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Kumari of Patan taking SLC this year
School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam starts on March 25, 2010. This year, about 450,000 students are taking the exam and among them is Kumari, a girl worshipped as a Goddess in Nepali society.
The Kumari of Patan, Chanira Bajracharya, is only allowed to leave her room 19 times a year on certain festivals. That was the reason why the teachers from the local Vashara School have been visiting her to teach her in her room for the last ten years. The SLC exam is also arranged such that she doesn’t need to go out of her house for the exam. The SLC exam controllers will go to her house to conduct exam of the single student.
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Wanna Bid for Puskar Shah’s stuffs?
Puskar travelled 150 countries on a bicycle and now the bicycle is on sale along with other stuffs like flags, soil, coins, post stamps, and beer caps. The auction of the stuffs he collected from different countries he visited will take place in United World Trade Centre, Tripureshwar.
Sept., 2009 file photoPuskar had promised to carry flags of all the countries he visited to the top of the World – for which he needs cash. He needs about Rs. 4 million to climb the highest peak, Mount Everest, towards the royalty and other costs.
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Miss Sherpa 2010 in controversy
The titles of Miss Sherpa and Miss Friendship were dragged into controversy when the announcer called the wrong name for the title. The titles were awarded to the wrong contestant.
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Manisha Koirala, "I can’t cry the way you tell me"
After 22 years of absence in Nepali movies, Manisha Koirala has recently started acting in a Nepali movie named Dharma. The movie originally named ‘Rajniti’ was renamed ‘Dharma’ to suit the character of Manisha.
Manisha had enjoyed the post of the top actress in Bollywood, the Indian movie capital, for some time in the past. But, these days new actresses have taken over and she doesn’t have much projects in hand. That was one of the reason she agreed to act in the Nepali movie. Nepali movie industry is not as advanced as Bollywood and the talent in the industry is not of that of the quality Manisha is used to.
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Miss India Worldwide Nepal 2010
Vatsala Sharma won the Miss India Worldwide Nepal pageant organized on 6th March, 2010. The event was previously announced to be held on 27th of February but no reason was given for the delay.23 year-old Sharma will represent Nepal in the Miss India Worldwide, a contest among non-resident Indian beauties in Durban on March 27. Vatsala also bagged Miss Beautiful Skin in the event held at Kathmandu on Saturday.
The 5 ft 6 inch India born beauty holds a degree in Business Studies from Pilani in Rajasthan. A total of 12 out of the 46 applicants of Indian-origin, aged between 18 and 27, were selected for the pageant.
The title of first runner-up handed over to Aiman Khan, a 19 year-old beauty. Mangolika Chakravarty, 23, became the second runner-up in the contest. Chakravarty, a radio jokey, also bagged Miss Friendship and Miss Talent.
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Miss Mangol in March 20, 2010
To help bringing out the talents in the young ladies of ethnic communities in Nepal, Miss Mangol will be held on March 20, 2010. The audition round will start on 13th of February. Action International, the organizer, has called 16 – 25 years old unmarried ladies from Mangol communities to participate in the event.
After sucessful organization of the first Miss Mangol last year, this is the second time the beauty contest is being held in Kathmandu. The first Miss Mangol, Shristi Rajkarnikar, was present at the announcement ceremony held in Kathmandu.
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Namrata Shrestha’s latest interview
Namrata Shrestha, one of the top model/actress, told that she is currently preparing herself to act on a movie based on a drug addict. She was talking to a journalist of nepalisite.com in her latest interview (video attached below). The interview probably is the first such public appearance of Namrata after the release of a sex scandal video in September 2009. The scandal however wasn’t mentioned in the interview.
Namrata has proven her acting talent in the movies Sano Sansar and Mero Euta Saathi Chha. Many of the film industry personnel and the film viewers do not want to loose such a talented actress because of a stupid video that was released accidently. The interview seems to be the first step towards the re-establishment of Namrata’s acting career. Previously, she was also rumored to host the KTV film award show, but she didn’t showed up in the event.
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Miss India Worldwide Nepal in February
These days there are numerous beauty contest being held in Nepal and one more contest is going to be held in February.
If you are a woman of Indian origin, resident in Nepal and aged between 18 and 27 years; here is your chance to participate in Miss India Worldwide beauty contest. If you are eligible, you need to hurry up and send your application by February 4, 2010. The event will be held on 27th of February.
The call for contestant features 2008 title holder – Miss India Worldwide 2008, Shagun Sarabhai.
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Dasdhunga, 10 minutes too long – censor board
The Nepali film censor board has objected on some scenes of a movie based on the event of an ‘accident’ killing two top UML leaders, Madan Bhandari and Jivraj Ashrit. The 1993 ‘accident’ happened in a very mysterious circumstances and the only survivor of the accident, driver Amar Lama, was also killed after 10 years by an unidentified killer.
The movie ‘Dasdhunga’, produced by Apil Bista and directed by Manoj Pandit, is based on the incident, named after the accident location, Dasdhunga. The movie is told to be based on reports of various examination committees (Anil Commission, Tuladhar Commission, and Oli Commission) and published news/articles after the incident. The actors in the movie are: Anup Baral (Government Examination Panel), Dayahang Rai (driver Amar Lama), Saugat Malla (foreign agent), Sanchita Luintel (Anup Baral’s wife) etc.
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CAN Infotech 2010
The 16th CAN Infotech, a showcase of latest development in technology, has started at Bhrikuti Mandap Kathmandu on Wednesday. Six days long Can Infotech 2010 will end on January 18, 2010. The event was claimed to be available for observation through internet. I was curious to see what was going on. But the site was down due to heavy bandwidth.
Isn’t it surprising that the site was down on the first day! The organizers are computer people… computer and internet is their only profession and they don’t know how internet works.
Aren’t they supposed to know the inside and outside of computer?
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We are ‘Nepali’ not ‘Nepalese’
I was thinking of myself – being called ‘Nepalese’. It sure wasn’t the first time I was called Nepalese, but every time I am called by that adjective I feel a bit odd. The word sounds a bit foreign even if the whole ‘Nepal’ is attached to it.Let’s fight for ‘Nepali’.
Nepali is our identity, Nepalese isn’t!
Nepali is our own word, Nepalese isn’t.
I called myself “Nepali” my whole life. We sang songs like “Yo Nepali sir uchali …”. There was no ‘Nepalese’ in my early days… not even a trace of it.
Then came this information age. The global village shrunk in size, people came know what Gadhimai mela exactly is, Ram Bahadur Bomjom made international headline, Khagendra Thapa Magar is featured in US magazine, and these are only a few to name. The foreign media (and sometime our own media) portrayed us as Nepalese instead of Nepali. I believe, we are Nepali and there is no word called ‘Nepalese’ in our dictionary.
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Treehouse, not for fun
Wouldn’t it be fun to live in a tree-house? It is not so for Kali Bahadur Shahi, 45, of Jajarkot, Western Nepal. Shahi has been living in a house built on a tree located near the Baluwa Bazaar of Jungathapachaur village, for the last one year. Living in the tree house is more of a necessity than entertainment for him.
Shahi constructed the house on the tree as he didn’t have any land to build a house on. Now everybody in the neighborhood is happy about Shahi and his treehouse. Shahi has become the watchman for the community. From the height Shahi can see everything in the bazaar and hence the number of crime in the area has decreased substantially.
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NYT’s 31st place to go in 2010
New York Times published a list of 31 places to go in 2010. The list starts with Sri Lanka and ends with Nepal. As a Nepali, am I happy about it? No, I am not.
I was happy when Lonely Planet listed Nepal in its top 10 destination List. But this 31 destination list is different. The paper portrays Nepal as a Gay paradise. The article looks more like advertisement for Sunil Babu Pant, who is promoting gay tourism with his Pink Mountain Travels and Tours, than travel advisory. … Mr. Pant is offering to hold nuptials at the Mount Everest base camp, jungle safari honeymoons and bridal processions on elephant back.
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Yes, he did it! Oldest climber got Guinness certificate
Min Bahadur Sherchan, climbed Mt. Everest, the 29,028 feet (8,848-meter) peak, at the age of 76 in 2008. But, the 2009 edition of Guinness Book of World Records had Japanese national Yuichiro Miura as the oldest person to reach the top of the world at 75.Sherchan did apply for his rightful entry in the record book but getting the honor was as tough as climbing the highest peak itself.
Sherchan first thought of setting a record on mountaineering in 1960. He wanted to be the first to climb Dhaulagiri (8,167m) but another team succeeded in climbing it before he could attempt. After 40 years, in 2002, he decided to be the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest breaking the records set by Japanese mountaineers. He started his trainings at the age of 72 and climbed the peak on May 25, 2008 at the age of 76 years and 350 days (almost 77 years).
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Happy New Year 2010
It is sad to be celebrating the new year virtually locked at home due to a nationwide strike.
Although, this new year celebration is ‘foreign’ to Nepali people as we have our own New Year in April/May. English New Year (that is what we prefer to say) is celebrated with enthusiasm mainly in urban areas.
We would like to wish all our readers a very happy new year.
