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By LBTHAPA Chhabi Subedi has been writing prose and poetry for the last one-decade or so. Mr. Subedi made his presence felt by his debut essay collection ‘Matoko Sandesh’ (The Message of the Soil) in 2001. The one part of the essay was about the contemporary issues of the country and the second part of the essays was about the social issues based on social discriminations. He raised voices against those discriminations and asked for immediate solutions. In the interval of less than two years, he brought yet another short essay collection ‘The heart of the soil’ in 2004. As a prose writer Mr.Subedi had shown more maturity in the present book. The essays were brilliant as they were in the debut book, but the language quality was much improved. He described the plot more vividly in the book, which was absent in his debut book. After a long hiatus, the author came out with an anthology of poetry ‘Aama’. In this book of poetry, he dedicated all 45 poems to his beloved mother R

Do we really need such gurus? Aren't we better without these fake gurus? Photo: archive.indianexpress.com By VINAY THAKUR  Recently when I shared the news about one incident which happened in India where some people wanted to spread flowers in the path of rape convict Narayan Sai when police planned to take him to some hospital for medical checkup and to a court for the demand of legal custody (a routine procedure after the arrest of any criminal or convict) on my Facebook wall, one of my friend asked why people need these dhongi (which means fake, pretentious, or cheat) gurus, babas or so called godmans? The question is very relevant and valid, but the answer is not that easy and straightforward. Anyone reading this news or any similar news would ask this question, why the heck these people want to glorify a rape convict or a criminal? (there is no dearth of such incidents all over the world but I want to focus specially in India because this is very common here). This guy

Many governments have come and gone but girl trafficking has been going on unabatedly. Photo: globalorphanprevention.org.com   By LB THAPA The earthquake on 25 April did not only cause the loss of lives and property, but it has also brought several other problems in the country. Among many of those problems, one is girl's trafficking! In recent times the activities of girl's trafficking have increased dramatically. Girl's traffickers want to take advantage of an extreme situation where many traumatized people of the country are trying hard to cope with the post-quake situations.  The normal lives of many people have been hit hard by the earthquake. Many people have lost their homes and now they are forced to look for an alternative source of living. Taking the advantage of such a difficult time, girl's traffickers have found an opportunity to traffic beleaguered girls to India. Reports have it that a large number of Nepali girls have already been trafficked to India onl

Shree Pashupatinath Mandir built by the Nepali people living in Bhopal. Photo: LB Thapa By LBTHAPA in Bhopal (This article was originally published in The Rising Nepal) With the establishment of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) in 1956, throngs of Nepali people began to arrive in Bhopal, India. The BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. Being the largest engineering enterprise in the country, it required many skilled and non skilled workers. The BHEL welcomed Nepalese people, willing to join in the industry. They were employed as per their skill and education. Today there are over 10,000 Nepalese live in Bhopal who work in offices, factories, hotels & restaurants; and a few in the government jobs as well. Many Nepalese workers, after the retirement from the BHEL, have preferred to settle down in Bhopal, most of them have their own houses.             Unlike many Nepalese pe

Did Mahabharata really take place? Photo: storypick.com By VINAY THAKUR , New Haven CT, USA Many times I see people arguing about whether some events from some epic books really happened or not, especially from scriptures like Mahabharat, Ramayan, Bible, etc. Normally these arguments are really passionate and heated (because many people really emotional about these things) with both sides trying to make their points furiously very often without any reliable and unbiased evidence. Many times I find this as a totally unnecessary ordeal, total waste of time unless it's whole purpose is to do a time pass. I often wonder why people waste their time in arguing about stories or incidents mentioned in these books really happened or not? Why does it matter to them? What will they gain or achieve if they prove or disprove that these incidents really happened? I myself read many of the stories mentioned in these books but I read them like any other book, for me its not at all

He has proved that a little change in lifestyle is enough to defeat type 2 diabetes completely. Photo: Lok Dai  By LB THAPA Diabetes has earned a bad reputation for its devastating effects. It is said about diabetes that it opens the door of many other diseases including heart and kidney. Type two diabetes is very common among the people who are over 40 years of age. Actually today, I am not going to write about diabetes, in fact I am not a doctor I am a travel blogger. But today I am going to write about a person who defeated his type 2 diabetes and now he is perfectly normal, free from diabetes. I think it is interesting to know how he became successful to reverse his type 2 diabetes. Let’s meet the person and know from him.   The other day I was waiting for Lok Dai on the bank of Fewa Lake. He had given me time to meet there. After a little while, Lok Dai got down from his mountain bike and shook his hand with me. He appeared to be very happy and cheerful

By GANDHI RAJ KAFLE (This article was originally published in The Rising Nepal) LB Thapa needs no introduction. An M.A in Economics, who turned to literature by choice, has several books already published to his credit and also keeps on floating ideas and options in various newspapers and newsmagazines of the country. In fact, his work itself is there to introduce him. The latest creative work, which is a novel, however, is a kind of wish fulfilling project because author Thapa has mentioned that he had long thought about it and that dream came true only after the successful launching of this book. So, the under review novel The Quest of a Dead Man is suc a book. Though it may apparently be ambiguous to talk about supernatural power, aht can be said is that this novel takes readers to be serious once they read it and will spontaneously ask questions like: Can dead man live? Is it possible for a dead man to make a quest and move ahead to get a very important mission of