Pictures: Tharu Collections

Crane dancing during Rainy season-Kolkattwa Village

Tharu boys dancing with stick-Stick dance festival

Women planting Rice during Rainy season

Tharu girls in their cultural dress during the festival of Jeetyaa

"Jeetyaa"festival, One of the most important festival for Tharu women.

Tharu men dancing with "Daaphu" during the Holi festival of color.

Touritst with a baby Rhinocerous in Chitwan National Park

Maize in traditional hanger-"Jhokha" in Tharu language and hen trying to steal some grain of maize

"Gada" a wooden cart pulled by Oxen- as means of transportation in village of Terai region

"Bakula" (cranes) trying to catch fished in Sauraha River

Traditional Tharu home designed by Tharu people. One of the best design and built by Tharu designers and builders. Tharu people live in such houses.We can see these kind of houses in Terai region of Nepal where larger of Tharu population live.

Tharu women of Southern Terai region. Annual Tharu festival called Maghi, which is also considered as New Year of Tharu people.

A tourtist with baby Elephant at Chitwan National Park.

Maghi festival in Kathmandu

House made of mud and wood. Typical houses in Western Terai region of Nepal.

Holi festival of color. "Daaphu" a kind of musical instrunment played by Tharu men during the festival of Holi.

Fisher man trying to make net for fishing for festival.

Tharu women dancing with theri cutural dress.

Tharu people with their cultural uniforms, tradition and homeland. 

SLC result: A Hidden truth behind Nepalese education

S.L.C ( known as School Leaving Certificate), which is considered one of the most important and toughest test in Nepal. Does the S.L.C test matters lot for the Nepalese students? Is S.L.C the complete education for the future high school kids. What is the reality behind the exam? Is the result transparent? There are lost of question to be answered by the Nepalese education authority? So the life of student finishes if s/he does not pass the exam? How much government is concerned about student's future? DO the student get their educational materials in time? Are the school premises peaceful as declared by the government authority? I am going to write the reality of education system in Nepal. 


Today 13,June, 2012; S.L.C result publication day , most awaited result for students and their parents. many question in their mind. Did my child pass the exam? Will he be able to get distinction or first division? if my son or daughter passes in distinction then s/he will be studying what? These are the question playing in the mind of Parents. "Oh! got please make me pass. I will definitely study harder in high school. I think I have done good. Surely I will get first division....so on on and on" sentence rolling in student's mind. School principle, " let's see how many of my students will get distinction. If I will have 100% distinctions then I will get to increase the tuition fee of the school." These things comes to school principle' mind. Lots of question and answers; before the result. Finally result arrived, let's check the result now!


What?????? More than half examines failed to clear Iron Gate ( known as S.L.C) Who is responsible for this failure? Is it student or government? I know who is responsible but in Nepal nobody knows it because  earth is round when viewed form the sky but its flat when we are on the earth. Exactly the same way! I hope you got me. If you did not then live in Nepal for one month then you will understand it. Let's get to business. Today, the Office of the Controller of Examination today declared the result this year's School Leaving Certificate examination with pass percentage dipping to 47.16 per cent from 55.50 percent last year. The exam was held from march 19 to 29 this year.


The news which I read gave me the data for boys and girls as well. The pass percentage was higher among boys (51.8 percent). Only 42.2 percent girls cleared the Iron Gate. last year pass percentage among boys and girls was 59.12 percent and 51.44 percent respectively. A total of 17,760 students-10,568 boys and 7, 174 girls passed the exam with distinction. Others passed in first division, second and third divisions. Some of the were fresh givers and other were withdrawn or previous failed students. 


After the result was published, the officer of Examination Control ( i don't wanna mention name) appeared in media to express his dissatisfaction over the result. " We would be analyzing the result later and find out the reason to improve it in future." What a cheap drama it was? If he had been too concerned then why he did not do before the publication of result? Who know the future? what we got to do, have to do in present? I am sure this is not going to improve at all. As long as there is no transparency in the result, nothing is going to change.


I think there is weakness in current education system of Nepal and government; who could not formulate good system. If we do research about this then we will get multiple reason for poor grades in any exam not only S.L.C. Nepalese people considered S.L.C most important and its focused too much but if we see the result of other exam like for bachelors and master; its almost same result. Maximum of them fail the exam. 


Problems: 
Checking methods: The answers written by the students goes to multiple geographical areas where teachers from different schools get to check the result. They are appointed by the government. This is done so that the result will be fair; teacher will not be able to give high score to his favorite students. Teacher who corrects the answer sheet does not know whose paper s/he checking. You might be confused! But the government pays teacher per answer sheet N.Rs.25 or more. Hence in order to get money, checking process is rapid. Higher the corrected sheet higher the money. Then what happens..I want you to think the final consequences.


Strikes are the another reason for bad score in exam. Student o not get to study properly in such violent condition. Strikes are done during the exam preparation. Schools are shut down. Transportation are halt dues to strikes; if kid are not able to go to school the how s/he going to learn and get good grades. 


6 to 6: You might be thinking what this means. This is famous schedule for ninth and tenth grader students. s/he needs to arrive school at this time and start practicing for S.L.C whole day in school. Teachers do not know the learning strategies.Do the student get good score in S.L.C, can be yes or no. Since there is no refreshment in between, just reading and reading then you might know what happens if you do the same thing for long time. You might wanna take some rest. But in school, students must practice whole day in schools about 12 hrs and when they go home they go with the same homework. Wow ! In past students used to get distinction. We got distinction but we did not practice as much as what present students are doing. Still our score is higher than present examines.


Parents are sometimes responsible for worst result. They expect more form their children. I know they are parents and they do have right to expect more. But all the children are not same. They are equally capable but it is not good idea to think and act in same way. If every ones becomes like Bill Gates then who is going to be join Military and fight for their country. Parents should try to motivate and give the student a chance to understand what s/he like? All children are unique and they have equal power to do something new!


late publication of book: many students in rural areas like Rolpa, Dolpa and other hilly areas kids get books very late Sometimes they do not get the books for whole year. So how they are going to pass without books? "Sharing is caring" is the right word to remember during this situation but how long? Government are responsible for this. Education ministries are more corrupted that's what I know? How cannot book reach in a corner of a country if the government had been concerned. I have realized and experienced that the employees of public service office (Government Office) are lazy and corrupted. Most of them do no deserve to be there at all. Capable citizens are struggling in the streets of Kathmandu and incapable people are inside the office planing future of country. Sounds very funny but it is truth.


Nepal is suffering from a kind of undetectable disease. It does not have any medicine. Only one medicine can treat it...I know it but I want my reader to write for me in comment......!

Planning a Movie Maker Project

Today i was just surfing through a book and got these information which might interest you!


Windows Live Movie Maker lets you combine video, audio, ans image files to create movies and slides shows you can publish ans show on your computer or CD/ DVD, e-mail to others, or place on a web pages or mobile device. You save the movie you create as a file, just as you would save a word processing or spread sheet file, and you can play and view it at any time. However, movies and their accompanying files are larger than most other documents you create-usually exceeding 5 MB. Before you begi, it's a good idea to plan your content.


Decide the purpose of the movie:
Your movie might be a promotional piece or catalog for business use, or a vacation movie to share with family and friends. Your purpose determines the subject, type, and quality of the source material, which is teh video and audio material you will use.

Little Jest of Buddha profile

  
The life of Gautam Buddha is as facinating and inspiring as those of Shri Rama and Krishna. Morever, the Buddha has been a historical figure in greatness, like the highest peak of the Himalayas, he is second to none. That is why he has been regarded as the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishnu after Shri Rama and Krishna.

The advent of the Buddha is one of the most momentous events of human history and civilization. His life and work show to what sublime heights human compassion, thoughts and feelings can rise. What the light enlightened one practised and preached is a proud possession of our common ancient heritage. The Sakyamuni showed us the path going to liberation and nirvana. he taught us how to transcend the relatives, the limits of time and space and become immortal.

Let's Think 9 seconds about facebook

Facebook, the new books for all the human beings. In the old days people used to have books for knwoledge and good information but look now people are exploited by soical media; that is facebook. There are millions of users and each of them have more than hundreds of virtual and real friends; some of them are known and some of them not. I wonder how can a person have thousands of friends.
  
To get help, I think one friend is enough. People do not think what is the advantages of having lots of virtual friends, since most of them cannot e faithful to themselves; how they are going to be your good freinds. we can take example of high schools and colleges where there are more than thousands of students in average; but there we do not talk with them and do not like to share our own information personally. I wonder why peopel agree to share their information with virtual people whom they have never meet in their lifetime. And I doubt they are going to meet them at all.


I think this is just the waste of time and money. People are spending their hard earn money for buying expensive cell phones and computer just to use facebook. They could have spend money on something else. Per hour in some corner of the world people are dying becasue of poverty ; why we do not think take a second to think about them. We stick hours and hours in facebook.


In one way facebook is separating many people from real world to virtual world. Nowdays they like talking to their virtual friends more than their family and real friends. Suppose we are in trouble, during that time I do not think that faccebook virtual friends are going to help; at that time we need our own family members and friends. I is good to spend sometime with friends and family but I can see lots of people sticking to it 24x7.


Other thing what I do not like about facebook is that we are being used. See how it works; when we like something for example, a fashion store or food store. Then it is recommeded to all our friends with our name. Facebook is using our name for advertisement. They cannot do like that! In one way facebook talks about privacy but in other way they want their user to be transparent wiht their infromation. If people started to use all their information in facebook then I am sure there will be more crimes than before. Facebook do not have right to use its user's name for advertisements.


It is a social media, inwhich people log in to get intouch with their friends but it is also one of the reason people are getting separate from their real world. Lets think about it. getting addicted to virtual world is just like getting addicted to drugs; both of them kills either physically or virtually!

What is Truth about Nepali music?

You get what you pay!

Android 4.0 Tablet PC Allwinner A10 1.2ghz, Multi-touch Screen

Well , this is my review on new Chinese Android Tablet PC which is also called epad. This tablet is nice and multi-purpose. User can mount USB flash drive in the tablet and review their documents. This tablet comes with Android 4.0 ice-cream sandwich. This tablet is quiet cheap as comparison to iPad and its not bad at all. it has got cool android applications (apps) and has multi-touch touch screen. But user needs to handle it very carefully. You might be bored reading the paragraphs so I have put wrote the features in list:

• Screen size- 7 inch
• Operating system- Android 4.0 ice-cream sandwich
• Internet connectivity- WI-Fi with 3G
• hardware connectivity - Android 4.0
• CPU - Boxchip A10, Cortex A8, 1.2GHz UPto1.5G
• Resolution- 800 * 480 pixels, 16:9
• RAM- DDR 512Mb
• WiFi- supports   WIFI 802.11 b / g / n
• size-  19.4cm × 12cm × 0.8cm/7.64 × 4.72 × 0.31inch(L × W × H)
• Video formats-  AVI, WMV, RM, 3GP, MKV, MP4, ASF, VOB, the MPG, the TS, TP,, DVIX, MOV, up to 720P high-definition
• Audio formats- MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, WAV, the ACC
• Picture formats-  JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG,
• office- Support TXT, e-book format, EPUB, RTF, PDF, FB2,
• Battery-  4000mAH lithium polymer battery
• sound- built in speaker
• Gravity sensor available
• price - about $99.00
• I/O Port- 

  high-speed USB OTG(mini USB 5pin),

  HDMI interface(mini HDMI), Recently I bought this tablet and its cool. I did not want to spend lots of  money for this Chinese tablet. Fortunately  I got it for very cheap and I bought it immediately.If you want to buy it then you can find it online.  It costs less than 99 bucks. I works like iPad. can play lots of games and use lots of application which  comes with the android market place. User need to open free google  account and can enjoy free apps. This tablet comes with latest operating  system made by Google. Touch is not bad but user need to use it properly. Sometimes touch  does not work because it needs some time for processing lots of tasks  but overall it is good tablet You get what you pay! If you like this product then go ahead...find it in the internet..but I am  sorry I do not sell this items. Thank you!

I like Greenery: Kolkattwa

Kolkattwa village: Sugarcane and rice field during the Summer 2011. Kolkattwa is one of the most beautiful village in Nepal. Located near Narayani river and surrouned by hills. This is the best place to live in Nepal.  

OSU Omulgee lake,

Pretty Water lake, Sapulpa, Oklahoma

Rice field in Kolkatwta village. People do produce lots of rice grain. One of the most important agricultural place of Nepal.

Red tailed flower clicked during the festival of Dashain and Tihar 2011.

Green and white plant, clicked during Dashain and Tihar festival.

pomgranate tree!

Lemons: which is one of the best and tasty fruit from Kolkattwa village.

Mango fruit and tree during summer 2012.

Banana plant during summer 2011.

yellow leafy flower  shot during Dashain festival.

Gautam attains Enlightenment

Of course, he had at last found the true path of greatness, the path of scarifies, the sure path that will not fail nor dishearten, the blessed path of virtue, the spotless path devoid of envy, passion and ignorance the path which leads to freedom and makes the power of evil to be as no power, the path which overlaps the regions of transmigration and reduces them to nought, the path outstrips Bishnu, Brahma and Maheshwar and the guardians of the world, the path which leads to the possession of universal knowledge the path of experience and knowledge, the path that softens old age and death, the calm serene path, exempt from all fear of evil, which leads to the city of "Nirvana".


       Having overcome and subjugated the demons, Gautam experience six spiritual powers during the course of that eventful night, such as he acquired power of the:
1. Supernatural Vision, that is he could see even far distant things, irrespective of the distance involved.
2. Knowledge of the realm of the spirits, by which he could travel instantly to any place.
3. Knowledge of knowing about the minds of other persons, by which he could read ideas were reverberating in a person's mind.
4. Knowledge to Know at will past abodes- which implies power to know the past lives.
5. Knowledge about (power of) stainless wisdom, by which he cold dispel and end all the defilement and outlets (leaks).
6. Knowledge about supernatural hearing, that is power to hear even distance voices. 


As he acquired the said knowledge about supernatural and spiritual powers, a celestial light emanated spontaneously from his mind and body which indicated that Gautam was now fully armed with the knowledge of six supernatural powers, which boosted his spirits further. Now Gautam assumed status of perfect Buddhahood and absolute wisdom, apart from the Three fold knowledge, so he exclaimed.
      "Yes, it is thus that I will put an end to the sorrows of mankind". Then he struck at the ground with his hand and added, " may this earth be my witness, it is the abode of all beings, it contains all that is movable and immovable, it is impartial, it will bear witness that I do not lie."

Swimming through Blue Screen of Death

What is Blue Screen of Death?

Blue screen of Death (BSOD) is an error in which computer freezes and turns the screen in to blue with the error message and the problem like “uncorrectable hardware error” and numbers like 0x00000124 (0x00000000, 0x8144E01C, 0xB2000000, 0x000300005). The blue screen itself tells what the problem with the computer is but we have to understand it before we do any trouble shooting. Blue screen of death occurs in the computer if the computer cannot handle any changes or error; it can be hardware problem or software. Software error is easy to figure out than the hardware error. BSOD mostly occurs in windows platform. There can be multiple reasons for the blue screen. Some of the reasons are as follows:
1.      Driver problem: Because of outdated drivers install in the computer. When we install any hardware in the computer then the computer installs the new driver but we have to make sure that we have drivers are updated. Due to mismatch in hardware and drivers, conflicts occurs between software and hardware then we get the dead screen of blue.
2.      Faulty Memory: Blue screen of Death can occur because of faulty memory like RAM or Hard drive.  It occurs when a computer is processing intensive operations. Sometimes when the memory components are over heated then it can cause to fail computer causing BSOD. If there is problem in memory then it can possibly because of RAM or Hard drive which can lead to BSOD.
3.      Corrupt Registry: The corrupt registry can cause the BSOD. The registry is a database that windows operating system uses to store configure information regarding hardware and software.  The registry gest corrupted when user installs and uninstalls programs or setting are saved in the registry; the entries are not removed automatically which results in an increase registry size.  The outdated eateries that are no longer valid result in a corrupt registry.
4.      Incompatible softwares: when the user installs the program which are not compatible to the operating system then it only installs the corrupt file which can later mess with other installed programs finally causing BSOD. So user needs to make sure that program installed in the computer is compactible to Windows.
5.      Hardware problem: BSOD can occur when user installs new hardware which can be incompatible to computer hardware and Operating system. When the operating system cannot recognize the important hardware like fan, RAM or processor then there can be critical problem. If there is problem in the hard drive then the computer will not boot but if its boot then it will get the BSOD error again. Hardware error can be figured out by doing hardware diagnostics.
6.      Virus and spyware: BSOB can occur because of virus. Sometimes viruses are installed in the computer by user unknowingly. The viruses tries to do whatever it is assigned to do in the computer and operating system identifies the critical moment and finally shuts down to prevent computer. Sometimes it can happen when somebody tries to gain access from the remote location through spyware.
7.      Windows update: sometimes Windows update can cause BSOD when it is installed improperly. So we should let all the recommended to be installed in the computer.
Solutions:For the normal user it is very difficult to troubleshoot but we have to understand it in detail. When the blue screen occurs, we have to read the message very carefully because most of the time message itself tells what the problem in the computer is. Before we take any critical step, we have to have good knowledge about computer and its components. For example the error can be like this;“The system encountered an uncorrectable hardware error:Technical information:*** STOP: 0x00000124 (0x00000000, 0x8144E01C, 0xB2000000, 0x00030005) This error occurs while playing any media files in the computer like watching movies using media player or while watching YouTube. Solution: update the new BIOS from the manufacturer’s website. When we install genuine operating system then Windows update automatically updates the BISO but we can install manually by going to manufacturer’s website and installing latest BIOS.User can check event viewer for the user log in and changes made in the computer. Users can also diagnosis the problem by going to Windows diagnostic tools.

To be continued……

Tharu and people

Tharu are the group of people who lives in the Southern part of Nepal. They have been living in that area since long time ago. According to the research done by some people, Lord Buddha was also from Tharu community. Tharu people are hard working and gentle. They are self-dependent and work very hard for their livelihood.

Terai is the habitat of Tharu people and official language is Tharu itself. Tharu community includes Chaudhary, Thanait, Mahato and others. They like to live together in big houses. They make their houses with woods and mud. They decorate their houses very beautifully.


Today, Tharu people are moving ahead in culture, tradition, education and economy. Tharu people are followers of many God and Goddess and celebrate all kind of festivals like Jitya, Aanat, Khicchadi, Phagwa, Dashain, So-harai, and others. Khicchadi, sometimes called as Maghi is New year for Tharu people. Maghi/ Khicchadi is considered one of the most important festival for Tharu people which falls on 14th of February. 


Tharu people believe in hard work and good luck. They enjoy their life with complete freedom. their culture and tradition are different from other cultural cast. There are different kind of Tharu ethnicity but all of them are same


Initially they were supressed by the Brahmin and Chhetri, But now they are more innovative and active and can defend any kinds of intolerable behavior of other community people.

Now, Tharu people are more educated and they know very well about their rights and duty. The villages are more educated and most of the people are getting good jobs.
But still in some places of Nepal, tharu people are still suppressed by Brahmin, Chhetri and Newar.

I hope one day, they will get their homeland again like the one it was before brahmin and Chhetri took off their home land and start to live in their old place, Tharu kingdom!