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The Nepal Digest Wednesday 28 Feb 96: Falgun 16 2052 BS: Year5 Volume47 Issue4
Today's Topics:
1. Message from the editor
2. KURA_KANI
Politics - End of Politics as we know it?
3. JAN_KARI
First Anniversary of Nepali Language Class in Columbus, Ohio
4. SODH_PUCH
NYC housing
How can I sponsor this person?
College Information
Dhaakaa Topi
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* "LIFE: Indulgence vs Seeking Truth - Which is your forte?" -Sirdar_Khalifa *
* "If you don't stand up for something, you will fall for anything" -Dr. MLK *
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From: TND Foundations <tnd@nepal.org>
To: The Nepal Digest <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: TND Foundation Contribution Fund
Dear TND members:
TND Foundations is accepting your generous contribution in an effort to
find a permanant home for The Nepal Digest (TND).
We are still short of required amount to pay for 1996 on-line
services for TND Foundation.
You are encouraged to send your contribution payabale to:
TND Foundations
c/o Rajpal J. Singh
44 Greenridge Ave
White Plains, NY 10605
Following members have been kind with their generous contributions:
Biswamber Shrestha Rockville, MD
Mahesh K. Maskey Arlington, MA
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Lynn B. Reid Jamaica Plain, MA
John Mage New York, NY
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Raju Tuladhar Alberta, Canada
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Amulya R. Tuladhar Worcester, MA
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Abi Sharma British Columbia, Canada
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Mary Deschene Baltimore, MD
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Pratyoush Onta Kathmandu, Nepal
Anita Regmi Wheaton, MD
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TND offeres heartful thanks to all the generous contributors. If you
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:35:37
To: tnd@nepal.org
From: asayenju@iuj.ac.jp
Subject: Article for the next issue of TND!!
Here's an article from the this weeks Asiaweek magazine, please kindly put it i
n the next issue.
Thanks!!
Ashok Sayenju
New Email: asayenju@iuj.ac.jp
Article:
The Shuttlecock Refugees: Nepal's Foreign Minister Says They Belong to Bhutan
(From Asiaweek, March 1, 1996)
IT IS A QUESTION that has no clear answer: To what country do the Nepali-speaki
ng Bhutanese now
in refugee camps in Nepal belong? In 1990, some 218,000 residents of Bhutan, or
15.5% of the
country's population of 1.4 million, were ethnic Nepalese. Now, there are some
100,000 of them
living in camps in nearby Nepal. The Bhutanese government, controlled by King J
igme Singye
Wangchuk, claim the refugees left for Nepal because they wanted to "go home." T
he refugees, many
of whom have lived in Bhutan for almost a century, claim that Bhutan is their h
ome. Many say they
were forced out of the country by violent means.
By most accounts, the refugees are descendants of Nepalese who, at the request
of the Bhutanese
Royal Family, migrated nearly 100 years ago to cultivate the hot lowlands of so
uthern Bhutan --
an area that the Tibetan-origin Bhutanese were loath to farm. In recent years,
the increase of
the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese population threatened Tibetan-origin Bhutanese co
ntrol of the
country. In response, King Wangchuk may have ordered their exile. According to
Amnesty
International, in 1991, arbitrary arrests of southern Bhutanese, accompanied by
torture and rape,
forced many of them to flee Bhutan, crossing India into Nepal.
In mid-January, Indian police imprisoned 150 southern Bhutanese protesters as t
hey marched
through West Bengal; one week later, Indian police stopped 300 refugees from cr
ossing into the
country via the Mechi bridge in southeastern Nepal. Both groups were attempting
to return to
Bhutan through India.
Last week, Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba paid a goodwill visit to
his Indian
counterpart, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in New Delhi. No doubt the refugee situation w
as among items on
his agenda. Nepalese Foreign Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani recently spoke to
Asiaweek's
contributing reporter in Kathmandu, Thomas Laird, about the refugee problem. So
me excerpts:
How did some 100,000 Bhutanese refugees wind up in Nepal, which does not have a
common border
with Bhutan?
The refugees entered India and came into Nepal, [so] India should have been the
first country of
asylum. Why they came to Nepal is something we have not been able to understand
. The Indians say
they came because they speak Nepali and would feel more comfortable here than i
n India. In recent
weeks, some of these 100,000 refugees have tried to go back to their country to
petition their
government for justice and their rights. They have been stopped and arrested on
the Indo-Nepal
border by the Indians. This we cannot comprehend: they were allowed passage thr
ough India to come
to Nepal, but now they are forbidden passage back to their own country.
Many observers point out that because of an Indo-Bhutan treaty, India controls
Bhutan's foreign
policy. Is India tilting toward Bhutan in this long-running dispute?
The Indians tell us that [they consider] both Nepal and Bhutan [to be their] ol
d and reliable
friends and they do not want to be seen as taking sides in the debate over refu
gees. But stopping
the refugees from going back to their home clearly indicates a certain degree o
f asymmetry. We
are not happy with this asymmetry.
The Bhutanese stranded in Nepal seem to have grown impatient with Nepal-Bhutan
negotiations. Has
there been any progress at all over the last few years?
We have had talks for three years now, and to be frank there has been no progre
ss. The Bhutanese
assert that some of these people are not Bhutanese citizens. We proposed that a
joint-
verification team look at the paperwork held by these refugees. The Bhutanese r
efused. We also
suggested that a third party undertake the verification procedures, as a step t
oward returning
all refugees that have proof of their citizenship in Bhutan. Again, the Bhutane
se have refused.
Do you believe that India should put pressure on Bhutan as well?
We have already made a direct request to India for help in solving the problem
-- either
officially or unofficially. We made this request again just last week when Indi
a's Foreign
Minister Pranab Mukherje was here in Kathmandu. His reply was that he would con
sult his
colleagues.
I hope that the Indian side will see the injustice and imbalance of the situati
on. They insist
that this is a bilateral issue. We insist it is a trilateral issue because they
were the first
country of asylum.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has agreed to fund Nepal-base
d refugee camps
for 12 more months. But the U.N. has made it clear that it will not continue fu
nding for the
maintenance of the refugees indefinitely. Without progress soon in the Bhutan-N
epal talks, won't
Nepal have to absorb these refugees?
That is out of the question. They are Bhutanese citizens; they must be allowed
to return to their
home with dignity and honor. We hope to have another round of talks with the Bh
utanese at the
foreign minister level soon. If we cannot make any progress in that meeting we
are going to have
to think seriously about internationalizing the situation -- taking the issue t
o international
forums and institutions.
It is surprising that the U.S., a country that champions human rights, is remai
ning silent about
this. They talk about human rights violations everywhere they occur. But here w
e have 100,000
people who have been robbed of liberty and life, denied their most basic human
rights in the name
of preserving a "unique culture." This is what happened in Bhutan and I think t
he world should
take note.
*Note:
The same issue also has a special report on Nepalese women in Bombay brothels.
It says that
high ranking police officials in Kathmandu provide protection to the pimps and
racketeers. Please
read that article from the magazine itself since I am unable to post it here.
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1996 18:55:11 GMT
To: a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu
From: S.Wagle@lse.ac.uk
Subject: End of Politics as we know it?
End of Politics as we know it?
The Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, is just back from
his first official visit to India which has been hailed as a
success by all quarters.
Mr Deuba is a champion of mediocrity. He is choleric, often
rude, and is an individual without the faintest trace of any
spectacular intelligence. He looks perennially puzzled and
commentators had reasons to believe that the man could
easily be manipulated, and led to misuse his authority. It
was widely expected that he would remain a puppet until
somebody else decided from behind the scenes that it was
time for him to go. The somebody, it was speculated, could
possibly be one of his mentors in the Congress or an
establishment figure in his wife's aristocratic circle of
friends.
Having followed "Deubaism" for the past four months however,
I have reached a verdict of my own. It is no doubt still
very early days, but Mr Deuba has been at the helm with an
aura of authority and has begun to show that he is
competent.To universal surprise, Mr Deuba is actually
delivering. The Congress Party elected to government in 1991
started off very well with a clear direction and a strong
sense of priority. With benefit of hindsight one can also
see that the policies pursued were prudent and under the
circumstances, very reasonable indeed. After the first two
years however, the initial promise began to wane as it
progressively engaged itself in intra-party wrangling that
it could have done well without. In the polls, the
electorate gave it a nasty slap in the face and the Nepali
Congress lost a general election that it should never have.
The Communists (or are they?) were an organized lot who had
the will to carry out things that they perceived as being
desirable for the nation and possibly for themselves too.
But unfortunately, the means they deployed were thoroughly
irrelevant, misguided and utterly naive. It's a pity that
the Nepali communists have never been able to command a
respectable following in the intelligentsia. Men who advised
the communists were "Pop-Economists" as Paul Krugman of
Stanford calls it, who had learnt their stuff in Delhi in
the 1960s and had never since turned a page of a recent work
on recent ideas.
Against this backdrop, Mr Deuba fares rather well. The
coalition is off and running. Although it was a great
misfortune that he chose to preside over a cabinet that was
too big to be operational, he has managed to drag it along.
As Lok Raj Baral put it, factions in parliamentary parties
ought to be kept in balance and discipline by issuing whips,
not by asking every potential critic to run a ministry. But
expenses aside, this ploy might have paid off just the way
Mr Deuba presupposed, seemingly naively at the outset. There
exist no fundamental disagreements within the coalition, and
it looks set to drag on for just as long as it has existed
for.
Mr Deuba is clearly in for a miracle, and I have begun to
wonder what really makes him tick. What drives him? so to
speak.
The recent Mahakali deal with India was shrewd diplomacy and
sound politics. Although the two Panchayat gentlemen with
anglophile enthusiasms, Pashupati Rana and Prakash Chandra
Lohani, were both instrumental in hammering out the
deal, Mr Deuba deserves his share of credits.
A renowned International Relations expert at the London
School of Economics, Fred Halliday was clearly chuffed to
hear that one of his tutees is now the Nepalese Premier.
Professor Halliday fondly recalls his association, "Sher
came to us after eight years in prison and he researched on
Western democracies for a year under my supervision". While
this is of course true, there are many parrallel Sher
Bahadurs on offer in London. One of his contemporaries, for
example, saw him as an impecunious middle-aged who drank too
much off borrowed money and cultivated an unrivalled lust
for English women.
Anyway, his London sojourn has given a slight edge over his
contemporaries in the second-generation Congress. One should
not forget that he was elected unanimously, although public
display of grievance from Shailaja Acharya and a private one
from Ram Chandra Poudel are now well-acknowledged in
Kathmandu power-houses.
As the Foreign Minister, Dr Lohani, confided to me during an
hour-long interview in London last year, Deuba comes across
as a remarkably simple man - and probably is one. If he does
not know something, he says so. He is no charlatan,
and obviously not a very good actor. In other words, he is
comfortable with his limited knowledge of things. When
people go to deal with him, his average cleverness becomes
their working assumption.
For a man who has had a disproportionate share of luck in
his life, mediocrity as defined by conventional wisdom has
been more than enough to work a way to the top.
Mr Deuba has recently fathered a child (Yes, a legitimate
one), and is reported to be in the process of fathering some
new ideas for the nation - pretty ones, I am led to
believe.
Let's hope that the Mahakali pact is only the first in a
series, and stay tuned.
S Wagle
Undergraduate
The London School of Economics.
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From: "Raj Kumar Dubey" <raj@caedm.et.byu.edu>
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:08:14 MST
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - February 20, 1996 (8 Falgun 2052 BkSm)
Dear Editor,
I really appreciate all the efforts you and the others have put in
bringing the news to us in foreign countries. However, since I am
getting the information in a more timely manner from scn and now TKP
and the independent lot of the stuff is duplicated. Therefore, I
request you to remove my name from the subscription list.
Two thumbs up for your volunteer spirit.
Prakash Bhandari
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:20:39 -0500 (EST)
From: atuladhar@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: NSF- Rsearch in Nepal Himalaysa
To: THE NEPAL DIGEST <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Title : Glaciochemical Investigations in the Nepalese Himalayas
Type : Award
NSF Org : INT
Latest
Amendment
Date : June 21, 1993
File : a9311531
Award Number: 9311531
Award Instr.: Standard Grant
Prgm Manager: Marjorie Lueck
INT DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
SBE DIRECT FOR SOCIAL, BEHAV & ECONOMIC SCIE
Start Date : August 1, 1993
Expires : January 31, 1996 (Estimated)
Expected
Investigator: Paul A Mayewski p mayewski@unh.edu
Sponsor : U of New Hampshire
Main
Durham, NH 03824 603/862-1234
NSF Program : 5976 AFR NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA PRG
Fld Science : 42 Geological Sciences
Fld Applictn: 0313000 Regional & Environmental
0318000 Weather Modifications
Abstract :
This proposal will add a component to a
research project in Central Asia that is
currently supported by the Division of
Atmospheric Sciences. The PI will determine
the spatial and temporal variation of the
chemical content of snow and ice in central
Asia in order to improve our understanding of
the distribution of chemical species in the
atmosphere of this region. He plans to collect
snow and ice samples within the accumulation
areas of ten different central Asian glaciers.
The glacierized regions in the Nepalese
Himalayas which are extensive and relatively
free from the chemical influence of desert dust
are an ideal location from which to recover
high resolution, regional scale glaciochemical
records detailing the annual variation in the
strength of the Asian monsoon. This research
will be performed in cooperation with the
Department of Hydrology and Meteorology,
Ministry of Water Resources, Government of
Nepal. This proposal seeks supplementary funds
to support field work in Nepal and to support
the visit of a Nepalese hydrologist to the
University of New Hampshire, Glacier Research
Group.
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Date: 21 Feb 96 16:14:05 EST
From: Pawan.Adhikari@Dartmouth.EDU (Pawan Adhikari)
Subject: NYC housing
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
Hi,
I am a student at Dartmouth College and I will be in New York City for the
Spring (probably Summer too) for an internship. I was wondering if anyone
wanted to share an apartment with me or put me up as a paying guest. Please
contact me at 603 - 646 - 5311 or <nepali@dartmouth.edu> or Pawan Adhikari, 41
Hinman, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Thanx.
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:17:40 EST
To: nepal-request@cs.niu.edu
From: pramit bhasin <bhasin@UMDNJ.EDU>
Subject: Holi_Celebrations
Hello Everyone,
Sorry to bombard you with email messages but yet another friend has asked
me to send this message out. 2 down and one more to go
Pramit
Howdy,
Hindu Students Council at Texas A&M University invites you to
the first ever Texas Holi Celebration on Saturday, March 2, 1996 from
1pm to 5 pm at the Texas A&M University Simpson Drill Field. The
festivites will include snacks, colors and music. So come and celebrate
this colorful, joyous event with us. This will be the biggest Holi
Celebration in Texas!
What: Texas Holi Celebration
When: Saturday, March 2, 1996 from 1pm to 5 pm
Where: Texas A&M University at the Simpson Drill Field
(North Side of the Memorial Student Center)
Who: Everybody is welcome!
For more infomation and directions, please contact Ruturaaj @
(409) 693-3411 or email to: hindusc@tam2000.tamu.edu
See ya there!!!!
Thanks,
-Ruturaaj
Director of Public Relations
Hindu Students Council at Texas A&M University
College Station, Tx
Gig'Em Aggies
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:18:37 EST
To: webmaster-tnd@nepal.org
From: LIBRARY@UNCLIB.LIB.UNC.EDU
Subject: mailto:webmaster-tnd@nepal.org -Questions about Nepal
Hi! My name is Meral Karan and I'm a student at the UNC-Chapel Hill. I'm an i
nternational studies major and am extremely interested in going and working in
Nepal. I am taking an anthropology class about the third world and have chosen
Nepal as my main country to research for the class. But I would like some rea
l information-not like the stuff you get from an encyclopedia. I am focusing o
n the images of what people think nepal is like versus the realities of daily l
ife there. I hope to do a year abroad
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:27:39 -0500 (EST)
From: atuladhar@vax.clarku.edu
To: THE NEPAL DIGEST <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Haat ki safai: The Safaa tempos of Kathmandu
=======================================================
REcently i read about the Safaar tempos of Kathmandu.
The article is replete with textual rhetoric designed to persuade the
reders that Nepal is onto environmntal bliss.
We have the authority sounding names lke USAID, Global REsources
Institute, US Ambassassador Sandara Vogelsang, the Kathmandu Mayor,
200,000 person-miles performace, and the hunky-dory associations of clean
electricity to persuade us that we will be delivered from the stench of
Vikram tempos.
But willwe?
Silent in this "haat ki safai" or rhetorical legerdemain is any answer to
the question of how are we going to dispose of batteries, one of the most
toxic wastes, whether they are lead based, as most care batteres are or
worse , nickel, lithium, and other noxious chemical based.
Remember how hard Kathmanduites are trying to find a waste dump to all
the developnent wastes of modernization: throwaway plastic bags, called
"syal-syal" an onomopaetic ascription to the sound they made, the cute
Fruity boxes, when 20 years we ate in bio degradable "sal ko pat" plates
called "laptes" and earthern bowls called "salees:"
Who is going to pay for the toxicological damage to all the vulnerable
"Chamkhalas" who pick up these toxic batteris from Safaa (Clean) tempos
and all those in Hyumat city margins who live on dump heaps? Global
REsources Institute. Are we seeing an example of US exporting to
developed toxics in name of clean air pollution?
Amulya
cu
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:51:08 -0500
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
From: btamot@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Bhaju Tamot)
Subject: First Anniversary of Nepali Language Class in Columbus, Ohio
By: All the parents of Children
Dear Editor:
The Nepali language class has been run since March 3, 1995 every Sunday at
5 p.m. for one hour by Mr. Puspa Man Joshi and Mrs. Aruna Joshi, in the
memory of Moti Man Joshi (Mr. Joshi's father) who passed away on Feb. 9,
1995. Both husband and wife devoted their time voluntarily to teach Nepali
language and Nepali culture to eight children of different ages and Merry
K., a US citizen interested in Nepali language and culture. The couple has
been generous enough to run the class at their apartment when the Buckeye
Village recreation center, usual site of the classes, is reserved by
others. On the occasion of 1st anniversary, we the parents of the children
and Merry K. would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere
thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Joshi for successfully completing one year of
regular class.
Language, of course, is the most important medium for communication. We
believe that we must teach Nepali language to our children not only for
communication but also for our culture. It is beneficial for them as well
as for our Nepali community. If the next generation of Nepalese in the
U.S. would not speak Nepali, an important part of our culture would be lost
to them. Thus, it is significant that Mr. and Mrs. Joshi conducted Nepali
language class in Columbus, Ohio even in an informal way so that local
children have the opportunity to learn the basics about Nepali language.
We all will be happy to cooperate for continuing the Nepali language class
in the future.
Initially, we had difficulty persuading children to attend the class
because they did not want to miss Sunday afternoon television programs.
However, Mr. and Mrs. Joshi's teaching technique were quite helpful in
attracting children. It should be noted that the language class is far more
than just educational, it is also social gathering . This program helped
many people get to know each other better within a short period. We are
looking for some one who can conduct Nepali language class after Mr. and
Mrs. Joshi leave Columbus.
From Columbus, Ohio
Mr. Baidya Maheshwar, M.D., Mrs. Bina Baidya
Mr. Phuyal Bishnu Ph.D. student, Mrs. Sharmila Phuyal
Mrs. Rose Merry K
Mrs. Sherchan Gyanu
From Bloomington, Indiana
Mr. Tamot Bhaju, Ph.D, Mrs. Geeta Tamot
%%%%%Editor's Note: Please accept our hearty congratulations on behalf %%%%%
%%%%% of TND Foundations. Heros are the ones who share %%%%%
%%%%% a bit of their life with the community. Our sincere %%%%%
%%%%% acknowledement to Mr Puspa, Mrs Aruna Joshi and the %%%%%
%%%%% student children for their continual effort. %%%%%
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 12:53:55
From: Gary_Ender@abtassoc.com
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Dhaakaa Topi
Namaste!
I plan to march in the upcoming RPCV reunion with the Nepal
group. I would like to be wearing an authentic dhaakaa topi.
Unfortunately, my topi was lost after a recent house fire when
all of our clothes went out to a dry cleaner (perhaps he took a
liking to it).
Does anyone know where I can buy a dhaakaa topi in America?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Gary Ender
Abt Associates Inc. Tel: 301 913-0576
Suite 600 Fax: 301 652-3839
4800 Montgomery Lane Internet: Gary_Ender@abtassoc.com
Bethesda MD 20814
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 20:44:20 -0500
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
From: sharma@plains.nodak.edu (Padam Sharma)
Subject: A recycling idea?
Courtesy: India Digest (2/23/96)
#5 Urine therapy devotees flock to India
By Nelson Graves
PANJIM, India, Feb 23 (Reuter) - Hundreds of scientists and doctors
inaugurated a global conference on Friday devoted to what organisers say is
a potential free cure for a host of killer diseases including AIDS -- human
urine.
Nearly 600 delegates from 17 nations gathered in the capital of the
western Indian state of Goa for the first World Conference on Auto-Urine
Therapy.
The three-day meeting, organised by the Indian chapter of the Water of
Life Foundation, brought together leading proponents of a 5,000-year-old
therapy considered taboo in much of the world because it involves drinking
one's own urine.
"I once thought it was a strange practice," said retired Admiral L.
Ramdas, former chief of India's navy. "But it gives me and my wife
tremendous energy and stamina."
Delegates came from Austria, Australia, Britain, China, Dubai, France,
Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, South
Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and the United States. More than 70 came
from outside of India.
The conference's poster depicted a young boy urinating into a glass.
Participants paid tribute to former Indian prime minister Morarji
Desai, who stunned the world when he revealed that he drank a glass of his
own urine every day. He died last year at the age of 99.
Actress Sarah Miles swears it improves her health.
Doctors and therapists who recommend the treatment say urine contains
hormones, enzymes, vitamins and minerals that can cure diseases from heart
disease to cancer.
But many mainstream doctors debunk the claims, saying small doses of
urine are not harmful but surely no magic medicine.
Wilfred d'Souza, health minister of Goa state and a surgeon, said the
number of participants in the meeting proved urine therapy's wide
following, but doubts needed to be put to rest. "Now you have to find the
scientific answers," he said.
Urine therapy was advocated in ancient Hindu scriptures. The Bible
says: "Drink waters out of thy own cistern." Modern proponents, many of
them keen on holistic medicine, argue it is drug-free, costs nothing and is
always available.
Briton J.W. Armstrong wrote a book in 1944 called "The Water of Life"
in which he claimed to have cured himself of tuberculosis within six weeks.
He said he subsequently treated patients for gangrene, cancer, leukaemia
and heart disease.
The most widely recommended treatment combines one or more glasses of
fresh urine a day, regular body massages using stale urine at least four
days old and a strict diet barring alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee and meat.
Dr G.K. Thakkar, president of India's Water of Life Foundation, said
urine therapy cured him of amoebic dysentery and eczema, while transforming
him into a "bold orator." He said urine is especially well-suited for tooth
and eye problems.
"Most diseases ranging from the common cold to cancer and arthritis to
AIDS are curable by urine therapy," Thakkar said.
Other doctors said urine therapy had relieved many patients of painful
AIDS symptoms but there was no proof it could cure Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome.
Tara Aust, a German-born devotee living in Australia, told the
conference that she was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes, intestine
and liver in 1988. She passed up chemotherapy for urine therapy and
survived.
"This is part of loving yourself," she said. "What is wrong with your
body functions? It is part of yourself."
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 20:27:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Nirmal Ghimirez <NGH42799Q236@DAFFY.MILLERSV.EDU>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Katmandu or Kathmandu?
I always face this problem when I write something about Kathmandu, which I
think is the correct spelling. The computer always spells it Katmandu.
So this finally made me ask the question am I wrong?
Nirmal
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:38:37 EST
To: webmaster-tnd@nepal.org
From: Nanbanda@aol.com
Subject: College Information
Dear TND,
I would like to get some information on the colleges in New York
city and around the USA.Basically about its features and scholarship
informations. If you have any please e-mail it to me at nan ban da@aol.com.
Thank You.
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Subject: Re: How can I sponsor this person?
Date: 22 Feb 1996 09:22:36 GMT
From: Annie Phillips <kuanua2@cygnus.uwa.edu.au>
Sorry - but I can't help with all your question... I am 16 and
just spent a month in Kopan Monastery - Nepal, I send money via
the post to a Nepalese Monk. With this he is able to return my
letters by buying stamps. It is a risk however sending large
amounts of money due to the postal service. The only really
safe way to send money is to get someone to deliver it
personally to him when they visit Nepal. There are however
organisisation that may be able to help, but as I am from
Australia I don't know the situation in the US.
Peg
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:07:06 -0500 (EST)
From: atuladhar@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Nepal related NSF-funded reserach (fwd)
To: THE NEPAL DIGEST <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Title : Glacial History of the Dhaulagiri Himal, Nepal, and the
Implications for Late Quaternary Climate Change,
U.S.-Nepal Cooperative Research
Type : Award
NSF Org : INT
Latest
Amendment
Date : August 25, 1993
File : a9314052
Award Number: 9314052
Award Instr.: Standard Grant
Prgm Manager: Osman Shinaishin
INT DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
SBE DIRECT FOR SOCIAL, BEHAV & ECONOMIC SCIE
Start Date : September 1, 1993
Expires : February 28, 1995 (Estimated)
Expected
Investigator: Gregory A Zielinski gaz@unh.edu
Sponsor : U of New Hampshire
Main
Durham, NH 03824 603/862-1234
NSF Program : 5976 AFR NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA PRG
Fld Science : 41 Atmospheric Sciences
42 Geological Sciences
Fld Applictn: 0202000 Atmospheric Science-ICAS
Abstract :
9314052 Zielinski Description: This project supports participation of
the P.I., Dr. Gregory Zielinski, of the University of New Hampshire, and a
U.S. graduate student in a research project with the Nepalese Department
of Hydrology and Meteorology. The research is aimed at gathering
information on the extent of glacial deposits in the Chhonbarden Glacier
valley of the eastern Dhaulagiri Himal and to establish a relative
chronology of glaciation in that valley and the adjacent Hidden Valley
Region. The results are expected to provide baseline data for future
research to develop a detailed regional chronology of glaciation in this
area of Nepal for comparison with other proposed ice core/snow studies and
tree ring studies by other investigators in the United States. Evaluation
of the weathering characteristics of clasts on moraines, soil development,
and lichenometric techniques will be used to develop the record. Scope:
This research project meets the objectives of the international
collaboration with developing countries. It provides an opportunity to a
young U.S. scientist to start a cooperative activity with a foreign
country where both sides will benefit from the interaction. The proposed
research also fits with a broad research being conducted by U.S.
scientists in various areas of the world, especially in the North Arctic
Region to learn about weather conditions during the period of formation of
existing glacial deposits. ***
Title : DNA Amplification Fingerprinting and Molecular Diagnosis
for Detecting Bacterium-like Organisms Causative of
Citrus Greening Disease, US-Nepal Cooperative Research
Type : Award
NSF Org : INT
Latest
Amendment
Date : February 3, 1994
File : a9311802
Award Number: 9311802
Award Instr.: Continuing Grant
Prgm Manager: Osman Shinaishin
INT DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
SBE DIRECT FOR SOCIAL, BEHAV & ECONOMIC SCIE
Start Date : August 1, 1993
Expires : January 31, 1995 (Estimated)
Expected
Investigator: Peter M Gresshoff
Sponsor : U of Tennessee Knoxville
404 Andy Holt Tower
Knoxville, TN 379960140 615/974-8025
NSF Program : 5976 AFR NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA PRG
Fld Science : 61 Life Science Biological
Fld Applictn: 0201000 Agriculture
Abstract :
9311802 Gresshoff Description: This project supports the
participation of Dr. Bhaju K. Tamot, of the Department of Botany,
Tirbhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, in a research project at the
laboratory of Dr. Peter H. Gresshoff of the Department of Plant Molecular
Genetics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The research is to
use DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF), a newly developed DNA-
electrophoretic assay, to detect the DNA of the causative agent of citrus
greening disease (CGD). The DNA will be isolated separately from leaf,
flower bud and stem tissue of infected and healthy citrus in Nepal.
Attempts will be made to isolate DNA from any Bacterium- Like Organism
(BLO), and to generate DAF patterns. The difference in DNA amplification
products, one or more polymorphic bands, generated from DNA of infected
and non-infected tissues with specific primer will be used as markers
for detecting CGD. Scope: This research brings a young scientist from
Nepal, a recent Ph.D., who has had some experience in DAF technology and
its application in plant breeding, with a senior U.S. scientist who has
published extensively in the field. The field work by Dr. Tamot in
Nepal, combined with the analytical work at the University of Tennessee
in cooperation with Dr. Gresshoff should produce two benefits, an
expanded research data and information about the validity of DAF as an
early detector of the citrus disease, and a better training for the
Nepalese scientist that should enable him to apply the technique to other
biological objectives in his country. This represents a strong
cooperative project with a developing country as well as support for a
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:35:50 -0500 (EST)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: How can I sponsor this person?
Cross-posted from SCN:
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My husband and I recently visited Nepal for the first time. It was a life
long dream, and it was a very wonderful experience. We treked and
also did some climbing.
While we were there, we met a little boy from Chheskam who was
very bright and working hard to get an education. We have since
exchanged letters with him, so we know how to get in touch with him.
He is currently at Sagamartha HS in Bung. We would like to sponsor
his education, and we don't know how to do it. Can anyone help us
help him out?
1) First, we don't know how to get money to him to help him with his
school fees, room and board. That would seem to be the minimal first
step
2) We'd like to send him some books - can anyone advise us on how
to do that so that they actually get to him?
3) We'd like to buy Nepali stamps to send to him so that he can
continue to send us letters
4) We'd like to potentially offer him the oppty to come to the U.S. to
study. He is still a boy. Would his parents have to sign papers
approving him to go? How would we get him a passport and Visa?
We don't want to even mention this as an opportunity for him to
consider unless we know we could actually make it happen.
Can any of you tell us how or who we need to talk to to get any of
these things accomplished. Thanks in advnace to the Nepali culture
community for any help and advice you can offer us!!!
Craig & Anne Knoche.
<knoche@ix.netcom.com>
71172.3545@compuserve.com
California, USA
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From: Rajesh Shrestha <rshresth@husc.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:40:33 -0500 (EST)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Nepal, India to set up power project
Cross-posted from misc.news.southasia
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Courtesy: S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay
Shirdi (Maharashtra), Feb 24 (PTI) Mr Khedbahadur Khadaka, home
minister of Nepal, today said India and Nepal would set up a
260 mw hydel project in Nepal very soon.
Talking to PTI after a visit to the famous Saibaba shrine
here, Mr Khadaka said the project cost would be Rs 600 crore
and 50 per cent of the expenses would be borne by Nepal. the
project would be completed within three years.
India and Nepal have also decided to set up two more
hydel projects at Pancheshwar and Talkur on the river Mahakali
with capacity of 200 mw and 60 mw.
Replying to a question, he said Nepal would welcome
Indian industriallists to set up industries in Nepal as the
country had adopted open industrial policy.
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From: Rajesh Shrestha <rshresth@husc.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:47:39 -0500 (EST)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Former Nepal premier cleared of corruption charges
Cross-posted from clari.world.asia.south
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KATHMANDU, Feb 24 (Reuter) - A Nepali government panel
cleared former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala of charges
of financial irregularities in an airline deal, an official
spokesman said on Saturday.
According to political analysts in the Himalayan kingdom,
Koirala's clearance would pave the way for his bid to head the
ruling Nepali Congress party.
Koirala, 71, became prime minister in 1991 following Nepal's
first free elections when multi-party democracy was restored six
years ago.
The Commission for the Prevention of Abuse of Authority
(CPAA) on Friday dismissed charges against Koirala of corruption
in appointing a general sales agent in Europe for the
state-owned Royal Nepal Airlines.
``The allegations of irregularities and corruption against
the former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala concerning the
appointment of the Fare Ltd as the general sales agent of the
Royal Nepal Airlines in Europe are baseless,'' the CPAA said.
Koirala's political rivals alleged he had exerted pressure
on the airline's management to award the sales contract to
London-based Fare Ltd, owned by a friend of Koirala's, causing
the airline losses worth 12.6 million rupees ($214,000) in
agents' commissions and high overhead costs.
Koirala was forced to resign and general elections were
called in 1994 after dozens of his deputies in parliament
abstained from a key vote, widening a rift in the ruling Nepali
Congress party.
Last year a short-lived Communist government handed over an
inquiry report to the CPAA, which said Koirala had influenced
the decision of the airline in favour of Fare. Debate over
Koirala's role in the deal had hastened his resignation by
strengthening opposition to his government.
``It is the duty of any head of government to inquire
whether or not the work was being done properly and give
instructions to speed up the work,'' the CPAA said on Friday.
The CPAA announcement followed a memorandum submitted to
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by the main opposition
Communist United Marxist-Leninist (UML) Party on Wednesday
demanding action against Koirala in the scandal.
The CPAA blamed the airline management for the loss, saying
it must be recovered from the chairman and managing director who
were in office at the time.
Analysts said the decision could give Koirala a political
shot in the arm as he seeks election as president of the
faction-riven Congress, which heads the current centre-right
coalition government.
Information and Communications Minister Chiranjibi Wagle, a
junior Congress leader, has vowed to stall Koirala's bid to gain
control of the party, saying that he would contest the elections
to the party presidency scheduled for March 31.
But the Communists, whose government had cancelled the deal
with Fare, said the CPAA decision had vindicated its claim of
irregularities in the deal.
``Even if cleared by the Commission, Koirala should resign
his seat in parliament on moral grounds,'' said Pradeep Nepal,
who was the Communist government's communications minister.
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