Art Beyond Borders

Okay, India did not call Pakistani artists to Bollywood, they came by their own choice. But does that mean they came illegally? Like Salman Khan quoted, Pakistani artists came to India with permission and VISA issued by Government of India.

The State Of Domestic Brands

It is high time for the domestic market to build the brand; otherwise International Brand will soon take over the domestic market.

Congrats Dylan

In democratic country, any individual certainly have the right to speak and express their opinions. But that does not mean that they need to obstruct other’s routine simply to get voices heard. I remember
the strike called out time and again throughout world - be it Anna Hazare's movement in India or Tamil Tigers move in Sri Lanka, be it terrorist attack at France, or Bokoharam's moves simply to get their voices heard. Be it the agitation and protest simply to demand the chair, or to protest upon the drafting constitution there were strikes creating hindrances for normal living time and again. 

चिनियाँ छायाँसँग जोडिने नेपाली विकास

१९६२ मा नेपालमाथि नाकाबन्दी हुँदा या १९८९ मा र फेरि पनि भारतले गरेकोे नाकाबन्दीको समयमा, चीनले नेपालको समर्थनमा आफ्नो सहयोग उपलब्ध गराएकै हो । गतवर्षको नाकाबन्दीका समयमा चीनले ‘ठूलो राष्ट्रले सानो राष्ट्रमाथि ज्यादती गर्नु हुँदैन’ भनेर घुमौरो भाषामा नेपालको पक्षमा बोल्नुका साथै इन्धनलगायत वस्तु अनुदानमा उपलब्ध गराएकै हो । भूकम्पको समयमा गरिएको सहयोगको झन् अर्कै लेखाजोखा होला । १९६२ को र अहिलेको चीनमा धेरै अन्तर छ ।

Social Stigma and Youth Trouble in South Asia

The shame or disgrace attached to something that is unacceptable to society can be regarded as social stigma. Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of twentieth century explains, the phenomenon whereby an individual with an attribute which is deeply discredited by his/her society is rejected as a result of the attribute. Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Piracy, Money and Greed

 The life of 'celebs' in Nepal is still difficult, because, once they start gaining a public image, they have to spend large sums of money on their daily lifestyle. In one recent interview, model and actor Priyanka Karki had stated that her average monthly expense was around fifty thousand as she explained the economic challenges that any 'celebrity' had to face in Nepal.

भारत भ्रमणको मूल्याङ्कन आवश्यक

जर्मन चान्सलर नियुक्त हुनासाथ अमेरिका पुग्ने, अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति हुनासाथ बेलायत जाने वा अन्य कुनै मुलुकमा पनि यस्तो परिपाटी देखिँदैन । नेपालमा भने यो प्रचलन २००७ सालदेखि नै रहेको भन्ने प्रशस्त छन् ।  अहिले आएर यो परम्पराजस्तै बनेको छ । सामान्यतः सानो मुलुक भएकाले छिमेकीसँग राम्रै सम्बन्ध गाँस्नुलाई सीधै नकारात्मक रूपमा लिन पनि मिल्दैन, त्यसमाथि भारत र नेपालबीच छिमेकीभन्दा पनि ‘रोटीबेटी’ अर्थात् सांस्कृतिक परम्परा झल्काउने सम्बन्ध झन् प्रगाढ छ ।

Women Can Succeed!

Jennifer Lawrence's performance as Joy Mangano, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs in the movie Joy, earned her a best actress nomination at this year’s Oscars. Although the IMDb rating for the movie is just 6.6, the film still clearly highlights the challenges that women face, and the opportunities that only women can discover. Joy Mangano, today is recognised as one successful entrepreneur and businesswoman.

After Masters?

You don’t feel like talking to anyone or meeting anyone during these times. Not because you love isolation not because you hate social life but simply because you hate this social culture.

Silver Jubilee Scholarship Scheme

It’s easy to write a post in the blog than to share every individual. Lot of questions, lot of things to be answered, and lot of confusions are normal once you apply for Indian Embassy’s MBA Scholarship. I am the scholar of 2014-16 batch. I am currently studying in Andhra Pradesh. Here I try to answer some of your common questions. Let me answer few of the common questions. I know there exists large number of questions, but if there are further things I need to clarify, I'll do it later.

भित्र्याउने मात्र कि बाहिरिन पनि नदिने ?

गतवर्षको भुइँचालोपश्चात् नेपालको पुनर्निर्माणको कार्य र वर्तमान आर्थिक विकासको लहर नियाल्ने हो भने निराश हुनुपर्ने प्रशस्त ठाउँ छ । फोब्र्सकै व्यावसायिक दृष्टिमा नेपाल ११८औं  उत्तम राष्ट्र मानिए तापनि २०११ को असफल लगानी वर्ष योजना बिर्सन कदापि हुँदैन । हाल आएर लघुविद्युत्मा अलि बढी नै लगानी देखिए तापनि दीर्घकालीन लाभ हुने नहुने अझै स्पष्ट हुन भने सकिँदैन । खासै ठूला लगानीकर्ता भिœयाउन नसकेको नेपालमा टेलियासोनेराजस्तो कम्पनी लज्जास्पद तरीकाले बाहिर निस्केको छ । कतिपय कम्पनीले इच्छा प्रकट गरे पनि राजनीतिक कारणले नै हुनुपर्छ न भारतीय लगानीकर्ता आकर्षित गर्न सकेका छौं, न त चिनियाँ नै ।

How to thank blood donor?

Sometimes, it happens that you need someone to donate blood for your near ones. You will be desperately looking for blood around, but you won't find it easily. Blood Bank will ask you to come with some donor. You then start looking for someone with the required blood group.

Next Step

Life brings so many steps in our journey, and we need to take into the step, because the time pushes to. There are so many dreams that an individual has, so many hopes, so many plans, so many ideas, so many thoughts - but again, some of them gets fulfilled, while some of them don't.

Human Rights Violation in Corporate World

Tracing history, human rights violations can be notably found in mining companies, since early times. It was in existence during the time of white domination over Africans. Despite the introduction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), corporate houses tended not to take issue. After the Human Development Report was published in 2000 which stated, 'Of all Human Rights failures today, those in economic and social affect by far the larger number and are most wide spread across world's nations and large number of people', issues concerning human rights violations in the corporate world was iced over. No attention was given before.

Social Stigma and Youth trouble

The shame or disgrace attached to something that is unacceptable to society can be regarded as social stigma. Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of twentieth century explains,   the phenomenon whereby an individual with an attribute which is deeply discredited by his/her society is rejected as a result of the attribute.

It's all about Pondy!

Pondicherry, also known by the name of Pudducherry is one beautiful place in South India. They say it mini Goa too. What is there so special? This blog post tries to cover my experiences and information about this small state of India.

Nepalese workers in India

I sometimes imagine – a master’s degree holder from Nepal goes to the United States and starts working at petrol pump. On his regular duty, he observes some young Nepalese comes to the pump to refill the petrol. He assumes that the staff is Nepali and speaks in Nepali. How would he feel?

ब्रेक्जिटबाट हामीलाई पर्न सक्ने प्रभाव

अन्ततः चुनावी परिणामलाई स्वीकार्दै बेलायत युरोपेली युनियन (ईयू)बाट छुट्टिने निर्णयमा पुग्यो । जर्मनी राष्ट्रपति एञ्जेला मर्केलले उक्त चुनावी परिणामलाई पश्चात्तापपूर्वक लिएको र यस अवस्थामा शान्त भएर अघि बढ्नुपर्ने बताइन् । त्यस्तै फ्रान्सेली राष्ट्रपतिले उक्त परिणामलाई स्वीकार्दै आगामी आर्थिक र वित्तीय सङ्कटप्रति पूरै ईयू सतर्क रहनुपर्ने जनाए । ईयू सदस्य मुलुकमा सोही दिन शेयरमा ठूलै उतारचढाव देखियो र अमेरिकी सम्पत्तिमा पनि अस्थिरता आयोे । जापानी येनको भाउ घट्यो अनि कतै न कतै असरचाहिँ चीन, भारत, दक्षिण कोरिया, सिङ्गापुरतिर पनि देखियो । सन् २००८ मा भन्दा डरलाग्दो तरीकाले पाउण्डको मूल्य घट्यो, जसले गर्दा आर्थिक संसारमा एउटा त्रास नै फैलियो ।

Ending Monopoly Creates Attractive Market

While Wai Wai was enjoying the market with Aalu Tama flavor, Rumpum just came out with Gundruk flavor of noodles. This is the beautiful example of how market would move ahead with competition, granting the ultimate customer the privilege of freedom of choice.

Attending Concert!

Hari Bhai, this junior bhai from my college came to my room and started irritating me. 'Dai, tell me some stories, I know you have a lot', he insisted. Being raised in good capital family, he has no idea what other part of Nepal is like, so I often keep sharing how others enjoy their lives to him.

Hyder-Abad!!

Hyderabad is a bigger city. Bigger than I thought. If you take an auto, they may charge you very high - and they have to because the place could be like 30 kms away from the airport, or the railway station. This city is also a Muslim city - but not up to my expected Muslim density was observed, as I had been to Kashmir previously.

Constitution of Nepal and International Community

European Union recently came up with their statement addressing Nepal’s constitution, recommending Nepal to work out for the amendments within the time framework. To large extent, their statement was appreciable, but the question stays, how justifiable was it for EU to talk about different sovereign country’s internal affair?

युवा र सामाजिक सञ्जाल

हिमालयन जाबामा म कसैको प्रतीक्षामा रहँदा, मेरोअगाडि एउटा मेरै उमेरको पुरुष पनि कसैलाई पर्खिरहेको थियो । चिहाएर उसको फोन हेर्दा, फेसबुक चलाएको देखेँ । एलिना बेकरी क्याफेमा बस्दा अगाडि एउटा समूहको ‘गेट टुगेदर’ रहेछ । आठमध्ये चारजना आफ्नो फोनतर्फ टाउको झुकाएर बसिरहेका थिए । दुईजनाको फोनमा देख्थेँ, उनीहरू फेसबुक चलाइरहेका थिए, अरू दुईजना पनि पक्कै कि त फेसबुक कि त इन्स्टाग्राममा फोटो हाल्दै थिए होला । मेरो साथी आइपुग्यो अनि म पनि त्यही फोन चलाउन व्यस्त भएँ ।

On my way

Maybe it's not wise to post this in my blog, but I have to clarify this. My tweet has been shared in Mens Room Reloaded (MRR) and Nepali Adult Jokes creating certain certain discussion series.

Are We Lagging Behind in Social Media?

An American knew that his American Airlines flight was delayed for hours. He didn’t have any problem with that, but he was worried about his return flight, which was moved to an earlier time, when he would be in a meeting. He did not call their number to resolve the issue, nor did he send an email to delay his return flight. He simply tweeted to American Airlines, and his flight back was shifted to a more convenient time.

Times - They are Changing

Few days back, I saw Asish dai posting his facebook status stating how he and Prabhat dai are finding female more active and smarter these days compared to male. I gradually analyzed, and then concluded that to large extent they are right. Yes, things are changing. We can see huge up liftment of women these days.

Discussion Culture

We have been taught to discuss from our childhood level itself. We have been taught to quarrel and present our views on - if village life is better or if it is the city life. We have been taught to discuss on - if pen is superior to the weapon. We used to discuss with our arguments.

Business in Amaravati

Nepal is moving towards decentralization phase as well. Soon Nepal will be having it's state name, and state capital. Like, Telengana got formed as new state, leaving Andhra Pradesh behind, Andhra Pradesh is on its way to develop it's new Capital. Here is short analysis of new proposed capital of Andhra Pradesh - Amaravati.

Marketers pay heed to Women & Villages

For a long time, the Nepali market was supply driven allowing a limited choice for consumers. Demand for a product would be higher than supply. That was when the public sector undertakings and a few businesses dominated the market – which can be termed as the 'Quota and License' period. This era came to end gradually after the liberal system was slowly introduced in the 1980s and speeded up in the 1990s. As a result, new business ventures started to crop up and it gave birth to a number of entrepreneurs. Collaboration with foreign companies increased, and the supply side gradually turned weighty.

Ending the Tour

'Delhi ko yese bol rahe he, malum nahi agar Mumbai mey hotey to kya karte'  One bad thing about Delhi was expensive hotels. The hotel prices were that expensive that Kapil had to say

Aaj pata chala, Delhi waloka dil nahi hotey hai!

नेपालमा अनलाइन व्यवसायको सम्भावना

पिज्जाहटले सन् १९९४ देखि अनलाइन अर्डर लिन शुरू गरेपछि औपचारिक रूपमै अनलाइन व्यवसायको शुरुआत भएको मानिन्छ । एमेजनले एकै वर्षपछि अनलाइनमार्फत पुस्तक विक्रीवितरण  गरेर यसलाई पूर्ण आकार दियो । यसको प्रभाव दक्षिण एशियामा आउन अर्को ५ वर्ष लाग्यो र सन् २००० बाट भारतमा केही प्रभाव देखिन थाल्यो । भारतीय रेलवेले अनलाइन टिकटको सुविधा २००२ मा शुरू गरेपछि अनलाइन कारोबारमा केही प्रभाव जम्दै थियो ।

My Summer

It was not that this is my first experience of summer. I had faced highest of 40 degree when I was in Lucknow for few days. Apart, Biratnagar is not a cool place to stay either. The temperature goes high like hell there as well. To make things worse, load shedding keeps the fan away, and if you are addicted to AC, it's tough for you to resist.

Returning back to Delhi!

'Why should you care? Why should a Muslim care about our things anyway?' our driver shouted at us, when we asked about the famous Hindu temple in Kashmir. We were shocked and surprised.

Promotional Maturity

Flanking and revitalization of any product or the services, either by adding few new flavors, or by re- introducing them with some new additional feature are common in business world. They have the right to re-introduce the product, and boost up the market share. Same deluxe bus gets painted, and the name includes the word ‘New’ before its previous name. This is tolerable and acceptable too.

Expensive Nepal

Price of Amul Cheese, whose printed MRP is INR 75, they charge it NRs 180 in Kathmandu. Be it vehicle cost, or be it the cost of vegetables, everything is expensive in Nepal. I have started finding India, much more cheaper place now, when I compare with Nepal.

My Current Playlist!

I had been replying to few of them saying, I'll post my playlist soon, I actually wanted to do this in February itself, but again, I did not want to create too much traffic in my blog. Here I finally post in my current play list. I have been doing this since sometime, so that Nepalese audience would not be fed up of Nepalese music, because mainstream medias fail to promote good songs, and rather give priority to their own people's song. Here I present my playlist:

Wonderful SriNagar, Kashmir

If you had been following my blog for sometime, you must have noticed that #TourDeNorthIndia2015 post was taken till Sri Nagar, and we found the hotel. Let me share the stories hereby.

 


Hotel with Wifi and Lunch!
We had been out of world for couple of days now. Our SIM cards were not working, as we had no special SIM cards for Jammu and Kashmir district. We then found hotel with WiFi. It was just infront of Dal lake. It took us 11 am to get inside our room. We charged our mobiles and cameras, and power banks and took rest. Since, I was unaware about what was going around for couple of days, I checked few online news portal and yeah, I  also changed my profile picture in facebook from there itself. We finally got fresh and went out for lunch. We were so excited about having Kashmiri food, but despite walking for half and hour we could not get something  that we had been searching for. Ah! we ended up having some vegeterian luch in some Vaisnavi hotel! Damn!

Driver Shouting - Islamabad Islamabad!!
On our way back, we heard conductor shouting Islamabad!! Islamabad! Initally we were sure that the jeep from there would take to Pakistan's capital. But, then we imagined how far would Islamabad be from there geographically! We then inquired about people, and then came to know that there's small village within Kashmir named after Islamabad. Honestly, the entire place was like Pakistan that one would have in their mind. Girls in burkas, and everyone in their kurta. Maybe we were the only one in shorts and tees.

Boat Ride at Dal Lake
We were bargaining for the price. Earlier, we had met someone who'd give us boat ride at 300, but now when we came back to hotel, they told us that boat ride would not even cover 20% of lake. So, we were told the price of 1200. We were bargaining for 600, that would cost 100 for each of us, but he was sticking to 800. When our hotel owner came and said something in his language, he took us at 600. Later, we figured out that the hotel owner was his brother. Fine, we started the ride knowing that other six months, that lake would all be snow. It was something like Phewa lake, not so clean, dirty to large extent. I was expecting something like Nainitaal, but the scenes from here we beautiful. We were surprised when another boat came near us, with all those stuffs to sell, gradually turn by turn lot of boats came towards us, from ice cream vendor to kabab thing. There was market, Meena market, where one had to go via those boats to make purchases. We were informed that items sold there are duplicate, and we did not buy anything from there though.


Gulmohor vs Sonammarg
Where to go? We had just a day there at Srinagar, and there were lot of places to go. From oldest mosque to different places. We however decided to go Gulmohor, but in the midway planned to go Sonammarg, the hillstation nearby, where Bajrangi Bhaijaan had it's shooting done. Since it was off season, there was not so much of crowd there.


Horse Ride
That was instead khacchad ride. We had the confidence that we could walk till up since we had that experience in Solang Valley as well. But a lady who was returning back told us, that it was impossible for us to get that up. The price of horse was told Rs 800. We hesitated, and we decided to walk, and after walking for 15 mins, they came up with lowest price 300. We never had that experience, so we decided to take it. Since, these owners had to stay idle till late evening, as their shift was already over, 300 would be fine for them anyway. There probably used to be lot of snow in cold, we could realize that.

Sakeel Bhai
On our way, we then got to know about our hotel owner - Sakeel Bhai! He was the only one who'd keep foreigners in Kashmir and treat them with great respect. He was kind of 'don' of Kashmir and everyone knew him.

He would do anything for his customer satisfaction, be that fight or quarrel. No one ever dared to cross question him. We therefore felt that we saw foreigners in the hotel we stayed, and due to his good treatment towards them, foreigners never hesitated to stay for month itself there. We had doubt, but once our driver told we got the clear picture. If we would not have doubt, we probably would steal the book at the drawer of our room. There was some kind of novel.

Kashmiri Food
This is something that really must be admired. Kashmiri food! Ahh, we were so much fond of it, and eager to taste. But we did not find it that easily, as our location was situated within some vegeterian place.We had to take auto to get to those place where there were great chicken items. And once we were there, we reached the place. We ordered Tandoori and Kabab, they were great! Tandoori was juicy enough, and kabab was something like sausage but again different.And expensive than our budget, however we took taste of it and they were super awesome! The chatni was also so great! Early next morning we also got to taste Kahwah, the Kashmiri Tea, and that was different taste. They told it was al composition of medical herbs, and there were almonds at top. We were okay, just that we got cheated with the price.

Kashmiri Kahwah

Kashmiri Kabab

Pakistan Influence
We finally got our doubt clear when the driver clarified, how they support Pakistan instead of India. He told me, how they supported Pakistan cricket team as well. On trying to know reason, he told us that Indian Government had discriminated them a lot, his grandmother was raped by Indian Police back then, he told me how Kashmir is being treated with huge discrimination as well.

He came with his boat to make sales!

This was ice-cream boat!

In between the lake

Night Life

Boat Life

They called this mini - switzerland!

Horse Ride?

I had never seen Okhar before

Attending Interview at Bank

Okay, I had already posted my interview stuff with one media house. Now, let me share with you my interview experience with one bank. I was a BBA graduate after all, and I had scope at banking sector too. So, without mentioning name of bank, let me share the story.