Living Human Treasure In Nepal

The sad demise of a veteran traditional artist, painter Mr Prem Man Chitrakar recently has reminded me of the International training workshop on living human treasures organised by UNESCO at Venice in February 1999. Prem Man was an institution by himself and was trained by his father Prithivi Man Chitrakar, who himself was a renowned paubha painter. Artist Prem Man Chitrakar devoted his entire life in paubha painting. I remember once he took me to his old residence at Bhimsensthan and showed me...

Post Truth: Age Of Digital Impulse

We are in a networked age where we are bombarded with oodles of information. It is difficult to sift which information is right and which is wrong. The information is spiralled in a way that many of us are bound to believe the information spread via social media irrespective of their veracity. Falling victims of news items that invoke emotion such as fear, excessive praise, hatred, conspiracy, and making opinion based on them has increasingly become a trend. With mis/use of data, the users of social...

Sitting For Exams During Pandemic

The year 2020 has itched in our mind as a troublesome period. During the year, the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic affected all walks of life. Except for some emergency services, all works, facilities, and services were scrapped or postponed. The whole country went under strict lockdown and everyone had to maintain proper safety protocols. The education sector was equally hampered. Schools and colleges were closed. Authority postponed all academic programmes including the board ex

Farmers giving up sugarcane farming

Farmers have been abandoning sugarcane cultivation in recent years due to the hassles of getting payment of their product from sugar mills. According to the Nepal Federation of Sugarcane Producers, sugarcane production has been declining every year due to the decline in the area of cultivation. Most of the farmers in the Terai, whose first choice was sugarcane farming until five or six years ago, have given up sugarcane cultivation now. The number of farmers leaving sugarcane cultivation is increasing...

Blessing In Disguise

With the Standing Committee of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) deciding to withdraw the ordinance issued on Tuesday and stop to register a request letter calling for the parliament's special session, the NCP bickering has considerably ebbed, at least for the time being. The agreement for the withdrawal came after rival NCP secretariat leaders and their supporters egged on the Prime Minister to pull out the ordinance that government had introduced to carry out the first amendment to the Constitutional...

The Gatekeepers Of Media

When the level of media literacy among the general audience is enhanced, consumers start evaluating the different forms of media products like news reports and views. Today, with the increased level of general literacy, people who consume media products try to understand the basis of select

Making Peace With Nature

The global pandemic has shattered our lives by ravaging economies. Millions of precious human lives have been lost. The toll is continuing but science has given bright hopes for mankind with innovation of COVID-19 vaccines. At the time of this writing, the UK and the USA have started inoculating their populations with anti-COVID-19 vaccines. Our experience with the global health crisis shows that there has been mismatch between nature and our activities. Human ende

The Working Of A Criminal Mind

In an era where everybody knows everyone in a superficial manner (through social media), we rarely are aware of what may be going through a person’s mind. He or she may seem happy outside, but from within certain concerns may be plaguing him or her. Such is the complexity of the human heart and mind! This is the reason why many people feel comfortable to share their thoughts online, as it is anonymous and speaking to strangers can make them feel motivated or at least make them feel that their...

No misunderstanding between govt and party: Minister Shrestha

Locals of Chandragiri Municipality-1 Thursday urged Minister for Urban Development Krishna Gopal Shrestha to take the party (Nepal Communist Party) forward in a united manner and urged him to maintain the credibility of the government. Minister Shrestha, who had arrived at the party cadres' meeting organised by the Municipality-1 on Thursday, was ridiculed saying that the party cadres would lose nothing if the party split, but the leaders would lose their posts and facilities.

NC parliamentary party meet today

The main opposition party Nepali Congress has scheduled its Parliamentary Party’s working committee meeting for Friday to discuss the Constitutional Council ordinance and the latest political developments in the country. The NC PP office on Thursday informed that the meeting will be held at the Lothse Hall of the Parliament Building, New Baneshwor, at 10.30 am.