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The Nepal Tourism Bored may have hit upon a great fundraising strategy completely by chance. Our roving correspondent took these snaps of bronze Buddhas at the Nepal pavilion of the World Expo in Shanghai this week. Even without a sign saying 'Donations Welcome', Chinese visitors (there have been 5 million so far) have dropped oodles of yuans. The only Nepali officials present seemed busy hawking handicrafts on the side, and it wasn't clear what happened to the money at the end of each day. By the end of the Expo in September there should be a couple of million dollars right there. We could use the money to buy more x-ray machines to reduce congestion at the airport and maybe a fleet of new airport taxis ahead of the expected invasion of one million tourists during NTY 2011. The donkey just got a brainwave: how about installing a dozen more Buddhas and line them up at the exit to the Shanghai pavilion?

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No wonder the Chinese are so spooked by a Buddhist monk's 75th birthday.

After all, no one ever throws money at the mummified cadaver of the Great Helmsman at his Maosoleum in Beijing, whereas a Nepal-born mendicant commands such respect and following even after 2,500 years. Incidentally, we were all fabulously impressed by the vigilance and courage shown by our Armed Police Force Special Unit in preventing people at Boudha and Jawalakhel from rallying for peace and compassion. And if you were wondering what caused the huge traffic jams on Tuesday it was because APF commandos were dragging away 'Tibetan-looking' persons out of buses coming in through Kalanki, Koteswor, and Jorpati. The Chinese may be so impressed with the thoroughness of our APF they could request a loan to quell future disturbances in Lhasa. Then what do we do?

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Why is everyone getting so worked up about Awesome telling the Times of Hindoostan that Indian and Nepali Maoists got along like a house on fire and that the Naxalites were welcome in Naxal anytime? PKD told confidantes he was striking while the iron was hot as the Congress was being badgered by the BJP and the CPM. He said this was part of his carefully calibrated `bargaining tactic' to hit the headlines in India so he would be noticed and finally get the audience he has been craving at the Delhi Darbar. My educated asinine guess is that the interview will backfire on Terrifico.

Then the very next day Hormis Tharakkan writes in the India Espresso calling on the Govt of India to be 'more flexible' in dealing with Maos in Nepal. India's Super Spook seems to have a soft spot not just for Nepal but for its baddies as well. But Com Hormis should've also enlightened us on his engagement with the guerrillas during the war and the safe haven he provided the teroristas in India then.

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You know fhit is about to hit the san when the comrades at Perish Danda stop picking up their mobiles. It looks like they are literally busy with internal 'party' politics. PKD found out that the four commanders plus Baburam and Kiran attended Com Hitman's party at Gongaboo last week. So the Chairman invited them to the Pistachio Palace for a charm counter-offensive. It seems to have worked cuz Ananta and Pasang quickly un-defected. The rank and file are now really confused because the PKD and BRB are nowboth in the semifinals for PMship. Which is why the three parteis all looked sheepish when they arrived at Shital Nibas on Weds to get the prez to extend the deadline for govt formation by five days. After all, they squandered the whole past week squabbling and the first time they even met was on Wednesday, and that was to sit down to agree to ask the president for an extension.

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Finally good news from the North American Nepali diaspora: NAC and ANA have merged to form the NRNNCC, the USA chapter of the NRNA. It will now lead the ANA to set up NRN America and ANA, NRNNCC/USA, NRNA.

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A kangresi, an eh-maley and a maobuddy went to the CA canteen. The sauni asked, what kind of tea? One said 'white', one said 'black' and the third said 'black or white'. The alert sauni said: "You want milk in your tea, so you must be a kangresi. You want black tea, you must be a maobadi. And you don't seem to know what you want, you must be eh-maley."

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1. Babu Ram Rai
TheStory of a Sage and a Mouse.- Hitopadesha.
In the Hitopadesha there is a story in which a Sage converts a Mouse into a Tiger. However the Sage always regarded the tiger as a  mouse. People said, "This Sage has turned a mouse into a tiger."
 The Tiger thought to himself, "As long as the sage lives,this notorious story of my true nature will not vanish
Thinking thus the Tiger went to kill the Sage.
 When the Sage came to know of this,he said, "Convert yourself into a Mouse." So turned him into a mouse again.
  Then Raw Chief Hormis Tharakkan must have thought of this story on his engagement with the guerrillas and the safe haven he provided the teroristas in India then.; except  for Kiran and CP.."


2. who cares

looks like nepalese are learning to decorate (in the pictures), in the past, it used to be messy.


events in chinese expo is positive to nepal



3. kabulekanchho
Why not we have a permanent Nepali pavilion in Beijing and all the other major cities in the Chinese east coast with Buddha statues like above? It might help us to narrow the balance of payment gap with the friendly northern neighbor little bit. Currently the gap is not a gap it is actually a ga............................................................ap!


4. arun
kabulekancho! are u day dreaming??



5. T. Norkyel
Stupid non-Buddhist participants from Nepal have gone to do the decoration of the Nepal Pavilion without the slightest idea which color-sequence should the prayer-flags (Tibetan) be strung. It is done opposite which is an insult to Buddhism and reflects absolute stupidity of the organisers who went to Shanghai on taxpayers' (including mine) money. Shame on you!

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