Tale of a Village

Friends, this is a story of a village in hill of Nepal. The village called Baruwa, had no more than 15 families with mixed caste. The village was experiencing peace despite there was unrest around the hill. Some groups of people were fighting with government in the name of self-governing, economic power, and caste based state. Recently, the national government had declared to swipe the revolution out with power so it deployed huge number of security forces main para military accompanying armed police force.

It was a calm and beautiful evening the government's force were arrived to Baruwa while they were marching to further remote areas. Since it was already evening they decided to camped near the village in a hilltop. While they were camping, some of the officers asked villagers if they saw the decedents. Villagers had knew most of the rebels because most of them were come from neighboring villages but they were scared to inform. Baruwars told the police forces that they had seen some group marching the village but non of them were recognized faces and put doubted they must had come from another part of the country. Police tried to pull out information from villagers using different techniques even slapping some young guys during interrogation but unable to get any. However, the evening was passed and next day the force headed to further towards remote hill.

Unfortunate villagers, the incident didn't stop here, next evening a group of armed rebels came to Baruwa and gathered most of the adults in a place and started interrogation about why the governmental forces lived in the village, who called them, and what the villagers told to the forces about the rebels? The Baruwars told all the fact but they were not believed and beaten in mass and four young were abducted.

Two days later, again the governmental forces were arrived to the villages with full of head. The villagers were accused of supporting rebels and sending their youth to the group. Many Baruwas were beaten again including elders and women. Some young men were taken in custody women were raped by officers in their.

Villagers had found gun wounded body of the arrested men in forest and hanged women. The raped women committed suicide together.

In this way the peaceful villages was dismantle with in a week but fate did not stop here they were targeted continiously from both side. Most of the family lost their loved one and many of them were the feeder of the family. The families were now forced to donate food and shelter for both side since their was no one to work on farm.

It was difficulty to survive and bear the pressure so the families were started to flee the village because they had no places to complain. The government agency considered them as a sympathizers of rebels and rebels accused them as informer. With in a six month whole village become empty most of the young individuals were either abducted or arrested or killed and survived elders and children were migrated to the plain or slums of bigger cities mainly Kathmandu, Narayangarh, and Butwal.

Language and Education

Human being is distinct from other animals because he can communicate with his counterparts or fellow human and also can express own thoughts. Human do all things in form of language. Invention of languages is a greatest achievement of human history.

Because of the language, any human can express himself. If he knows multiple languages he can communicate with multiple groups of people. Not only that being an expert or having good command in any language is equally important. That allows any individual to express himself much effectively.

Education is a fundamental of language learning and education contribute to becoming expert in any language. Even a native speaker seldom could not become an expert in his language because in day to day life one does not have to use wide range of vocabularies. Vocabularies are the dynamic of any language. However, education provides opportunities to explore more dynamics of any language and people tend to learn more words of the language to become an expert. Education also provides opportunities to learn different languages because searching knowledge is another part of education. Different languages have different sort of knowledge and knowing multiple languages means opening a new horizon of knowledge.

In conclusion, I must say language is a part of education. With out language no education is possible and vice versa. On the other hand, without systematic education it would be hard to know dynamics of language.

Luck or Karma

I have heard, people saying unlucky and/or lucky for any consequences, they happen to meet. Most of the time it make me wonder, are there any such things exist as luck. I could not understand yet, how could luck make things happen to anyone, if that person is not doing his/her karma.

I do believe in karma rather than luck because one must study to pass his exams. One must eat to survive. If there was any such things as luck, why people would work had to get paid. There is a Nepali proverb, which says"milking cow in basket does not work whether you are lucky or not", a rough translation. Someone has to make right decision, pursue hard work with dedication for getting a desired result. We can find dozens of examples to justify this argument such as consider Bill Gates, who became a richest man in the world not because he was lucky, rather he made right choice and dedicated his life in computer technology as well as new way of business. Same things happened to Hillary and Sherpa who succeeded Mount Everest, because of their dedication, preparation, and highest eagerness to summit the mountain.

I have seen many people who go to temples, churches and even read horoscope to figured out luck. Many times they do things as horoscope says for getting things happen as they desire and ending with unwanted result. Bad results happened because people relied on luck and did not do hard work and put dedication on.

Therefore, if you really want things to happen, you must work on it. Your right decision, hard work, and dedication only bring your desired results to you.

I can change myself, if I can not change situation

"We can not choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them"

Couple of days ago, I found this quote in a web forum. Actually, those words are said by Epictetus, an ancient Greek philosopher. The sentence did not much inspired me at the time I read very first. However, later when Durga informed me that she was rejected again with her US visa to join me. That made me really sad and, frankly speaking, I could not sleep that whole night, thinking how could we live together. I was not willing to return Nepal and she was denied to come USA. But the next day, I came across to the sentence again. This time I really felt relieved and enlightened.

The people of American Embassy has right to deny US visa to my wife but nobody can stop me to go Nepal. And Nepal is not that bad where I can not live. A lot people are living there with decent life style. I can live there, too with good life and even I can contribute to my society with my knowledge and experience.

Since then, my way of thinking has changed because I can make different to myself and my circumstances. There is no such thing in life, I have to worry about. As long as I am alive and retain high esteem, nothing can let me down. Whether I do live in USA, Nepal, or any other places, I have to live with my dream and energy. So I have decided, I will do my best whatever I do and wherever I live. If I can not bring my wife (Durga) in USA for another 6 months, I will return to Nepal and start a brand new life with my dream.

Sad Situation

Oh! Boy another sad day. My wife (Durga) has been rejected for US visa again. It’s been a 4^th time she tried to get visa. We have all necessary documents, in fact have strong documents but they keep rejecting her. We provided documents like assistantship letter, $20,000 plus bank balance letter form US bank, nearly $100,000 fix property in Nepal.

I got surprise, what kind of document those guys of American embassy want?

Any ways, for the time being, we have to live thousand miles apart. I am thinking, what should I do next? Should I give up everything in USA? And return to Nepal and find some job or start some kind of business. Actually, I was dreaming always of starting farming in my home village and involved in social service. I could serve my people some how in a different way. I may try different options like applying PR in Canada, which will take at least one year to finalize. And this is not a bad idea at all. I may also try to find some job in USA and secure work permit (H1B visa). If either options work she can come with me and we will be able to live together.

I have one more option that is to get PhD. They won’t probably reject her, if I get admission in PhD. I am brainstorming so much since yester night and could not find right idea. Hope the problem will be solved very soon. A part of my heart tells me, there could be much good things to happen that’s why they are rejecting dependent visa to her. If so, this desperation and tension would be worthwhile.

Fight and Survive

"Survival of the Fittest", the theory of Charles Darwin made me very thoughtful yesterday, when I was watching some video clips about wildlife on National Geographic's website. Here I am talking about a clip, which was showing the life style of white Egrets in Florida wetlands. Both parents of Egrets were equally involved in raising their chicks but there was rivalry between siblings form very first week of the hatching.. The sibling chicks were constantly fighting for food, which two parents were carrying for the chicks in their bill and crop. The powerful siblings secure more food and become even more powerful to fight. Initially there were 4 chicks on hatching time but remained only 2 until they were able to fly. The two chicks were strokes and thrown from the nest by their siblings during the course of time. All three relatively powerful siblings kick-out and threw the first weak sibling when they were growing and needed more food, so they were able to get more food for themselves. Within another few days or week, they grew further and again feeling shortage of food so the two bigger ones threw another weak sibling. Both these incidents were happen in absence of their parents, who were then out for seeking food.

It sounds mean to human but the theory Charles Darwin had established after long research, is not bad at all in this rough nature. You have to be winner to survive.

Rebuilding of Haiti

Yesterday, I wrote short intro about Haiti and latest apocalypse quake. Geophysicists, like Paul Mann and Eric Calais, are suggesting the disaster is not over in the region and warns another possible huge quake along the hundreds of Kilometer long fault line. They are studying several quake models. According to their preliminary findings, the recent quake has relieved stress along 80 KM fault segment only and remaining segment rebuilding greater strain. That means, any time sooner or later, the region will see another great quake same like recent quake of Haiti.

This situation suggests that rebuilding of Haiti and Port-au-Prince is very crucial. The government of Haiti and international communities who are involving in rebuilding of Haiti must design a master plan which complies quake resistant technologies, so rebuilt Haiti would be sustainable.

The rebuilding of the country is not easy because priorities for the moments should be given on humanitarian effort. Large segment of population needs basic necessities of life because already deprived population is in vain after the disaster. Although, if developed nations and good souls around the world work to rebuild the country nothing is impossible.