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W ith life jacket on, oar gripped in hands, one of the feet locked to avoid being catapulted, move the oar to and fro as per the guide’s command, be prepared to beat numerous currents commonly known as “rapids”, be alert to the rocks on the way and confront with swirling rapids to meet the end point on time unhurt is what we can sum up the adventurous aqua-sport ‘rafting’ in. Nepal owns various rivers.Among them Sun Koshi, Tama Koshi, Bhote Koshi and Trishuli are the major ones which cater to the admirers of derring-do with fun and adventure throughout the game. The guide teaches you the commands at first which you’ll have to follow to avoid the jerks and have fun of adventure to its fullest in a safe way. The commands comprise of forward, backward, left forward, right forward, left back, right back, stop and hang on in general. You must follow the commands of the guide to feel the ecstasy of rafting in a safe manner as s/he is well versed in the techniques, autono...

     Last week my eyes fell upon a life story full of repentance and confession of guilt in a magazine under "Jeevanko Goretoma" column and stuck for some time . It really touched my heart as his very guilt had crushed my friend Shyam's life and happiness to pieces in fact.      To relate , Shyam fell in love with a tenth grader neighboring girl 11 years back whom he proposed , she reciprocated and both eloped . He managed for her further studies and sent her learn fashion designing course as per her interest paying a hefty sum as fees . His parents also treated her daughterly and poured all their love over her . For almost five years time flowed swiftly showering all conjugal bliss to their laps . By that time a cute girl-child had already borne to them and the family was enviably a happy lot.      She started working in a boutique and it's then that their happy life took a dramatic twist.As in Shakespearean tragedies ,Purushottam, a ...

"After all, there is one race-humanity", very well said by George Moore. But there are numerous kinds of discrimination and oppression still prevalent throughout the world in the name of caste, creed, gender, race and ethnicity. The developed nations are not also totally untouched by this fever. African and South -Asian countries witness such cases in galore. Nov 25 is marked as International Day for Violence against Women worldwide. Regarding our context, violence against women is at rise despite the cliche in Nepalese society-" Yatra naryastu pujyante , ramante tatra Devata " ( God dwells where women are worshipped). Women occupy more than fifty percent of Nepalese demographic statistics. Nepal itself faces various types of oppression and the victims are always the fairer sex. Generally, a woman is a mother who gives birth to you, up brings you nursing every time, a daughter that helps you in household chores, a wife that serves you from dawn to dusk to keep ...

   Panoramic hills enlivened by recent downpour, crystal-clear and haze free atmosphere, blue sky shimmering in mild sunbeam, birds stretching their wings in dustless air, dwarfed multi-storey business buildings, people striding along the pavements like puppets, age-old temples and squares steadily waiting to be renovated, motor- vehicles rushing like toys in the thoroughfare and, to everyone’s chagrin, a dense concrete jungle spread all over the fertile land of Kathmandu valley--its a glimpse of a bird-eye view from atop historic Dharahara that I chanced to have in July last year.    The scenario could have been depicted more beautifully had there been a poet instead of a simpleton like me.The ones craving to swallow the ecstatic landscape through naked eyes must get there in person. The proof of the pudding is indisputably in the eating. It so happened that I was ambling down the downtown street along with Narayan, an effervescent student of mine who ex...