Posted by: KaLaNkIsThAn February 2, 2006
National Geographic: Why are love letters the rage in Nepal?
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I was just going through the latest "The National Geographic" magazine and somewhere near the end of the magazine, at the bottom of the left page, the word "Nepal" caught my eye. Even more interesting was the word "Love-Letter", together with "Nepal" in a same line. Curiously, the line was "Why are love letters the rage in Nepal?". eh!!! And there was this link for further reading "love" story.ngm.com/0602 which didn't seem to work. Somehow!!!. Such a huge website with the link, which was clearly indicated on the magazine, didn't even exist. I tried all the possible combination to search for the article, of course desperately :D and found a small article at - http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0602/feature2/learn.html#know Not quite interesting right? so I further tried the link of Dr. Ahearn's homepage, scrolled down a page, and there were few links under the topics Articles Posting a link which OPENS to a PDF FILE. So if any of you guys are interested, here they are :P - http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/ahearnliteracy.pdf for Literacy, Power, and Agency: Love Letters and Development in Nepal (Don't have Adobe Reader? go to - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html and download 20MB reader. :P Make sure you unchecked the "YAHOO TOOLBAR" and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter edition. :D UNLESS YOU WANT THEM. eh... interesting read. :P
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