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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Christmas Eve and traffic cop

The Christmas eve was a mixed bag. I had a marriage reception to attend so I was there along with my friends. The evening was really lively as the party had good arrangement for drinks. We danced, we sang and we drank till late. I seldom return to home after such events so we all decided to continue the party at one of the friend's house. On the way, we stopped at Thamel to buy some boozes and tidbits. But Alas!! I had lost my wallet and along with it went all my ID cards, driving license, locker key and couple of grands.

Four days later...

Today, again I was with my friends in the evening. One of them had got a visa for USA and we were celebrating. I had couple of bottles of beer and an extremely intricate discussion about "social and economic sector of our country and international influences" :o)). At about 9, we dispersed. While my friend and me, we were heading to our respective places, traffic policemen got in our way. My friend did not have a helmet and as I had lost my wallet, I did not have a driving license. First, I started explaining to the traffic cop that I had lost my moneybag but my explanations were not making any impact on the guy. Then immediately my friend, sitting behind me, told the cop that he works for a news agency and presented his card. As soon as the policeman recognized the card, his tone changed and in a friendly voice he asked us where we lived. We had few informal talks and he told us to carry on. As I was about to drive forward, he smiled and told my friend - "Hey sir! Please don't publish about this event in the newspaper tomorrow".

Happy Married Life to Pawan dai
and thanks for wonderful party.

Christmas Eve and traffic cop posted by Pradeep Chand @ 12:37 AM 3 comments

Friday, December 23, 2005

Billion Dollar man

King Gyanendra is known well for his monarchical regime and equally well for his boundless businesses. Recently, Nepal Blog Discovery received an email message about His Majesty's financial status and we later on found that many people had received the same email. So we decided to put it on the blog for you all to read, analyze and comment on it. So the email goes like this:

Email Content

How much money does Nepali king earn?

Dear Nepali citizens and foreign lovers of Nepal, You might be wondering why Nepal is still poor when its countries of equal economic status has reached the sky with booming economic development.
Nepal is one of the poorest countries of the world but Nepal's king is the highest paid king of the world.

The income of Nepali king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is:
2,426 times higher than that of Chinese president
318 times higher than that of Indian president
301 times higher than that of Pakistani president
173 times higher than that of Russian president
57 times higher than that of French president
15 times higher than that of British prime minister
10 times higher than that of American president
Netherlands queen's income: Rs. 22,32,00,000 (per capita income Rs 17,25,120)
American president earns Rs. 3,24,00,000 (1,15,20,000 returns in tax), (per capita income Rs 25,24,320)
Japanese king earns Rs. 22,23,52,000 (per capita income Rs.24, 15,600)
Chinese president earns Rs. 1,35,000 (per capita income Rs 67,680)
Indian president earns Rs. 10,11,000 (per capita income Rs 34,560)
French president earns Rs 57,96,000 (per capita income Rs 15,84,000)
Pakistani president earns (after the coup) Rs 10,94,000 (per capita income 29,520)
British Queen does not get any salary from the state. She has a property of Rs 30,24,00,00,000 (the profit of investment, after paying the tax, is hers) but even her necklace is the property of the country.
British president earns Rs 2,19,58,000 (per capita income is Rs 18,16,200)
Russian president earns Rs 19,03,000 (per capita income is Rs 1,54,000)
Belgian king receives salary as a civil servant (per capita income is Rs 16,74,000)

And,
Nepali king earns Rs 61,91,00,000 (per capita income is Rs 16,560=US$ 230)
[This means the Nepali king earns Rs. 19,878 times higher than a citizen. Last year it was 37,385 times higher. Thus a citizen can earn as much as the king earns in a year only after working for 19,000 years or in 316 lives.]

Appendix
Nepali royal family is involved in various businesses.
A king does not have to pay tax according to Nepal's constitution.
The present king has inherited the property of earlier king's family and nobody knows how much it is.
This king has taken Rs 1,06,45,00,000 in past three years for his small family

Courtesy: Surya Thapa, Mulyankan Monthly (Nov-Dec 2005)
US dollar 1 = Rs 72

Nepal Blog Discovery does not take any responsibility of the content of the article. It has just been published for the reader to know; find out about its truth; comment and let others know about their findings or views.

Billion Dollar man posted by Pradeep Chand @ 7:04 PM 8 comments

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Massacre at Nagarkot - RNA or a person

15th December 2005 - At such a critical situation in Nepal, a shocking event has occurred at Magargau in Nagarkot. At about 11:00pm, during a religious fete, a Royal Nepalese Army soldier named Bashudev Thapa opened fire on the local people, causing the death of 11 people and injury to more than 19 people, including women and children. 16 of the injured people are being treated at Birendra hospital, Chauni and are out of danger.

The annual festival of Mangsir Purnima started that day in Kalidev temple at around 5:00pm. Local people of Magargau, Nagarkot gathered at the temple and were dancing and singing. Few soldiers also appeared at the scene to have fun at about 9:00pm and among them was the sinister soldier, Bashudev Thapa. According to the reports given by witnesses, those soldiers initially had a quarrel with few young residents since the army men were pestering a girl. Then Bashudev stabbed one of his opponents and fled away from the site. Later the same soldier, agitated with vengeance, returned to the temple alone and started firing blindly at people there. The frantic soldier also perished after a while but the cause of this death is yet not clear. Some say that he shot himself after the incident while other say that another soldier shot him.

Within an hour, other soldiers arrived there from nearby Nagarkot barrack and took control of the situation. Injured were transported to hospital, dead bodies were shifted and the place was cleaned up.

Immediately the next day, the matter way politicized and the leaders of political parties declared Nepal Banda. They asked the king to take up the responsibility and descend. At many places in the major cities of the country, including Kathmandu, Chitwan, Biratnagar, Bhairahawa and Pokhara, there were riots and clashes between police and demonstrators.

Comments from Nepal Blog:

Nepal Blog expresses a heartfelt condolence towards the family who suffered from the contemptible incident. The government should help them, in any which way, to get over their horrendous memories. The massacre was a dreadful act of a demented soldier so is not the responsibility of any other person or institution. Had the soldier not been punished for what he had done or punished liberally, it would have been a mistake in the part of RNA or the government. Thus, Nepal Blog Discovery feels that violent backlash by the political parties is just yet another of their publicity stunts.

Massacre at Nagarkot - RNA or a person posted by Pradeep Chand @ 9:23 PM 0 comments