39 years Dorjee Shepra started climbing Mountain Everest in 1992 and his first ascent was with an Amerrican expedition. Barring a brief period in the middle, he has been scaling the highest peak in the world every year.

Mountaineering is not a big deal for the experienced. What is required is honesty and knowledge of new mountain equipments. The time's no more the same as when Hillary climbed mountains five decades ago. Dorjee Sherpa, the 13 times everest submitter thus shared his mountain laineering experiences on Chilly December morning.
 

Kidney traffickers snaring poor peoples of Nepal

More than 70 worker have already sold their kidneys in India who are working in carpet factory in Jorpati, Kathmandu. They sold kidney for just Rs.25,000.00

It was an attrcative offer for them whose income as a carpet factory worker of Jorpati, Kathmandu was barely enough to feed their families.

Many individuals end up parting with their kidneys in India without their consent. According to factory worker's, many Nepalese are taken to India with jobs, only to be duped later into parting with their kidneys. Kidneys sold by or stolen from Nepalese fulfil the needs of rich Nepal's also, kidney traders are found hanging around dialysis Centers in capital in search of clients.

Nephrologist Dr Risi Kumar Kafle said that ever 100 Nepali patients return annually form Indian hospitals after receiving successful kidney transplants.

Dr Kafle said that those are however the recorded cases only the real figure must be much higher. According to him, a patient spends some where between Rs 500,000 and Rs.1,500,000 in Indian hospitals for a transplant.

Why exceedingly qualified persons leaving their own "NEPAL"???

What are the reasons, why highly qualified and educated persons such as doctors, Engineers, and professors leaving their own country (NEPAL) to US and Europe?

As Doctors, Engineers such as Aeronautical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Professors, and other highly qualified persons who can run any businesses, Hoteliers, etc. leaving Nepal when the country need them??

Is it Worst situating of the Country?
Or is it because unsatisfactory job and place?
Is it the Environment of the country?
Or environment of their families life
Are they Unsatisfactory of their income?
Or is it the Political situation of the country?
Or they feel no security in their life?
Or is there anything???

If the highly qualified peoples leave the county then what is the condition or future of our country?

I think our country's condition will be paralyzing soon. So, please suggest me how we can save our Motherland? And how we can develop our country without the major forces of the country?

Anyhow, we should have to make our country better.

As Late King Mahendra had told to the people that "Ma Maray pani mero desh banchee Rahoos" (Long Live my country whether I'm not alive) which I like very much and everybody should give thought about it before they leave their country.

Punctuality not a cup of tea for Nepal Government Employee

By the time Supreme Count Justice Tahir Ali Ansari rejoined his bence on March 18, it was already 3:12 PM, or 42 minutes after the afternoon tea recess.

Taking his seat, Ansari neither apologize to Senior Advocate Ganesh Raj Sharma and other lawyers, who were waiting for him desperately, nor did he give any reason for the delay.

But Justice Ansari's is no exceptinal case. Almost all the justices fail to show up in court on time.

The Post did a reality check, with random recording of the working time of judges for one week and observation of work at the benches for a month starting from February 26.

During the study perood, this daily found that judges rarely showed up at their respective benches before 11 am although the apex count opens at 10 am. Some judges came to their bench as late as 11.54 am. On February 27, Justics Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Kalayan Shreasha turned up at 11.54 am. After joining the bench, they postponed hearings in 21 cases, citing lack of time that particular day. Justice Rayamajhi is the senior most justice of the apex count after the Chief Justice.

Similarly, Chief Justice Kedar Prasaad Giri came to the bench at 11:52 am on February 26. As the Chief Justice entered, a lawyer who was talking to the Post outside the chamber commented, "This is judicial bureaucracy."

During the review period, this daily found that judges in general remained at their benches till 1:30 pm when the hour long tea break at the apex court begins.

As in the mornings, judges were found coming to the benches late aftet the tea break also. The judges generally do not resume hearings before 3:45 pm though the tea break is over by 2:30 pm.

Similarly, the benches generally close as ealy as 4:30 pm even though harings scheduled for a particular day are not finshed. Some judges close shop as early as 2:47 pm without finishing the day's work.

For instance, on March 27, Justices Ram Prasad Shrestha and Damodar Prasad Sharma colsed the division bench at 3:40 pm and also did not take up hearings at the single bench though that is what they were supposed to do. Shrestha was supposed take up five cases and Sharma four cases at their singly benches.

A classic case of unpunctuality was exhibited by Justices Ram Kumar Prasad Sah and Gauri Dhakal on March 2. They closed their division bench at 2:47 pm, citing lack of time. The bench deferred 14 cases, including one concerning Shova Rana.

Rana, who was in court since morning, was obviously disappointed to see her case deferred yet again. "They postponed the hearing though they had eoough time. Had they come on time in the morning, my case would have been finished,"said an infuriated Rana, whose case had already been deferred thrice.

Attempts by the Post to get a comment from the Chief Justice failed. After a long wait for an appointment, the Chief Justice replied, through Supreme Count spokesperson. Til Prasad Shrestha, that he did not want to talk to the media. Shrestha said he could not comment on the performance of the judges.

Coincidently, the performance of Supreme Court judges has been declining in recent years. According to a report of the Supreme Court, the average per judge case disposal has declined progresively since 2004. The per judge annual disposal, which was 681 cases in 2004 declined 2654 in 2005 and 601 in 2006.

The sane report has recommended that the court create more hous for processing and hearings so as to address the Suprime Court backlog of 13,476 cases. The working style of the justices amply i ndicates that the report has not been taken seriously. 

Accepting New Reality in Nepal

The Kathmandu who live nervously with rumors of the Maoists taking over the capital by force overnight a few years ago have welcomed them through a different trajectory - the secret ballots. The Maoists too are stunned by the warm welcome they have received from the people here. Their urban dreams have come true without weapons, through what they have always labeled as bourgeoisie process, the elections.

The CPN (Maoist) has become a national party by garnering very significant support of the people, a mandate to work for stability, order, and peace, a corruption-free bureaucracy, freedom of expression for the 21st century. The should take their electoral gains not as psycho-political triumph over their communist compatriots the United Marxist Leninists (UML) whose middle path is interpreted as their hubris in this election.

Babu Ram Bhattarai senior leader of the CPN (M) who represents the communist ideology, he called the ULM a hybrid force, in his politically incorrect expression a 'eunuch' party. That may be a post -election victory arrogance and expression of anger with the UML for their rejection of the Maoist proposal of a united leftist front in the election. The argument cannot be that simple. The Maoists form the second day of their election victory have started the most challenging task of interpreting Nepali history and the country's socio-political and economic structure.

The Maoist leader Prachanda in the past 24 hours has met the business communities and other to alley the supposedly great fear that these communities may be harboring. Prichard's first post-election engagement thus represents the Maoists' first ever challenge of transforming a party of guerrillas into a party of responsible statement and cadres. In the decade-long warfare they had not imagined that they would be catapulted into power through a process that they always critiqued as a bourgeoisie mode of politics.

Now the people of Nepal have silenced the Maoists' guns forever by electing them to govern the country in the most important phase of history. Therefore, whatever they may be saying about the UML may not be correct, or ironically they too may be going through the same process of political transformation as the younger generation of the communists who had started their guerrilla movement from Jhapa of eastern Nepal under the influence of the Indian rural Naxalite leader Kanu Sanyal in the late sixties and who transformed themselves into the UML later on. But there is a difference. The UML made tremendous gains under the charismatic leadership of its leader Madan Bhandari who was killed in a road accident. But they did not get a clear majority to rule.

Secondly, the UML leaders showed great arrogance and had started saying that they would even use the Nepal Army and police to crush the Maoists, which was a totally unwarranted remark even by an election speech standard. But the Maoists have to encounter the new history on different fronts. Their YCL cadres are bellicose. A tired Prachanda was seen on the news before the elections calling the YCL to become Gandhian for a week. Now we can ask, is the period of the YCL's Gandhian avatar over?

Iribucakkt, does the YCL as cadres of the ruling party have any option other than adopt the Gandhian method? The CPN (M) should therefore work with a totally new alchemy and stun the world for the third time. (The first and second being the peace deal and participation in the government and CA election) That alche would be a combination of positive non-violence, honesty and a left-oriented democratic multiparty ideology to overthrow the feudal structure and take the country to prosperity. But their victory in the CA election means they must work with all the other parties old or new to write an epoch-making constitution of Nepal

We can expect a radical change in the leadership structure of the NC and UML parties. Tremors are already recorded by both parties. As for Girija Prasad Koirala he has always said the CA election will be the last goal of his life and he has accomplished the task. There is no need for him to work with a melancholic mindset. But since he is still the leader of the NC, his next triumph would be to hand over the Congress Party to the leaders of the young generation, who alone can save this party from a total collapse. The first indications were seen in the election victory of Narahari Acharya and the strong political impact made by young leaders like Gangan Thapa and others like him during the election. These youth have always been sidelined in a party dominated by the elders of feudal mindsets and those who have indulged in unfair practices of making money.

The sweeping election victory of the Maoists has surprised some and dismayed the others. Elitist discourses how a deep-seated discomfort over the results. Elites who have learnt to live with relative comfort and equanimity appear disturbed by the Maoist election victor. One argument that is being surfaced is that the main reason of the Maoist victory is the fear psychosis they created. But the huge turn our of voters and the uniformity in the voting pattern deconstructs that logic. The Maoists won because people of this country who saw them trapped in history used this occasion to open doors for other options, and the Maoists appeared to have the political will and sincerity for that. They won in a fair and peaceful election directly supervised by international observers and by no other than the former American President Jimmy Carter who was seen promenading in the ancient city of Kritipur, Prachands's constituency, to supervise the electoral process. Carter has been critiquing his administration for not recognizing the Maoists. It is clear now he will evoke this election to create leverage on the American administration for that.

Elites of the Western world and South Asia whose imaginary was/is greatly shaped by the colonial history had kept Nepal as the bottom of a list of countries that did not mater in political civilization shaped by the Western epistemology, world view and sense of enlightenment. To them, and rightly so, Nepal was a country whose bureaucrats competed to earn Nepal a position of the poorest country in the hemisphere and whose king rubbed the clichéd 'zone of peace' of a remarkable tautological significance. We were accustomed to live in an echo chamber with the age-old feudal noises repeated with the utmost monotony.

Now the election results show that three parties that subsume the seven parties always had the mandate of the people and the institution of the monarchy is finished in Nepal. Parties who have lost and those who have made tremendous gains should once again work together.

Finally, father of modern linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure said, the relationship between sign and meaning is arbitrary. The relationship between the name 'Maoist' and the CPN (M) as I see as a student of semiotics is arbitrary. The CPN (M) will be the first to realize that.

The election is finally over and there's euphoria in the air particularly after the 'revolutionary' Maoist victory. Reason Even before the new constitution of New Nepal is drafted the Red Vision already out the "Vision 10, 20 40" and so on suggesting that Nepal within a span of just 40 years will be amongst the richest countries in the world - a la Switzerland!!!

The Maoist dream deserves to be applauded in that Nepal continues to remain mired in debilitating poverty shackled by, among scores of other things, bad governance, corruption, instability, deep-rooted social inequalities, new insurgencies and, worst of all, lawlessness and the culture of impunity.

Ground Realities: Even after the historic and "peaceful" election to the Constituent Assembly that had 61 percent voters' turnout, the examples of impunity are everywhere around the country- and for all to see. An example: some 'Janata ' thrashed Current Finance Minister after his election victory in Nuwakot. Let alone pre-and post -election violence, incidents of crime are on the rise as before.

In both urban and rural centers, people are being intimidated, abducted, robbed, and even murdered thanks to political allegiances that perpetrators of such crimes often owe to parties. Against such backdrop and now that the election is over, people's expectations appear to be very high.

High Hopes: Hopes of the ruling class as well as the ruled - or, to put it in Marxist- Maoist terms, the bourgeoisie and the proletariats, the exploiters as well as the exploited are so high that the election will guarantee political stability; that it will restore lasting peace; that it will bring in investments, development and relief to the needy and that it will usher Nepal into a new era of caste- and region-based federalism and even right to self determination.

The list can be longer. But what's clear is that the newly elected CA has a Herculean task a accomplish, failing which the "empowered" people will surprise the world the same way they did on April 10; that is, if they are allowed to vote again as promised by the SPAM (six party alliance plus Maoist).

As things stand now, the first parliamentary election will be held after two-and -a-half years.

Hurdles: For now, the Maoists have emerged victorious. The former rebel leaders say they want to immediately declare Nepal republic, thereby throwing the 240-year-old institution of monarchy into the dustbin of history; lead the new transitional government and carve the destiny of the nation by writing the country's first 'truly people's constitution.

While that mission is sure to take a lot of time, probably more than expected, there are immediate existential challenges the new government must overcome. In order to survive in power, the new government must deliver and make sure that there's smooth supply of everything from petroleum fuel and gas to basic commodities such as cereals and vegetables.

And all that stuff as subsidized and affordable price.

Without any failure, the new helmsman must also make sure that the petroleum prices are not hiked as per the international market price ($107 per barrel and rising). Voters or consumers will also expect uninterrupted supply of electricity; end to frequent highway blocks; and a peaceful environment for tourism and several other indigenous industries to flourish.

Monarchy: At the first meeting of CA itself and quite interestingly without any voting whatsoever the new Maoist-led CA will bid farewell to monarchy, if top Maoist leaders' version is anything to go by. The leaders also claim that several foreign powers too have favored some kind of ' honorable exit' to monarchy.

As secret negotiations continue, there are also talks of converting Nepal into a republic with monarchy enjoying some "social, economical, and cultural privilege". Out on the streets and far-flung villages, ordinary people have been told: end of monarchy and establishment of republic will guarantee durable peace and prosperity in the country.

Again, if the newly elected politicos most of them unsurprisingly suffering from food-in-mouth disease fall to deliver on their promises even in the new republic called Nepal, things could fall apart.

Nepal Army: The last thing the new government wants to mess around with is the Nepal Army, which, until not so long ago revered the institution of monarchy as its guardian. Now guardian-less, the Army maintains it is ready to follow the orders of any government in power. Common sense would expect it to follow the orders of a popularly elected government, in this case that of the likely CPN-Maoist-led new government. The issue of integrating former Maoist combatants into the NA could be a tricky one.

But Prachanda has promised "wonders" on this front too.

Far from dictating their terms on the issue of army integration, many analysts suggest, the Maoist needs to consider other options: such as creating an industrial security force or national parks protection force.

The there's the touchy issue of what to do with the unpopular or popular? YCL, the young communist league!!

Several top SPAM (Seven parties Alliance) leaders including current Prim Minster Mr. G.P. Koirala and CPN-UML Leader Madhav Nepal have demanded that the YCL be dissolved - a demand many Maoist leaders appear to have taken with a pinch of salt.

For now, for the Comrades and the non-Reds the challenges are just multiplying. Having cast their votes, people want to see changes. But lest we forget, CA election was just another step in Nepal's peace and democratization process; it was a means not an end. Only by working together, and accommodating opposing forces, the process can mover forward.

Failing which, it always risks collapse.

Are we westernizing?

What we don't realize is that just doing all of that doesn't make us modernized. The problem is, at heart most of the so-called "hip" teenagers are downright conservative. Domestic helps, for example, are still servants to them whom they can order around and speak to them in anyway they want to. That's not what Westerners do. They respect every job: a lawyer wouldn't look down upon a waiter and a doctor wouldn't think a house-helper's job was trivial. Some of us actually dare to think that acting superior to our helpers makes us cool! It's ironic how we thin we're westernizing when we still categorize people according to what job they do.

Modernizing isn't about learning the latest fashion and knowing that skinny jeans are in. It's about learning the actual contemporary values and perspectives.

And then there is the fact that some of us think we know everything because we know what Angelina Jolie wore to the Oscars. Who cares about who won the CA polls back home? Or how many people died in the recent China earth-quake? Knowing what happened in the Heroes season finale and how many pounds Kareena Kapoor lost is just enough.

Now isn't that what we call being modern these days? It hurts to think that half the teenagers in Kathmandu will probably answer "yes". We will truly westernize when we become internationally aware and know what's happening around the world. It's not bad to know what celebrities are up to; after all they do entertain us: but it also wouldn't hurt to know that the world petroleum sources will finish in the next 42 years or that Everest might be decreasing in height.

The last slap to the word modernization is how we think anything is fine, just as long are it's who's doing it. It might be okay for us to run around a swimming pool in a bikini but if our mothers dare to keep salvaar-kurta aside for a day and wear jeans instead god help them! Now what kind of modernization is that? Either we should all wear traditional clothes or we should all wear whatever we want. Why this restriction and discrimination with age? Us teens aren't the only ones allowed to live life to the fullest. We are embarrassed if our parents do anything and we have the nerve to think we're Westernized!

I hope with time we will realize the true meaning westernization.