MaHa – Oh Ho!

MaHa comedy – Oh Ho!
Starring – Madan Krishna Acharya, Hari Bansha Acharya
The comedy serial is made for the social awareness on leprosy disease and it’s treatment.

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Article Contest

We at blog.xnepali.com have started to accept guest articles to be published in the blog. Best 2 articles selected from every 10 published articles will be awarded gift certificates.

Article Contest Rules

Articles should be sent to this email address:

Articles should reach us by September 30 October 31, 2009.

Two winners will be selected from the first 10 (ten) published articles. If more than 10 articles are received remaining articles will compete in the next cycle of selection.

First prize - a gift certificate equivalent of NRs 1000
Second prize - a gift certificate equivalent of NRs 500.

For authors living in foreign countries, winning prize can be sent by either of the following two methods:

• Equivalent amounts sent through PayPal.
• Or gift certificate sent to the relative or friends in Nepal

Article:

• Article can be any non-fiction topic that informs, teaches or amuses the reader.
• The topic should be related to Nepal. It can be any of essay, investigative article, human interest article, personal experiences, travel article etc.
• Length – maximum of 1000 words with no minimum words limit
• The article should be original and unpublished.
• The article should be written either in English or Nepali language.
• Text can be written in any text editors but should be sent in format that can be read in text editors like Notepad.
• Please use photos and illustrations as required. The photos and illustration should be the authors own creation or should hold written permission from the original creator.
• Photos and illustration should be sent in JPG format. Other format picture will be converted in JPG format for publication. Sizes and resolution could be changed before publication.
• One author can participate with more than one article – but only one article from an author can be considered for competition at one time.
• Articles can refer other websites but in-line links can not be more than one external link. If links to other websites are absolutely necessary, reference list can be provided at the bottom of the article.
• Advertising products or services and self promoting articles will not be accepted

Rights on article:

• The articles will be published in the xnepali.com or its sister websites. Other than that, the author shall hold all the rights on the article and illustrations. We might consider publishing the articles in paper form in later stage. We however will seek permission from the author if we decide to do so.

Selection Procedure:

The article will be initially evaluated by the Article Evaluation Committee (AEC) to decide on which of the four categories the article falls in:

1. Good for publication
2. Good for publication after minor editing
3. Good for publication after major editing
4. Not good for publication

An email will be sent to every article authors stating the decision made by the AEC. Further instruction will be attached if further editing or alteration is required on the article. The article falling in the category 4 will be returned to the author..

Initial evaluation will be made within one week of receiving the application. Publication however might take some time depending on publication queue.

Depending on the number of articles received, a maximum of 1 (one) article will be published on a week.

AEC is responsible for selection of article for publication (not for the selection of winners). Article Selection Committee (ASC) will be formed to select the winners.

The decision of the AEC and ASC will be final and it couldn’t be debated upon.

The winners will be selected based on the evaluation criteria developed by the ASC.

Each published articles will have ‘vote’ buttons to vote for and against the article. Visitor vote might be one of the evaluation criteria with a certain weightage.
Evaluation criteria and weightage:

• • Originality (25%)
  • Organization of information (25%)
  • Presentation (25%)
  • Number of votes received from site visitors (25%)

Article Evaluation Committee (AEC) members

• • Editor, blog.xnepali.com – Anand Sharma
  • Administrators forum.xnepali.in

Article Selection Committee (ASC) members will consist of AEC members and some guest bloggers to be announced after the publication of 10 guest articles and before the start of the winner selection process.

Winners will be announced after one month of the publication of the 10th guest article. Remaining articles will be eligible for the next competition and the contest will continue as long as we receive guest articles for publication.

Nepali Movie – Ghumto

Shyam Mohan Shrestha Presents
Nepali Movie – Ghumto
Cast – Dilip Rayamajhi, Jal Shah, Melina Manandhar, Ramesh Upreti, Mithila Sharma, Muralidhar, Mukunda Shrestha, Gopalraj Mainali etc.
Director – Kishor Rana
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Sarangi – the Nepali Musical Instrument

Sarangi is a stringed instrument played by traditional ‘Gaine’ or ‘Gandarbha’ community of Nepal. The  Indo-Aryan ethnic group mainly from central hilly region of Nepal makes a living by singing a type of folk song and narrative tales commonly known as ‘Gaine Geet’ or ‘Gandarva Geet’.

It is believed that Sarangi originated from Nepal. The simplistic design of the instrument made it easy to be manufactured and maintained locally. It is sad that search of sarangi in the internet lands us to Indian musical instrument which is quite different from the Nepali version. Encyclopedias and dictionaries like Britannica, Wikipedia (there is a page for Nepali sarangi however), Farlex, and Oxford Dictionary don’t mention Nepali Sarangi at all.

Unlike Classical Indian Sarangi, it has four strings and all of them are played. The neck and body of the instrument are made from a single piece of light wood, locally known as Khirro. The body is carved into a hollow frame with two openings. The lower opening is then covered up with dried sheep-skin. Traditionally the fine nerves from sheep’s intestine were woven to get the strings. Horse-tail hair was originally used for the bow string of the Sarangi. These days nylon strings are preferred to the sheep nerves and horse-tail hair. The instrument is placed vertically on the left knee, suspended in front of the body by means of a cord around the left shoulder, and is played with a bow.

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Nepali Movie – Dharti

Lotus Films Pvt. Ltd. presents Sunita Sharma’s
Nepali Movie – Dharti
Starring - Gauri Malla, Shree Krishna Shrestha, Jal Shah, Shrisha Karki, Bharat Sharma, Riddhicharan Shrestha, Bishnu Sapkota, Sunil Thapa etc.
Story – Sunita Sharma
Dialogue/Script – Shiva Regmi
Director – Raju KC
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MaHa Comedy – Raat

MaHa Comedy – Raat
Starring – Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bansha Acharya, Narendra Kansakar, Mithila Sharma, Saranga Shrestha etc.
Concept – MaHa
MaHa’s comedy Raat is made on social awareness on AIDS. Hari Bamsha is featured as a ‘Lahure’ a Nepali worker in India. The movie shows how AIDS can be transferred to unsuspected people. The tele-serial is a perfect example of how comedy can be used for social awareness.
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Nepali Movie – Balidaan

Pashupati Records presents
Cinema Nepal’s first movie
Nepali Movie – Balidan
Cast: Hari Bansha Acharya, Anjana Shrestha (subba), Neer Shah, Madan Krishna Shrestha etc.
Story - Modnath ‘Prashrith’
Part 1

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Nepali Movie – Atankabadi

Jaya Baba Pashupati Nath Films’s first movie
Ram Panta Presents
Nepali Movie – Atankabadi (आतंकबादी)
Cast: Shiva Shrestha, Karishma manandhar, Rohi Shrestha, Niruta Singh, Shrisha Karki, Shyam Shrestha, Sunil Thapa etc.

Movie follows:
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Nepali Movie – Darpan Chhaya (2001)

This movie was one of the highest grossing movie in the history of Nepali movie industry.
Shrawan Ghimire for Siddhanta Films P. Ltd. presents:
Nepali movie – Darpan Chhaya (2001)
starring: Dilip Rayamajhi, Niruta Singh, Uttam Pradhan, Tulsi Ghimire etc.
Director: Tulsi Ghimire
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Is Tibet in India?

What would you say if Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) doesn’t know or care about the country’s geography? That is what happened in Nepal. A calendar spotted in a sinior ministry official’s office told that the Mt. Everest is located in Nepal – India border. Mt. Everest is situated in Nepal at the border of Nepal and Tibet – it sure is written below in small letters. Does that mean Tibet is in India?

It is to be noted that the calendar was manufacturered by an India based company.

India had been claiming Buddha was born in India and now they can claim Mt. Everest too. (source)

MaHa – Chiranjivi

MaHa Comedy – Chiranjivi
Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bamsha Achary‘s most entertaining comedy tele serial.
Chirinjivi is a comedy about an old grandfather (played by Hari Bamsha) and his offspring who want to sell his fixed assets.

The tele-serial is a very entertaining and funny comedy with underlying message to the society.
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Nepali Movie – Khalanayak

Nepali Film – Khalanayak
Starring – Nikhil Upreti, Jharana Thapa, Biraj Bhatt, Puskar Bhatt etc.
Direction- Rishi Neupane

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Nepali movie – Andhi Toofan

The movie is not available now.
Songs of the movie Andhi Toofan

Mero Gajalu Akha Hera

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Nepali Movie – Lahure (1989)

Shot in beatutiful places in Sikkim and Darjeeling
Kanchanjunga Films presents
Nepali Movie Lahure
Starring : Shrawan Kumar, Tripti Nadkar, Pradeep Kumar, K.B. Moktan, C.K, Tamang, Archana Singh, Laxmi Pradhan, C. Lama etc.
Director – Tulsi Ghimire
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93 new species found in Nepal

I was talking about one more addition to the 863 species of birds found in Nepal in my previous post. Recently  WWF released a news about 350 more species of living things found in the Eastern Himalayas in the past decade in which 93 of them were found in Nepal. Among the 93 species 40 were plants, 36 mammals, 6 fishes, 2 frogs, 9 reptiles. Not all, but 10 were given a Nepali name ‘nepalenses’.

In Nepal we don’t do much research (don’t have resources) on these things so I suspect it is only a part of a bigger story. Much of the higher Himalaya is highly inaccessible and they should hold much of the unidentified species. As an example, never finding a giant Yeti can suffice on our ability to find all the unspotted species.

Well, that was the discovery of a group formed by WWF.

The group found that almost three-quarters of the discoveries between 1998 and 2008 were plants, including 21 new orchid species. But it also listed 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, two birds, two mammals and at least 60 new invertebrates. Most of the discoveries have already been reported in peer-reviewed, scientific journals.

If you are interested in reading the full document it can be downloaded in pdf format from panda.org website.