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The Nepal Digest Friday 17 Feb 95: Falgun 5 2051 BkSm Volume 36 Issue 12
Today's Topics:
1. TAJA_KHABAR - News From Nepal
2. KATHA_KABITA
Poem - Yo Ho America Saathi
Muktak - Ek Muktak
3. KURA_KANI
Education - Re: Book Review
Social - Re: TND List
Re: US Media on Nepal News
4. JAN_KARI
Nepali Directory
Himal Magazine
5. KHOJ_KHABAR
Roshan looking for Amaresh and Shrinivash
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* TND Archives: Sohan Panta k945184@atlas.kingston.ac.uk *
* Book Reviews Columns: Pratyoush R. Onta ponta@sas.upenn.edu *
* News Correspondent Rajendra P Shrestha rajendra@dartmouth.edu *
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* +++++ Food For Thought +++++ *
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* "If you don't stand up for something, you will fall for anything" -Dr. MLK *
* "Democracy perishes among the silent crowd" - Sirdar Khalifa *
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:00:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Sujata Rana <srana@u.washington.edu>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: e-mail address of TND subscribers(khoj-khabar)
This is in reply to Balkrishna Sharma's suggestion(feb 10) that the TND
maintain a list of current subscribers for the same purposes as a
telephone directory. I feel that while it is nice to be able to make
contacts with as many Nepalis as possible, it is important to maintain
privacy as well. what I like about TND is that it allows people to get
news/views about Nepal and also to discuss issues of interest. BUT, it
is also possible to get and enjoy TND, without having to actively
participate in all discussion. What I mean to say is that TND gives me a
sense of anonymity which is very welcome. When I chose to express myself
on any issue, friends and acquaintances then get all necessary
information to contactme. anyway, if my friends are good ones, i would
already have given them my email address. To my mind, TND is not, and
should not be, just a listing of all Nepalis in and around the 'net
world.
For that purpose, i believe someone is already compiling a list of all
Nepalis' email address and so on. he/she can be contacted at
sbhattar@site.gmu.edu. That's my two pennies worth.
sujata Rana
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 19:05 EST
From: ATULADHAR@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - Feb 15, 1995 (1 Chaitra 2051 BkSm)
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
Patronizing Book Review?
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I found P. Onta's book review of "Tribals of Nepal" patronizing on the
authors: Dr. Rajesh Gautam and some Thapa-Magar.
Onta, for example, takes the authors to task for what appears to be misuse of
some english language as "hags" and "vegetabalizing". This strikes as a
deliberate attempt to misunderstand the authors and punish them for their
political project of highlighting an hitherto oppressed section of nepalese
society, the "Tribals".
Anybody who is familiar with any Nepalese who did not have the opportunity to
think in English thanks to Jesuit education instantaneously recognizes how
many Nepali friends think in nepali and attempt a crude translation into
English. I would bet that Dr. Rajesh Gautaum whose earlier publications has
been in nepali does that. I am sure he was just trying to say some elderly
women come to the rescue when they used the word "hag". I am not ready impute
misogyny to these authors or patronizing attitudes to these authors without
further contextual evidence.
As for "more sensitized discourse " on identity that the authors miss and
their faults of romanticizing "savages" as "sojo" balanced or in someway
Rousseauesque, the authors can hardly been blamed for what has been till
recently a fundamental tradition of mainstream anthropology. I am sure Onta's
version of avant garde historical theory will be open to future rebukes of
obscolense when new critiques come their way.
given that modern nepal is antagonistic to any effort by the oppressed tribals
to assert their identity, I welcome this book for all its "faults". I thank
Onta for persuading me to find this and read it.
Amulya Tuladhar
Clark University
Massachusetts
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 19:52:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Nirmal Ghimirez <NGH42799Q236@DAFFY.MILLERSV.EDU>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Chuteko kabita
I was about to write that poem but suddenly something went wrongand
I think you only got the introduction and the reason why i wrote it.
HO SAATHI YO HO AMRICA
SAATHI YO HO AMERICA
kahile waiter,dishwasher ta kahile cashier
kahile manager,supervisor,kahile taxi ta kahile limo driver
sabai kisimko kaam garnuparcha yehaan
Kaamo ijjat bhaikole sabai kisimko kaam garnuparcha yehaan
Newton ko theory matra hoeen Descartes ko Philisophy pani
Pythagorasko sadhya matra hoeen Beethovenko dhun pani
Tax law matra hoeen criminal justice pani
lekne matra hoeen januparcha sppech din pani
Jati basepani akelopanko anubhav huncha
jahile pani auta alien jasto lagcha
katilai nachanda pani heellora hi bhanuparcha
natra uncultured,uncivilized, barbarian bhnlan bhnne dar lagcha
Abortion,rape ra crime ta jahile pani hunch
Scientific discovery,technology ko khabar pani huncha
Manab savyatako kehi jalak dincha
Japanko marketko khabar jahile pani rakcha
Unique ra I am different bhanne dheraiko awaaj sunincha
Tar ke ma bhanne aaj samma bhujna sakeke chaina
Tar kafkako metamorphosis jasto yo nagari badlicha
sukrabaar ra sanibaar beer, wine ma yo dubdacha
sombar office ma karmayogi jasto yo feri jagdacha
ho saathi yo ho america the melting pot
jagada gareko jasto lagekothiyo babu ra chora rahechan
dui barsa aghi matra behegareko aaj divorce garechan
Tar saathi sabile afno adhikaar yehaan paudachan
tita fal ra mitha fal sabai yehaan paeencha
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From: dk@accunix.wjc.edu (Diwas Khati - student)
Subject: directory
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 20:52:53 -0500 (EST)
Dear readers
If you want to have yourself included in a "directory" you can do so by
sending me your name, add and e-mail.
Any person/s sending me their names
and cyberress (cyber address) for inclusion in the directory will be
assumed to have consented to the circulation of their information in the
network.
This program can be terminated at any time in the future, so
please do not express your disappointment through the TND if you are not
pleased for any reason.
And be brief when writing to me....I do not wish
to read multi-paged "bhaasan".
sawid
(stickman: courtesy of Jagadish Dawadi)
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Date: 14 Feb 95 23:22:05 EST
From: Rajendra.P.Shrestha@Dartmouth.EDU (Rajendra P. Shrestha)
Subject: News2/8-12
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
February 8
Nepal Rastra Bank Releases its semi-annual Report
Excerpts from Xinhua and Reuters reports
Nepal's merchandise trade and current account deficits surged
during the first six months of the 1994/95 fiscal year, the central
bank said. The Nepal Rastra Bank said in its half yearly review of the
Himalayan kingdom's economy that major economic indicators were
positive.
But it said exports of woollen carpets and ready-made garments fell
sharply in the six months ended on January 15, pushing total
merchandise exports down 14.3 percent compared to the same period in
1993/94 to 8.59 billion rupees ($ 172 million). Exports of carpets
declined by 31.8 percent and that of ready-made garments by 3.8
percent, compared to last year. Exports of carpets were hurt by
negative publicity of child labor and by a deterioration in quality
stemming from over-production, they said.
Merchandise imports soared 35.6 percent to 29.0 billion rupees ($
580 million), the central bank report said. It did not give any
reasons for the increase. The total trade deficit has widened by 79.7
percent to reach 20,403.8 million rupees (408.07 million us dollars),
NRB noted. Nevertheless, total foreign exchange reserves as of
January had stood at 39,565.5 million rupees (791.31 million us
dollars) registering an increase of 206.5 million rupees over the
level of reserves prevailing at the end of fy 1993-94, NRB said, and
the available reserves would be adequate to cover about 8 months of
merchandise imports.
The bank said the current account deficit rose 41.3 percent to 2.46
billion rupees ($ 49 million). "Capital inflows have been insufficient
to meet the shortfall," it said.
Revenue mobilisation has increased and some restraints have been
exercised in monetary expansion, improving the government's budgetary
position, the central bank said.
Net foreign assets declined 3.7 percent to 35.59 billion rupees ($
711.8 million) and domestic credit expanded 7.7 percent or 62.27
billion rupees ($ 1.24 billion) during the six-month period compared
to the same period in 1993/94.
A considerable improvement in revenue receipts together with
reduced spending under the budget has resulted in a considerable
decline in the budgetary deficit of the government, the bank pointed
out. the higher growth rate in resource mobilization has also
contributed towards lowering the budgetary deficit by 45.0 percent to
1,352.7 million rupees (27.05 million us dollars) this year, nrb said.
the budgetary deficit in the period has been financed through internal
loans worth 250.0 million rupees (5 million us dollars) and foreign
cash loans worth 1,843.1 million rupees (36.86 million us dollars).
The national urban consumer price index rose 8.1 percent to
mid-January 1995, down from 9.6 percent in the corresponding six-month
period in 1993/94, it said.
"The downward pressure on prices this year has been the outcome of
relatively smaller increase in the price index for food and
beverages," it said.
Nepal's Communists Woo Indian Investment
By Nelson Graves in New Delhi for Reuters
Nepal's communist deputy prime minister on Wednesday invited
Indian industry to invest in the Himalayan kingdom's market-oriented
economy and help unleash its huge but almost untapped hydroelectric
potential.
"I would like to invite the industrialists and businessmen for
investment in collaboration with Nepal, " Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is
also responsible for his nation's foreign and defence portfolios, told
a luncheon with Indian business leaders.
" Nepal welcomes foreign investment," Industry and Water Resources
Minister Hari Prasad Pandey told the same group.
Nepal's deputy prime minister said his country enjoyed excellent
ties with its southern neighbour. "The relationship should be further
nourished through the expansion of industry and trade-related
activities," he said.
He made no mention of the sizable $ 305.7 million trade deficit
that Nepal ran with India, its biggest commercial partner, last year.
But Pandey said Kathmandu wanted to review the terms of access to
India's market. Currently New Delhi offers preferential terms for
Nepal's exports which have at least 50 percent local or Indian
content, including labour.
"This is not sufficient," Pandey said without elaborating.
The deputy prime minister sidestepped controversy over a
hydroelectric project on Nepal's western border with India.
The Tanakpur project was built by India after the Himalayan kingdom
allowed the construction of a portion of embankment in Nepal in
exchange for two megawatts of electricity and irrigation water from
it.
The Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party which won power
in last November's polls in Nepal strongly criticised the project
during the election campaign, saying the previous Nepal Congress
government had surrendered the nation's sovereignty.
But the new deputy prime minister, who is also UML's general
secretary, made no mention of the Tanakpur project and instead urged
Indian businesses to help exploit Nepal's hydroelectric resources.
"We are in a hurry to develop this vast resource," Nepal said,
noting that the kingdom, one of the world's poorest countries, was
currently generating only about 300 megawatts out of total
hydroelectric potential of 50,000 megawatts.
M.C. Verma, senior consultant with the Indian Council for Research
on International Economic Relations, said the new government was keen
to develop ties with foreign private firms and wary of concluding
agreements with the Indian government.
"We have committed ourselves to a market economy with a supportive
role of the government," Nepal said.
Confederation of Indian Industry president Subodh Bhargava said:
"Reassurance of your market orientation will go a long way towards
promoting our bilateral relationship."
Indo-Nepal Treaty to be Reviewed
Excerpts from PTI, Reuters and BBC monitoring
India is ready to hold talks with Nepal on amending a 45-year-old
friendship treaty , Nepal's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
"The government of India have not denied the discussing, examining
or looking into the matter and are ready to have a talk over the
issue," Madhav Kumar Nepal told reporters.
Nepal, whose Communist Party of Nepal -Unified Marxist-Leninist
(UML) party leads a minority government, said his administration had
no misgivings about India.
He said the collapse of the Cold War, the rise of non-aligned
countries and a regional South Asian group had changed the security
scenario.
"In the light of the changed circumstances, the treaty should be
revised and made relevant to the times," he said.
He said the foreign secretaries of the two countries would examine
the provisions before the proposed visit of the Nepalese prime
minister, Man Mohan Adhikari, to New Delhi later this
year. Elaborating, Madhav Kumar Nepal said provisions like those
related to security matters had to be made relevant to the existing
realities.
Kathmandu has also sought a review of the Tanakpur hydroelectric
project on the Mahakali river to extract more power from India.
The dam was built by India after Kathmandu allowed the construction
of a portion of an embankment in Nepal in exchange for two megawatts
of electricity and irrigation water.
"There may be some understanding so costs and benefits should be
shared equally," Nepal said.
Madhar Kumar Nepal said he had also suggested that the whole of
the Maha Kali river (Sarda river) be regarded as a package to ensure
the equal sharing of costs and benefits by both countries. The
congestion at Calcutta port and suggestion of an alternative land
route through Bangladesh were also among the other topics discussed at
the talks in new Delhi.
Nepal said he did not discuss a proposal Adhikary made recently
for work permits to restrict immigrant workers from India, saying the
priority was now to provide Nepalis with citizenship certificates.
"Without this we can't distinguish between Nepalis and
non-Nepalis," he said.
He said he promised to cooperate with India on checking anti-Indian
militants. "Our land should not be used against India or against
China," Nepal said.
Indian officials say they arrested Yakub Memon, a key suspect in a
series of bomb blasts in Bombay in 1993, after he crossed over from
Kathmandu.
They say the city was used by Pakistani agents to fan terrorism on
Indian soil. Pakistan denies the charge.
Nepal, trying to bridge a $305.7 million trade deficit, also
proposed the introduction of countervailing duty on Indian goods and
easier exports to India.
India now permits preferential imports if they have a 50 percent
local or Indian manufacturing content. Nepal said his country instead
sought a list of restricted items, goods outside of which should be
freely given preferential status.
A six member Nepalese delegation led, by Hari Prasad Pandey, the
minister of state for industry and water resources, met India's
federal minister of water resources and parliamentary affairs, Vidya
Charan Shukla, on 8th February, the Indian news agency PTI reported.
Both sides agreed to study feasible projects to maximize the
benefits for both sides. Mutual cooperation in the water resources
sector on rivers common to both the countries were also discussed in
detail.
Shukla assured delegation of all possible help on to sort out the
issues. it was also decided that a secretary level meeting between the
two countries would be held soon.
Earlier, Madhav Kumar Nepal met Indian President Dr Shankar Dayal
Sharma in New Delhi on 6th February, All-India Radio reported. Mr
Nepal said that "multifaceted bilateral cooperation must be further
promoted" . Mr Nepal met Prime Minister Narasimha Rao on 7th February,
All-India Radio reported. The Indian premier offered India's
"expertise for laying broad gauge railway lines in Nepal and assured
all possible help in the movement of goods into the Himalayan kingdom"
. Rao said New Delhi was willing to work with Kathmandu in exploiting
natural resources in the region. According to the radio, Rao said: "
irrespective of whichever government may be in place on either side,
the friendship between the peoples of the two countries provides a
stable foundation for trust and cooperation" .
The Nepalese delegation held talks in New Delhi on 7th February,
All-India Radio reported. The Indian side was led Commerce Minister
Pranab Mukherjee. Nepal "sought India's support in accelerating the
process of its development" and "also conveyed to New Delhi its
commitment to develop excellent relations with India" , the radio
said. At a luncheon hosted in his honour by Indian Commerce Minister
Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on 7th February, Mr Nepal said that the
new government of Nepal was "committed to maintaining an excellent
relationship with India based on cordiality, mutual respect and
understanding," Radio Nepal reported. "A free and frank exchange of
views between the two countries will go a long way towards reinforcing
the relationship" , he said, and also noted that "the dimensions and
depth of our relationship is so vast that routine dialogue at
different levels becomes all the more important" .
February 10
Deputy PM returns to Kathmandu
Excerpts from Xinhua report
Deputy PM Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu this evening
after a five-day official visit to Nepal. Speaking to Xinhua at the
airport, Nepal sadi that the visit was a success which had
"consolidated and enhanced the good relations between nepal and
india."
February 11
Nepal to Block Tibetan's March to Lhasa
AFP report
The Nepalese government is ready to check a planned protest march
to Lhasa by Tibetan refugees living in India, Home Ministry spokesman
Sri Kant Regmi said Saturday.
His statement followed Nepalese press reports that the Tibetans
planned to organize the march through Nepal as part of a protest
programme on March 1O, the anniversary of the 1959 insurrection
against Chinese rule.
Kathmandu regards Tibet as a part of China and would not allow
Nepalese soil to be used against any other country, Regmi said.
"The Nepalese government is alert to check any activity that goes
against this policy," he said.
Prime Minister Mana Mohan Adhikari earlier denied that western
countries were applying "political pressure" on his government on the
Tibetan issue.
"Even (if) such pressure comes, we will not succumb to it,"
Adhikari told AFP. "Our policy does not allow any move like the
liberation of Tibet. We will not allow such things on the Nepalese
soil against China because we think Tibet is an autonomous region of
China."
The ruling Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist has
sought to improve ties with Beijing which are seen to have soured when
the previous Nepali Congress government allowed anti-China
demonstrations by Tibetan refugees.
More than 20,000 Tibetan refugees live in Nepal and have emerged as
a resourceful community controlling the country's carpet industry,
which earns more than 200 million dollars through exports.
The Tibetans have also branched into low-budget hotels, lodges and
restaurants, all of them proudly displaying photographs of their
revered leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in March 1959.
The Nepalese government has said the Tibetans were free to do
business in Nepal but has warned them against staging anti-China
activities.
February 12
Deputy PM to visit 5 European Countries this Week
Excerpts from Xinhua, UPI and Reuters reports
Nepali Deputy Prime Minister Madav Nepal will begin a 12-day tour
of five key European capitals this week, making him the most senior
Nepali communist official to visit Europe since the party took power
following November elections, a senior Foreign Ministry official said
Sunday.
He will spend 12 days in Germany, Switzerland, France, Britain and
Belgium meeting government and opposition leaders, the Foreign
Ministry official said.
He is due to begin his European tour, his second since communists
won power in November, in Bonn on February 15.
Last week he returned from a visit to India, Nepal's populous
southern neighbour, where he told government leaders that his country
wanted to review a 45-year-old treaty that Kathmandu communists
consider unfair.
After two days in Bonn, Nepal, who also holds the foreign and
defence portfolios, will go to Switzerland to address the 51st session
of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, then to Paris,
London and Brussels before returning home on February 27.
He old Reuters he would discuss economic cooperation with the
European leaders.
More than 60 percent of the cost of Nepal's economic development
comes from Western donors, including multilateral lending agencies
such as the World Bank. Germany is the top bilateral donor for Nepal.
Nepal will meet German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Economic
Cooperation Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger in Bonn.
He said he would discuss ways of boosting the country's exports of
hand-knotted woolen carpets which have been dramatically curbed
because of a German protest movement against alleged use of child
labour in Nepal to make the rugs.
Nepal exported $ 180 million worth of carpets last year, with
Germany's share $ 150 million, officials said.
In France the foreign minister will inaugurate a conference of
Nepali envoys based in European capitals.
While in London, Nepal will meet British Foreign Secretary Douglas
Hurd and Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind.
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Date: WED, 15 FEB 95 17:53:48 JST
From: 193041@JPNIUJ00.BITNET
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Dear editor,
We've just recevied an emergency call from friends in Mexico. They tell us
that the Mexican army has surrounded the city of San Cristobal in Chiapas,
and that the hospital in the nearby city of Comitan is flooded with cas
ualities. The press is being excluded from the area. The people being
attacked are the Myan Indians, and other poor farmers, who've been denied
land and food since the conquest.
They've asked that we try to get word about this out via email. While we
have no further information beyond this one call I ask you to pass this
message on, or tell anyone you think relevant via any means so that this
do es not occur in silence.
Forwarded by Marjorie Larney
I am quite impressed and astonoshed by reading the following posting. If you th
ink it to be worth posting, please do it. I would like to hear from the TND rea
ders about it more.
Regards.
Bishwa from
Int'l Univ of Japan
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 06:46:00 -0700 (MST)
From: "ShiShir \"Sear\" Thapa" <ccsthapa@antelope.wcc.edu>
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - Feb 14, 1995 (30 Magh 2051 BkSm)
To: The Editor <nepal-request@cs.niu.edu>
Hey guys,
I was just reading my issues of the TND and had an Idea, Would it not be
a much better Idea if we put the news article on top of the page and then
Editorials, and then personals etc. Then take the Ceadits and the copy
rights and stick that at the end of the document, in other words have it
as if would be if you were to open up any newspaper. Have the Headline
issues up front and so on.... This is just an Idea so toss it around.
Sear Thapa
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:24:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Kumar Yoshi <joshi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: search for friends
Could anybody help me to find Amaresh Karmacharya and Shreeniwash Karki
(Botanists) who have been lost in US.
Roshan Shrestha
Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:39:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Sharmila Devi Mali <devi@alder.circa.ufl.edu>
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - Feb 14, 1995 (30 Magh 2051 BkSm)
To add to Mr. Rajesh's comment of why the western, particularly the U.S.
news media doesn't give Nepal any press is because Nepalese are
under-represented in the U.S. Our numbers are small compared with other
minority groups. The object of the news media is to find some sort of
"news value" meaning who is this important to and should we, as the news
media inform them.
And because of their decision, and that most people have never heard of
Nepal, it only adds to the news media's definition of "news value."
The editors and station managers figure, "no one knows where this place is
and frankly neither do we." The then regard it as unnewsworthy.
But there is an answer. I suggest writing to the editors and station
managers, tell these people that important happenings are taking place.
Voice your opinions, show these media moguls that we are a powerful,
active minority.
With Regards,
Sharmila
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 23:23:43
To: nepal-request@cs.niu.edu
From: himal@himpc.mos.com.np
Subject: from Himal Magazine
The New Issue of Himal Magazine is just out. Its contents are listed below.
COVER:
MODERNISE, OR ELSE
BUILDING THE NEW LHASA
by John Grey
The 1990s has seen an unprecedented modernisation offensive in Tibet, and an at
tempt to transform the ancient capital into a frontier boom-town. But how much
say do Tibetans in the future of their country?
FEATURES:
A ELEGANT RETURN
by Roger L. Plunk
The Dalai Lama's presence in Lhasa would provide the Tibetan people not only wi
sdom and spiritual sustenance, but also help them face their day-to-day problem
s with confidence and resolve.
KANG RIMPOCHE TRASHED AND COMMERCIALISED
by John V. Bellezza
Mount Kailash, the holiest spot in Asia, used to be the unfrequented destinatio
n of hardy pilgrims. It is fast becoming a dirty Disneyland.
FAILED ENVIRONMENTALISM
by Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Southern governments are not well-prepared for the international environmental
negotiations that are taking place, and the non-governmental organisations have
not been of much help, either.
PHOTO ESSAY:
KATHMANDU, MAILO KATHMANDU
Selection of pictures from the photo exhibition organised by Himal magazine (ma
ilo = soiled, dirty) which traveled through the towns of Kathmandu, Patan and B
haktapur in mid-December. The pictures deal with the weakening spirit of Kathma
ndu Valley as air
KNOW YOUR HIMAL:
ROCK SUMMIT, SNOW SUMMIT
by Deepak Thapa
Diehard scientific positivism is confusing the public by constantly revising th
e height of Chomolongma. On behalf ofthe peoples of the world, it is time to ca
ll a halt to this tomfoolery.
BRIEFS:
Himalayan cic for the upper crust
Elephant menace? Try bio-fencing!
If the Andeans can, why can't the Himalayans?
Sunder Lal Bahuguna Rebukes NGOs
Clandestine Climbing (The Pisang Accident Fallout)
There but for the grace of Lord Pashupatinath goes the Himalaya
PLACENAMES: gans-cen-mzod-lna or gans-cen-rje-lna
A revolving restaurant on Nuptse
Notes from along the Karakoram Highway
KATHA: "Citizenship made simple" -- Notes to my brother from Fanueil Hall. by P
rem Krishna Gongaju
ABOMINABLY YOURS: The yeti on the difficulty she faces in getting a visa to far
away lands.
REVIEW: Desmond Doig's "My Kind of Kathmandu" by Kunda Dixit
The 1994 HIMAL INDEX: Listing of all articles of 1994
HIMALAYA MEDIAFILE: Light commentary on what the Himalayan media is carrying.
TWO-PAGE ABSTRACTS OF NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
MAIL
Announcement:
Hard Livelihood: Conference on the Himalayan Porter
3,4 August 1995
Himal magazine is organising a two-day meeting to discuss portering in these mo
untains. Topics will include: the portering life and changing economy; the impa
ct of roads and air freight; health, nutrition, physiology; equity and collecti
ve bargaining; futContact: Kanak Mani Dixit, Himal, PO BOX 42, Lalitpur Nepal
Fax- 977-1-521013 Email: himal@himpc.mos.com.np
Announcement:
Wanted: Staff Writer
Himal magazine is looking for a person who can writer, edit and report in flawl
ess English. S/he will be based in Kathmandu but must like occasionally rugged
travel. While the position is open to all, for logistical reasons we are especi
ally interested in
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:52:00 EST
To: A10RJS1@cs.niu.edu
From: DGURUNG@CLEMSON.EDU
Subject: MUKTAK (?)
EK MUKTAK
RAAT KO ANTIM GHADI BANKI CHHA
RAAT KO ANTIM GHADI BANKI CHHA (little louder)
TIMI CHHOU MA CHHU
HAMRO ANTIM RAHAR BANKI CHHA
Note: A friend of mine used to say this almost every time
he had to face a Nepali crowd in any cultural event. So,
as far as I am concerned it is by him (Fuleshwar Singh).
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