tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28806848895961424112026-02-19T15:37:55.661-08:00...musings, fleeting inspiration !!!Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-24781303953071310242017-04-16T10:54:00.000-07:002019-08-30T02:32:44.980-07:00

Just scroll down to see 25 photos that will convince you to visit Dolakha this April. Following on the footsteps of my cousin gang, I too finally took that much mandatory trip to Dolakha-Kalinchok-Kuri village. And I was not disappointed...specially considering I had to wait for 2 years after my initial plan because you know the earthquake and all. 😆 If you haven't been in this place

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-20720179660771914682016-07-20T09:55:00.000-07:002016-08-22T22:01:55.708-07:00

गत हप्ता बद्री पुनको जीवन कथा र नेपाल मा LGBTI को आन्दोलनको बारेमा कुराहरु सुन्ने मौका मिल्यो । त्यस बसाइमा बद्री पुन र ज्योति थापा दुई जनाबाट नेपालमा LGBTI त्यस्मा पनि transgender समुदायको बारेमा धेरै कुराहरु सुन्ने बुझ्ने मौका मिल्यो । यती गहिराइमा मैले यो बिषयमा प्रस्तुती सुनेको पहिलो पटक थियो । उक्त प्रस्तुती अरुलाई पनि जानकारी मुलक हुने लागेर यहाँ

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The text is largely written by my colleague Ben Ayers. Twenty Bridges by dZi Foundation on Exposure

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"I wanted nothing more than to be a Nepali." "I wanted nothing more than to serve my country." "I wanted nothing more but to get some rights and dignity in this country." "I wanted nothing more but to gain some recognition through my work." "I wanted nothing more but my children to have at least a better future than me." "I wanted nothing more but to provide for my family." "I wanted to

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So many facts skipped over and simply wrong in this article by New York Times titled "India Dampens Nepal's Celebrations" that even opening up the link a second time tires me up. Really "international" journalists- you have to make such sweeping blanket statements regarding the state of my country which is not only ignorant but almost offensive? Even to go through it once more

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“हैट, तपाइहरु त राई हुँदै होइन !” तेस्रो चोटि पनि तपाइहरु राई नै हो भन्ने उनको प्रश्नमा मैले “हो त” भन्ने उत्तर दिदाँ हामीसंग पागंबोचेदेखिसंगै यात्रा गर्दै गरेकी कुलुङ राई बहिनीले पत्याउदै नपत्याएर यसो भनेको थिइन् । बिहान करिब ८ वजे फेरिचेबाट बाटोभरि फुलेको सुन्दर फुल, हरियो घाँसे मैदान, निलो आकाश र खुलेको हिमाल हेर्दै नाम्चे हिंडेको हामीले उनलाई तल्लो पागंबोचेमा भेटाएका थियौ ।

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न पुलिसलाई मधेशी जनतासँग कुनै रिसइवी  थियो/छ न त मधेशी जनतालाई पुलिस सँग केही रिसइवी थियो/ छ । तर पनि आज प्रहरी र मधेशी जनता एक अर्का सँग एसरी लडिरहेका छन् जस्तो वहाँहरुको सदियौ देखी को केही ठुलो झगडा नै थियो । मधेशी  जनताको रिस त अधिकार पाउँ  भनेर नेपालका एक दुइटा महान नेताहरुसँग पो थियो जस्ले काठमाडौं को सुरक्षा र आराममा चुनावमा आफ्नो  सिट सुरक्षित

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-85763700600375972142015-08-29T10:53:00.002-07:002015-09-02T09:27:49.545-07:00

At every stage of my life, there has been time when I look back at my past self of various stages and go "ewwww" at some things that the past me found absolutely cool. "You sang to me" is one such song that happened to me. I don't even know what I liked about the song, I only know that I did. Well, there were a lot of Bon Jovis that happened too which I now scrunch to even think about, but

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-89202788050530971662015-05-06T08:28:00.003-07:002015-05-07T07:35:20.990-07:00

More than almost anything, and perhaps maybe from every corner of the world the furious question that’s coming our way is “how can we help”?  The first few days of the quake was almost as chaotic as our brains which could not process so many aftershocks, and the fact that we were still alive even after being in a situation that resembled close to what happens in the Apocalypse themed

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You can run, you can hide but you cannot escape. That's Kathmandu to me. I do not want this city to be my muse, yet I find myself indulging in its various facets again and again. One of the recurring positive dawdling has been on the row of cherry (or are they plum peaches?) planted in the Airport Sinamangal stretch which during the peak bloom season steals too much of my attention. This year,

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My previous posts of 13 photos here. Enjoy some more of the photos taken during October Visit to Rara Lake in Mugu. Rara lake is the biggest lake in Nepal. Since this is located in an alpine altitude, we can see beautiful pastureland, meadow and grassland sprawled around the lake. Even the hills  here are more gentle, giving way to sprawling beautiful meadows where local herd their cattle

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-5125329410311504122015-01-12T10:12:00.001-08:002015-01-15T08:12:28.512-08:00

A cursory search through alexa.com of Nepal's online portals will quickly show us that CK Raut is the buzz word. I was checking the traffic on some tiny site for my official work, and I just lazily flicked through the top sites of Nepal only to be intrigued to see in one of them that among the 5 keywords , CK Raut was also one (other keywords mostly being referrals of the same website or

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-23143540347215465882015-01-07T08:29:00.003-08:002015-09-23T21:54:49.459-07:00

Such a beautiful place. Here are a few randomly selected ones from my shots of over 1000 which I shot during my last trip to Rara during October. Want more? I have a part two here. 

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-79539400184189008282014-12-28T06:15:00.002-08:002014-12-28T07:51:14.588-08:00

I have to say that #Nepal is a hit among the Instagram crowd too. OMG so so so many photos with the hashtag Nepal, I'm bowled over! I honestly didn't think Nepal would be attracting so many instagram posts, but it does. Initially I wanted to do a year 2014 sneak peek of the best insta shots with #Nepal, but I couldn't. When you have 20 or so photos added every second, that simply becomes a

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To not be skipped by any male, while hands are being shaken. My original, full article whose edited version appears in the Kathmandu Post of September 21, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let me begin this rant by recalling a small incidence that took place around this time last year. A meme was posted by

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-5983060559581780742014-09-01T08:44:00.000-07:002015-05-27T23:44:23.149-07:00

There are some good and some bad in being left out of the development intersection. You know how it is, the places that never fall into any intersection. The places that escape attention, and lie there all by themselves trapped in time, unheard of for better or worse. There are such places, such pockets in Khotang and Solukhumbu of Eastern Nepal. Those areas which are far from headquarters of

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To be scared thinking about scary situations, In the middle of night, after you wake up, feeling all scared and tight and immobile, When at night, you dream the most real dream. Crossing through a dark fearful bridge alone at midnight, which you have always feared crossing at midnight, although neither that bridge nor your dream are real. As you pass through that bridge with fists

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-86962018380932621232014-08-12T23:03:00.001-07:002014-08-14T08:32:58.004-07:00

I'm going to be a tech Guru today, and try to outline simple steps on how to edit your movies in Windows Movie Maker to get that vintage effect. Its not even a tutorial, just a trick, for those who do not know already. Of course working in Adobe Premiere would reduce all this work, but then windows movie maker is free while Premiere costs $$$ so many of us cannot simply afford.&nbsp

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A Dolpopa has his bullet wound covered with layers of khata (sacred silk clothes) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Possession of prized aphrodisiac; conquering the Top of the world; Glory of hosting World Cup Football- all stained and littered with blood and sweat of my fellow country people. Plight of a poor country's marginalized citizens. ----------

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Everything!?! Like the scenario before half time of a typical Indian or Nepali movie where the hero is the ultimate crime fighter but who has not quite found his ground yet-and so the city where he resides is still infested with heinous crimes, and what not-I find myself squarely planted in that "before half time" scenario. All the crime dramas that I see unfolding in such movies-corrupt cops,

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-39681093657503679082014-05-16T03:57:00.001-07:002014-05-20T01:46:19.727-07:00

And no, its not ncell I'm talking about. Enjoy the photos of this purple enchantress, which has veiled Kathmandu's ugliness for a while. Although its true identity as to whether this is Jacaranda or Sirish or Mimosa is being contested in "experts" circle, its aura and charm is nevertheless incontestable. Like Shakespeare said, "what's in a name"? Ha its impossible to see

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-58458986748432053012014-05-13T09:45:00.001-07:002014-05-13T10:38:38.692-07:00

Whether any body has noticed or not, but there's an interesting give and take going on for about a few weeks in The Kathmandu Post. First there was the op-ed by Shradha Ghale "Whose Discourse?" - based primarily on academic work by Simon Robins - which put forth the view that fundamentally the truth and reconciliation discourse going on at that time in Nepal should be for/of the

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-45068519236729277172014-05-02T10:26:00.001-07:002025-04-01T11:24:56.472-07:00

My "dui sabda" about the Nepali film "Kabaddi" starring Rishma Gurung, Dayahang Rai, Nischal Basnet et. al I can tell you straight away that Kabaddi is going to be the "worst" Nepali film that I have watched this year. Why? Because it is the only film that I'll be watching. Kabaddi is also going to be the "best" Nepali film that I have watched this year, precisely because of the same

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-33832737672883451172014-04-22T08:58:00.003-07:002014-04-23T00:11:36.059-07:00

"Or not" means that it is my choice whether I blog meaning write/publish a post or not. If I did not have a blog (or at least the assurance in my head that I have a blog which I can peruse anytime a brilliant world-changing idea occurs to me), I would not really be writing or even storing up ideas. Another scenario, if I was writing for magazines/papers, I would have to be accountable to so many

Heemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167354091194106245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880684889596142411.post-8072532999481057132014-02-27T09:44:00.000-08:002014-04-22T08:23:49.294-07:00

Looking into the social media posts about Dilshova Shrestha, I am both amazed and annoyed at how quick we are at jumping into bandwagons. It is great to see that so many of us are able to access information so quickly, and are open to participating in ongoing social issues that matter. But for some of us, its more than just participating in the dialogue. The annoying part is that we are not only

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