I have been quiet for a long time now and there have been quite a few things that happened during these days.
I AM A MASTER
I got the certificate of my masters’. It was great because after leaving the study of Masters in English Literature, I was down feeling that I would never complete masters’. Then I joined Mass Communication and Journalism and completed it in 2005 (I got certificate late because I submitted my thesis only two months ago).
Immediately, I started teaching journalism in Kathmandu Don Bosco College. Although I have been teacher for almost 14 years, teaching at a good college is a completely new experience and I must say my students look like wonderful bunch (well, they worked very hard for the project).
DASHAIN & EID
I wanted to wish a happy Eid to all my visitors but I could not figure out which day is right to do so. I could have asked a few of my Muslim friends but I somehow believed I could know that by newspapers. I failed.
Then there was Dashain and although I sent out Happay Dashain greetings to my Hindu friends, I didn’t put any thing on websites because I feel like not doing it after missing an Eid greeting. I don’t know where that feeling came from, but I feel like going secular.
TREKKING
It wasn’t an actual trekking but I did a kind if hiking during Dashain. I went to Bela – nearly 50km from Kathmandu on a bus for the Dashain tika from my wife’s aunt. Then, we found that there is a jeep ready to go to Kanpur – a small village of my wife’s maternal uncles (on Hindu culture, taking blessings from them is necessary during Dashain but I hadn’t gone there in last five years). So we went there.
It was a tough riding on the top open jeep and the road was bumpy – I nearly fell off the vehicle twice. After all that, we walked back 90 minutes (hurriedly to catch the last bus to Kathmandu) only to find that the last bus has left 15 minutes earlier.
We were stranded half-an-hour away from Bela and there was no vehicle. A microbus came and when he knew we were not going far, just sped away. Damm him! Is he no human?
But there was another driver who gave us lift and we reached Bela and spent a night there. (The touch ride on the jeep and 90 minutes walk caused pain for more than two days)! Ahaaaa!
And, JOURNALIST’S ABDUCTION
Birendra Shah, a journalist in Tarai, was abducted by the Maoists (the investigating committees say this while the Maoists deny). He was abducted before Dashain and his whereabouts is still unknown despite the issue being raised at the special session of the Parliament and government’s commitment to find out.
Very sad! Please release him if he is still alive (or if he has already been killed then the Maoists are going to go through after wave of hatred feelings – this time from media)!
