Confused about love

What is love? I’ve always been confused about the word, ‘love’. I’ve also searched for the definition in the dictionary. Back on my time, (oh! I’m not that old to use this line, am I?) Let’s say few years ago, there used to be 1-2 definitions for a word, or 3-or-4 sometimes. But, as the time advances more and more definitions have been added to the name. What I’m trying to say is, the meaning of the word ‘Love’ is now more confusing than it was before. Few years back, ‘love’ means the affection or a positive emotion. I was not clear about the definition then, and now they added more definitions to the word, it says enjoyment, pleasure and sexual intercourse; seriously?! Sex? I thought people named ‘sex’ as ‘love’ just to convince their kids that ‘sex’ is not an appropriate word to elucidate to their age. Anyways, I’m not here to explain the many definition of the word ‘love’, I’m here to feel the love (am I exaggerating the stuffs? I hope not.) 

Highway To Hell

New is always nice. New clothes, new accessories, new gadgets and everything other that is new is nice. The value of anything is known only twice in time, before having it and after loosing it. Life is no more new, we gained life many years ago, we now do not care about it anymore. A near death experience will remind the value of life sometimes and soon after we again forget it. Specially the young blood, they have that energy stored in them since the childhood that one day soon that will burst out for revolution. We all did that, we may not remember but we all did something before stepped into our adulthood.

Why buy a motor bike

It was a normal day of my life, I was off for the day and going home tired. Lucky me that day, I got an empty seat in a local bus. It is not usual to find an empty seat in a local bus, specially during the office hour. Soon before the bus move, I got a company of an elderly man, he was around 40-45, seems like an banker or may be a businessman. It is my usual job, guessing people's age and job while on the bus. There was a heavy traffic than the usual that day, I was feeling lucky that I do not have to stand for that long. The man next to me seems impatient and start complaining about the government. I took earphone off my both ears and asked him if he says something to me. He was, like, amazed for a second and continue saying. He keep saying about the traffic in the Kathmandu, the pollution due to under-construction roads, politics and all. I was, like, yes... yes-of course... blah blah blah.

Bi-si-ka Jatra: The Festival of Dead Serpents

By Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Bhaktapur is an ancient cultural city-state in the Nepal Valley. According to one estimate, it has almost half of the ancient wood carvings found in the South Asia. So, it would not be exaggeration to say that Bhaktapur is the center of the Nepalese culture. You can see remnants of the cultural heritage in Bhaktapur even today. One of them is the annual ‘Bisikia’ festival. Bhaktapurians celebrate the eight-night and nine-day ‘Bisika’ festival over the period of four days before and four days after the Nepalese New Year day in the Vikram calendar.

Origin and Evolution of Festival

The exact date of the origin of this festival is not known yet, however, this festival must have developed along with the expansion of the Tantrism in Nepal during the period of Licchavi region (400 A.D. – 800 A.D.) because most of the rituals performed to God Bhairava and Goddess Bhadrakali, and ‘Yao-sin dyo’ (symbolic union of Bhairava and Bhadrakali) are closely related to Tantra. In addition, this festival had evolved during the period of more than five hundred years when Malla Kings ruled Nepal from the beginning of the 13th century to the mid 18th century.

Manandhar Caste and Barahi Temple

Barahi Temple, Bhaktapur
photo: razendra

When I was a kid, around 12 or 13, my English teacher suddenly asked me if I know that we Manandhars are forbidden in our city's greatest temple Barahi. I was like shocked. I said,  "I don't know, I'd just been there that morning". A friend next to me said she knew about the fact that the Manandhars are forbidden. I was so confused.

Few years ago, my aunt died because of old age, while on her funeral, my older brother told a story. As I like the story very much I listened to it quite attentively, as I always do. The story goes like this.