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Ganesh

The story went something like this: when Shiva, the most powerful Hindu god, the father came home to find Pavarti the mother in bed with some young man, he angrily decapitated the young man. After learning that the young man was, in fact, his son, he desperately brought him back to life, using the head of the first living creature he found, an elephant. So they say.
namastAY

August 24th 2005
Given the recent (and on-going) tragedies in Iraq and the US, as well as so many other discouraging events, I feel like these entries now are trite. Certainly, I don't mean to demean anyone's loss or misfortune. And am thus tempted to not write at all. However, for the sake of conveying some positive among the negative, I will enter this after all. My great condolences to everyone who is to ... read more
Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu

Nepalese Flag In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more
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