Archive for April, 2008


Nepal Diary: Gorakhpur Trip 1

Filed Under: My bandwagon by Prajwol — 9 Comments
April 29, 2008

What are the odds of me coming back to Nepal, going to Lumbini, and finally visiting Gorakhpur? I don’t think it was likely, so while I was in Bhairahawa why not hit roads to Gorakhpur India.

I had been to India just once before, took a flight from Kathmandu to Delhi, took a cab from Delhi airport to All India Medical Institute, and same way back to Kathmandu. My point is I haven’t seen true India. Gorakhpur would definitely give me more insight, and I would also get opportunity to visit Gorakhnath Temple. View full article »

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My interpretation

Filed Under: News/information and opinion by Prajwol — 2 Comments
April 27, 2008

My last post was on exploring “Dalit’s” in Hinduism. I got some very good feedback for that post, rather than replying them as a comment I decided to write a reply post. I think this is a very important issue, because if we meekly dismiss this right now and accept the status quo, I can’t imagine how the Hinduism will look like in the next century. There are some really bad practices of Hinduism, it’s up to us to find out if that was for real or some human created propaganda. My effort now is on exploring the existence of ‘Varna’s’.

I feel a little ashamed as we (Hindu) being a follower of the most ancient religion don’t know many things about it. We were never taught our religion in a practical manner, it was always enforced. It’s very true that within in each 50km there might be a completely different practices of Hinduism, despite having same principle origin. View full article »

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Please enlighten me

Filed Under: Creeping frustrations, News/information and opinion by Prajwol — 9 Comments
April 25, 2008

In one of the news I read today a women and her new born baby died in Uttar Pradesh, India. The women was Dalit (lower caste) so the medical personnel wouldn’t touch her. The baby was born outside the hospital and died immediately, the mother died the next day. Please click this link to read the full story. This is only one of the many horror stories I have heard on Dalit’s. Unlike in India, stories from Nepal haven’t been this inhuman, that doesn’t mean we don’t have our shares of horror stories involving Dalit’s. 

I really need your help, especially all you Hindu folks. Does our religion say anything about being Dalit, or is it just a social imposition?  

Please do drop a comment if you read this post, I really need some information/feedback. If it’s our religion that describes someone as Dalit (untouchables), then honestly I will lose faith in Hinduism. There might be rich and poor, or white and black, but in the books of god all should be equal.

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Will be right back

Filed Under: Let the picture speak by Prajwol — 3 Comments
April 20, 2008

It’s been more than a week since I last updated my blog. Honestly, I’m still grappled with Constitutional Assembly Election in Nepal. I think it’s typical of us Nepalese, after certain movement or election there is always this air of anticipation, anxiousness, and hope. We are also used to being disappointed, have been repeatedly in past. However, let’s pray this time the change will be for real; there is certainly no harm in being hopeful.

Till I get into my groove and write something more substantial, try making sense out of this highway poem :D  

Highway Poets

 

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Mail in vote

Filed Under: News/information and opinion by Prajwol — 4 Comments
April 11, 2008

This Constitutional Assembly (CA) election in Nepal was like a Pandora box, no one knew what was going to come out of it. First of all, it was peaceful than expected and secondly the preliminary results coming out is also baffling. It’s not that I support ideology of a certain leading party, I am surprised at the shift of political bases, like UML loosing in Katmandu where they previously were insurmountable. At the end, winner is the ‘democratic processes’ regardless of any party winning.

The regular online news sites/blogs from Nepal were so overloaded with the visitors that they crashed. This signifies two things: Nepalese living abroad have profound interest in this CA election, and this election failed to capture a very large voting bloc that lives outside the country. Although Nepalese living abroad didn’t get opportunity to vote in this election, I hope they do get chance in upcoming election. View full article »

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Stop atrocities

Filed Under: Let the picture speak, News/information and opinion by Prajwol — 10 Comments
April 2, 2008

I strongly disapprove the way Nepalese Government is treating Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu. I understand Nepal has insurmountable pressure from China, but the pictures and footages appearing in International media is hurting image of Nepal.

Tibetan Protest
Nepal is notorious for suppressing movements in an inhuman way; if the movement eventually succeeds, they later form a panel to probe those atrocities. They produce reports on the offenders, but do nothing about it. In case of these helpless monks, I doubt there won’t even be any probe commission established.

I know Nepal is in no position to confront China, and I do understand Nepal’s Tibetan policy. But, this is blatantly stupid way of opposing the protest. I strongly believe those refugees have rights to protest peacefully without disturbing Nepalese infrastructure. If Chinese have problem with that, tell them: unlike them, we allow reporters to cover the news and spread it globally. Besides, Chinese would rather approve peaceful protest in Nepal than more buzz generating atrocities of Nepalese administration.

Picture Source: Huffington Post

UPDATE (April 3): I guess I was wrong about China, check this link

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