Life can sometimes throw challenges that can make one feel like one is working in a desert without any footwear and no water to drink. Kirth, a young man whose drunken father deserted the family (wife and three children), had to deal with such situations a number of times in his personal life. As the eldest son, he had to bear the responsibility of taking care of his family and hence left his small home town in search of a job in a bigger city. After struggling for nearly three months and his funds, generated by his mother selling her jewellery, almost depleting, he found a job in a marketing company. In one year, he started seeing greener pastures in his job and personal life wherein he found a blossoming friendship with a beautiful young woman. Fate however had different ideas because on the day his relationship could have been cemented, he was pulled away to his hometown because of his ailing mother. The second sojourn into joblessness pushed him into the path that he detested most because his father had hit that road - taking to alcohol as a panacea for his sufferings. His attraction to alcohol proved to be a boon as he found his business partner, a rich young man to revive his professional fortunes. How did he overcome the separation? Did he overcome her infatuation? Did he get married again? The book oscillates between the positives and the negatives of Kirth's life as the protagonist unburdens his heart.
Nepal is a living example of contrasts and contradictions.It is a country that was born in medieval times, grew up in the 16th century, and now finds itself engulfed in the high-tech gadgets and material marvels of the 21st century. Nepal has its share of problem which include inadequate economic development and social infrastructure, poverty and corruption, plus worsening pollution, but now it finally has relative peace and quiet after a hasty Maoist uprising. Indeed, it has passed through several democratic elections, and finally seems to be getting on the right track. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Nepal contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Nepal.
This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country’s representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical structure- plains, hill ranges, mountainous massifs - and wide range of altitudinal terrains, which represent and replicate South Asian and East Asian continental conditions differing as markedly as humid tropical lowlands, sub-tropical hill ranges and temperate to sub-arctic mountainous environments. Associated forest regimes, in which deforestation and reforestation patterns have evolved in recent times, and differing densities of settlement and cleared agricultural landscapes in each of these altitudinal zones, add to the environmental diversity of Nepal. Associated fauna and exotic species are in various states of endangerment especially Bengal tigers, one horned rhinos, wild elephants, crocodile, musk deer, and peasants, to name a few- so that their forested and mountainous habitats as ‘Wild Life Reserves’ also deserve our attention, and are featured in this monograph’s remit.
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