Photos of Manpakadi and surroundings

Way to Main village, Manpakadi













Gopal Prasad Poudel residence
















Manpakadi High School Manpakadi
















New Shiva temple Manpakadi


















Old Shiva temple: Manpakadi

Crazy Elephant

A crazy elephant makes some crazy jobs and kills people. You can watch it if you can.

Use of plastic bag

The use of a plastic bag is not only limited to carrying things and goods from market. It can be used in more versatile way. I really appreciated the guys idea of using the plastic bag as a swimming custom!



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New Turn in the world

The recent victory of Barack Obama is not just a simple thing that happened recently in US election. There are lots of issues behind it, and it can be analysed globally.

I would like to point this change as a global change. A black person became the USA's president for the first time in the history of USA. It is good thing that the majority gradually started to respect and value minority group. It can be linked with a famous English saying 'every dog has a day'.

This is completely a new turn in the politics of the world. The minority groups are gradually becoming more aware towards their language, culture, status and so on. In the same way, the majority group or the so-called high level people began to realize something...for the minority groups.
For such changes, Nepal is one step a head than USA. It can observed in the election of Nepal. The participation of minority groups is really appreciative. A completely normal citizen of Nepal, who comes from a rural life and an ethnic background, become the president of Nepal.

Such changes is happening everywhere in the world politics. The is really a new turn in the world. The time has been changed.

How to Unleash Your Inner Genius

Have you ever wondered what it is that makes a genius unique?

What makes him or her stand out from the crowd? Is it the size of his/her brain, the way he or she was brought up, or is intelligence simply passed down from one generation to the next?

Before we take a look at exactly what genius is, let's clear the air once and for all and find out some of the things genius definitely is NOT.

Forget I.Q. tests, levels of education, how big your forehead is: genius has very little to do with any of these things.

You can't inherit your intelligence from parents or grandparents, nor can you become intelligent simply by passing an exam or two. And even if your brain is the largest in the world, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll use it in a more intelligent way.

If you're a well read person you might have a lot of knowledge on a variety of topics. You may even have a degree or diploma in your favorite subject. Each of these is a positive sign of the potential for intelligent thinking, showing that you have drive, determination, and the ability to reach certain goals.

... But it doesn't make you a genius.

The One Specific Key to Genius

All the research points to one specific trait that geniuses have in common: the ability to be creative. It's not so much that they think more often then we do, it's the WAY they think that makes them unusual.

So naturally if you could learn to think like a genius, you should be able to gain access to your own creative powers just as easily.

That's exactly what The Cheat's Guide to Instant Genius will help you do. To get you started thinking like a genius, here are four simple techniques you can use to unleash your creativity right away!

4 Simple Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

No. 1 - The Daydreamer

Daydreaming happens regularly in the course of every day. That's because most of us can only concentrate for a certain amount of time, and then our minds tend to drift off. This is when your conscious brain takes a little break, allowing your subconscious to sneak through and make its unique contributions. Since your subconscious houses your creativity and imagination, this presents you with a number of opportunities throughout every single day to get in touch with your creative side. All you need to do is simply notice those times when your mind wanders, relax and let it happen.

No. 2 - The Overnighter

Another great way to encourage your creative juices is to take a problem to bed with you. In other words, sleep on it! This is a well-known technique for learning new information: simply glance at the information immediately before going to sleep at night. While you sleep, your brain will take the information and reorganize it, ready for you the next time you want to call on it.

No. 3 - The Movers and Shakers

Physical exercise has been shown to increase brain power by as much as 30%. That means taking a walk, weeding the garden or painting the side of your house can actually make you more intelligent! These activities increase the flow of blood to the brain and feed it with much needed oxygen. Any form of repetitive physical activity causes you to relax and forget about everyday worries, allowing other thoughts to come to the surface. And that's when inspiration can strike.

No. 4 - The Dealers

Sometimes it's the things we haven't done that prevent us from being more creative. You know what it's like; a job you've left unfinished, a chore you haven't got round to doing. They eat away at you, sitting there in the back of your mind, nagging you to hurry up and get them done. And that makes it so much harder to concentrate and focus on the task at hand. So whatever it is, either do it and have done with it or put it on your list of things to do. Once you've dealt with it, your mind will be fre'e to give its full attention to your present task.

As we stated above, you don't have to be a genius in order to think like one.

With a few tips and techniques you can begin to harness the power of your mind to its full potential, discovering new depths of creativity and awareness.

To start thinking like a genius immediately, try these suggestions...

• Consider a problem from as many different points of view as possible.
• Try to see the problem as an image with its own color, shape and dimensions.
• Keep yourself busy. You never know when a great idea will come along.
• Think outside the box, exploring unusual combinations just for the fun of it.
• When considering a problem, look for opposites to fire up a new way of thinking about it.
• Make comparisons between completely different things to see if one can be used to improve the other.
• Remember that lots of discoveries happened by mistake! Failure in one direction could be a major step forward in another.

Of course, these are all quite basic points... The full version of the course includes all of the best information about unveiling your inner genius, in addition to the awesome "brain hacks"!

The 10 Most Fascinating Savants in the World

Living Google: Kim Peek

Sometimes the most amazing abilities of the human brain are revealed exactly when things go wrong with it. Take, for example, savants - people who have mental abilities that could only be characterized as superhuman (like having photographic memory, playing music perfectly after hearing it just once, or doing complex mathematical calculations in one's head) but otherwise severely disabled in every day cognitive functions and social interaction.

Does the human brain have latent savant-like abilities? Does our higher cognitive functions somehow block these abilities, and why? And can we have savant-like abilities without the accompanying autism and/or developmental disabilities?

One intriguing study by Dr. Allan Snyder of the Centre for the Mind suggested that temporarily impairing the left fronto-temporal lobe in healthy subjects by low-frequency magnetic pulses could result in savant-like mental abilities. (see, for example: article in New York Times "Savant for a Day")

Most savants are born with their abilities (and unfortunately, their developmental disorders), but not all: severe brain injuries can, in very rare instances, cause savant-like abilities to surface (see, for example: The Case of the "Sudden" Savant). One noted savant (Daniel Tammet, see below) is a highly functioning autistic savant who can perform amazing mental feats but does not have significant developmental disabilities.

There are a few savants in the world (called "prodigious savants") whose abilities are so exceptional that they would've been classified as phenomenal with or without cognitive disabilities. Let's take a look at 10 savants with superhuman mental skills:

1. Kim Peek, the Real Rain Man

Even though you've never heard of Kim Peek, chances are you've heard the movie Rain Man. Kim was the inspiration for the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie.

Kim Peek was born with severe brain damage. His childhood doctor told Kim's father to put him in an institution and forget about the boy. Kim's severe developmental disabilities, according to the doctor, would not let him walk let alone learn. Kim's father disregarded the doctor's advice.

Till this day, Kim struggles with ordinary motor skills and has difficulty walking. He is severely disabled, cannot button his shirt and tests well below average on a general IQ test.

But what Kim can do is astounding: he has read some 12,000 books and remembers everything about them. "Kimputer," as he is lovingly known to many, reads two pages at once - his left eye reads the left page, and his right eye reads the right page. It takes him about 3 seconds to read through two pages - and he remember everything on them. Kim can recall facts and trivia from 15 subject areas from history to geography to sports. Tell him a date, and Kim can tell you what day of the week it is. He also remembers every music he has ever heard.

Since the movie Rain Man came out, Kim and his father have been traveling across the country for appearances. The interaction turns out to be beneficial for him, as he becomes less shy and more confident.

2. Leslie Lemke

Leslie Lemke didn't have a great start in life. He was born with severe birth defects that required doctors to remove his eyes. His own mother gave him up for adoption, and a nurse named May Lemke (who at the time was 52 and was raising 5 children of her own) adopted him when he was six months old.

As a young child, Leslie had to be force-fed to teach him how to swallow. He could not stand until he was 12. At 15, Leslie finally learned how to walk (May had to strap his fragile body to hers to teach him, step by step, how to walk).

At 16 years of age, Leslie Lemke bloomed. In the middle of one night, May woke up to find Leslie playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Leslie, who has no classical music training, was playing the piece flawlessly after hearing it just once earlier on the television.

From then on, Leslie began playing all styles of music from ragtime to classical. Like the Tchaikovsky piece, he only has to hear the music once in order to play it again perfectly. He became famous after being portrayed in national television shows. Before his health started to deteriorate, Leslie gave many concerts around the world.

3. Alonzo Clemons

As a toddler, Alonzo suffered a head injury in an accident that changed his life. He can't feed himself or tie his shoelaces, but he can sculpt.

And boy, can he sculpt: after seeing only a fleeting image of an animal on a TV screen, Alonzo could sculpt a perfect 3D figure of it, correct in each and every detail right down to the muscle fibers.

4. Gottfried Mind: Cat's Raphael

Gottfried Mind was one of the earliest savants in history. In 1776, the eight-year-old Gottfried was placed in an art academy, where his teachers noted that he was "very weak, incapable of hard work, full of talent for drawing, a strange creature, full of artist-caprices, along with a certain roguishness."

One day, Gottfried's mentor, a painter named Sigmund Hendenberger, was drawing a cat when Gottfried exclaimed "That is no cat!" The teacher asked whether he could do better and sent the child to a corner to draw. The cat that Gottfried drew was so lifelike that since then he became known as the Cat's Raphael:

In the course of his narrow, indoors life, he had worked himself into an almost paternal relation with domestic animals, especially with cats. While he sat painting, a cat might generally be seen sitting on his back or on his shoulder; many times he kept, for hours, the most awkward postures, that he might not disturb it.

Frequently there was a second cat sitting by him on the table, watching how the work went on; sometimes a kitten or two lay in his lap under the table. Frogs (in bottle) floated beside his easel; and with all these creatures he kept up a most playful, loving style of conversation; though, often enough, any human beings about him, or such even as came to see him, were growled or grunted at in no social fashion.

5. Gilles Tréhin

Gilles Tréhin lives part-time in the city of Urville, in an island off the Côte d'Azur, between Cannes and St. Tropez. Never heard of it? That's because Urville exists only in his mind.

Since he was 5, Gilles taught himself to draw three dimensional objects. By 12, he started building a city he called "Urville" (after Dumont d'Urville, a French scientific base in the Antarctic). At first he used LEGO, but shortly thereafter, he realized that he could expand his imaginary city much easier with drawings.

Urville isn't just an idle idea - Gilles has 250 detailed drawings, complete "history" of the founding the the city, and has even published a book detailing it.

6. Jedediah Buxton

Jedediah Buxton, born in Derbyshire, England, in 1707, couldn't write. By all accounts, he has no knowledge of science or history or anything else for that matter except for numbers. Jedediah, as it turned out, was one of the world's earliest mental calculators and savants.

Everything was numbers to Jedediah - in fact, he associated everything he saw or experienced with numbers. He measured the area of the village he was born in simply by walking around it. When he saw a dance, his whole attention was to count the number of steps of the dancers. At a play, Jedediah was consumed with counting the number of words uttered by the actors.

The mental feat of Jedediah Buxton was tested by the Royal Society in 1754 - his mathematical brain was able to calculate numbers up to 39 figures.

7. Orlando Serrell

Orlando Serrell wasn't born autistic - indeed, his savant skills only came about after a brain injury. In 1979, then ten-year-old Orlando was playing baseball when the ball struck him hard on the left side of his head. He fell to the ground but eventually got up to continue playing.

For a while, Orlando had headaches. When they went away, he realized he had new abilities: he could perform complex calendar calculations and remember the weather every day from the day of the accident.

From Orlando's official website:

What makes Orlando Serrell so unique is that he may indeed hold the key that unlocks the genius in us all. Orlando Serrell did not possess any special skills until he was struck in the head by a baseball when he was 10. And his extraordinary gifts seem to be his only side effect. Could this mean once a key hemisphere in the brain is stimulated, we can all attain the level of genius Orlando posses and beyond? Only time and research will tell. Until then we will do well to keep our eyes on Orlando and learn what we can from his experience.

8. Stephen Wiltshire, the Human Camera

As a young child, Stephen Wiltshire was a mute - he was diagnosed as autistic and was sent to a school for special needs children. There, he discovered a passion for drawing - first of animals, then London buses, then buildings and the city's landmarks. Throughout his childhood, Stephen communicated through his drawings. Slowly, aided by his teachers, he learned to speak by the age of nine (his first word was "paper.")

Stephen has a particularly striking talent: he can draw an accurate and detailed landscape of a city after seeing it just once! He drew a 10 meter (~33 ft) long panorama of Tokyo following a short helicopter ride.

9. Ellen Boudreaux

Like Leslie Lemke, Ellen Boudreaux is a blind autistic savant with exceptional musical abilities. She can play music perfectly after hearing it just once, and has a such a huge repertoire of songs in her head that a newspaper reporter once tried to "stump Ellen" by requesting that she played some obscure songs - and failed. Ellen knew them all.

Ellen has two other savant skills that are unusual. First, despite her blindness, she is able to walk around without ever running into things. As she walks, Ellen makes little chirping sounds that seems to act like a human sonar.

Second, Ellen has an extremely precise digital clock ticking in her mind. To help overcome her fear of the telephone, Ellen's mom coaxed her to listen to the automatic time recording (the "time lady") when she was 8. From then on, Ellen knows the exact hour and minute, any time of the day without ever having seen a clock nor have the concept of the passing of time explained to her.

10. Daniel Tammet: Brainman

At first glance, you won't be able to tell that Daniel Tammet is anything but normal. Daniel, 29, is a highly functioning autistic savant with exceptional mathematical and language abilities.

Daniel first became famous when he recited from memory Pi to 22,514 decimal places (on 3/14, the International Pi Day, of course) to raise funds for the National Society for Epilepsy.

Numbers, according to Daniel, are special to him. He has a rare form of synesthesia and sees each integers up to 10,000 as having their own unique shapes, color, texture and feel. He can "see" the result of a math calculation, and he can "sense" whether a number is prime. Daniel has since drawn what pi looks like: a rolling landscape full of different shapes and colors.

Daniel speaks 11 languages, one of which is Icelandic. In 2007, Channel Five documentary challenged him to learn the language in a week. Seven days later, Daniel was successfully interviewed on Icelandic television (in Icelandic, of course!).

When he was four years old, Daniel had bouts of epilepsy that, along with his autism, seemed to have brought about his savant abilities. Though he appears normal, Daniel contends that he actually had to will himself to learn how to talk to and behave around people:

As he describes in his newly published memoir, “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant” (Free Press), he has willed himself to learn what to do. Offer a visitor a drink; look her in the eye; don’t stand in someone else’s space. These are all conscious decisions.

Recently, some friends warned him that in his eagerness to make eye contact, he tended to stare too intently. “It’s like being on a tightrope,” he said. “If you try too hard, you’ll come off. But you have to try.”

There is a big difference between Daniel Tammet and all the other prodigious savants in the world: Daniel can tell you how he does it and that makes him invaluable to scientists trying to understand the savant syndrome:

Professor Allan Snyder, from the Centre for the Mind at the Australian National University in Canberra, explains why Tammet is of particular, and international, scientific interest. "Savants can't usually tell us how they do what they do," says Snyder. "It just comes to them. Daniel can. He describes what he sees in his head. That's why he's exciting. He could be the Rosetta Stone."

Butterfly

This is an endangered Butterfly which I captured in Dhankuta, 2006

रामदेव, वामदेव, दामदेव र अग्निपरीक्षा !

अचेल रामदेवको अनुलोम-विलोम, कपालभाती र भस्त्रिका रोगी शरीरदेखि सौखिन सुन्दरीबीच फेसन भएको छ । बोसोले भरिएको पेट, अल्छीलाग्दो मानसिकता र अझ नैराश्य दैनिकीबीच रामदेवलाई पछ्याउनेहरूमा कर्मचारीतन्त्रको ठूलो भीड नै देखिन्छ तर गृहप्रशासनमा उपप्रधानमन्त्री वामदेव गौतमको उपस्थिति भएपछि प्रशासनको सुस्तता तङ्गि्रनुसागै प्रहरी परिचालनमा जमेको बोसो चलायमान भएको चर्चा सुरु भएको छ । यतिखेर सर्वसाधारणले अनुभूत हुनेगरी 'प्रहरी-रमण' सुरु भएको छ । गल्ली र चोकका रेष्टुरेण्टहरूबाट दश नबज्दै भद्दा सङ्गीत र कोकोहोलोले मुक्ति पाएको छ । आमनेपालीबीच नवधनाढ्य संस्कृतिमा हुर्कदो 'रूलेट र व्याक्रा' को क्यासिनो-टुर रोकिएको सुनिन्छ । प्रहरी र प्रशासनको कार्य तदारूकताको यो छनक मात्र होइन गृहमन्त्री गौतमसमेत अपराध नियन्त्रण गर्न अपराधीलाई दनक दिने मुडमा प्रस्तुत हुनुभएको छ । खासगरी झण्डावाल नेता र डण्डावाल प्रशासकहरूको सहकार्यमा अपराधीहरू चलखेल गर्छन् भन्ने गुनासो तीव्र भइरहेका बेला गृहमन्त्री गौतमका यस्ता सबै किसिमको दृढता परिवर्तित सन्दर्भ र नेतृत्वकै अग्निपरीक्षाको रूपमा लिइनु श्रेयस्कर हुन्छ । हाम्रो सन्दर्भमा हामी भावुकतामा छिटो तात्ने र अर्कमण्यतामा चााडो ँठण्डा’ हुने गर्दछौं । गृहप्रशासन यसअघि पनि कुछ’ गर्न जागरूक नभएको होइन । कतिपय गृहलगायत प्रहरी प्रशासनका जिम्मेवार व्यक्तित्वहरू सबै काम नियमित र सुचारु हुन नसक्नुमा त्यहाभित्र विद्यमान काखा र पाखाको दामदेव संस्कृति मनस्थितिलाई दोष थुपार्छन् । भुक्तभोगी पूर्व प्रशासक र प्रहरीप्रमुखहरूको दाबी छ । कोही दामदेवका कारण काखामा पर्छन् म्याद नाघेर पनि बूढा हुदैनन् । तर पाखा गर्दा कोही भने ३० वर्षे सेवामा टाइ टाइ फिस् हुनुपर्छ । वास्तवमा यो अत्यन्तै मननीय पक्ष हो । आक्रोश, आवेग र अमर्यादित शैलीले मात्र नभनिने र नगरिने यो टिप्पणीलाई आगतको मूलमन्त्र बनाइनुपर्छ । प्रहरी प्रशासनले यसबीचमा गृहमन्त्री गौतमको नेतृत्वमा जे र जस्तो सक्रियता देखाएको छ, त्यसले निश्चय पनि सुखद बिहानीको झलक दिन्छ नै । प्रहरीले केही दिन अघि उपराष्ट्रपति निवासमा भएको बम विस्फोट प्रकरणका खलपात्रलाई जसरी सार्वजनिक गरेको छ त्यसैगरी वीरगञ्जको लुटपाट एवं हत्याको घटनाक्रममा प्रहरी प्रशासनलाई स्वयं सभासदले खबर गर्दासमेत उपस्थित हुन नसक्ने विडम्बनालाई चिर्न सके मात्र बिहानीपछिको दिन लोभलाग्दो बन्नेछ । यद्यपि जति नै कुरा गरे पनि हामी कसैले बिर्सनै नमिल्ने तथ्य हामी सबै विनाबर्दीका प्रहरी हौं । त्यसैले चोरको ’ पछाडि दौडेको मात्रै होइन आमनागरिक प्रहरी प्रशासनको सहकार्यमा हातेमालो गर्न तम्सनुपर्छ । गृहमन्त्रीका नव उद्घोषहरू असल नियतले आएको प्रतीत हुन्छ । पार्टीलाई ठूलो बनाउन शक्ति दुरुपयोग गर्ने लक्ष्य होइन भन्ने जस्तो उहाको अभिमतको सदाशयतामाथि शङ्का गरिहाल्नु जरुरी छैन तथापि उहा स्वयंले रेखाङ्कति गर्नुभएको अग्निपरीक्षा त बाकी नै छ । मुलुकलाई अहिले कुनै दलविशेषको गृहमन्त्री पनि चाहिएको छैन । लाखौं लाखौं चिन्तित, असुरक्षित अनुहारले निश्चितता र निष्पक्षताभाव अनुभूत गरे पुग्छ ।

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"धेरै वर्ष पहिले तिमीहरू हातमा बाइबल लिई हामीकहा आयौ र मुक्तिको बाटो यो हो भनेर देखायौ, अनि हामी सबैलाई दास र उपनिवेश बनायौ । अहिले तिमीहरूले यो इन्टरनेट भन्ने कुरा लिएर आएका छौ । फेरि हामीलाई दास बनाउन यो अर्को चाल हो कि भने मलाई डर लागिरहेछ ।" डेनमार्कको लुजियाना आर्ट म्युजियम हलमा सन् १९९८ मे १६ मा 'अभिव्यक्ति स्वतन्त्रता र विकास' विषयमा विचार तथा अभिव्यक्ति स्वतन्त्रताका लािग आधुनिक सञ्चार प्रविधि, खास गरी इन्टरनेटको महत्त्वको बारेमा एसिया र अपि|mकाका केही देशहरूको सम्मेलनमा अपि|mकाबाट आएका एकजना प्रतिनिधिले माथिका कुरा भनेका थिए । उनको कुरा सुन्दा पहिले त मलाई इन्टरनेटको बारेमा केही नबुझेर यस्तो भनेको हो कि जस्तो लागेको थियो । कहाको इन्टरनेट कहाको बाइबल भनेर हासो पनि लागेको थियो । गोष्ठीमा इन्टरनेट सूचना र ज्ञानको अत्यन्तै उदार र प्रजातान्त्रिक माध्यम हो यसले मानिसलाई बलियो बनाउाछ र आˆनो हित र पक्षमा निर्णय लिन बार्गेनिङ गर्न सक्षम बनाउछ भन्ने तर्क धेरैले राखेका थिए । मानिसलाई बलियो बनाउने मुख्य कुरा नै सूचना र ज्ञान हो । सूचनामा पहुच बढ्यो भने मानिसको शक्ति बढ्छ भन्ने कुरामा मलाई पहिलेभन्दा अहिले झन्झन् विश्वास बढिरहेको छ । त्यसमा पनि आधुनिक सूचना प्रविधिलाई बौद्धिक वस्तु उत्पादन गर्ने साधनको रूपमा उपयोग गर्नसक्यो भने भौतिक र प्राकृतिक स्रोतसाधनबाट वञ्चित देशहरूले कंगारुको चालले प्रगति गर्नसक्छन् भन्ने मलाई विश्वास छ । बुद्धि वा बौद्धिक क्षमता कुनै देश जात, वा वर्गको पेवा वा एकाधिकार होइन । हिजो हिमालमा चौरी चराउने गोठालो, तराईमा भैसीको आङमाथि बसेर गीत गाउदै रमाउने केटो अहिले अमेरिकाको सिलिकन भ्यालीमा सफ्टवेयर उत्पादन गर्दैछन् । नेपालभित्र पनि सफ्टवेयर उत्पादन गरेर तथा आउट सोर्सिङ व्यापार गरेर युरोपेली कामदारसरह पारिश्रमिक कमाउने युवाको सङ्ख्या नेपालमा बढिरहेको छ । वास्तवमा कोइला र खनिजको खानी नभएको र समुद्री मार्गबाट वञ्चित नेपालजस्तो देशका लागि सूचना प्रविधि एउटा अपूर्व अवसरको रूपमा अगाडि छ । तर यो भिल्लका देशमा मणि भनेझैा यसको महत्त्व बुझ्न नसकेर मिल्काइने हो कि भन्ने डर बढिरहेको छ । बाह्रपन्ध्र वर्ष अघिसम्म नेपाल आइटीको क्षेत्रमा भारतभन्दा अघि थियो भन्ने कुरा सुन्दा काल्पनिक कथाजस्तो लाग्नसक्छ । जुन बेला पाल्पामा कम्प्युटर पुगिसकेको थियो त्यस बेला नया दिल्लीका ठूलाठूला व्यापारिक प्रतिष्ठानले कम्प्युटरको प्रयोग गर्न सुरु गरेका थिएनन् । नेपालबाट सˆटवेर उत्पादन गरेर विदेशमा निर्यात गर्नथाल्दा भारतमा त्यसको थालनी नै भएको थिएन । तर अहिले नेपालका सफ्टवेयर उत्पादन व्यवसाय टञाक्सिएको छ, केही त विदेश पलायन भइसकेको छ, र भारतका युवाले स्वदेशमै बसेर विदेशी मुद्रा कमाइरहेका छन् । भारत संसारकै सबैभन्दा ठूलो आउट सोर्सिङ गर्ने र सफ्टवेयर उत्पादन गर्ने देश बन्ने दिशामा उन्मुख छ । यता नेपाली युवा अरबका मरुभूमिका भेडा र उट चराउन, कोरियाका कारखानामा भारी बाध्न, सामान प्याकिङ गर्न जान ताछाडमछाड गरिरहेका छन् । जग्गाजमिन बढ्नसक्तैन । जमिनको उत्पादन क्षमताको पनि सीमा हुन्छ । किसानले उत्पादन गरेको अन्न एकपटकमा एकजनाभन्दा धेरैले उपभोग गर्न सक्तैन । त्यस्तै कलकारखानाले उत्पादन गरेको सामान पनि एकपटकमा एकजनाले मात्रै उपभोग गर्नसक्छ । तर एकजनाले गाएको गीत हजारौ जनाले पनि सुन्नसक्छ । सीडी वा अरू माध्यमबाट हजारौ लाखौ प्रति बनाएर बेच्न सकिन्छ । कृषि उत्पादन र कलकारखानाको उत्पादनको उपयोगकर्ताको सीमा हुन्छ तर बुद्धि र ज्ञानले उत्पादन गरेको वस्तुको उपभोक्ताको सीमा हुदैन । हलिउडमा बनेको एउटा फिल्म हजाराै प्रति बनाएर करोडौ मानिसले एकैसाथ हेर्न, मनोरञ्जन गर्नसक्छ । सफ्टवेयर यस्तै बौद्धिक उत्पादन हो जसको उपयोगकर्ताको सीमा हुदैन । बील गेटको सम्पन्नताको रहस्य यही हो किन भने संसारका करोडौ कम्प्युटर उनले बनाएको सफ्टवेयर बिना चल्न सक्तैन । संसारमा जसले कम्प्युटर चलाए पनि अधिकांश प्रयोगकर्ताले कुनै न कुनै रूपमा, थाहै नपाईकन, बिल गेटको खल्तीमा पैसा पठाइरहेको हुन्छ । यस्तो बौद्धिक उत्पादन नेपाली युवाले झण्डै पन्ध्र वर्षअघि थालिसकेका थिए । नेपालको भौगोलिक विषमता, प्राकृतिक स्रोत साधनको अभाव दुई ढुङ्गाबीचको तरुलको अवस्थालाई चिरेर आर्थिक समृद्धिका लागि बौद्धिक उत्पादनभन्दा अर्को राम्रो आधार केही हुनसक्तैन । नयाा नेपाल बनाउने सपना देख्ने कुनै पनि नेताले सूचना प्रविधिलाई बेवास्ता गर्नै सक्तैन । गर्नहुादैन । नेपालको आर्थिक विकासका लागि नेपाली युवालाई सूचना प्रविधिमा आकषिर्त गर्न र क्षमतावान् बनाउनु आवश्यक छ । यसका लागि सूचना र सञ्चार प्रविधिका पूर्वाधारहरूको विकास र गाउागाउासम्म विस्तार गर्नु अहिलेको सरकारको प्राथमिक मुद्दा हुनुपर्छ । पन्ध्र वर्षअघि नै यो काम सुरु भएको भए नेपाली युवा जंगल पस्नु पर्ने अवस्था नै आउने थिएन । न त विदेश जाने होडबाजीमै लाग्नुपथ्र्यो । सूचना प्रविधिले संसारलाई कम्प्युटरमा ल्याइदिएको छ । यसमा सूचना, ज्ञान र मनोरञ्जन छ । शिक्षा, रोजगारी, स्वास्थ्य, पर्यटन इत्यादि सबै कुरा यसमा छन् । यसभित्र हीरा पनि छ कीरा पनि छ । हीरा खोज्नेले हीरा पाउाछ कीरा खोज्नेले कीरा पाउाछ । अहिले नेपाली किशोर र युवा सूचना प्रविधिको दुनियाामा आकषिर्त भएर देशभरि छरिएका झण्डै पााच हजार, जति साइबर क्याफे र सूचना केन्द्रहरूमा झुम्मिन थालेका छन् । व्यक्तिगत रूपमा घरघरमा यसको उपयोग गर्नेहरूको संख्या लाखौा पुगेको छ । कतिपय युवाले यसबाट आफ्नो भविष्य बनाइरहेछन् । समृद्धि कमाइरहेका छन् भने कतिपय किशोर र युवा यसमा भएका कीरा वा विकृतिहरूको सिकार हुन थालेका छन् । निश्चय नै अनलाइनबाट हुने खतरा निरन्तर बढिरहेको छ । फलस्वरूप, सूचना प्रविधिबाट हुने फाइदा उपयोग गर्न नपाउादै यसबाट हुने बेफाइदाबाट सतर्क हुनुपर्ने अवस्था आएको छ । 'पहिलो गाासमै झिागा पर्‍यो' भनेको यस्तै होला । आइटीले हरेक मानिसलाई सूचना र ज्ञानको उत्पादन र वितरक हुने क्षमता दिएको छ । जसले गर्दा कम्प्युटर र टेलिफोन लाइनको सम्पर्कमा भएको कुनै पनि व्यक्तिले आफ्नो कुरा शब्द, ध्वनि, चित्र र चलचित्रमा इन्टरनेटमा राखेर क्षणभरमै विश्वव्यापी गर्नसक्छ । यही क्षमता र प्रविधि उपयोग गरेर धनपिपासु र यौनपिपासुहरूले इन्टरनेटमा फोहोरी वर्णन, शब्द, चित्र र चलचित्र राखेका छन् भने आतङ्ककारीहरूले विध्वंसक प्रविधि सिकाइरहेका छन् । अपि|mकी प्रतिनिधिले डेनमार्कमा भनेझैा इन्टरनेटले संसारलाई कुबाटोमा हिाडाउने सम्भावना बढिरहेको छ । तर, विचार गर्नुपर्ने कुरा के हो भने प्रविधि स्वयं आफैमा असल वा खराब हुादैन । यसको उपयोग कसले र कसरी गरिन्छ त्यसैमा कुनै पनि प्रविधिको फाइदा र बेफाइदा निर्भर हुन्छ । सूचना प्रविधि पनि यस्तै साधन हो जसलाई उपयोग गर्न जान्यो भने हीरा हुन्छ, नत्र कीरा हुन्छ । यस्तो महìवपूर्ण र उपयोगी साधनबाट फाइदा लिनुको सट्टा 'यो त केटाकेटी बिगार्ने साधन रहेछ' भनेर अभिभावक र आमाबाले इन्टरनेटलाई घर भित्र छिर्न नदिने निधो गरे भने वा यसबाट आफू पनि टाढा रहने र केटाकेटीहरूलाई पनि प्रयोग गर्न नदिने, साइबर क्याफेलाई डान्स रेस्टुरााजस्तो ठान्ने जनभावना निर्माण भयो भने नेपालको अगाडि आएको ठूलो अवसर गुम्ने निश्चित छ । इन्टरनेटमा भएका फोहोरी र विध्वंसकारी सामग्रीबाट जोगाउने उपायहरू पनि छन् । उपयुक्त चाइल्ड सेफ्टी सफ्टवेयरयुक्त ब्राउजर प्रयोग गर्ने एउटा प्रभावकारी उपाय हो । तर सबैभन्दा महत्वपूर्ण र प्रभावकारी उपाय जनचेतना र शिक्षा नै हो । बालबालिका र किशोरहरूलाई इन्टरनेट/अनलाइनको दुष्प्रभावबाट जोगाउन अभिभावकहरू पनि सचेत र शिक्षित हुनैपर्छ । प्रतिवन्धात्मक वा नकारात्मक उपायले झन विकृति ल्याउने र प्रविधिले दिएको अवसरबाट बंचित हुने संभावना धेरै हुन्छ । अर्को महìवपूर्ण उपाय बालमैत्री सामग्री इन्टरनेटमा राख्नु हो । अहिले वेबसाइटहरूमा नब्बे प्रतिशतभन्दा धेरै सूचना र ज्ञानका सामग्री अंग्रेजी भाषाका छन् । भाषाको दृष्टिले मात्रै होइन, सांस्कृतिक, धार्मिक, सामाजिक, शैक्षिक आदि विभिन्न दृष्टिले पनि ती सामग्रीहरू हाम्रो लागि विराना सामग्री हुन् । तिनको उपयोग हामी सहज रूपमा गर्न सक्तैनौा । अहिले बालबालिका र किशोरहरूले कम्प्युटर खोल्ने बित्तिकै कि त च्याट गर्न थाल्छन्, कि गेम खेल्न थाल्छन् । उनीहरूका लागि आफ्नै भाषा र संस्कृति सुहाउादा कार्टुन, चित्र, बालसाहित्यका सामग्री भएका भए अथवा उनीहरूको विद्यालयमा पढाइने विषयका सामग्री भए पक्कै पनि उनीहरूको ध्यान च्याट वा गेमतिर जाने थिएन । बालबालिका र किशोरहरू अनलाइनमा बरालिनु र दुष्प्रभावमा पर्नुको एउटा प्रमुख कारण नेपाली कन्टेन्टको अभाव नै हो । यसैले एक्काइसौा शताब्दीका बालबालिकालाई चाहिने विषयवस्तु उत्पादन गर्नु अहिले नेपाली अनलाइन प्रवर्द्धकहरूका लागि सबैभन्दा ठूलो हााक र अवसर पनि हो । सूचना प्रविधिको प्रवर्द्धन गर्ने काममा लागेका निकायहरूको ध्यान जति चाडो जानसक्यो उति बेस । अनलाइनको दुष्प्रभावबाट जोगिने नाममा/बहानामा हाम्रो भविष्यको पुस्ता यो उपयोगी साधनबाट वञ्चित नहोउन् भन्ने कुरामा विचार पुर्‍याउनै पर्छ । उनीहरूको भविष्य बिगार्ने अधिकार हामीलाई छैन । यसैले उनीहरूलाई सूचना प्रविधिको साधनबाट वञ्चित गर्नुहुदैन । अभिभावक, समाज वा सरकारले आˆनो कर्तव्य पूरा नगर्ने त्यसको सजाय बालबालिकाहरूले र अन्ततः देशले नै पाउने हुनुहुदैन । बालबालिकालाई अनलाइनको खतराबाट जोगाउने अभियानमा लागेका निकायहरूले यसमा विचार पुर्‍याउनु अति आवश्यक छ ।

why Prachanda dressed in western style!

Do you know why Prachanda, the recent priminister of Nepal did not use the national dress of Nepal? He broke the tradition in this regard and dressed Shirt-pant-coat-tie. Do you think there is any reason behind it?

I think Prachanda is very clever. He likes to wear what so called daura surwal. But he knows the recent situation of daura-surwal. In past, lots of politicians, senior officials and kings misused the national dress. They corrupted the nation wearing this dress. Due to the bad behavior of the daura-surwal dressed people, the society gradually developed a negative attitude towards this dress. What do you think? Then the normal people of the society did not believe and even started to hate such people who are dressing DS! Prachanda knows it well. So he changed or lets call shifted to new dress, 'shirt-pant-coat-tie'. Lets see what goes in future!

please comment!

Humans and Machines Will Merge in the Future

By Lara Farrar

Source: CNN

A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.

They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the end of human life on Earth as we know it.

Speakers at the four-day event at Oxford University in Britain will talk about topics including nuclear terrorism and what to do if a large asteroid were to be on a collision course with our planet.

On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.

"Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful," said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium. "If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species."

Bostrom is a philosopher and a leading thinker of transhumanism, a movement that advocates not only the study of the potential threats and promises that future technologies could pose to human life but also the ways in which emergent technologies could be used to make the very act of living better.

"We want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that," Bostrom said.

Transhumanists, according to Bostrom, anticipate an era in which biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence and other new types of cognitive tools will be used to amplify our intellectual capacity, improve our physical capabilities and even enhance our emotional well-being.

The end result would be a new form of "posthuman" life with beings that possess qualities and skills so exceedingly advanced they no longer can be classified simply as humans.

"We will begin to use science and technology not just to manage the world around us but to manage our own human biology as well," Bostrom said. "The changes will be faster and more profound than the very, very slow changes that would occur over tens of thousands of years as a result of natural selection and biological evolution."

Bostrom declined to predict an exact time frame when this revolutionary biotechnological metamorphosis might occur. "Maybe it will take eight years or 200 years," he said. "It is very hard to predict."

Other experts are already getting ready for what they say could be a radical transformation of the human race in as little as two decades.

"This will happen faster than people realize," said Dr. Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist who calculates technology trends using what he calls the law of accelerating returns, a mathematical concept that measures the exponential growth of technological evolution.

In the 1980s, Kurzweil predicted that a tiny handheld device would be invented early in the 21st century, allowing blind people to read documents from anywhere at anytime; this year, such a device was publicly unveiled. He also anticipated the explosive growth of the Internet in the 1990s.

Now, Kurzweil is predicting the arrival of something called the Singularity, which he defines in his book on the subject as "the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots."

"There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality," he writes.

Singularity will approach at an accelerating rate as human-created technologies become exponentially smaller and increasingly powerful and as fields such as biology and medicine are understood more and more in terms of information processes that can be simulated with computers.

By the 2030s, Kurzweil said, humans will become more non-biological than biological, capable of uploading our minds onto the Internet, living in various virtual worlds and even avoiding aging and evading death.

In the 2040s, Kurzweil predicts that non-biological intelligence will be billions of times better than the biological intelligence humans have today, possibly rendering our present brains obsolete.

"Our brains are a million times slower than electronics," Kurzweil said. "We will increasingly become software entities if you go out enough decades."

This movement towards the merger of man and machine, according to Kurzweil, is already starting to happen and is most visible in the field of biotechnology.

As scientists gain deeper insights into the genetic processes that underlie life, they are able to effectively reprogram human biology through the development of new forms of gene therapies and medications capable of turning on or off enzymes and RNA interference, or gene silencing.

"Biology and health and medicine used to be hit or miss," Kurzweil sad. "It wasn't based on any coherent theory about how it works."

The emerging biotechnology revolution will lead to at least a thousand new drugs that could do anything from slow down the process of aging to reverse the onset of diseases, like heart disease and cancer, Kurzweil said.

By 2020, Kurzweil predicts a second revolution in the area of nanotechnology. According to his calculations, it is already showing signs of exponential growth as scientists begin to test first generation nanobots that can cure Type 1 diabetes in rats or heal spinal cord injuries in mice.

One scientist is developing something called a respirocyte, a robotic red blood cell that, if injected into the bloodstream, would allow humans to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath or sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for hours at a time.

Other researchers are developing nanoparticles that can locate tumors and one day even eradicate them.

And some Parkinson's patients now have pea-sized computers implanted in their brains that replace neurons destroyed by the disease; new software can be downloaded to the mini computers from outside the human body.

"Nanotechnology will not just be used to reprogram but to transcend biology and go beyond its limitations by merging with non-biological systems," Kurzweil said. "If we rebuild biological systems with nanotechnology, we can go beyond its limits."
The final revolution leading to the advent of Singularity will be the creation of artificial intelligence, or superintelligence, which, according to Kurzweil, could be capable of solving many of our biggest threats, like environmental destruction, poverty and disease.

"A more intelligent process will inherently outcompete one that is less intelligent, making intelligence the most powerful force in the universe," Kurzweil writes.
Yet the invention of so many high-powered technologies and the possibility of merging these new technologies with humans may pose both peril and promise for the future of mankind.

"I think there are grave dangers," Kurzweil said. "Technology has always been a double-edged sword."

चन्द्रे हुँ म चन्द्रे

विमल भौकाजी

सधैँको झै आजको रात पनि- निस्पट्ट अन्धकारबीच मेरा आँखाहरू खुल्दा नेपथ्यमा कोही चिच्याइरहेको आवाज मेरा कानमा पर्नेछ । यो वाक्यलाई स्पष्टसाग अथ्र्याउनु पर्दा, अन्धकारको त्यो आवाजले मेरो निद्रा भङ्ग गर्नेछ । 'चन्द्रे हुा म चन्द्रे !......' आवाज प्रस्ट बुझिनेछ । चचच चन्द्रे ! मान्छेहरूका दृष्टिमा चन्द्रे एउटा बहुला थियो तर आफूले पाएको यो पहिचानलाई चन्दे्रले कहिले पनि विरोध नजनाएको देख्दा सामान्यतः सबैलाई आश्चर्य लाग्नु स्वाभाविक थियो । हुन पनि चन्द्रे चिच्याई चिच्याइकन भन्ने गथ्र्यो- "हो-हो म बहुला हुँ । किनकि..... म चन्द्रे हुँ ।" उसको नाम चन्द्रे हुादैमा ऊ किन बहुला ? प्रश्न जायज छ तर पाठकका लागि त्यसको जवाफ भने निक्कै रोमाञ्चक छ । यो रोमाञ्चकता महसुस गर्नका लागि सर्वप्रथम चन्द्रेको इतिहास हेर्न आवश्यक छ । चन्द्रे ! - को हो चन्द्रे ? - चन्द्रे कुन जातको हो ? - कुन धर्मको हो ? चन्द्रे जोसुकै हुन सक्छ । चन्द्रे, चन्द्रे मात्रै होइन चन्द्रकुमार हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रप्रसाद हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रबहादुर हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रलाल हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रमान हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रसिं हुन सक्छ । त्यति मात्रै होइन, त्यस पछाडि पनि चन्द्रे चन्द्रे शर्मा हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे क्षेत्री हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे श्रेष्ठ हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे विश्वकर्मा हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे यादव हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे गुरुङ हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे लिम्बू हुन सक्छ, चन्द्रे मगर हुन सक्छ । तर चन्द्रेले आˆनो नामसाग कहिल्यै न कुनै उपनाम जोड्यो, न त आफूलाई कुनै जात धर्ममा सङकुचित गरायो । खुल्लारूपमा, सामाजिक विभेदका विरुद्ध चन्द्रेले विद्रोह गर्‍यो र बस् आˆनो एउटै परिचय स्थापना गर्‍यो- 'चन्द्रे' । चन्द्रेको व्यक्तित्व- चन्द्रे शिक्षक थियो, विद्यालयस्तरको । यद्यपि एउटा सामान्य शिक्षकको रूपमा मात्रै उसको पेशा परिभाषित थिएन । मर्यादित थियो उसको पेशा, उसलाई सबैले एउटा आदर्श शिक्षकको रूपमा चिन्दथे । खास गरेर तीनवटा आदर्श थिए उसका - - नैतिकता- पाठ घोकाइरहन्थ्यो ऊ नैतिकताको । - इमानदारी- गीत गाइरहन्थ्यो इमानदारीको । - कर्तव्यनिष्ठ- बोली बोलिरहन्थ्यो कर्तव्यनिष्ठताको । उसो त राजनीतिको बाङ्गो बाटोबाट उसको आदर्शलाई खल्बल्याउने कोसिस कैयौ पटक नगरिएको होइन तर अहा, ऊ आˆनो आदर्शबाट रत्तिभर विचलित भएन, एक नासले आˆनो मार्गबाट हिाडिरहृयो ऊ । विदेश गएर धन कमाउन देखाइएका थुप्रै सपनाका महलहरूलाई उसले भत्काइदिएको थियो । गाउामै निजी विद्यालय खोलेर शिक्षाको व्यापार गर्न बनाइएका थुप्रै योजनाहरूलाई उसले च्यातिदिएको थियो । समग्रमा, चन्द्रे देशको एक सच्चा नागरिक भएर बाचेको थियो । चन्द्रेको पारिवारिक स्थिति- सानो परिवार थियो चन्द्रेको । चन्द्रे मनमनै सधैा आफैासाग भन्ने गथ्र्यो- मेरो परिवार संसारको सबैभन्दा सुखी परिवार हो । चन्द्रेकी एउटी सुन्दर श्रीमती थिइन् । आˆनी श्रीमतीको अनुहार हेरेर कताकता चन्द्रे कहिलेकाही पात्तिन्थ्यो, श्लीलरूपमा । उसको त्यो क्षणले उसलाई उक्साउादै भन्न लगाउाथ्यो- यत्ति राम्री नारी अर्को कोही हुन सक्दिन यो दुनिया मा, हुनै सक्दिन । तर........। झण्डै दुई दशक लामो अत्यन्तै सफल दाम्पत्य जीवनलाई अचानक परित्याग गरिन् उसकी श्रीमतीले । हो, मरिन् उसकी श्रीमती । - कसरी मरिन् ? - भोकले मरिन् कि ? - कुनै दुर्घटनामा परेर मरिन् कि ? - किन मरिन् ? - केका लागि मरिन् ? - कसैले सोध्यो भने चन्द्रे केवल यत्ति भन्थ्यो- 'मरिन्, मेरी स्वास्नी मरिन्, सा च्चै मरिन् ।' वास्तवमा लाक्षणिक अर्थमा मात्रै उसकी श्रीमती मरेकी थिइन् तर भौतिकरूपले मरेकी थिइनन् उनी । चन्द्रेलाई एउटै ओछ्यानमा सुतेको छोडेर रातारात गाउाकै अर्को एक लोग्ने मान्छेका साथ भागेकी थिइन् उसकी श्रीमती । बुझ्नसकेको थिएन चन्द्रेले- कि अनायास उसलाई छोडेर भागिन् उसकी श्रीमती ? कुन कारण थियो त्यस्तो- जसबाट उसकी श्रीमतीले अर्को लाग्नेमान्छेलाई रोज्नुपर्‍यो ? सोच्नै सकेको थिएन चन्द्रेले । अलिकति पनि असमझदारी थिएन । चन्द्रेको आˆनी श्रीमतीसाग । अचानक यसरी आफूलाई छाड्नुपर्ने कुनै सङ्केतसम्म दिएकी थिइनन् उसलाई उसकी श्रीमतीले । हुन पनि चन्द्रेले सदैव अनुभूत गरिरहेकै हुन्थ्यो- उसलाई आˆनो प्रेमबाट उसकी श्रीमतीले कहिल्यै विमुख राखेकी थिइन । उसले पनि कहिल्यै कम हुन दिएको थिएन आˆनी श्रीमतीप्रतिको प्रेमलाई- जुन प्रेममा प्रायसः शरीर पनि प्रासङ्गकि हुने गथ्र्यो । सायद, दुवैले सोच्ने गर्थे- शरीर प्रासङ्गकि नभएको प्रेम के प्रेम ? आफ्नी श्रीमतीको अभावमा चन्द्रे साह्रै विक्षिप्त बन्यो । जब आˆनो पि्रय मान्छे आफूसाग छैन भने यो संसारको के अर्थ ? जत्ति गरे पनि मर्नु न बा च्नुको परिस्थितिप्रति उसले सम्झौता गर्न नसकेपछि आत्महत्या गर्न नखोजेको पनि होइन तर फेरि उसले त्यसो गर्न पनि सकेन । सट्टामा यही विक्षिप्त विवश रूप बोकेर ऊ बदलिादो परिचयमा बा च्यो । अर्थात् चन्द्रे बहुलायो । यही अवस्थाबीच उसको ठूलो भइसकेको छोरो पनि उसलाई छोडेर आˆना साथीहरूका साथ घर छोडेर सहर पस्यो । विक्षिप्त बाबुको हालतप्रति करुणा जाग्नुपर्ने कर्तव्यबाट च्युत छोरोको यस्तो व्यवहार खेपेर चन्द्रे झनै मर्माहत भयो । बेस्कन रन्थनियो ऊ । हो, चन्द्रे बहुलाउनुको यो पनि अर्को मुख्य कारकतìव थियो । त्यति मात्रै होइन उसको जीवनको परिचय बदल्ने अर्को प्रमुख कारण थियो उसकी छोरी । छोरोपछि जन्मिएकी दुई वर्ष कान्छी उसकी छोरी । चन्द्रेले आˆनी श्रीमतीसागको आपसी सम्झौतामा सानो र सुखी परिवारको अन्तिम बिन्दु मानेको थियो आˆनी छोरीलाई । त्यही छोरी एक्लै भएको समयमा घरमा बलात्कृत भई । त्यतिखेर विद्यालयको एउटा कक्षामा नारी उन्मुक्तिको पाठ पढाउादै थियो चन्द्रे । यस्तो अप्रत्याशित खबरले चन्द्रे एउटा निर्जीव मुढोझैा बन्यो । उफ्, के भयो यस्तो ? चन्द्रेले आˆनो विगत सम्झ्यो, आˆनो आदर्शमय जीवनलाई हेर्‍यो । कुनै भेउ पाउन सकेन उसले- कसरी भताभुङ्ग भयो जीवन ? - चन्द्रेले आˆनो नाक छाम्यो । - आाखाहरू छाम्यो । - निधार छाम्यो । - कानहरू छाम्यो । - एकसाथ, सम्पूर्ण अनुहार छाम्यो । सबै अङ्गहरू साविक स्थानमा थिए तर उसलाई महसुस भयो कुनै पनि अङ्गहरू उसका आˆना होइनन् । मानौ ऊ स्वयम् ऊ होइन, नाम मात्रैको चन्द्रे हो, लाग्यो- उसको परिचय बदलिइसकेको छ । एकएक तौलादै गयो चन्द्रेले आˆनो जीवनका दुर्घटित क्षणहरू..... - नाप्नै नसक्ने गरेर कस्तरी अनैतिकताले सीमा तोड्यो ? - भन्नै नसक्ने गरेर बेइमानीले कस्तो मार्ग रोज्यो ? - पहिल्याउनै नसक्ने गरेर कर्तव्यहीनताले कति अग्लो शिखर उक्लियो ? चचच .........आजको निस्पट्ट रातमा पनि म अचानक झस्केर ब्युँझनेछु र त्यसरी ब्यूाझदा मैले एउटा कहालीलाग्दो आवाज सुन्नेछु- 'हो........हो म बहुला हुा ।' त्यो आवाजको मान्छे आˆनो परिचय दिइरहेको हो वा आˆनो स्वपरिचय खोजिरहेको हो....... छुट्याउनै नसक्ने गरेर चिच्याइरहेको हुनेछ- 'चन्द्रे हुा म चन्द्रे........! !' -नयावानेश्वर, काठमाडौ ।