On February 4th, 2019 we mobilized 40 young leaders to deliver The World’s Largest Lesson in 13 different schools all across Nepal. WLL was one of the remarkable events hosted by AIESEC in Nepal. The Volunteers were from 25 different Colleges from all over the country and they were trained to deliver the lessons in schools. The action impacted 800+ students in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kavre, and Lumbini.
The volunteers inculcated a sense of responsibility in the students through the course of the sessions and made them realize the importance of their contribution to making the world a better place to live in by 2030. The students walked out as conscientious citizens of the planet with a will to make a difference with their little efforts.
The initiative revolves around the question – If you had only 60 minutes to teach the students the lesson of their life, What would it be?
It is not only the responsibility of the government, companies, authorities to achieve these Global Goals, but also the young generation who are the future leaders of the nation. The school students were very excited to meet these young volunteers from other cities around Nepal, visit us from so far and come to this corner of the city to speak directly, personally, about The Sustainable Development Goals. We hope that with this experience we can include the SDGs in our government perspectives.
The sessions in World’s Largest Lesson are conducted in a manner such that every student personally connects to the lessons. The sessions are personalized so as to call to the emotions of the students and to lighten their will to contribute towards the society and hence the planet. The delivery of the workshops is well-planned and structured so as to give the students a deeper insight of the Global Goals and the urgent need of their contribution towards it.
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By- Chiranjivi Neupane
Nepal, the second richest country in water resources is full of nook and crannies with small to big springs, from little ponds, lakes to massive rivers. Though, because of the structural mapping and situation of Nepal, being a landlocked country and one of the 25 poorest countries in the world- it is still dependent on India for electricity supply.
Time and again news and articles have reported that more than half of the electricity in Nepal is brought from India. I believe that anything is running in a circle like a world is a circle and is interconnected from every point; similarly, if Nepal government’s approach is of cyclic approach and coordination and partnership based, then, Nepal would be exporting electricity than importing.
Despite knowing that various political and social factors play role in letting Nepal walk towards a prosperous economy- also because of cross border politics and safety surrounded around and in Nepal. Though having said that, a strategist working on development should develop any and all sort of strategies to boost up loan and grants for these sort of projects.
Intercountry partnership for rural electricity planning and utilizing youth force in its development is of utmost importance- because although there’s a supply of electricity from India, yet only 65% of people are only getting the benefit of electricity.
There are lots of countries in the world, those that are getting light through an innovative medium not utilizing hydropower.
Green power technology, organic electricity generation, organic mega flow batteries, energy from agricultural organic waste, generation from landfill gas, energy harvesting through phosphorescence, Bioluminescence might be another option. These sorts of options should be listed down by research and development. Developing university totally focusing on energy development or courses on energy development for every school should be taught.
Since the change in era, change in thought process should also happen, from education to exposure, to research to development, all of it should focus on upgrading the constant and utilizing the already existing organics.
The land and people of the nation is always there. Though we borrow every other stuff in our country; we always have to rethink and keep on analyzing what we already have.
Utilizing the resource pool of scientists that are in Nepal- from veterans to upcoming, we can analyze the thermoelectric effect in an organic molecule. Various ingenious ways to generate electricity should take place. From wind and solar power to peak oils, various different ways of generating energy and electric power should be developed in house experts can be hired as freelancers utilizing the online medium or any other in a governmental transaction if our very own resource isn’t necessary.
I have had heard bike powered energy generation when a cycle while cycling by a professional cyclist can generate various watts of electricity. So turning even your crank into something that can generate power can be talked upon with experts.
Basically, the idea is keep moving and finding out the alternatives yet being rooted with the mother earth for getting the basic necessities for human beings and us Nepalese in particular.
Well! I am clearly not stating that hydropower shouldn’t be considered, but what I am actually trying to say is analyse various options of electricity generation too.
Like it is said “Let there be light shared amongst us”
Note: The article doesn’t claim any facts- the words mentioned here are based and the research conducted in the internet.
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By: Chiranjivi Neupane
Fair and just relation is a requirement of a socially driven world that we live in. Cooperative society development for fairness and fair prosperous balanced and driven society with individualized yet cordial societal roles performed by the individuals be it in a team or separately is what creates the foundation of social justice.
Social justice is basically a well dreamt equitable society free of prejudice and with a government that is well accountable and judicial system spreading proper governance, protecting the vulnerable and the marginalized and not letting conflict appear or resolving the conflict within the boundary of law and just societal and international norms is a requirement/necessity.
In a country with more youth and also a country(Nepal) being a developing country, inspiring change and vocally or through any medium expressing the need to gain and get justice creates its importance even more.
With International labor organization attaining 100 years of working for social justice; Nepal as a country has to agree on ILO’s statement that “ Universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice.”
I believe that social justice for the people and by the people should be the motto of every individual and then only a country can be systematized and a country can move forward towards fair wage, free of child, forced and bonded labor conditions, be it mentally or physically, get all the access to occupational health and safety, Trade unions fair demand is treated and is addressed fairly with social security for the public.
From the indigenous group, vulnerable groups, to any people/human within the boundary of human rights should enjoy social justice. No patriarchy based discrimination, no women based discrimination, no caste -no race-based discrimination should prevail and only after which we can say that social justice is moving forward.
I believe that social justice is beyond psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, social policy research, and others; having said that it is very much part of it. It is well rooted and is the proper distribution of fundamental rights.
Social justice and reminiscing social justice reminds me of the statement, I had read somewhere; “What a beautiful site it would be if everybody was treated right”
If every individual becomes accountable for their action, then social justice would not be a fighting word for human civilization at all. In a country like Nepal with 753 municipal level governments with 35,041 of elected representatives and of the women making up 14,339, of which Dalit women are 6,793, and Dalit men comprise 994, we have to make social justice a priority and take this movement forward as a nationwide campaign of desire. Social justice should be for and by the people.
By: Chiranjivi Neupane
In my perspective, youth empowerment program targeting the Tourism year 2020 is very essential for tourism branding and economic development of our country Nepal. As the government has planned to meet its goal of 2 million tourists by 2020 and in the limelight of giving extra attention to social justice and security, which I think are integral parts of labor spirit motivation instigation; Utilizing youth in the fostering and advocating about tourism through different means and the medium is of utmost importance.
Architecture and infrastructure development to unique entrepreneurship based empowerment through word of mouth should be done. Rural Tourism, Yogic and Sattvic Tourism, Agricultural Tourism, Labor centric tourism, Tourism- exchange program, natural-nature based tourism to technology-based tourism-should be uniquely identified with innovative entrepreneurs making them coordinated bodies with regular discussions and written agenda and events need to be done on time and again basis. Having said this, all other lists of options should be known too.
To imagine a country of prosperity, it is of utmost importance to boost tourism knowledge and tourism understanding, even more in the present context. For sustainable tourism development and highly attractive tourism industry development – Tourism industry needs to be catered as highly glamourous as essence/spirit but as grounded and raw as it can get by connecting the dots of tourism driving force. Being a research-oriented and data-oriented person myself; I believe that research can touch upon any sector widely and Research evangelists can do the same for tourism sector development and continuous sustainable tourism development too.
Destination enrichment which can include- immigration, governance, culture, and heritage should all come together to create a brand of its own. Unleashed of even the smallest nook and corner of a place should be done to understand the building blocks of what history it possess and what potential it has. Youth-driven internal tourism can definitely play a role here if combined with course research.
Perceptual understanding of certain area to create flocking touristy should be made understood to the local mongers seeking to develop the area for their benefit in a developing country like Nepal. Well! I am talking about happenings as seen and felt being an internal regular tourist myself.
Value addition and profit generation directly proportional to economic benefit should be well categorized by stakeholders by understanding the importance of travel and tourism business. Shared benefit and participatory brand value generation can play a vital role in tourism increment too.
Tourism is also a key to foster trade for a developing nation like Nepal. While talking about a perceptual change in the tourism developer side, we shouldn’t forget the behavior of tourism consumer- who actually sees tourism as- gaining relaxation, peace, quality time, a holiday well spent. These should be the demand generation factors- luxurious essence as raw as it can get which I have talked about earlier.
An enhanced integrated framework by true tourism lover-those understanding the value of youth engagement- seeing and overseeing the value of it in the real case should be well-formed aligning with the goals of Tourism Development for Nepal; after which I believe the achievement of 2 million tourists by 2020 can be well received in addition with profit on the economic side.
I have revisited the places I had been to
I have reached out to the persons who had sworn to love me
I have asked with the breaths I had exhaled
I have retraced the footprints that had trailed behind me once
I have unlatched the thoughts that had flooded me before
I have, for too long, looked into the mirrors and glasses on the way
But, none of them, could pour even a fleck of me into the empty vessels of my bereaved self.
I don’t know where have I drowned myself
Or have spilled on my own
When I close my eyes in retrospection for re-discovering the lost-one
I can only see a devouring dark space ready to engulf what is left of me
And, as my eyes spring open in fright,
the light buries a speck of me everytime
As I am seeking life to fill into the vacant and unspirited voids inside me
The world is mercilessly sacking the crust that I carry
The only element upon which weighs my identity
Just like a white lily withers and decays
Into the mud to blossom again
Forming petals as bright as a polished silver covering
I hope the nature is redeeming my soul and body
Into a much more composed being
For a desolate body bereft of soul
Soon finds a grave to lay his carcass upon
They say we take nothing with us when we die
I guess that nothing contains the memories we etch
Into the fragments that lie within us
Yet all that was me has diffused and scattered around
So just like a fly follows a dead meat
I wander about to seize that evaded self
For I don’t want to die without abducting myself along
Even before rejoicing the pleasures of being alive
So, I shall continue on this voyage of life
Until I become complete again.
And the day when I shall reunite with myself
I would be filled with so much zest
That nothing but death can render me waste.
And then just like the words surrender to the will of the writer
I too shall gladly come to an end.
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Jon Jones has recently talked about his wish to see Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov fight each other in a rematch and hopes the UFC president Dana White will soon make it happen.
In an interview with TMZ Sports after the UFC 232 press conference, the former light heavyweight champion admired the first bout between the two lightweights and said:
“I would love to see that again. That was a great fight.”
Bones has always been in support of the Notorious as he still believes the Irishman can make a great comeback in the second bout.
“Wins and losses happen when you’re fighting at the level that guys like Conor and I are fighting at … it happens and it’s a big part of the game but it’s not a race. As a martial artist, one fight never defines an athlete. It’s a journey. It’s about how you finish the race.”
Jones still believes, Conor has skills and has the confidence to compete against anyone, he is matched up. However, he should fight the one in the line first, before rushing to Khabib.
Jon Jones is scheduled to fight Alexander Gustafsson in the main event of the UFC 232 on December 30, 2018. The fight was destined to take place in Las Vegas, however, was later shifted to California after the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) refused to sanction a fight for ‘Bones’ without a hearing taking place.
It seems Oscar-nominated director of Little Terrorist, Ashwin Kumar, has been facing a hard time to get his film No Fathers in Kashmir certified from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
“After an inordinate delay of nearly 90 days and no clarity on what the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) was finding objectionable or why it took them so long to watch the film in the first place, finally, when CBFC came up with a list of cuts, we objected as the cuts proposed were based neither on reality nor on law,” Kumar said in a statement.
“The A certificate violates the fundamental rights of our core audience of youth, denying them a chance to know what is happening in their country, in their own name. It denies the possibility of dialogue between the youth of Kashmir and that of the rest of India. It is only through dialogue that any peaceful solution can be found. And it is only through telling the truth that a dialogue is possible in the first place, he said.
“Our film has no sex, no violence, no nudity, no vulgarity, no drugs,” he added.
“We went to FCAT (Film Certification Appellate Tribunal) for relief. They returned it to the CBFC as the latter did not give us a legally-mandated hearing. This is indicative of the CBFC’s poor grasp of its mandate and legalities. It does not take so long to give a censor certificate and we still have no idea when we will get it,” said the director.
“We have gone from two hearings in Mumbai to one in Delhi and now back to Mumbai and again back to Delhi, he added. Ashvin asserted that the film tries to show Kashmir with empathy and compassion.
The film stars two young actors in lead, Zara Webb and Shivam Rana, in addition to an impressive cast of Kulbulshan Kharbanda, Soni Razdan and Anshuman Jha. Ashwin has directed two short films earlier, Inshallah Football and Inshallah Kashmir, both of which were first banned by the film certification board and later went on to win one National Award each.
“No Fathers in Kashmir” is a love story between two 16-year-olds whose fathers have disappeared in Kashmir with no certainty of their return.
Veteran actor Kader Khan has been keeping unwell since past couple of years. The actor who is now overseas is reportedly critical and has been put on a BiPAP ventilator.
As per a report in SpotboyE, the condition is so severe that the doctors had to put him in a BiPAP ventilator. It seems he is suffering from pneumonia and is not conversing with anyone. He already suffers from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, which is apparently responsible for his state. Despite extreme diligence from a team of doctors, he is quite critical. He had told the same portal, “The surgery did not go wrong. It was just that my father refused to get up after the surgery. We were told that he has to make an effort and try to start walking from the next day. He just didn’t do that and…”
Kader Khan has been loved in every role whether it is a comic or villainous one. He is now 81. Kader was born in Afghanistan and worked as a professor in an engineering college before he entered the world of films. He has acted in 300 films so far and written dialogues for 250 films. We pray for his quick recovery.
Sedition heralds more havoc than earthquake for the nation and it has started taking shape which is not startling, relating to relatively longer travel time between Kathmandu and Janakpur as compared to Janakpur and Patna.
As Huttington puts it in his widely read work “The clash of civilizations and the Remaking of World order”, the world is neither one, two or equal to the number of states but an infinite set of tribes, ethnic groups and nationalities. He stresses that states are going to remain the primary actors in world politics but their interests and alliances are going to be shaped by civilizational/ cultural backgrounds. He elucidates this with an example of Russia and Ukraine on the basis of statist and civilizational approach. The statist theory envisaged a war between Russia and Ukraine which shared open border while the civilizational theory expected the splitting up of Ukraine on the grounds of cultural fault lines, precisely, Orthodox western Ukraine and Uniate eastern Ukraine. The civilizational theory thus suggests the economic connectivity between eastern and western Ukraine rather than Ukraine developing anti-Russia sentiments. The statist theory does exist but an armed confrontation between nations with massively varying populations is quite unlikely and thus, what should concern our political leadership more is the other aforementioned dimension.
The civilizational theory should urge the policy makers to address the cultural fault lines and it is necessary to realize that transfer of political power which is mostly emphasized in Nepal is not necessarily the only way to respond. The approach should have been to assist the assimilation of cultures and the eradication of abject poverty people are in. Transfer of political power between communities does not necessarily assure this, but a robust transportation network does. In fact this background justifies as to why investment in transportation sector should be viewed as an opportunity and why every sector of the nation should feel excited to participate in. Thus, the relevant question is not about whether investments are necessary for a robust transportation network but rather the kind of transportation system entailed, because the technicalities involved within any type of network would be trivial compared to the political background presented.
It is a textbook knowledge that an undergraduate student of transportation musters that the market and transportation network of the neighboring countries be taken into account while taking the entire nation as the study area. Thus, with the Chinese railway approaching close to our borders and the strong support currently exhibited by the Indian counterparts, in assisting the construction of Kathmandu-Raxaul railway, it’s time we capitalize this opportunity for Nepal. A robust railway network to be powered by electricity would provide ample grounds for us to enter into a virtuous circle wherein transport and the energy sector which have always been prioritized in the National Plans would go together sufficing each other. Being a means of public transport, the assimilation it would assist between different cultural backgrounds in addition to economic connectivity do not seem to be quantifiable when the cultural faults are showing up progressively and when the fault lines are openly exposed to the “Breaking Nepal” forces. The government has realized this but has not been able to capitalize the urgency of this compared to our neighboring nations. For instance, there are basically two types of gauges used in Railway, particularly, Broad gauge mostly used in India and the Standard Gauge used in China and other countries around the world, and it is up to the Government of Nepal to decide the type of gauge they want to have for the nation. Without adequate consideration into this aspect, the construction of East-West railway has already started which seems quite an imprudent decision. On the grounds of “Western one Vs. Non-western many” , it is no longer uncomfortable to assert that Nepal has been used for the “neighbor containment policy”, provided that there are books being written about it and are being openly discussed in forums. The people of Nepal will have to be aware of and united against this ideology which we are being used for and it demands a strong transportation network to keep ourselves united and directed towards prosperity.
Many experts are skeptic about the economic outputs of Kathmandu Keirung Railway, possibly on the grounds of “economic location theory” which considers distance to be the crucial factor for the determination of market area for the sales of any production or the selection of a particular mode for transport. This logic is true in the sense that the port of Guangzhou is more than 5000kms away. However, time of travel in days is less than even 3 days once the Keirung Kathmandu railway is connected to the Chinese railway network. Direct trade with eastern countries like Japan, Philippines and Korea would be much easier pertaining to the overall distance that the railway and the ships need to travel. This way the Guangzhou port would prove to be more efficient than the port that is currently in use. This rail line should also involve Nepalese technical skill so that the transfer of technical knowledge pertaining to railway will assist us strategically in the future while constructing other railway lines. A pertinent exemplification for technology transfer is Mr. Ng Hau Wei who is a Malaysian engineer that headed the MRT- tunnel construction project in Kualalampur. He applied the experience he gained in the smart tunnel construction project whereby he worked under his mentor Gusztav Klados. Klados is a Hungarian tunneling expert having tunneling experiences of the already built Channel Tunnel that links the UK and France.
Nevertheless, talks on railway do not imply complete abrogation of road networks. Railway is a mode with limited facility of door to door service and is quite inflexible as compared to roads, thus they need to be integrated effectively with the road networks. However, the capacity of railway both in terms of passengers and freight outweighs that of roads. The matter being discussed here is that of intercity travel, which would be curtailed to minutes, following the introduction of even medium speed trains. The travel time would not only be able to beat the travel time by road but would also compete that of air travel which is gaining popularity in Nepal for long distance or intercity travel, particularly for medium and high income classes.
On the cultural part, Nepal and Tibet share a long history of togetherness and there are many aspects of cultural interchange which are to be brought out through connectedness and research. It is needless to point out the cultural and religious ties Nepal and India have had for centuries but it seems to have been forgotten that the historical ties between Nepal and Tibet were stronger than relations between any surrounding nations, particularly during the Lichhavi reign and these projects have the strength to rejuvenate those days which is also the subconscious policy of the entire subcontinent. Nepal thus has an opportunity to not only bestow the two neighboring giants, an easy route for a share on each other’s market but movement of people in the form of tourists and people to people contact would also help substantialize the “Look East” policy of the present Indian Government. Nepal should be able to capitalize this opportunity to ameliorate its strategic and geopolitical strength for which internal political stability will have to yield considerable results on the aspect of connectivity and social cohesiveness.