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2010-08-28T04:06:00.001+05:30

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How to send money to Nepal from India?

2010-07-26T22:50:00.000+05:30

The blog post below was written as a response/comment to this blog:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/india-to-nepal-remittance-service-launched#comment-925

As a comment itself is like a post and I feel is worthy of reading as a post. I have provided some links also in the bottom to know the ways to remit money in Nepal from India.
I have a strong deploring words for services and people of Punjab National Bank (‘PNB’) in India and those – services and people – of Everest Bank Limited (‘EBL’) in Nepal, I will comment about them in some of my posts later in future. For the time being, you may read about how to send money from India to Nepal. Till the time, I posted this blog, the blogger in World Bank has not moderated and published my comment, but I hope that he does approve.

Here it goes about how to send money to Nepal from India:
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Since I am a Nepali National and sending money regularly to Nepal from India, I would like to point out some of the issues here. The first is not many bank employees know that they can send money to Nepal. In south India, some of them are completely unaware of anything about Nepal and do not get surprised if they say to do a net banking, which is funny as net banking is allowed only between domestic banks.

Most of the time, they may tell you to get the contact number of their forex/expat or foreign currency remittance department and contact there, and if you contact them, they will flatly answer you that you cannot send money to Nepal. Then, what is the way out?

This time I went to an ICICI Bank Branch in India in Hyderabad. I met Bank Manager who was not at all aware of any money transfer facility to Nepal. He ringed up two three places including his head office in Bombay and received response that they cannot transfer money to Nepal. He answered me a straight no. But, it’s great that at least he tried to find out and did his best as it was a private Bank.

If you are in a same situation before Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Bank or Nationalized Government Bank, or a bank which says that it is an undertaking of Government of India, it may likely happen that you will be ignored, or just get answer No and no further help barring few exceptions in some bank branch because of some cooperating employees.

Most of the Bank Employees including Bank Branch Head, who is called Manager, will not be aware of anything what the blogger has discussed in his page. It’s because there is not much transactions happening or India is too large to care about Poor Nepalese, or ignorance is just bliss! So that they can take little nap post lunch rather than processing few thousands rupees of poor Nepalese fellow!

Still, if you try there is a way if there is a will. The blog aptly describes the first method on which I will not be dwelling much. Rest of the two methods that I have employed will be discussed below:

1. I am not sure if this process still works or not but I have reason to believe that The State Bank of India (‘SBI’) still has this process in Place. First of all, go to any big branch (only big branch dear!) of SBI in your city like in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India, you can go to Koti/Abids Branch of SBI. There will be foreign remittance department. Deposit there INR 10,000/- or less amount than that and service fee of 50/INR way back in 2006-07. They will issue a cheque drawn in favour of the recipient’s name and addressed to SBI Bank Nepal Limited (which is a Joint Venture of State Bank of India in Nepal. I forgot the details as I had done this transaction way back in 2006-07 but I believe it was not account payee that means the recipient need not have any account with SBI Bank Nepal Limited. Sender can send that cheque through courier (will be risky if it is not account payee) or through some person, or if you are going to Nepal but do not want to carry cash then, carry with yourself. Present the cheque in any branch of SBI Bank Nepal Limited (this is also little doubtful as I forgot if there was any specific bank branch was written or not) and show your identity proof as a recipient (in case it is not account payee) and collect cash. If the cheque is account payee, deposit in the recipient’s account and withdraw money in Nepal by drawing cheque. The service charge is already paid in India. So, the recipient will get full amount of INR 10,000 which is equivalent to NR 16,000. The exchange rate was fixed before I was born and still is the same. Caveat: I forgot most of the details and exact way but I am sure that you get a general idea from above post. For more contact biggest branch of SBI in your city. Needless to say here that do not go to small branch, they have no damn clue about this, believe me!

2. Second way and which is the best way, and sorry for making you wait about best way but patience pays guys!

In India, there are many PSU and one of them is Punjab National Bank (PNB) which has a joint venture (JV) in Nepal called Everest Bank Limited (EBL). EBL has a current account with PNB New Delhi and the Account Number is 2254002100011923. You can deposit your money in Indian Currency from any PNB Branch in India (Yes, any! small branch, large branch does not matter but it is likely that they may not be aware with this. Just you have to do is to do give enough respect to bank employees, and explain them in polite words, make them aware of this facility) and direct EBL from there itself to credit this amount to your relatives or whoever recipient’s account maintained in EBL Nepal any branch. So, the recipient of money in Nepal should have bank account with EBL in Nepal or you must provide someone’s bank account in EBL in Nepal whom you can trust as money will be first credited to bank account and only then, the recipient will get/withdraw money. PNB itself has customized software that all the details will be entered at the time you deposit money in PNB Branch. So, there is no different direction required from your side to EBL. For example, if you have to send 20000 INR to Nepal, you deposit the amount in Account No. 2254002100011923 and then, say, your dad’s account in Nepal is 01100111100111, New Baneshwor Branch, Kathmandu, Nepal and Account Holder’s Name is Mr. ABC XYZ (Some fictitious account number or may be of someone’s also by coincidence, do not try to remit to this number, you may lose the money), then, instruct from the branch where you deposit amount that the money should be credited to your dad’s account number in Nepal. The Bank employees feed data/instructions and the money should reach there within 4-5 days maximum.

Note of Caution:

1. I have done transactions through PNB and EBL route three times, twice the amount was around 600USD and I could send without any hassle. The money reached the destination within few days. The last time, on my third transaction, since the money was big amount (how big! I will not tell you), it took almost 12 days to reach the amount to Nepal. I was little horrified this time but nevertheless, money reached safely. About service fee, I am not aware as I had instructed the bank to deduct from deposit itself as I did not have any extra amount in my pocket. So, they deducted some fees and remitted the amount to my destination.

2. About the limit, how much you can send, I am not sure/no idea but from my practical experience, I can safely say that USD 10.000 is within the allowed limit.

3. Most Importantly, before you remit amount, consult with the bank in Nepal as well as in India and make sure that you write the bank account numbers correctly in deposit slip and get verified from bank employees that they have correctly filled in their software from where they feed data. In case, you lose your money because of one or multiple reasons, I SHALL bear no responsibility nor I will be there to express my sympathy! Please verify the account details from PNB in Delhi and EBL in Nepal.

Happy Remittance!

Thanking You

Rajib Dahal”

For further Reading, You can click here:

http://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=67

http://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=60

http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/pdfs/84489.pdf

http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=18306

Reading something???

2010-07-04T22:40:00.001+05:30

R U reading something? I am asking this question so that you can share something here in my blog. Like, I am reading two old books. One is Novel by John Grisham - The Associate. I am about to finish them. There are only 50-70 pages left. I think I can finish it tonight. Story is interesting in this Novel. It is about trapping a young lawyer and trying to steal secret information from a law firm in New York through this Associate. How is the ending? I do not know. After I finish reading it tonight, I will be doing a complete review of it from my perspectives though I am sure that many people have already written on it despite it not being any master piece and just a pulp fiction.

Another book I will be reading from today is about and written by Jawaharlal Neharu, Independent India's First PM. It's something about freedom in India - independence from British Colony way back in 1947 AD and Neharu's take on freedom struggle and Independence. More will be here, once I complete reading them.

Have you recently read something? How did you find? Let us know.

Goodbye Dashain-----See You Next year !!

2009-10-01T22:25:00.000+05:30

My previous blog entry was on "Aayu drona sute". In that blogpost, I had written about meaning of "Aayu drona sute" which is a Sanskrit hymns that our parents chant when the offer Tika on our forehead. Now, Dashain is almost over. Dashain will be over on the day of Kojagrat Purnima, which is 15th day of Dashain and as per lunar calendar, this day we can see the full moon.

The full moon day in Nepali is called 'Purnima'. There are many poems, stories and sayings based on Purnima in नेपाली साहित्य (Nepali Literature). 'Purnima ko Jun Jasto' is a phrase widely used in Nepali Sahitya (नेपाली साहित्य). 'Purnimako Jun Jasto' is a phrase which always ends with the word Ujjyalo, having a lot of light. So, there can be phrase like your face is purnimako jun jasto/purnimako jun jasto ujyalo. Generally, when people use the phrase 'purnimako jun jasto', the word 'ujyaalo(means light)' need not be said, as that is understood easily.

The words Purnima, Jun, Chandra are also words they are widely used in nepali gazal ( नेपाली गजल)/
nepaligajal . As we all know that gazal was derived from Urdu and Arabic, but Nepali Gazal has easily adapted this and these days, many people are writing Nepali Gazal. I am also heavily interested in Nepali Gazal but it is very difficult to write a Nepali Gazal which describes our great festival dashain. mero mukh ma ta sadhaai maya prem ko nepali gazal matra aauchhaaa!!!

I have tried a lot to write a Nepali gazal which can describe dashain but I have miserably failed till now. Hopefully, I can write soon here and upload for all the readers.
In Nepali, there are various poems (Kabita) on Dashain. Like Nepali poet, Kabi Siromani Lekhnath Paudyal has written a dashain Kabita 'Hatyo Sara Hilo Mailo, Harayo Pani ko Barsa' (All muddy and dirty scenes around are over, and the rain has vanished!!! This describes the period when Dashain is just to come after rainy season in Nepal and Season enters into festival mood). Unfortunately, In Nepal, especially in Kathmandu, this year rained even on the Day of Dashain. It may be because of Climate Change and Warming. may be I do not know!

Nepali kabita are different from nepali ghazals in the sense, Nepali kabitas have their own rules which are popularly called Chhand. Though there are freestyle Nepali Kabita, still, they are different than Gazhals in the sense Nepali Kabitas are untouched by Urdu and Arabic Rules.

Now, in the backdrop of waving goodbye to Dashain festival, I bless all of my readers with dashain festival blessing mantra. Let all my readers are blessed with "aayu drona sute" meaning of which has been already written in my previous entry. For the time being, My blessings to you and hopefully, I can write nepali gazal to enrich(hopefully to enrich) नेपाली साहित्य in my future days. I also expect to write some "Nepali kabita haru"/Nepali Poems in the future to revive my interests in Nepali Literature.

For the time being, my good wishes to you...........Dashain subhakamana before I bid a goodbye to this year's Dashain. Goodbye Vijaya Dashami, 2009.

Aayu Drona Sute........to Kaun Jage? Dashain Ko Subhakamana.

2009-09-26T16:56:00.001+05:30

"aayu drona sute" is Sanskrit mantra/hymns that our parents chant when they put Tika on our forehead in Dashain. In our childhood, it used to be sometimes fun for us. We used to joke like 'Aayu Drona Sute'..........dashain ka bela sabai jana sute, Chor haru jage.........That means all people like drona and others have slept, and only the thiefs are roaming around in the night...........it was our interpretation to create some humour.

The actual meaning of 'Aayu Drona Sute' means May you have a long life like Son of Drona. The Son of Drona is called Asosthama, which is considered to be one of the Aastha Chiranjivi (Aastha Chiranjivi means those eight people who never die as per Hindu epics). Therefore, when our parents bless us saying 'Aayu Drona Sute', that means let my children have long life like Asosthama.........that means you never die.

"Aayu drona sute" is in sanskrit and it is a long chant and each words used there signify something great thing about various people. It is basically the blessings given by your near and dear ones who are generally aged in your families and respected by all family members.

When I talk about Dashain, the nine days puja/worship to god and the tenth day Vijaya dashami should be fondly rembered. Dashain is a festival having fifteen days totally.

There are Dashain Kabita written by various great poets in Nepal. These Kabita/poems depict the grandeur of Dashain and enlighten more about Dashain.

In terms of food also, Dashain is something different like what did nepali people eat in dashain matters. It is mostly a non-veg festival unless you eat only vegetarian food. Generally, the non-vegetarian foods are eaten from 8th day of Navaratri, which is called MahaAsthami and that is today. People, as per their tradition, cut goat, buffalo, chicken etc. on this occasion.

My dashain wish can not be fulfilled but I am yearning for going home. I wish that all Nepalese Celebtare Dashain in great mood.

By evening, I wish to post a nepali gazal about Dashain. I hope I can write a one to depict the beauty and majesty of this Festival.

Wish you all a Happy Dashain.
N Someone is not well this time. Though she does not know much about Dashain, and does not believe on it, I wish that Maata Durga Bhawani will bless her for her good health and prosperous life.

Once Again, Happy Dashain!

Vijaya Dashami - Dashain - Subhakamana

2009-09-26T01:44:00.001+05:30

First of all, I would like to wish a very Happy Vijaya Dashami and Bada Dashain to all my readers who have visited talkingforum.wordpress.com. Dashain is the greatest festival of Nepal and for all Nepalese around the world. This festival is celebrated as a mark of victory of truth over untruthfulness. There are different mythological and religious stories about Dashain and there are different reasons for it for its celebration. Without going in details the reasons behind its celebaration, what can be safely concluded is it is the biggest festival in Nepal and gives the perfect reasons for Nepalese to meet their relatives; to return to country and homes for those who are far from their home.

Last year, I went my home to celebrate Dashain. That was after 5 straight years. But, this year, I again could not go in this Dashain. I may go home only in December this year.

While recalling those good days of Dashain last year and five years before, the blessings given by parents, grand parents with the sanskrit chant of hymns which starts as "aayu drona sute" counts a lot. In Childhood, sometimes, Dashain must have meant money that we used to get from maternal grandparents, but in all essence, the meetings with family members, the blessings by each others and meeting with relatives is just superb that places this festival entirely on a new pedestal.

I wished to write a Dashain Nepali Kabita for this Dashain but because of some other busy schedule, I have not been able to put down anything. Hopefully, Dashain Nepali Kabita, I can write, in some other days within this Dashain.

I am feeling little sad this time not to be in Home. My many friends went home and wished that I could also go. But, the issues of leave. Hope next time, I can fly with them when I go to airport to see off my friend at the airport.

Once again, finally, I wish all of you a happy Vijaya Dashami/Bijaya Dashami and Hope that Durga Maata le Tapai ko Sabai Kalyan Garun. (May 'Durga Bhawani' bless you forever and show you the great path in life)

This is a test Post

2009-09-05T02:00:00.001+05:30

I maintain many blogs in the web. I am focusing only in one blog these days. The theme of each blog is different but sometimes, I feel that the same blog post can be posted in different blogs depending on its theme and relevance. This blog post is just a test post. I am trying to post a single entry in my four different blogs at a time. For this, I have taken a help of Scribe fire developed by Firefox Mozilla. Let me see how I can do these postings at a time.

I will be back with my regular posts soon.

Rajib Dahal

Nepali Poem(kabita) and Nepali (गजल)

2009-02-12T21:30:00.000+05:30

This is a Nepali गजल written by ANJAN BIBASH ACLO. I do not know him but He has posted this गजल in My Blog. I liked his गजल and have made as a new Post. I am thankful to Anjan Ji and wish him all the best in future in writing Nepali गजल. I believe that he could make it even better had he tried little more and I hope that he certainly does his best on coming days.

Since I like Nepali Poem(kabita) and Nepali (गजल), I will be posting here some more गजल when I have time. You can also send me your Poems and Nepali Gazals.

Literature is such an interesting thing in Life and our Nepali literature is also very rich. Just We need to do is keep on Contributing to this field.

नेपाली साहित्य, कबिता र गजल मन पराउने साथी हरुलाई तल को Anjan जि ले लेख्नु भएको गजल प्रस्तुत गरेको छु। तपाईं पनि यदी नेपाली गजल मन पराउनु हुन्छ भने यो ब्लग हेर्दैइ गर्नु होला। मेरो ब्लग मा पालिदिनु भएकोमा धेरै धेरै धन्यवाद।

समाज सग अयोग्य भै ठोकिन पुगे I

रिसको आवेगमा आँफै सग झोकिन्न पुगे II

जिबन जिउनु को औचित्य नै रहेन I

आफू आफू सगै एक्नास सग ठोक्किन पुगे II

मन भरी का चाहना अभिलाषा सगै I

होड बाजी मा अघी सर्ने म आँफै पहिला रोकिन पुगे II

मुग्लानिएर जवानी दासता मा ब्यतित हुँदा I

समय को पावन्दी मा आफ्फै ठोकिन पुगे II

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Need of Service Tax

2009-01-20T19:33:00.003+05:30

Sometime back, in another blog, http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/ , I had advocated about need of service tax in Nepal.

In this blog post, I will be talking about the nature of service tax and in fact, I am writing what exactly service tax is. The explanation of nature of service tax will surely reinforce my belief of need of service tax, I believe.

What is SERVICE TAX?

Service tax is an indirect tax levied on certain services provided by certain categories of person including companies, associations, firms, body of individuals.

Service sector is occupying the centre stage of any country’s economy. It has become an industry by itself. In the contemporary world, development of service sector has become synonymous with the advancement of economy. Economics hold the view that there is no distinction between the consumption of goods and consumption of services as both satisfy the human needs.The Service tax is normally a destination based consumption tax and the principle of consumption of services would determine the liability of Service Tax.

In the present scenario, the government should initiate an exercise to explore alternative revenue sources due to resource constraints. The primary sources of revenue are direct and indirect taxes.

Central Excise duty is a tax on goods produced in one country whereas Customs Duty is tax on imports of goods into that country. But, the central excise and customs duty are in decline due to World Trade Organisation (WTO) commitments and due to rationalization of duties on commodities.

A system of selective approach in the levy of Service tax can be adopted while introducing service tax in its preliminary stages by levying tax upon selective services only. To start with, it should be the approach that no service tax be imposed on any of the environmental services, health and social services, legal services etc.

The service tax that should be imposed now should be on travel and tour services, hotels and restaurants for hospitality like body spa, massage, travel agency services etc.

There should be a clear attempt to tax all services in a uniform manner to avoid controversy and confusion.

Therefore, I feel that there is a great scope to tax services in Nepal under new legal framework if implemented properly by Maoists Governments.

Back again after a long time

2009-01-20T14:50:00.001+05:30

I think I will update this blog regularly. I will see you soon after coming back here.

Good Bye Post

2007-03-08T20:20:00.000+05:30

This Blog Page will be updated further in this address

http://talkingforum.wordpress.com

Thank You Very Much for visiting us.

Finally Back Again after a long time

2007-03-08T18:08:00.000+05:30

This Blog Page will be updated further in this address(http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/) and not in this address (http://www.talkingforum.blogspot.com). I understand the kind of difficulty the readers of this blog face from our migration from one domain to another but I sincerely request you to condone me on this aspect. The safety of the blog and that of its contents are the primary factors, while deciding to go back to my old home, and to know the details read this Post in Details.

एउटा भनाइ नै छ नि “घुमि फिरि रुम्जाटार”। तेस्तै छ मेरो ब्लग को कहानि। मैले कहिले बाट ब्लग लेख्न सुरु गरे भन्ने जान्न त यो पढ्नु होस् तपाइले/ (http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/just-a-first-post/)। कहिले यहा कहिले त्य्हा ब्लग्गिङ् गर्दै हिनेको मान्छे म। केहि समय बाट मैले आफैलै एक किसिम को इस्ट्याबिलिटि दिने ट्राइ गरे अनि ब्लूगिङ् सुरु गरे http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com मा/

After sometime, I found Word press blog inadequate for me because of many reasons. I thought Blogspot will be handier than Word Press. One of the reasons that I moved from my Wordpress to Blogspot was to insert some google adsense in my blog and to make little money, and that was not that bad decision. What is wrong if someone desires to earn little money from blogging. I also thought the same and inserted some google adsense. I could earn little more than 25 USD within a week and that was almost 3-4 USD per day. But, immediately Google Ad sense banned me on the reason that some unnecessary clicks were generated there and again was not wrong reason to ban me. :) After one or two appealing processes, it was clear that I was banned and that too forever. And with that ban, my main reason to decide to move to blogspot was almost shattered.

अब केवल पैसा कै लागि मात्रै ब्लग गर्या पनि होइन यो लाईफ मा/ Google adsense ले ब्यान गरे पनि, I was determined to blog continuously and kept on blogging on any issues that may have pleased to me.

अब म र मेरो ब्लग माथि अर्को बज्रपात आइलाग्यो on Wednesday, February 28, 2007. कसैले मेरो जिमेल ह्याक गर्‍यो र मेरो ब्लग पनि /

Some derogatory and adult contents were posted there which was later removed by the hackers himself. With a lot of efforts, the gmail password and Blog was recovered on Friday, March 2, 2007 from the hackers who mailed me these passwords in my another yahoo mailbox.

After efforts from our side, we found who the hacker is. He told he hacked my gmail and blog to take a personal revenge on me on the issues when we, the hacker and I, had a scuffle on the net which was ended in a event of abusing each other.
There is a saying that you will be a lone runner in the internet even if you win, after a heated arguments. It's better for us not to chat with many people or to get involved in unhealthy, unintellectual, and unnecessary discussions in the internet. And from that day, I have reduced the time of online chatting with people, and definitely not with them, whom I hardly know and have to never deal with.
we resolved the matter amicably and he returned all my passwords.

So, Chamatkaribaba and Team were back again and here we are.

अब के गर्ने, कसैले ब्लग नै ह्य्याक गर्‍यो भनेर ब्लगगिङ नै स्टप गर्ने कुरा पनि भएन । ब्लगिङ् त गर्नै पर्‍यो । And I am in my old blogpage भनेर मैले माथि नै भनि हाले । कुरो कसको ब्लग र कस्को जिमेल कसले हयाक्क गर्यो मात्रै हैन। कुरो Internet Security को हो यहा। कुरो Cyber Crimes को छ यहा/

The hacker when posted some adult contents in my webpage by stealing the passwords, then, it is the case of cyber crimes. It shows how vulnerable our internet system is and it must teach lesson to all of us bloggers regarding the safety of medium what we are using.

Before I would be writing on other issues, I would like to thank Blogger Nepal Diary (http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com/) (and some other Bloggers who helped) for extending generous support to recover the hacked blog page and email password in the time of distress.

I am focusing here on bloggers because, we most of the bloggers, are not so tech-savvy. We know very little about Network security and methods that we can employ to protect our pages from hackers. It seems that if knowledge is misutilized, hackers can do anything when they want.

In Nepal, with the evolution of BLOGAN, I could see that some of the activities that they are going to undertake are to teach the naïve Nepalese bloggers about the jargon in blogging world. How to make it? How to post it? How to moderate comments etc. etc. Then, the basic issue of security and how to protect our pages from slipping on the hands of so called hackers, and not only that but general safety measures as well, should be on the agenda of BLOGAN's new initiatives. An ill-intention of the criminals can not be stopped at all but protective measures can be taught and learnt, I guess.

Now, amidst the tension of hacked blog, I was unable to update my blog for so many days. So, I am writing here a long post today covering almost all the measure issues of the period. There was Holi. I could not wish anyone on time but belated happy holi and I hope that everyone enjoyed well and got hit with lola and colours. J

Here, even in foreign land, that is ( परदेशमा पनि) Holi was not less interesting/entertaining than in Nepal. We throughly enjoyed it.

You can see it in the photo. I am also there but People have poured so much colour on each other

that I am unable to recognize where I am. If you guys know, let me know hai. (ahem!!)

These are some of the Nepalese Job holders, jobless, Scholarship holders, self-finanncing students from Nepal gathered in a Flat. WE played in such a wild way that may be that flat has still smell of rotten eggs :) and we throughly understood the plight of the house owner and anger after the Holi was over. :)

Now, since the security matter has pertinent bearing on the further updates of this blog, we are moving back to our Old page in WordPress. ( http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com) This blog will not be updated since today and we request all of you to navigate from here to our old page for many more updates. When we moved from wordpress to blogspot, our feet were in air with lots of expectation and enthusiasm; J today we are going back by keeping our controlled foot on ground and with some heavy hearts. :P But, blogging will be a continuous effort irrespective of how many obstacles we may face on the way.

Ok, Dear friends and folks, Good Bye for today. I will be updating my blog regularly here in wordpress.com. I will be back with some photos of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India in my next blog in http://www.talkingforum.wordpress.com/

Finally Back Again

2007-03-02T15:48:00.000+05:30

We have recovered the Hacked Blog again. We will be back with updates soon!!!!!
Chamatkaribaba & Team

2007-02-28T18:14:00.000+05:30

Barking King!!!!!!

2007-02-19T22:32:00.000+05:30

UPDATED: People are against the king's statement and are on the streets. Well Done Guys!!! See some Photos

Photo Courtesy: http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com

So, King Gyanendra barked again if we have to Believe United We Blog AND yes he did. Why?

Because leaders gave him ILLEGAL space. ILLEGAL because if we had followed the principles of criminal laws, he would have been behind the bar and not in the Royal Palace guarded by some thousands of Armies. If the current government had shown that courage, he would have been travelling by Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Blue Van and not by Mercedes Benz. Not only the space he got but the leaders gave him especial space to bark. Because leaders of SPAM are not committed to fulfill the peoples' aspiration that they showed in April Uprising.

King himself is telling that he is going to take moral responsibility of the actions he did.

Good, Well Done Maharaja!!!

Now, it is time to fasten him legal responsibility, which is to punish him according to the procedure established by law.

Another Photo:

Photo Courtesy: http://www.nepaldiary.wordpress.com/

It is nothing but the king's ploy to regain little confidence among the people who have totally discarded him. It is his trick and if we allow him for a long time to be there, he knows how to play it.

What K.P. Oli is doing? Just studying the Report submitted by Rayamajhi? How many more days we have to wait to implement the report?

When Rayamajhi Commission has already shown king Guilty, King should take more moral responsibility and if he has that courage, he must request the current Cabinet to imprison him for all the atrocities committed by him from the time of Royal Massacre.

But, king never gonna tell such things and neither we can expect him to tell such things because in the history of hitherto struggle, no oppressor and dictator has said this. No oppressor has really submitted before the peoples’ will and history is a true testimony from the time of French and English Revolution.

So, what is the option?

Current cabinet must implement the Report submitted by Ramayajhi commission. Nepalese people are no more ready to shoulder the burden of Tyapee (distorted form of Tyabe which means who takes psychotropic Drug Tablets) and dopist Monarchy who are busy in transacting "नाम नखुलेको कालो पदार्थ , Nam Nakhuleko Kalo Padartha”( Some black substances, that is unknown to us).

Before the Election of Constituent Assembly, all the criminals should be put behind the bar otherwise, they start manipulating the results in the semi-consciousness created by heavy fagging.

Current Cabinet is busy to play the “game of hide and seek” with criminals Like Kamal Thapa, Tanka Dhakal, and Badri Mandal. If this continues, then, King Gyanendra not only barks but starts biting.

Maharaj, what Moral Responsibility are you talking? If you have little consciousness of Morality, You must abdicate the thrown and should declare the end of Monarchy. If not, that day is coming soon, when my nephew will not be ready to study in the same school where your grand son will study, if I got little means to afford.

And that will be solely because of you.....That day, you king Gyanendra will spit on your face. The Day is coming soon.
I do not know how many Bloggers are royalists but the bloggers committed to Democracy/Republicanism need to discuss how we can help in the true Cause of Democracy and can help to set up the Republic Nepal.

Something like BLOGAN (Republic)

More To hear KING Gyanendra's Barking, visit: http://nepaldiary.wordpress.com (IN Nepali)

http://www.blog.com.np/ (IN English)

To know about BLOGAN, Visit: http://www.nepalivoices.com/ (BLOGAN Republic is my new concept.)

Energy Sector: Nepal India Co-operation

2007-02-19T18:25:00.000+05:30

I have presented two news here. Both I have copied from a Indian Business News Paper THE BUSINESS LINE. One was published today and one seems to be bit old but very much related to the one which was published today. Let's see how far they can work together. From the interests of both countries, I see these projects as a path breaking events and if we can tap the India's economic boom by tieing friendly relations, then, I do not see why Nepal can not gain within short time. Hope that political rivalry and inconfidence does not hinder the economic ties.

Indian cos keen to tap Nepal's hydel potential'

Rahul Wadke

Nepal seeks a revival for the sector

Mumbai Feb. 18 Nepal has an estimated hydropower potential of 1,00,000 MW but practically nothing is harnessed. The sector remains untapped, as the Nepalese Government has limited resources. Recently, the sector was opened to private participation and a number of Indian companies have also shown keen interest in developing the hydropower sector, said Dr Ram Sharan Mahat, the Finance Minister of Nepal.

Dr Mahat was talking to Business Line on the sidelines of the Second SAARC Business Leaders Conclave. He said that the bids for Upper Karnali, Arun-III and Budhi Gandaki projects have already been called.

The bids would be opened in a few weeks. Companies like Reliance, GMR Group, Tata, L&T and the J P Group have shown interest in developing these projects, which have the capacity to generate 300 to 600 MW, he said.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/02/19/stories/2007021904360100.htm

India, Nepal to co-operate in hydropower sector

New Delhi, Nov. 8

India and Nepal have expressed their eagerness to cooperate in the development of Nepal's hydroelectric potential.

At a luncheon meeting in honour of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal, Mr K.P. Sharma Oli, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), it emerged that several Indian companies are keen to invest in the development of Nepal's hydroelectric sector.

"Nepal hopes to forge synergistic partnerships with Indian companies, especially in developing its water resources, infrastructure, roads, and power and agri-business sectors. Hydro-power is of special interest to India to assist in its own development," said Mr Oli.

Peace is a prerequisite for attracting investment and Nepal has witnessed a decade-long insurgency, he said. "Now, we expect an end to the armed conflict very shortly. The Maoists are expected to surrender their arms. We expect this to improve the investment climate in Nepal even further," he said.

Underlining the importance of hydro-power development, the Ambassador of India to Nepal, Mr Shivashankar Mukherjee, said there was great interest by several Indian companies to enter this sector in Nepal at the Bilateral Power Summit held in Kathmandu in September. The two countries will shortly set up cross-border transmission highways that will spur a new trade in power.

"The renewal of the Indo-Nepal trade treaty in March 2007 will address non-tariff and para-tariff barriers to imports from Nepal, services, manufacturing, education, health, tourism and IT and ITES," Mr Mukherjee said. Since the agreement was signed in 1996, bilateral trade has grown to $2 billion and 40 per cent of the tourists who visit Nepal by air come from India. There has been a 40 per cent jump in investments from India into Nepal.

Source: http://www.blonnet.com/2006/11/09/stories/2006110904601000.htm

World Cup 2007 and thst's CRICKET

2007-02-18T23:28:00.000+05:30

About Cricket

Today Morning, I spared around 2 hours to watch Australia v. New Zealand Cricket match and especially to watch how New Zealand thrashes Australia after I knew from http://www.cricinfo.com/ that New Zealand is slowly marching towards victory. I was very happy when the Australia lost the match. Undoubtedly, Australia was the best team and still the best but their unnecessarily aggressive behaviour makes them worse. I remember in recently concluded CB Series, one of the players from New Zealand termed Australia as the bunch of “egomaniacs” and in fact, really they are. The match had started from 3 O’clock in the morning and there were no possibilities/chances to watch the Australian batting as sleeping is more important for me.

The New Zealand had a comfortable victory over Australia by 5 wickets in this Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. There is still a match to go in this series but New Zealand has already won two matches and has sealed the door of victory. The last match can be of little importance to the world except for Australia to salvage the grief of two series losses. That is, the earlier one was the loss with England in CB Series though Australia had comfortably thrashed England in Test Matches by winning the matches by 5-0 white wash after many many (more than 80+) years. I am seeing the flashes of News in T.V that Australia had lost their First Position in ICC Ranking almost after 6 years. For the first time, the ICC Ranking was introduced in 2002, and till today, Australia was comfortably at No.1.

It seems that this last match on Tuesday between New Zealand and Australia will be the last match for any country in limited overs One Day International Match before World Cup kick-starts in West Indies in the month of March.

The ICC Cricket World Cup, generally referred to as the Cricket World Cup, is the premier international championship of men's One-day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. Source: http://cricket-world-cup-2007.cricket.deepthi.com/

It is a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations (currently 10 nations), plus qualifiers. The WORLD CUP CRICKET, 2007 tournament will be held in the West Indies in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.
Among the South Asian Countries, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh will be playing in 2007 World Cup Cricket.

The top two teams from each of the four groups will qualify for the second round, the Super Eight Series.

Match schedule for the 2007 Cricket World Cup (ICC CWC 2007) can be seen either from http://cricket-world-cup-2007.cricket.deepthi.com/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4699023.stm and http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/events/worldcup/schedule.html. The last being the most authentic as this is the Web site of International Cricket Council, the prime governing body of Cricket all over the world.

Wikipedia says this:

“The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup will be hosted by the West Indies from March 13 to April 28, 2007. There will be a total of fifty one matches played in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, which is three matches less than the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, despite the two extra teams taking part. It will be contested by 16 nations divided into 4 groups of 4 teams. The top two teams from each group will then compete in a "Super 8" format, similar to the previous "Super 6" format, from which the semi-finalists will be decided.” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup
You can see more about Cricket from the website of International Body of Cricket, ICC at http://www.icc-cricket.com/

Current Ranking of the World’s Top Ten Teams
1. South Africa 128 points
2. Australia 126
3. Pakistan 111
4. New Zealand 111
5. India 109
6. Sri Lanka 108
7. England 106
8. West Indies 101
9. Bangladesh 42
10. Zimbabwe 22

Source: http://www.eurosport.com/cricket/chappell-hadlee-trophy/2007/sport_sto1090598.shtml

एकलैइ बिताइयो प्रणय दिवस्

2007-02-15T20:10:00.000+05:30

(It was a very horrible experience to type in Nepali. When I started typing, I thought to make a story but later on, it turned to be a nice Nepali Typing practice. If there are any mistakes, Kindly read with Correction.) I hope that you drop few words after reading it.

के गर्ने? गर्ल फ्रेन्ड हुने लाई पो मोज मस्ती छ त, नहुने हामी जस्ता लाई के आयो के गयो, के मतलब मेरा मित्र मुलचन्द्र सधैं यसो भन्छन ।अनि सम्झाउनु पर्छ मैले । म भन्छु हे मुला यो उमेरमै यती धेरै हरेस खाको जीवन त लामो छ नि यार, गर्ल्फ्रेन्ड "मुला" अथवा "मुली" त कति भेटिन्छन कति। त्यो गीत सुन्या छैनौ, खुट्टा भए ता जुत्ता का ताती कि के अरे त्यो "बार्ता गराइदेउ भन्ने गीत"
मुल् भन्छ्न् हो हुन ता अनि केहि कुरा सोच्छन उनि, अनि उनि भन्दा पनि धेरै सोच्न थाल्छु म।भन्न त भनियो, कुरा नाथे गर्न पो केहि चाहिदैन त तर केटि पट्याउन कम गार्हो छ यहा यो जमनामाआखिर केटी हरु को सग र किन पट्छन यो बुझ्न धेरै गार्हो छ ।त्यो, त्यो भन्छ्न नि अङ्रेजिमा "दिस् इज नट माइ कप अफ टि"
साच्ची तेस्तै हो केटी पट्याउनु मेरा लागि र मुलचन्द्रका लागि पनि आखिर केटी हरु कस्तो केटा चाह्न्छन त ? मुल्चन्द्र प्रश्न गर्छन/ मलाई थाहा छ म सग कुनै उत्तर छैन । तर मैले मुललाई केही, केही त जवाफ दिनै पर्छ/ किनकी मुल म सग त्यो आशा गर्छन । मलाई थाहा छ म गलत जवाफ दिदैछु तर पनि म भन्छु, "को सग पटिन्छन? हामी जस्तैसग नि/" तेसो भए अहिले सम्म किन मैले एउटा पनि केटी पट्याउन सकिन त? मुल गुनासो गर्छन । गुनासो गर्नु पर्ने कुरा के छ र मित्र, मेरो पनि त कोइ छैन यो उमेरसम्म/ अब मुल लाई मेरो फिलोसोफि दिन थाल्छु म। कोट गर्छु म लभ् का बारेमा केहि सायरिहरु र भन्छु, "तीन जना नाम चलेका मेरा साथी हरु को को हुन् थाहा छ तिमिलाइ?"
को? मुल पर्श्न गर्छन/
केतन छैन केतन?
मुल पहिले अँ भन्छन अनि सम्झने प्रयास गर्छन को होला त्यो लठुवा भनेर। म आशा गर्छु मुल ले सम्झिए अनि म एक्सुर मा फलाकी रहन्छु।
केतनले भनेको उस्ले लाइफ मा गर्ल्फ्रेन्ड बनाएर धेरै कुरा गुमायो रे।
उ भन्छ "बिकोज ओफ गर्ल्फ्रेन्ड्, हि कुड्नट डु मेनी थिङ्स् इन हिज लाइफ" आइ से हिम इन ईंग्लिश।
मैले केतन् लाइ यसरि कोट गरे मानौकि म कुनै ठुलो फिलोसोफरलाई कोट गर्दैछु । मेरो आशा थियो मुल ले केही सुन्लान भन्ने तर यो कुराले मुल लाई पट्क्कै छुदैन । यस्तो लाग्छ मानुकी मुल को सुन्ने सक्ती नै हराइसकेको छ/
मुल फेरि सोध्छन " के कमि छ र हामीमा?"
धेरै कुरा मुल। हामी सग बाईक छैन, मोबाईल छैन, भने जती वालेटमा क्यास छैन।अनि केटी किन पट्टीनथे त हामी सग? अब म पर्श्न गर्छु मुल लाईफेरि थप्छु म देखेनौ सिवेक लाइ र हुसन रामलाइ, मुला हरुले बाइक हुदा कसरि केटि घुमाये/

हो यार, मुल भन्छन अनि थप्छन्-तेसो भए बिना गर्ल्फ्रेन्ड नै बित्ने भो त यो पाली को भ्यालेनटाइन डे पनि।बितोस् बितेकै त हो नि दिन हरु यसरी नै हिजो पनि, "नो रेग्रेट म्यान्", आइ एडड इन अमेरिकन एक्सेन्ट.

हाम्रो कुरा छेउ बाट सुनिरहेका छन नसोक रहर (यो नाम हो) भाइ।भाई ले सोध्छन सबै केटी पैसाकै पछि मात्र दगुर्ने हुन त?
हाम्रो गौरभ ब्रो थप्छ (उस्को निकनाम झ्याप्ले हो) "द्य्याट्स् अ मिल्लिओन् डलर् क्वेसन् बेबि"

अनि डिस्कसन सुरु हुन्छ । केटाहरु आफ्नो आफ्नो अन्भब सुनाउछन ।

अनि डिस्कसन सुरु हुन्छ । केटाहरु आफ्नो आफ्नो अन्भब सुनाउछन ।
बट आइ एम रिलक्टन्ट टु अक्क्सेप्ट देम सम् अफ दि टाइम
आइ सिम्पलि एड "हु द हेल गोन्ना केयर बेबी?"

केटा हरु केटी हरुका बारेमा कुरा गर्छन्, थप्छन कसले दिउसै रात पारी रे, कसैले जोन अब्राहम जस्तो गौरे लाई भाउ नै दिन रे र अमेरिका तिर भासिइ रे, कसैले चाँही एस एल सि नै पास नगरि बिहे गर्छु भनेर बाउ सग झगडा नै गरेका थिये रे
सबैका आफ्ना आफ्ना कथा छन्, सुनाउछन भाका नभाका कुरा र सबै हासछन मरी मरी।
कसैलाई दुख छैन प्रनय दिवस तेतिकै बितेको मा।

तर अन्तमा हाम्रा मित्र गेडी बहादुर थप्छन (मान्छे अलि गन्थने खाल्का छन्) मान्छे कोइ खराब हुन्छन कोइ असल, केटा खराब हुन्छन, केटी खराब हुन्छन्, केटा अशल हुन्छन्, केटी अशल हुन्छन/

सबै लाई एउटै क्याटेगोरी मा राख्न कहाँ मिल्छ र ! मुल केही सम्झे झै गर्छन अनि थप्छन हो बा हो ।हासो को बिच्मा म थप्छु "मुल पुरानो कुरा याद आयो? त्यो गाउ मा हुदाको?"
हस्ने क्रम रोकिदैन, मानौ यस्तो लाग्छ ग्र्ल्फ्रेन्ड नभ्कोमा कोइ दुखी छैन। कसैलाइ प्रनय दिवस को मतलब पनि छैन।
(यो काल्पनिक कथा हो-यहाँ लेखिएका नाम हरु कल्पनिक हुन र यसलाई मान्छे हरुको साधारण गफ्गाफ्को रुपमा लिइदिनुहोला/)

The Rose is Red.....a Red Valentine!!!!!

2007-02-13T16:32:00.000+05:30

The rose is red,
The violet's blue,
Pinks are sweet,
And so are you!

And after that dot dot dot ……………………………… I love you!

You must have heard, read, and most probably written it many times. This is one of such perfect rhymes that people use when they express their love. They “really love” or they “simply joke” entirely depend on them but people love to put it either on paper or on cards when the day they wait arrives. Why I am talking about Love?

Valentine’s Day, that is 14^th February is round the corner and I am writing these words despite my exams here (In fact, earlier I was thinking to write something about my examinations also but I decided to dedicate this Entry Entirely by “Making Love”!!!!) Ohoooo…… (You understand what I mean).

Exams come and go many times in a year but valentine is just for a day. The people who have bf or gf must be in a great jovial mood or they also may be happy who are planning to propose someone. Otherwise, for a general public or Aam Janata, it does not really mean anything except one more day. But, who cares whether it is a great day or not for aam janaata, it is definitely the “hot n happening” day for them who loves someone. So, I am talking freely about love.

And Love, what does that mean really? What is this? You ask a celebrity whether (preferably she) loves someone? She most often candidly answers YES!! To whom? Wait man! Don’t Lose your control………She is going to speak and she says, Yes, To her parents, brothers, sisters, Friends, Grandparents, and and……and may be Labrador in her home…………Oh Shit! What is she answering? We expect something different and by different, you know what I am talking about but she is not ready to open her mouth on that matter. So, Guys round the globe, this valentine, I am talking about Love but not that love about how much I love my parents.

Then about whom? No one…….Nobody……….I am not so lucky as some of you guys might be, But expectations are high here……J J 14^th February has not finished yet. It has just started. You know the story about whom, in fact, how valentine day came into effect. It’s basically there was a real old chap called valentine and he did something and something………..So, we can love today freely. Oh My salute to that Chap………..ummmmm………oh yea valentine.

After reading most of the bloggers in the Nepalese Blogrold, I am writing here. May be I replicate same and such feelings that they have expressed. And If I do concur with them, or with especially some Girl Bloggers, may be this valentine day which I was waiting for.

In fact, there is no scarcity of girls around me……….Oh yea!!! But they are not type of me…… You know. So, People like me keep on waiting in each and every Valentine Day. But gain with a great hope.

Now, let’s talk truly, how people will celebrate their Valentine Day if they are not together, if they are not staying together and because of many many reasons, you can not go and meet her. Think about it, if you are in New Road but your beloved is in New York……Hard Real hard to face the time………is not it? I know man and I am facing. Got the clue, wherever you are, but in this valentine Day, jus wanna say u gal “Happy Valentine Day” to you to my gal who I have yet to discover. Really?

If you understand Nepali, immediately follows a Nepali Gazal:

(One thing I do not know whether they are truly gazal or not but this is my fine effort. Plus after being unable to feed my brain the intricacies of Law of Taxation in our 5^th Hour, I turned my mind to this Poem/Gazal whatever and this is the fruit before us. This will be my Valentine Special gazal.)

तीम्रो लागी भनेर नै प्रेम् को माला गासेको छु
मेरो मुटु मेरो माया माला सगै टासेको छु

तीम्रो चुम्बन तीम्रो माया म कहाँ वीरसन्छु र
अतीत सम्झी पागल सरी एक्लै एक्लै हासेको छु

तीमी नजाउ मलाई बीर्सी म भन्दा धेरै टाढा
हाम्रो संसार सजाउने आसै आस्मा बाचेँको छु

तीम्रो लागी भनेर नै प्रेम् को माला गासेको छु
मेरो मुटु मेरो माया माला सगै टासेको छु

Silly Concept of Gross National Happiness

2007-02-08T18:34:00.000+05:30

Hi, I found this Article in one of the Blog pages. It is very old but still found very interesting to read. I generally do not copy the stuffs from another blog but for my beloved readers, I am copying this materials. Being a law student, I am very sensible about Copyright Laws. So, I want to clarify here that the copyright is entirely vested on the original writer whosoever he may be. This is copied here just as a fair use for critical reporting of the silly trend that one of the tiny nations in the world, The Kingdom of Bhutan, is using to fool the world. No Readers may copy this Article from here and I suggest you to follow the proper instructions to publish as may be mentioned by the Original Writer in the Blog. I suggest you to read the last comment of this Entry in the original blog where it has been published if you happened to visit that Blog as well.

Here it goes:
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What is happiness? In the United States and in many other industrialized countries, it is often equated with money.

Economists measure consumer confidence on the assumption that the resulting figure says something about progress and public welfare. The gross domestic product, or G.D.P., is routinely used as shorthand for the well-being of a nation.

But the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has been trying out a different idea.

In 1972, concerned about the problems afflicting other developing countries that focused only on economic growth, Bhutan’s newly crowned leader, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, decided to make his nation’s priority not its G.D.P. but its G.N.H., or gross national happiness.

When thinking about GDP and GNH, one has to be very careful about what one is aggregating. GDP is an accurate measure of what it measures: aggregate annual production of final goods and services in an economy denominated in monetary terms.

GDP does not aggregate cows, or beauty or whatever one may mistakenly think it does. Thus saying that the GDP does not accurately tell me anything about how many cows are in the economy, or complaining that GDP does not tell me anything about “the total amount of beauty is in an economy,” is as silly as saying that GDP does not tell me whether the people in the country are happy or not.

So those who make that complain are complaining that the tape measure is flawed because it does not help in figuring out the temperature of a liquid. It is not meant to do so in the first place.

Now there is something called happiness or satisfaction. A person can be said to be happy or satisfied. That is a feeling, a subjective experience. I can say that “I am happy” just like I can say “I am rich.” Those two look similar but the statements are qualitatively different. There is an objective validity to the statement “I am rich” because my wealth can be measured and verified externally. But happiness is subjective and does not allow interpersonal comparisons, while richness does. We can definitely say how A’s wealth compares to B’s wealth but cannot say how A’s happiness compares to B’s happiness.

If even interpersonal comparisons of happiness is mostly meaningless, attempting to define a measure which aggregates the “happiness” of millions of people clearly leaps over the bounds of the silly and lands somewhere in idiotic stupidity land.

I have never considered the GDP to be the end-all and be-all of an economy, any more than I consider the monthly income of a person to be the only relevant characteristic of a person. Perhaps some do, but then people believe in all sorts of silly stuff. Some economists do mess around with GDP growth rates and that is important, just like your tax accountant messes around with your income statements and your investments. Just because your income does not fully define you does not mean that your tax accountant is a myopic narrowminded individual or that the job of preparing your financial statement is meaningless.

I think that those who complain that GDP is not all that matters are making a valid but rather trivial complaint. I have yet to meet a single intelligent mature person–and most economists I have met fit that bill–who believes that GDP is anything more than a measure of economic activity and that too narrowly defined economic activity.

What I don’t understand is the attempt by the detractors of GDP aping a metric which they have perhaps misunderstood. They are in effect saying, “GDP does not measure happiness. So we must come up with an alternate aggregate measure we will call Gross National Happiness which will be more appropriate.”

That is Gross National Silliness."

Source: http://indianeconomy.org/2005/10/20/gross-national-happiness-is-grossly-silly/

Only Tata Indicom sucks?

2007-02-06T22:51:00.000+05:30

When I was in Kathmandu in last December, 2006, I got an opportunity to perceive the little development that Nepal had amidst continuous violence. The pace of development was not so disappointing despite the fact that country was marred by violence. One of the things to talk was the boom in the Mobile Telecommunications Technology emerging some 2 or 3 more players in addition to Nepal Telecommunications Corporation.

While my brother Pravat and I were talking about the development about Mobile Phones, I asked about the service of Customer Care that they provide. He asked, "What type of Customer Care?"

I said him any type of customer care if we need their help. I explained how customer care works in India and how they help like if you have problems in Recharging or if you want to know what the existing tarrifs rates applicable are.

He just laughed for a while and answered me that if we need to know what are the tariffs rates applicable for the time being then, we need to buy a GORKHAPATRA Copy of that date when it was published and need to be saved forever so that we can check it anytime we want. He further added that anyone can do recharge if he knows how to read because in every recharge Card, there will be instructions about it. I stunned for a while and said, "Okay" and just added few words how it works in India.

In India, there are various mobile companies and I do not know exactly how many of them. There are Reliance India, Tata Indicom, Airtel, Idea, MTNL and so many of them.

Each Mobile company has customer care and you can ask anytime what you want to know about that mobile company by calling their customer care and that too of course, free of charge.

I told my brothers how we make fun of customer care employee by asking some absurd and absurd questions in middle of the night and compelled him to explain all the existing plans.......It was and still sometimes, becomes a kind of wild fun.

I have appreciated all their support in the past except the one that I recently faced.

I am using Tata Indicom Mobile. I had bought this mobile about 6 months back under their Tata Indicom True paid value scheme where Incoming for a year is free irrespective of you recharge it any more or not, inter alia, some other fascinating offers.

I bought a Recharge Card of Rs. 357 and tried to recharge but it responded that I can not recharge it because of some problems. It referred me to contact customer Care and my god, Customer care died in the sense its number was always busy.

I tried so many times both to recharge and contact customer care but I was not successful. Then, I had recourse to Email. I sent them email explaining the situation and they responded immediately telling me that they are attending my problem. It was a kind of relief but after that they started suggesting me some absurd ways to make recharge successful. I followed one by one but no way man, it was not going to be recharged soon.

And, finally I had to write them this mail as my final shot.........which I have presented in my blog. My problem was solved after I went to their Customer Care office with my mobile only after 2 days after I wrote my final mail to them but it left very disappointing impression of TATA INDICOM on Me.

And my question is, "Only my Phone TATA Indicom sucks or all Mobiles are like this?" My final mail goes like this:

TO TATA INDICOM CUSTOMER CARE:

“I am writing this mail to you after giving enough time to rectify the error but you have shown pathetic response towards my complaint.

I am compelled to write this mail again because the kind of service you have provided despite my repeated complaints and your repeated absurd suggestions shows your negligence and recklessness to provide the service and it amounts the "deficiency of service" on the part of service provider and I have been compelled to take this matter very seriously in the future thinking to explore other alternatives.

You might have forgotten the matter what I am talking as your non-commitment towards the customer satisfaction is very glaring from the kind of responses you have given me.

When I put forth my problem before you, I got your reply which was appreciative at that moment but I did not know that you are expert in lip service rather than providing a good service towards the customer. Tell me what is the use of mere words? Howsoever beautifully they might have been written, unless our problem will be solved within a reasonable time.

I gave you very much reasonable time thinking that it is a technical problem and needs time and there can be technical errors sometimes which are beyond human controls. I gave you more than 96 hours by the time I am writing this mail. That is 4 days full to rectify the problem. Meanwhile, in this time, I was so many times in touch in your local AP Customer Care.”

I got reply from them saying that they got a confirmation from the concerned that the amount would be posted in my account.

BUT IT WAS FALSE AND WAS REALLY PISSED OFF WITH THEM:

Then, I continue my mail like this:

Imagine, how a person feels if he gets water in a desert??? I felt the same happiness....I thanked the customer care and went to recharge my mobile but then realised what a rubbish mail it was. How you can say the blatant lies disregarding the little reputation the institution has. What kind of message you were going to deliver by talking such a perverse, unfounded, baseless and irresponsible things where a genuine problem has been raised.

All my happiness was shattered in a way somebody breaks the house of glass in the middle of the night by throwing a stone when you are sleeping after toiling hard all the day in 45 degree centigrade temperature!!!!!!!! And imagine what happens to your situation when there is no one to pity on you!!!!!!

Have you ever heard what does "customer is a king slogan"? Or is this only to talk in Newspaper and TV? What type of Customer service you have?

You may have very big advertisements in paper and TV. You may earn millions of dollars in one Quarter of the year? But, is it the profit that you earn from giving quality service? Think about it.

I thought that I am the only one who has suffered from this problem but when I did a little bit of googling, I found that how much pathetic your service is and even the customer service is. It seems that you have failed in all branches of telecommunication and it's time for you to pull out. Please please please......for the god's sake, do not loot millions of rupees of poor customers............

Sir, Make your head cool and study little about these problems:

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Tata+Indicom+sucks&btnG=Search&meta=

May be u can give some better service in the future? Nothing much to say and almost lost hope on u guys............ Did my plight and hue and cry make any sense to you--à you with heart of stone and who are sleeping there like kumbhakarna and are busy in answering mails in irresponsible way?”

Then, Email is over…….Can you imagine how badly I was pissed off. J

Holidaying Republic Day

2007-01-26T20:06:00.000+05:30

Today, we are celebrating Republic Day in India. “We” means, my friends are celebrating it. For me, it's nothing more than one more holiday, from one angle. From another view point, I must congratulate all the Indians for this day. This is the day when their country was declared Republican country after it got independence.

Let's celebrate with them as and when you celebrate your neighbours' festival with them, then, the day will come they will congratulate you too when you reach this stage-the stage of republicanism.

January 26, 1950 was the day when India's Constitution, the largest in the world, was issued/ promulgated and its preamble mentions that India is a "secular, socialist, democratic republic". So, this day is auspicious in Indian History after Independence Day.

Though it was a republic day, it did not matter much to me except occasionally wishing people. As I said it is another great day for me in terms of holiday. I slept as usual till 10 o'clock which I do in most of the holidays except rare instances.

In our University, there will be national flag hoisting on two occasions, one on Republic Day and another one on Independence day. Our Vice-Chancellor of University hoists the flag, gives little speeches and at last, Laddu will be distributed to all, to all the students , staffs and teachers present there.

In my first 3 to 4 semester, I also attended that ceremony, listened to Vice Chancellor's speech, saw them singing national anthem, stood with them when they sang national anthem, moved my lips here and there saying "Jana Gana Mana.........hey .......Bharata bhagya vidata......jaya hein etc." I do not know India's National Anthem fully and on all occasions, I stand by them to sing, moving my chin here and there. And in all those time of flag hoisting, when I was there, we ate Laddu.

After attending for few occasions, there used to be a talk in the hostel and guys used to say as a joke, “hey! We should attend tomorrow, we get laddus."

Of course not starved in this earth till date, no one used to go there because of Laddus but the main thing to drive them there was the pride of being Indians, my friends used to go there. I accompanied them to share their feelings as a good neighbourly friends.

Now a day, very few things are good incentives than nice sleep till 10 o'clock. Because the flag hoisting programme will be at 9 o'clock, I miss them regularly now a day even that day comes once in a semester.

I got up today early in the morning, at 10 o'clock. I met Mahesh BABA (His name is Mahesh, hails from Karnataka and because of strong religious devotion in Hinduism; whole world of NALSAR knows him as Baba).

I wished him, I said, "Happy republic Day". He thanked me, "I would say same to you, but I thought it would be inappropriate" said he.

I said, "Yes, it would be."............wait for some months, the day will come............what an optimism I have!!!!! ......I wish it comes true.

Turning to the dreams of Republic Nepal, which I expressed from my very first morning, are the dreams of millions of Nepalese People who have been stricken in poverty and royal oppression. Nepal as a whole should move to the Republicanism.

But what is happening in Terai?

I am from Jhapa, it's a Terrain. Am I Teraibasi? Am I pahade? Am I madhise? Why so much distinction and violence there.

As I read a letter that was posted in United We Blog, I am convinced that the JTMM has been used to create a rift among the people in Nepal so that anti-republic force may win in this revolutionary process. There is no other way than dialogue at this stage and

I have a dream that the dream of Republic will not be sabotaged in pieces demanding "Republic Madhise land", "Republic Pahade Land" and so on….......We must ensure that there will be only one Republic and that too "Republic of United Nepal".

Then see people like Mahesh Baba will say "Happy Republic Day of Nepal".....

For the time being, I am holidaying Republic Day.......Republic Day of India......

Special Announcements..........

2007-01-26T13:31:00.000+05:30

Because of my little carelessness, I deleted my earlier blog by mistake yesterday night. I have tried to replace those materials as it was in my back up files in my computer but unfortunately those comments which were very valuable to me could not be retrieved. I would like to sincerely thank from the bottom of my heart to all of you who visited my blog quite frequently and always encouraged me from your comments.
I apologize for being out for quite sometimes and really thank all of you who really cared to visit me and inquired by phones and email what was wrong with my blog. I hope that your patronage and loyalty to my blog will be a continuous process.
Thanking all of You..........I am on the web world again........Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEW NEPAL IS POSSIBLE!!!!

2007-01-26T13:29:00.000+05:30

First of all Congratulations everybody!!!! You must be happy today and waiting with a lot of enthusiasm when there will be a morning-The morning of MagheSankranti or the morning of January 15.
First of all, Congratulations to all on occasion of Maghesankranti and if you are from North India Happy Lori and if from south India, Happy Pongal. These all are festivals during these days around this south Asian Sub-continent.
It's already 3 o'clock in the morning according to Nepali Standard and people might be making preparation to get up to cook Khole and put Paral for various domestic animals. After 1 to 2 hours later, in Nepali villages and
Near some rural areas, people start doing their work of another day. Just another day for them.
But, it is not. It is not just another day in Nepal. It is some special day in Nepal. It is our V-day, it is our D-day. Far in Kathmandu, far from most of the rural areas in Nepal, something is going to happen on this 15th January day.
It can be heard that they are changing the face of Nepal from this day, they are going to construct a New Nepal and they have started the foundation of peaceful and prosperous Nepal. Let's hope Our Dreams Come True. Again Congratulations to us.
As I said it is already 3 in the morning and I have not slept yet. I may sleep around 5 and 6 in the morning and by the time I get up, many things might already change. I try to sleep with a desire to see a New Nepal in my dream, with a desire to see a New Nepal by the time I get up at some time in the afternoon.

I hope my dreams come true and my dreams are the dreams of 2.5 million people of this country, Nepal. My dream is the dream of millions of people in Nepal who reside inside or because of various reasons outside Nepal. You may be or may not be surprised but they say that it is the dream of our neighbours as well to see a peaceful and prosperous Nepal.

As I have read in various news sites, I can feel the readiness of stage. The stage is ready. The space is increased in Parliament House to make place available for more than 300 Representatives. They say they are our representatives, from Girija to Prachanda and from Sujata to Anandidevi. They want to be the messenger of New Nepal to change the raggy appearance of Nepal. May God bless them if it exists (?)
Basically, I can see these four agendas are in the pipeline for 15th january's historic day. The old Constitution will be nullified with new interim Constitution, the position of king will be suspended, the House of Representatives of Nepal will be dissolved, and new Interim parliament in Nepal will be formed tomorrow. These are short agendas for tomorrow. There are long and very long plans to set up a just, equitable society, and to reconstruct the state providing equal opportunities to all. This all ultimately should lead to set up a republic Nepal, or if not possible to squeeze the monarchy to be anybody's neighbour in the future. These great tasks are being taken in the future. Let them Unite who are representing us and let us provide our strength in unequivocal words, "We Need peace and Prosperity"
Jaya Nepal!!!!
Again hearty Congratulations to all who are in favour of us---New Nepal.
So, rightly has been said by us, New Nepal is possible......

PLACING ADVERTISEMENTS

2007-01-26T13:28:00.000+05:30

In Nepali, there is a proverb/saying “Bol ne ko pitho pani bikchha, Nabolne ko Chamal pani Bikdaina”. The literal meaning of this proverb is that if you are expert in speaking, you can sell even flour but if you are bad at speaking, you can not sell even the rice. Naturally, flour is considered to be less quality product as compared to rice when the question of consumption comes. That clearly shows the significance of Advertisement in modern world. People expert in advertisement end up making huge profits in business and in business, advertisements have a great significance.
With the development of business, the cost, time and quantity of advertisements have grown a lot. After the development of Radio, Television, and Newspaper, advertisement has received a great boost. Now, it is the age of digital media and more and more people are using internet. Internet serves a lot of purposes. Medium of various informations and source of vast areas of knowledge are its prime utility. Internet has pushed the advertisement sector also to the new height. If you open any sites, most of the time, you will get small windows automatically opening with full of advertisements. Of Course, You can block them if you are little technology expert but most of us might have been irritated by those pop-ups which just appear on our computer screen whenever we switch on those sites.
Some websites, even if they do not provide pop-up ads, may provide you a lot of links of advertisements. Most of the websites now carry Google advertisements. They are called Google adsense. Almost all major news and commercial sites provide you the Google advertisements and by clicking there, you reach various websites which offer the services similar to the one shown in such links. For example, I have also put Google adsense in my blog which you can see on the left hand side of the Blog. If you click any one of such advertisements, you reach another site where you can get information and advertisements similar to the one links provided.
For some people, Google adsense is very good source of earning as well. When some one adds advertisements in his website, the website owner will be paid depending on the frequency of links that are clicked from his/her website. That effectively means that the owner of the site generally can not determine how much he can earn from such ad sense advertisements. The higher the number of visitors in the websites, the more chances/probability of links being clicked and if higher the click on such links, the more money the website owner can make. The terms of conditions of Google adsense clearly stipulates that the owner can not click such links. Otherwise, any website owner whole day would click on such links in his website and would make easy huge money.
It’s difficult to predict the rate of income that people can make but we can hope that in long term, they are going to benefit from it. There are techniques however, which are called Web Optimization Tools which makes your website more visible to the visitors and there are high chances of being clicked. These Web Optimization tools help any website to put in higher rankings when any search engine is used. That means there is a high chance of seeing your page in first page of Google search results when someone searches something related to your website by using Google search engine if you have made some settings by using optimization techniques. These techniques are more of a kind of brainy exercise rather than any set of formulas and formats. In the age of advertisements, why not we also use these techniques of optimization and earn little so that we can keep our websites running!!!!
At last, I hope that after reading this blog, you also love to click some of the advertisements links that are provided in my blog. I am sure that you reach such pages which you were searching from many days. God Bless you and to me as well.:)

SUPREME COURT's POWER IN NEPAL

2007-01-26T13:25:00.000+05:30

There was one Article published in this blog, http://www.blog.com.np/ . You can get that Article in this link: http://www.blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2006/12/01/supreme-court-on-parliamentary-declaration-bad-intention/#comments

At that time, I sincerely put some comments in that Article as the questions raised there were quite relevant at this stage but answers given to those questions were not even satisfactory. I appreciated the questions raised by the Authors but dissented in many of his answers. May be the author could not appreciate my views, his subsequent views on the subject matters made little sense to me. I stooped commenting on that Article. There I had offered so many and very long comments and Now, I thought making one Article out of so long comments because the questions raised there are still relevant today. Because of my long travels here and there, I am not able to update the news on the very recent development on the subjects, if any, but without any prejudice to the matters in the court, I beg to offer some views. In substantial part of this article, the comments published in http://www.blog.com.np/ have been compiled but they have been edited so as to make a free flowing Article. The Question Raised and answer given is related to the power of Supreme Court to analyze the Constitutional validity of House Proclamation in Nepal by Nepalese Parliament.

You may have little look to the original Article from the link provided above.

First of all, Supreme Court does not challenge anything. It is some advocates who love to file petition, may be because of their unheard names appear in the newspaper for somedays. Now, after the petition is filed, it becomes the obligation and duty of the Supreme Court to examine the legal validity of any questions which has been raised in the petition. By sending notice to the concerned parties, Supreme Court proceeds to examine the questions that have arisen in the petition and in its process, Supreme Court has rightly sent a notice/show cause notice why and by what process it is right to promulgate Special Resolution of parliament.

Now, first question arises whether Supreme Court (SC) has this power or not. Yes, definitely it has. Because Supreme Court is the independent authority under 1990 Constitution and that status is still intact even after April Revolution. That suggests SC can examine constitutional validity of any legislative process which affects the fundamental rights of the people. It is even because SC is the custodian of people’s rights and various writs can be issued by SC to defend people’s rights. It is the characteristic feature of “Independent Judiciary” to be able to examine the outcomes of legislative process, otherwise, where is the independence? What should be the verdict or outcome of this petition is altogether different questions and on either lines it can be argued but to say SC has no power to enter the writ petition itself is to be ignorant of Judicial process.

One more thing here it is a great time for SC to show that they are still independent. They can give a very landmark judgment at this stage. There are two things that have to be demarcated here.

1. Find out the fundamental things of 1990 Constitution that can not be amended.

2. Find out the policy issues, which can not be challenged in Court of law.

While answering first question, it is a high time to show the judicial activism on the part of the court that these are the features that can not be amended at all under any circumstances like tomorrow, if parliament promulgates or by declaration makes any law saying there is no right to life and liberty and government can take life and liberty of any person in a way land is grabbed from people. This is inherently inconsistent with a basic and standard feature of any constitution. On the same footing, right to equality, no capital punishment, right against slavery can be declared “fundamental features” of any constitution and can be declared null and void from the date of its enactment.

These above mentioned points may not actually arise in the petition but SC can go up to the extent to demarcate the areas which can be amended and which can not be touched. If this line is taken, there is nothing in historic document that can be held unconstitutional.

Now, regarding policy issues, it is the prerogative of any governments to formulate any policy what it likes as promised to the people and it is no business of courts to dictate parliament and government which policy should government formulate. In this basis, most of the things can be shown as the policy of interim government as promised to the people during April Revolution. Unless these policies touch such inalienable rights of people, court can not declare them unconstitutional.

Regarding political issues, there is no clear cut law to say political matters can not be challenged in court or court can not examine political decisions. A lot of political decisions stifle legal issues and resolution which in a way, amends some parts of constitution (Note that Constitution is SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND)can not be merely termed as political issues. These political decisions are bound to be within the realm of legality. Otherwise, in future, in the name of political decisions, “Party dictatorship” arises which again, will be completely unacceptable to us.

Just because all MPs agree to pass it, or it is termed as historic can not make anything perfectly constitutional. Suppose all the MPs of parliament tomorrow declare Mr. X as a terrorist by passing “historic resolution” and decide to kill Mr. X, can we think that they are right? Not at all. At that condition, we have to reach the Supreme Court for nullifying such law and have to ask stay order of Mr. X’s death sentence.

It’s not because how many people pass resolution but because of their power to do so. All the judiciary in the world, which includes Nepal, also has/should have power of judicial Review over the work of administrative and legislative manner. SC must be able to decide the constitutional and legal validity of any such decisions. The Historic document has sought to change a lot of issues which must be tested before the court in light of existing laws and constitution and Supreme Court must have that power.

My New Entry in a New Blog!!!!!

2007-01-26T13:24:00.000+05:30

Taken from my earlier Blog:

(I have always admired Wordpress.com. When I started writing blog, I started from many domains which used to offer and still offering spaces for blog. I had thought word press will be the last domain that I will be using for the blog. But, as time passed and new ideas came into my mind, I found that www.Wordpress.com has been very inefficient for me to provide enough space for my desires and thoughts. So, I am transferring my blog again to the blogspot.com. I did not like Blogspot.com because of many reasons and I dedicated One Article about my blog journey (You can check that Article here: http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/just-a-first-post/)

But today again, I have to embrace blogspot.com. I am sorry for the difficulties caused to my readers but I kindly request you to navigate from this page in the future and keep on looking my updates in http://www.talkingforum.blogspot.com

For the easiness to remember my blog, it’s just the same talkingforum but hosting domain is blogspot.com and no more wordpress.com. For my all the past entries and materials, I will keep them alive here: http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/)

This post, I am writing after a long time. There are so many things to express in this blog but May be I will be able to include some of the few things I would like to share with you. The last blog I wrote was on November 15^th and almost 2 months has elapsed. Being very lethargic and unavailability of suitable environments for writing were the main reasons behind not being able to write and update my Blog. When I leave my Computer in my hostel room, no other outside computers give me that facility and comfort as my computer does. Most of the time the pressure of internship, the unavailability of computer and being very far from the internet web were the main reasons not to be able to update the webpage. But, Finally, I am back in my world. I am back in my hostel room. I am just in front of my Desktop, that black desktop which offers almost everything to my satisfaction.

I have already mentioned that I am transferring my blog from wordpress.com to blogspot.com. There is a small reason behind that. I wish I could reveal that here. But, what people think, if I reveal it here. May be many techsavvy guys can guess why I am moving from wordpress to blogspot but for many, it can be out of imagination. Let it be, whatever the reasons but I will be writing wherever I go and I hope that the patronage or love shown by all the readers will be a continued process.

Today, almost all the days after the class I spent in Internet. I mailed so many people and kept on going through blogs of many people. Mainly, I read blogs but only photos and caption of saynasomething.(http://saynasomething.wordpress.com/)

It was really interesting to see that place from where I have just landed in Hyderabad. While reading her blogs, I felt as if we were just walking in two corners of New Delhi being unknown to each other. While looking at the date of her postings, I could feel that may be we crossed the same road so many times facing each other but being unknown to ourselves. That is the “quality” of being Net friends. I just spent my days commenting here and there.

Now, my usual life has started again in my college. Reading long and long Articles from International Journals and wasting substantial time on projects become the rule of the day. People say this is the age of competition and there are really not much alternatives left to me. Anyways, life goes like this. Not much regret about it.

In this semester, I am thinking to read some books. I have already started about 5 books but neither of them has finished yet. I hope to read some more books in this semester. Making motto is not a wrong idea anyway.

In my final lines, Wish you all the readers very Happy New Year 2007. May this year bring peace and prosperity in our country and wish you all best of luck throughout the years.

See you People now onwards on http://talkingforum.blogspot.com/