During my college days, I had a friend who preferred arranged marriage over Love marriage. She had her parents to look upon, admire and have that strong belief in this institution. But when Diana and Prince Charles divorced, her strong belief towards arranged marriage was terribly shaken.
Sujata challenged the media to prove the allegations that her son-in-law Rubel Choudhory and also told that she can publish anything in newspaper.
Sujata told, "Anybody can write anything. Even I can write anything against you."
Well, can she? Isn’t that a serious issue – a serious allegation to Nepali media?
Written by – Sunita Giri
“No!â€, I replied.
“Then, why don’t you marry?â€
She doesn’t stop asking the same question even after my repeated request not to ask it again. I don’t want any more questions in the topic.
This question makes me feel uncomfortable, and it also freezes me. I am not interested in this institution. My concern is, if I am free from this question in my family circle, why are the outsider even bother? But, they never stop bothering me.
So, I have to answer her question to make sure that she won’t keep asking the question again.
“I am not buying the concept that men are superior to women and that, I can’t live with a man who strongly believes that they are superior creatures on earth.†I added, “In our society, men are brought up with this belief and I look at them with a question in my eyes.â€
Apart from writing, Sunita is a designer of woolen dress. Her favorite is bandanna (Dumb me, I didn’t know what they were until she showed me her photo wearing one). I wondered why it was called bandanna. Band makes sense but Anna doesn’t. I hope Sunita is mulling over my proposal to call them BandSunita or something like that.
She is also selling them if anybody is interested. Please fill in the form below if you have any questions about them or want to order.
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In contrast to that, with numerous mirrors, Wikileaks now is highly unlikely to be taken offline as before. Some researchers suggest that it has grown in such a scale that, it is nearly immune to takedown. 14 different name servers across 11 different networks make wikileaks.ch a lot less vulnerable than wikileaks.org. In addition to that, about 1000 mirror sites all over the world are mirroring the whole of its content, making it difficult to censor the contents.
In a BBC report, Australia’s foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, has blamed the US in the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on Wikileaks. He told that its Australian founder, Julian Assange, has done nothing wrong.
The Australia’s foreign minister, in an interview with Reuters said, "Mr Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the US diplomatic communications network. The Americans are responsible for that."
Foreign investment plays a critical role in the development of a country. In the current age of ‘global village,’ foreign investment is a key to the economy. But, does the foreign investment always bring "good fortune" to a country? Let’s analyze two incidents in Nepal, related to Indian investments.
No Nepali movies in "Big Cinema"
According to a film news site, merocinema (screenshot attached), the theaters halted the release of a Nepali movie after receiving a directive from its New Delhi office. The theater management in India told the local management to stop screening Nepali movies in the future too. In a separate news report the theater management was quoted saying – Nepali movies don’t have quality for the theater.
Our, Miss Nepal runner-up, Sahana Bajracharya has to return home empty handed.
The final of the Miss Earth 2010 was held at Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam with 84 contestants from all over the world. The outgoing titleholder Miss Earth 2009, Larissa Ramos of Brazil handed over the crown to Ni
cole Faria.
Apart from the title, Nicole also own the Miss Earth Talent 2010, held on Nov. 19, after beating 17 other finalists. To win the title, the Miss India performed a belly dance – a fusion of oriental and Middle Eastern style.
This event has a historical significance to India as it is the first time India has won Miss Earth title.
In a latest news, the Library of Congress has blocked access to the Wikileaks site on its internal and wireless network for visitors. I is told that the Department of Education has also blocked Wikileaks. It is also reported that the State Department and the Commerce Department have told their employees not to look at the Wikileaks cables.
The domain name provider of WikiLeaks, EveryDNS.net, has said that it has terminated the wikileaks.org domain as the domain has come under massive cyber attacks. As the website started releasing more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, the pressure against the whistle-blowing organization has been increasing from all over the world. The website is renamed wikileaks.ch (a Swiss domain).
The website now features a message "Keep us strong help wikileaks keep governments open," beside a photo of its founder Julian Assange.
Yesterday, the US server, Amazon.com had pulled the plug of the website and it had to move to European servers.
WikiLeaks Twitter response accuses the Amazon’s blog post response a ‘lie’ :
Amazon’s press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it.
Prepared for Twitter ban ?
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WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free–fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe.
After an hour another update was posted:
If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books.
Various political leaders have wished to punish the 39 year-old founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange for releasing the confidential diplomatic documents.
Some of the cables related to China are told to contain communications stating –
Little is known about what is there in case of Nepal. I wonder if the Nepal government wants to block the website in Nepal.
A website popular for releasing secret military and government documents, WikiLeaks has started releasing more than 251,000 cables from various embassies all around the world. The website says that the cables from the US Embassy in Nepal counts 2600.
According to the chart in the WikiLeaks website, cables from Kathmandu are:
That makes a total – 2278. I have no idea what other 322 cables are related to.
