Voting starts at 7 am today

Voting starts at 7 am today
Voters armed with their identity cards started streaming into polling stations from early in the morning as the country started voting at 7 am today. They are seen queuing up with visible eagerness to elect their representatives. The elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies are being held in 32 mountain and Hill districts in the first phase. The polls in the remaining distr...

Maya: an ancient civilization in America before Columbus discovered:

Maya: an ancient civilization in America before Columbus discovered:
Civilizations rise and fall and this is an unusual and in fact a natural phenomenon. But life goes on forever. Many of the ancient civilizations have not continued and died out but some aspects them still live on to date. And some civilizations lose a lot and new cultures, religions, beliefs or technologies of newer civilizations affect them a great deal. In Nepal also we had some cultures wherei...

Are we culturally safe in a world of multiculturalism today?

Are we culturally safe in a world of multiculturalism today?
Nepal is no longer an isolated country now culturally from the rest of the world. Of course, Nepal is not a multiracial or multicultural country like the USA or the UK or Australia or Canada. For these countries have to welcome many migrants, refugees every year and these newcomers are likely to change some aspects of the US and the people and the culture of the US is also likely to change or aff...

Ani Choying Dolma:

Ani Choying Dolma:
Some persons are self-luminous, that means they are stars, always illuminating themselves and the rest of the world from their light. Ani Choying Dolma is one such shining star in Nepal. You need not a background or no matter where you are born you become popular through your efforts and the world will know you soon. Like the Buddha was born in Nepal, a small country but today billions of peopl...

Gurus, Yogis and enlightenment

Gurus, Yogis and enlightenment
We have seen many Gurus, masters,  yogis, Mahatmas and today in a world of massive informational overflows or streams it is likely that we come across many Gurus who come up with lots of promises and ideas of enlightenment. This is growing in mushrooming numbers in recent years. India is a country of a thousand faiths, Gurus, and beliefs. Tens of thousands believers, devotees visit Ashramas or her...

Is the economy of Nepal on the right track?

Is the economy of Nepal on the right track?
Nepal is a country of limitless resources and needs not be poor at all for a variety of reasons. First Nepal has large fertile landmasses that can not only feed the people of the country it can even export grains to its neighboring countries. However ironically a country of great agricultural land where the majority of people are farmers have to import every year great bulks of grains from foreign...

How to address the youth / teenagers going astray in modern Nepal?

How to address the youth / teenagers going astray in modern Nepal?
Visit the site of the Pashupatinath temple in the evening and go around for a while or climb up a stair to go to Kailash or the Biswarupa temple you can come across many youths – mainly teenagers embracing, hugging, kissing one another in large numbers. They are doing all these things in the open and without caring if anybody is looking at them. A boy puts the girl in his lap and kisses her and do...

Extraterrestrial life: Life in other planets in space

Extraterrestrial life: Life in other planets in space
Extraterrestrial life or alien life is a new probability. Life may exist outside of earth, maybe intelligent life with a civilization of their own with a more technological advancement and culturally richer. This recent sending of messages to advanced alien civilizations ignites a hope that we, the earthlings may come in contact with the aliens of other worlds maybe in a couple of decades or a lit...

Is the world controlled in the hands of a few corporations?

Is the world controlled in  the hands of a few corporations?
Today the world is ruled by a few businessmen, industrialists. It seems nations are controlled by politicians, but behind all these politicians there is a hand of the few businessmen and big corporations. Very few persons can know this fact since these businesspersons remain in the background all the times, and all those who appear in the foreground are politicians. Most of what political leaders ...

The future of humanity: threats of nuclear weapons

The future of humanity: threats of nuclear weapons
The world we are living in is getting older, dirtier, more populated, poisoned, and deforested, deserted. And that is its physical form. But lets us talk about something very deeper and a question everyone must very carefully listen to. Today one of the greatest threats is not about the environment. It is about politics and religious extremism, intolerance, and conflicts among one another. We kno...