The Bhagbad Gita: A great treatise ever written

The Bhagbad Gita: A great treatise ever written
Haribol Acharya Bhagbad Gita is indeed one of the jewels the ancient world has given us, a book that is unique, matchless and philosophically oriented. The Gita is taken from the Mahabharata, one of the greatest ancient epics, the greatest in terms of its size. The Gita is a book full of wisdom. This is the voice of God and is rich with philosophical connotations, the one that is considered...

The most beautiful  and largest garden of the world:

The most beautiful  and largest garden of the world:
Haribol Acharya Miracle Garden in Dubai is a garden called a miracle garden, for it is the largest garden and designed phenomenally. Dubai is generally known as a nation of technology, industry and commerce and nature is far from the modernity of the country as it seems. But that is not true. This country of commerce and industry has the world’s greatest garden called the Dubai Miracle Garden. ...

Living in harmony with others’ faiths  and religions

Living in harmony with others’ faiths  and religions
Haribol Acharya Religious tolerance is a great virtue one has to practice to while living in society. That means one has to learn to cohabit in a community without conflicting with different faiths. Yes, every society has a multiple of faiths and in today’s societies, particularly when we live in megacities we come across people coming from different villages or cities or communities.  Therefor...

Being honest to oneself:

Being honest to oneself:
Haribol  Acharya Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise- Sigmund Freud. As a great psychologist, Sigmund Freud said it is vital one needs to be honest with oneself prior to practising it with others. To be honest with oneself is one can lie to others but lying to oneself is not possible for one knows the truth all the time thought outwardly in his dealing with the rest of the wor...

Can we live or go without English Today in the city we live in ?

Can we live or go without English Today in  the city we live in ?
Haribol Acharya That can we go without English today is a serious question. Yes, we can go or live without English if we are prepared to leave our city for a remote village wherein people are not vulnerable to the modern lifestyle at all. They eat the food items that were used a thousand years ago; they sleep in the houses that are very ancient in style. They are mainly agrarians and them till ...

Growing use and misuse of Facebook

Growing use and  misuse of Facebook
Haribol Acharya We want to connect, needless to say to the rest of the world.  Everyone wants his or her world to expand. The world means not just a physical geography, for geography matters little in  Today’s world with crumbling geographical borders. Today we want to connect through our ideas and we want to share ideas globally. For people are,  no matter  wherefrom he or she hails, whether she...

The declining ethics of hospitals and schools in Nepal:

The declining ethics of hospitals and schools in Nepal:
Haribol Acharya Nepal is going through a great deal of transition and the tempo is now gearing. It is good to see that we have so many hospitals and schools mushrooming in the country. It is indeed a sign of development no doubt. But unfortunately, all these things of development are concentrated in major cities only. This has galvanized the density of population in major cities and the maj...

Nepal – a country of innumerable possibilities:

Nepal – a country of innumerable possibilities:
Haribol Acharya Nepal is a poor country with the majority of people still living below poverty line.  And in development, it has lagged behind most of the developing South Asian countries. Why is Nepal so poor and why a country with a great gift of nature, endowed with tens of thousands of resources, abundant hydro-potentials, and massive fertile agricultural lands and moreover with a count...

New emerging sociocultural problems in Nepal

New emerging sociocultural problems in Nepal
If we go to any remote district in Nepal we come across cases of large numbers of youths going abroad, mainly in quest of better opportunities: Mainly job opportunities, and educational opportunity.  This kind of mass flight of people in the country commenced mainly from the time of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal started about two decades ago. The Villages or remote districts of Nepal were consi...

Nepal is a country of harmony, peace and coexistence:

Nepal is a country of harmony, peace and coexistence:
Haribol Acharya Nepal is indeed a small country, geographically speaking and yet Nepal a great country in other respects. First Nepal is naturally a rich country considering its biodiversity. A country of mountains, hills, rivers, river-valleys, plateaus, lakes, plains and the Himalayas, Nepal is indeed geographically a country of great variations. Tens of thousands of tourists flock here every...