salimmiyafmvirginia, Salam walequm !! I am responding to you as one of the person involved with HeNN, since its inception in US.  I do respect your right to disagree with Rabindra Mishra's approach to Baburam Bhattarai or Maoist.  You did raise a lot of  valid issues, Nepal is facing, but you did not provide any solutions to any problems. I am willing to convey your message to HeNN if you provide plans and methods of alleviation of poverty, provide health care and education system in Nepal. I will PUSH to implement your ideas. If eating one less plate of Momo or drinking one can of beer can buy few bricks for a school in Nepal, I am for it. Khuda Hafis !!

shirish · Sep 20, 2012 5:45 PM

salimmiyafmvirginia, O- salam- Walequm  ! Building or repairing 40 schools, establishing 15 e-libraries, running a health post in remote district of Mugu, establishing a (small) hospital in siraha, (about to be completed) orphangae for 40 children in Dhulikhel, providing relief material to fire and landslide victims, distribution of clothes to people who suffered from "sit - lahar" in terai , Welfare for chepangs, or building toilets for girl students, are not a worthy cause for you.  Please provide feasible ways to do things within the limits and resources of HeNN. Khuda hafis !! 

shirish · Sep 20, 2012 6:09 PM

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Nevertheless, धेरैको समस्या: कम आहार सबैलाई चाहिने: पूर्ण आहार धेरै संग भएको (धेरै थोरै जति होस): उत्पादन गर्न सक्ने भुमि (resource/capital) धेरै संग भएको: उत्पादन गर्न सक्ने शिप र संस्कृति (skill/training/familiarity) (This is a general description. I wish there were data to make those statements palpable.) Let people have correct, learnable, effective information to realize they can mobilize their resources and skills to yield a higher food production and income. (Information dissemination yields results. Testimony: Dil Shobha Shrestha Fund. Media reported her devotion to the causes of the elders and orphans and introduced her saintly work to the world. Spreading good work makes sense. Is spreading CHASE a good work? I don’t know.) Information is education. Information motivates. Information dissemination is the genesis of education, motivation, movement. Information dissemination is very critical and is the backbone of this age market society. Question 1: Can agriculture attract people? Agriculture has basis to be attractive in today’s context. Agro-products are pricy today. (Growth in two neighbors, China and India, has heightened price of essential agro-products in the region. Growing rice and wheat in Jhapa today, for instance, generates more, proportionally, than what used to be the case during1990s and before. Importantly, those products that grow in mountains are rare and limited. Not necessary to mention, products that are rare, limited, and consumable are pricy. Example: Saffron, more than $10,000/kg, the most expensive edible. And, that can grow in Jumla and other locations of Nepal with similar geo and weather features.)   (Late Padam Bahadur Mahat had shared with Bijaya Kumar about saffron cultivation. But, follow-up on that didn’t take place. Media didn’t follow that important message and report comprehensive information on saffron cultivation to the public.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Question 2: why people aren’t much into agriculture? Sadly, only a few are aware. Those who are informed on value of agriculture of today are doing very well. Many aren’t aware of prospect of today’s agro. (Lack of information) 'Kheti' is shame for some. (Unaware ones are victims of misconception, misinformation, and stigmatism. Again, information has the role to play.)   Sadly, media, supposed to the fourth pillar of democracy, spends a large chunk of its space and time talking about Oli, Prachanda, Sujata, Ashok Ra, Baburam, Gupta, Madhab, Koiralas, Bijaya Gachedar, Ram Chandra. But, who are these people, in effect? By evidence, they represent government one way or the other. The question is what kind of government. Government is legitimate when it has mandate and moral and is fair and just. When a government lacks those attributes, that government is illegitimate. So, why do news agencies report on what those illegitimate, anti-people elements say? Media can and must reduce the coverage that it provides to those illegitimate elements. Instead, media can talk about noble, meaning works of Late Mahat, Kalu Hamal, Madan Rai, Dil Shobha Shreshta, Bhishma Subedi, Syham Badan Yadav, many more. (Media can spread those works; that are meaningful because that are good now and are sustainable. That is central. Spreading CHASE can’t be the fundamental.) Inform meaningful works. Give them primetime. Change the conversation and realize the course. (I have to be explicit that was the point of earlier two postings of mine). On a separate note, why did you use Asalammalequ and Khudahafij? Did you assume I use that? I respect those terms and those who use those expressions, but I didn’t say I greet people and say goodbye in that manner. I don’t think stereotyping is good thing to allow. SalimMFV is a alias. I’m disagreeing with you, respectfully, for one more reason. Personalities like late Ali Miyan, the Lokkavi from Miyanpatan, Pokhara, wrote songs and poems in jharro Nepali. How would he feel should someone treat them as somebody else whose language is Hindi/Urdu and dislikes Namaskar? Those who found Nepal after Angrej attacked Lucknow in 1800s found peace and safety in the newer territory, and they settled in the hills Argakhachi, Palpa, Kaski, Lamjung, Gorkha, etc, to my limited information, and amicably adopted local costume and dialects. The locals of those districts respected and valued the life of those who had to flee away from their homes and villages. That is the fabric of Nepal. That is the beauty of Nepal. Jaya Nepal सलिम मिया फ्रोम भर्जिनिया   Last edited: 27-Sep-12 04:13 PM

SalimMiyaFmVirginia · Sep 27, 2012 4:11 PM