Indianized Nepalese

Indianized Nepalese

Starting the day with Colgate, watching Aaj Tak as early news, cooking the foold in Hawkinn's Pressure Cooker, Dressing up with Auml vest, moving to office in Hero Honda, coming back early to watch if India wins or lose against Sri Lanka and ending the day with Star news!

Isn't the case of almost every Nepalese the same who live in so called towns and cities? Still on the local buses traveling within the valley and outside the valley we get to hear the Indian Songs! Young boys prefer Katrina Kaif instead of Jharna Bajracharya, and girls rush after Sahid Kapor and get's shocked hearing the name of Aryan Sigdel. Not just in young generation, even the generation ahead salutes Dharmendra and is unknown about anyone called Sunil Thapa in Nepal. Paras Khadka would definitely sound odd when the cricket lovers there stay talking about Yubraj Singh. However we love calling our self Nepali!

What can be the reason that India is having such a huge impact on Nepalese society? Umm...a simple answer maybe India is our neighboring country, if so we have China as our neighboring country too. Or is it because our leaders have huge influence of Indian leaders so we have it?

It's true that Nepal has got connection with India since the early time as Buddha went to India, Sita got married with India (umm....thinking of today even Bipana Thapa did). But we possess our own identity! We protest when Indian actor something against Nepal, and tear the posters when Indian movie claim something against Nepal's sovereignty!

Analyzing the reasons, we will definitely find our weakness. Why not to demand for Yamaha FZ instead of Annalifan? When FZ has more attracting features? Yes! In the similar manner, we are backward and being the neighbor India can easily take advantage of it. I am from the bordering town, my family goes across the boarder to buy sugar, as the cost varies of Rs 10 per kg across the boarder. If the product would price Rs 10 less, we would have bought it in the shop nearby itself. The unability of Nepalese
market to provide in similar price led us to go there. The latest cell phone, Nokia 2700 costs Rs 6500 there and it takes Rs 7500 in Nepali market. So why to waste Rs 1000? When I get same pre and post features.

On my way towards the boarder, there was written Aba Mobile Kinna Pari Janu Pardaina
(You don't have to go across the boarder to buy the cell phone). But Why?? Getting influenced is not a huge thing, but what may be the condition after hundred of years if Nepal remains in the same position? We cannot stay disconnected from India in any manner as we have to depend from Petrol to Utensil on them. It's difficult for us to compete with them however we can make an attempt to do it.

Losing with India in South Asian Games does not mean we are always back. See..we choose Sugam Pokharel instead of Falguni Pathak! So let's get aware and work. Let's not and never ask the question to ourself..Are we Indianized?

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Addictive ads

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Have you ever been attracted to or actually purchased products because of advertisements like this? Advertisements are a great source to ensure the success of a business. Without advertisements, we would have no idea all the different flavours of Horlicks that exist unless we went to the store to check for ourselves. Advertisements let consumers know when a new product has been launched into the market and they are often taken as a source of information as well.

Companies spend millions of rupees a year on advertisements, but has anyone seriously considered why? If a beverage company spends ten lakh rupees on one ad, and only one lakh of people pay attention to the ad, that means the firm is spending 10 rupees for each person. Through that 10 rupees, the ad can convince those people to purchase the product it is promoting. If it only costs three to five rupees for the production of one soft drink and they charge 20 rupees, even if 10 rupees has gone to advertising, there is still at least five rupees profit. And that is how business works.

I currently live in front of a school. From my window, I can clearly see the activities of students throughout the day. During tiffin, several children quickly rip open packets of noodles during the break to see the coupon waiting inside, while other students grudgingly eat the meal prepared by their mother that morning. The excitement of the students diving into the packages of noodles cannot be blamed on them, but it is clear that their excitement is influenced by the constant stream of noodle ads on television and ads plastered on every other building. Why should these children become the victims of those advertisements? And why don’t the other children appreciate the healthy meal prepared by their parents?

It is not the fault of businesses. They have every right to advertise their products to the masses. Nor can we blame the media. For the media, advertising is a primary source of income through which they stay afloat. If utilised fairly, advertisements can be beneficial to business firms, the media, and consumers, too.

Although it is the consumers’ responsibility to stay alert and wise in the process of selecting which products to purchase, there is a still need for control from all sides. For example, a programme on an FM station or on television should be longer than the advertisements. A one hour programme should not have 40 minutes of ads and 20 minutes of programming. Newspapers should consist of more news than advertisements. Business firms should try to give the actual reasons their product is the best and should be purchased, not misleading consumers with false statements. And citizens should boycott false advertisements.

As consumers, the one thing we should do is be aware. We should not run to purchase a brand of tea after hearing the slogan ‘mood change turuntai’. Nor should we attempt the things we see on the Mountain Dew commercial claiming “dar ko agadi jeet cha!" And we should not purchase a certain toothpaste under the impression of an ad that if we use that toothpaste, we will be able to attract a girl just by saying ‘talk to me!’

Published in The Kathmandu Post Post Platform; APR 06

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Triangular Flag

Triangular Flag


Flag is a piece of cloth or similar material, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities. Nepal has got a triangular flag with unique identity and meaning in the whole world. The entire history of Nepal can be seen through the flag. The question regarding changing the flag has been hitting in youth’s mind since last few months. It’s little amazing to find why the leaders want to do all these crazy stuffs instead of getting devoted towards their main task.
Can the leaders of today erase the history that Prithivi Narayan Shah united the country by broking down the statute of Prithivi Narayan Shah? If they really can erase the history they have full freedom to change the flag, but if they can not they must respect the flag of the country. These fellows don’t respect the national dress, I wonder if they really care about national animal, bird. Do they know what our national color is? The flag carries the historical memories plus is set within the mind of every single people. It was okay for the national anthem to be changed, but has any one even figured about the difficulties that is there to get set in every individual’s mind? More than fifty percent people today don’t know national song. After changing the flag, can the leaders guarantee that the devotion, patriotism and respect that the citizens have for the flag of today will be remained tomorrow as well? I don’t think the respect exists. Today what is the symbol of unity? We lack king, it’s the flag for which the country is united. We are unknown about the national map too, the encroachment issue must have changed the size and area of our country as well.
The sick leaders are getting sick and they don’t even know what they are doing. All they are after is for their greed. Their selfish nature has been killing the patriotism and has been destroying the image of themselves. It’s the duty of we youths to save our national identity and symbol for peace. Flag should always be kept above the leader’s power. Few days back, I was in a mass where a guy claimed that flag that we are respecting at present does not belong to Nepal but belongs to the king! How can a flag belong to king? Is this truly possible? If yes how? Still today many of us are unknown about the full lyrics of National anthem, at such time how can we make the new flag immortal killing the present flag? So it’s our duty to save the sovereignty by saving the flag! Let’s warn leaders that they do not have right to play with our flag.

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Life LiKE DIS~!

Life like this



Hundreds of thousands people just for him. He is dead, so what? They don’t want to miss this last vision to see him. Hundreds of camera’s capturing this movement. It’s damn crowded, but who cares? They want to see him. Yes I am talking about March 21, where there was my couple of eyes among millions. What a life he had! Oh my god! Yesto po zindagi! Do any one except our family members care at the time of our death? See him, those floods of people were there just to see his last movement. The day was sad, the country was sad, every individual were in confusion regarding What next? Who next?

When we take birth, it’a a tradition we have to face death. Death always ends in sadness. All of us get the same life, but only few out of millions make such achievements. Narayan Gopal, Ganeshman Singh, Man Mohan Adhikari, Birendra and yes! Girija! No matter what they did in their personal life, theey are always respected by today’s and tomorrow’s history. When the life span given to us are equal, why not even one single percent out of millions fail to get such respect?

What do we do in our entire life? Do we do anything like them? Umm… yes! They even got various opportunities. But have we even made an attempt to make a try to do such great tasks? All that our life sticks is with the complains, profit and fame. We only rush for pleasures in our life. All we want is tomorrow to be beautiful and that is our final goal. But will that be enough? Will that be satisfactory? Let’s imagine of such life where millions of people wish for us. We will certainly not take all those money we earn when we die. What did Koirala take after his death? He could have earned thousand times more physical property if he would even try to compromise with the national sovereignty. But he would not earn those thousands of people’s mass on that particular day. So what’s profitable? What would have been the use of such of those proprity? It was the first time I saw such respect for a single person. Earlier I had seen the portion on Birendra’s through televevision, but Koirala was not a king, he was a son of normal Nepalese who managed to reach to that peak all through his individual effort. His flexible character managed him to adjust with the time. He was there at the peak when King was in power plus at the time when king was removed as well. This indicates the necessity to get adopted with the changing environment.



There are lot of examples through which we can really learn something. It’s not that it is impossible to be like them but it is difficult for any normal Nepalese. We may not r each to that peak, but we should really make a try out of it. Let people demand for statue on our name, let the highways be constructed on our name as well. And if this is really a desire for even someone his or her first step should be to remove the greedy behavior from ourselves.

Let us not die like the street dog where no one cares after we die. Few simply say, ‘Poor Dog’ and pass away. Let us not live like a street dog that is always after food, who goes ot garbage for food and they live to eat. Let us not be greedy like street dogs that always looks for pleasure and makes it possible when he or she gets any dog of opposite sex. All of us get the same time let’s do something impressive to get atleast thousands of people to walk at the time of our death.

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PIRATED OR UNPIRATED?

PIRACY
‘If you want to save music, you need to save piracy’. Any music artist would say you this. They are right from their view. When artists are completely dedicated towards music itself, they require certain financial position as well. Living a life of celebrity itself is costly and beside that thy also will have to look after their family. It would definitely not suit Sabin Rai to get into micro when he is in the Capital. Nor will a taxi driver offer him free journey. So no one can deny the fact that living a life of celebrity is expensive. But can a celebrity earn enough to live his life in Nepal? The question counts because if the answer would be ‘yes’, obviously Karna Das, Girish Khatiwada, Sanjeev Singh would not migrate abroad. All that celebrity wants from us today is ‘To buy original copy’
But why? If they are having tough time to maintain their financial status, can’t it be that the citizens are also going through tough time? And when it comes to monetary thing, all human beings are greedy. Why would a music lover buy the original copy when he gets DVD or CD filled with dozens of albums in Rs 50, why should he spend Rs 250 for original single album? Even if celebrity were not celebrity, they would not rush for the original track. When there don’t exist quality difference why should a music lover rush for the original copy? I wonder how many Nepalese singers run after original CD’s of International artists. It needs to crystal clear that without piracy it is difficult to earn fame staying in Nepal for any music artists. Bollywood movies are very popular in Nepal from the capital to villages. Why? All because of piracy. A person living in backward place of Nepal talks about Indian movie, all because of piracy.

I don’t mean to say that there must be freedom of piracy, but all I wanted to explain is that artists must be able to compete with the piraters. If Robin Tamang decides to make cheapest price of his album, something like Rs 10 obviously his fan would not rush for the pirated copies. Okay, such drastic change maybe difficult at this particular moment, they why cant they bring attractive skims there? Like collect three different Original CD’s of Nima Rumba and get 20 minutes talk time with him. Or buy Original CD’s of Sugam Pokharel and get a chance to dine with him in his house every week! Or how about the bumper draw to feature Anil Singh in his new song. It could even work like Buy Original CD of Nabin K Bhattarai and get chance of modeling in his upcoming videos. Such skims can definitely bring change in piracy tradition. For these even singers need to be activity. ‘Kill Piracy, Save Music’ would probably not work at the present context.

With the advancement in technology music has been used through various sources. Not just in computer, today music is in I-pod, vell phone, MP3 and even CRBT. It’s impossible for the artists to save piracy from their present way. Personally, I will not rush for the original Cd’s when I get to listen the track I prefer from transferring it into my cell phone via Bluetooth of my cell phone. What about you?

PUBLISHED IN TOPICS OF THE HIMALAYAN TIMES AND ALSO KEPT AS PASSAGE QUESTION FOR BBA III SEMESTER OF TU IN 2010 IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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SAG Analysis

Its wrong to criticize when the game is going on. The game is over now and it is the right time to make analysis. South Asian Games (SAG) picturized the real situation of every South Asian nation. India, being the foreword nation clenched the first position and maintained its record. Before commenting others, it's wise to see us.

Nepal's position obviously cannot be improved while comparing it with previous years. Both luck and handwork did not support Nepal on this SAG. The lift accident brought sorrow n the very beginning which followed by the lost of medals. Nepal had the good position in football atleast in South Asian Nations, but it's bad luck led to fight against the organizing nations which took Nepal to the heavy loss. Football could have been best if it could stay a bit far from politics.

If A division league would continue without any sort of interruptions. Lack of such games reduced the practice level plus good players. More than player's weakness, politics affected football. However women's football was wonderful one unless it got defeated with India. This signified the probability of medal in Women's football in upcoming International games.

Previous gold medal winner could not perform well this time which truely disappointed the sports lover.Wushu could not be that fruitful either. News regarding 'Second International Goal' in hockey indeed was a funny one. How can we escape from the high scores like 21-0? Squash was another sorrow
where none of the hopes existed. Golf could not turn fruitful either. Nor could cricket. It was definitely bad luck for Nepal to get opponents like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. However the players ust have gained certain lesson after playing against those test playing nations.

Considering the lesson, it's necessary for them to play good next time. Last match against Pakistan must be saluted. Nepal could not escape from the conflict this time. Quarrel in the stadium must have shown the true behavior of Nepalese to those South Asian countries. Ignorance of Nepalese was shown by the upside hanging flag and the old national anthem. How can we forget the debate of the tenth day because of which Nepal had to lose a medal! Didn’t that prove that there was no good and effective management there? The case would have been compared with that of past if Binita Maharjan and Sunil Lama would not win the gold medal on the enth day.

Thanks to them who at least saved our nose by bringing the medal.Viewing from the individual's point of view SAG turned fruitful to Rajendra Bhandari, Aysha Shakya and yes! Dipak Bista for sure! Rajendra made the gossippers mum by making the historic record! Aysha managed to grab the golden medal and make her dreams fulfil and Deepak? I should not speak at all. He truely is a hero. Although Nepal won 8 golds, highest in all SAG held outside country cannot be satisfied. Only the means of medal was
through the martial arts. It was Bhandari who took the medal by running.

Where is the position of Nepal in other fields? And who is responsible for it? The question counts because only then the result next time can turn out to be fruitful. Nepal's performance in 11th SAG cannot be said satisfactory because the position fell down. It was with Afghanistan that Nepal had to go
through! What a shame! It was only 8th SAG that made Nepalese satisfied.

The efforts made by every single player must be saluted from the true Nepalese heart. I no way blame the players for the weak performance. Instead the Government, existing political parties carry all the credit for it. I blame them. Whe there exists no bright future for the players, the excitement of the players just to show gratitude towards the country brought all those gold medals. what will these players get if  tomorrow they grow disable? Is their any financial security for them?

Anil Gurung would not go out if he would be satisfied here itself. All these players is going to get
next is the little fake respect by PM or Presidents and there will end the story of these players. There exists a separate ministry Sports Ministry in Nepal, but what has it done for the sports in Nepal? 

Rajendra Bhandari brought the gold all because of his personal effort. Has Government done
anything there? How often does Nepal organize the cycling competition in Nepal? When there exists no any regularity, how can we hope for the medal through cycling? And what about swimming?

Let's not compare with India, but Nepal should be compared with Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh for obvious. Bangladesh, being the organizing position got the hometown benefit. Bt what about Srilanka and Pakistan? The war in Srilanka has been recently concluded though it managed to get a good position.  Same with Pakistan as well. Has any Nepalese leaders thought for it. When the issue comes to  international games, Nepal has always been backward. Cricket or football anything could hardly turn beneficial.

It's now high time for every citizen who hopes for medal in the tally list to raise the voice for the  sportsmen. We dont want the long term project but we want the action immediately and now. Being fifth is nothing to feel proud for the sports Ministry. Ministry has to work hard to get into top three in
upcoming SAG.

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