fellow of Jawarlal Neharu University, New Delhi, asked this question on Friday, on the face book chat.

The Hazare's news was covered not only in India, also World wide.

"If, you were here, you could clicked so many photos of Anna at the Jantar Mantar, New Delhi," he told me, may be, by seeing my attachment to the photography. 

I asked him, "who is Anna?" And, then, he gave me his detail.And, questioned me again, "Why Nepali media did not cover?"

"I don't know dai." I replied.

खोलाका यादमा

त्रिशुली उसैगरी बग्थ्यो । फरक यत्ति हुन्थ्यो कि यसको अनुहार मौसमअनुसार तलमाथि । प्रायः जसो देख्थेँ बसको झ्यालबाट, गतिवान् त्रिशुलीमा कुइरे मामामाइजू पानी छ्यापाछ्याप गर्दै रमाइरहेका । 
कहिले ? 
रोल्पाबाट काठमाडौं छिर्दा होस् या काठमाडौंबाट रोल्पा निस्कदा । दांबाट काठमाडौं जाँदा होस् वा काठमाडौंबाट दांग फिर्दा । त्रिशुलीमा मस्तराम ‘मामामाइजू’लाई बसको झ्यालबाट देखेर यो बाजो मन कल्पन्थ्यो, ‘कठै बरै नि, कहिले यस्तरी बग्न पाइएला ? आफ्नै देशमा बग्ने आफ्नै खोलामा पनि यसरी बग्ने दिन कहिले आउला ?’
एक मनले भन्थ्यो, ‘मस्ती गर्न कहाँ रहेछ र लेखेको रैछ र ? साहूको काम गर । एक पेट भर्नलाई रातदिन खट । बस् । अर्को मनले थप्थ्यो, जाबो भूँडीकै लागि सारा समय खर्चनु परेपछि मनोरञ्जन कहिले गर्नु र ?

Connecting with the world

 

Sometime, I'm hurt by tiny things. They may be fiction or non-fiction. They may be known or unknown. They may be far or very close.
I use to weep when I read book or watch film. And, as well news or event, too.
I entered Soma Basu's this story in the Hindu. It hurt me. I don't know why? I saw so many Pandiammal and Maheshwarans in my villages who are facing problems. And, they never get such chance what Pandiammal couple got. Just for them who are facing heavy problem due to poverty which given as prize by the bad governance but they are ruling saying 'God'.     

A mother’s search in post-tsunami Japan

A woman looks at the names of missing persons at a reporting centre in the city of Kamaishi in Iwate prefecture. - Photo by AFP

Why? I don't know.

I fell in love with writing in my pimple age. Those days were very interesting. I want to revive them. But how? It is impossible.

We (Kamal Pun, who killed in Nepal Ganj by former Royal Nepal Army in the People's War period) used search songs, poem and short stories also on the leaves of the trees in the Dang. We never missed to watch movies, they may be love stories or horror or Hawa film, in the Ganesh, Rapti and Nima Film Hall. And, we used to wiped when hero and heroin got pain, tragedy… And, we used to say that how best film, I did not stop my tear. Tear was the measurement of the quality of film.

Yes, we had come from Rolpa, the base area of Maoist, origin place of People's War, with the war psychology where we had faced the terror of the police. We had seen our naked eye how they captured and looted happiness, dreams and family members of the common people without any mistake. Even, Maoist also did. But they persuaded them by class, by coaching and they involved knowingly and unknowingly in the People's War. But, Police? Never. Common people killed and they gave name Maoist terrorist.

Perhaps, the war psychology shifted me to read the conflict and tear.

Again, I read this story in the Pakistani newspaper Dawan, story of Tsunami in the Japan. I don’t know why I'm curtsying these stories in hataru. Plz, forgive me.

'Mummy I got buried. Please make it quick'

By Tim Hume in Christchurch

Saturday, 26 February 2011

AP

Why people like to read tragedy? I don't know. U know? There are so many books who became most popular, they are almost tragedy.

I don't why I chose this story? But it touched my heart. And, I curtsy from The Independent, just for you.

A Friendship Endures, Even Under a War’s Heavy Toll

By JACK HEALY 

BAGHDAD —

It is said, war is very cruel. Whole human being, its culture and psychology infected. When I read the story of Jack Healy on the New York Times about the Iraq war then I remembered the Nepal's 10 years long People's War. I remembered so many characters who lost their dreams, their happiness, family members, neighbor,and their organ of the body. I remembered Namuna sister who lost her hand.
Just I curtsy from New York Times, just for you.

As long as they can remember, Sadiq Ali and Mohammed Ahmed have been inseparable. They grew up on the same block in western Baghdad. Walked each other to school. Dreamed about being soccer stars. And they were playing video games together at an outdoor arcade when a rocket whipped down from the sky and sprayed the boys with fire and shrapnel.

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Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times