Who says spirituality Kills ambitions?

The most heard misconception about spirituality is that it annihilates ambitions. It sounds a little bit weird but it is found widely embedded in the mind of general laypeople. Most people often advocate that it inundates your mind and body with peace, calmness, tranquility, and softness which become barriers in your voyage to clinch your dreams. This specifically diminishes your energy and longingness for achieving goals in your life. Very often people think that spiritualistic people shouldn’t have a fervid desire for earning money in their life. These are the very common but wrong perspectives people have made about spiritualism and they often get scared to follow the spiritualistic path.

But I will tell you, spirituality is the path that assists you to ascend your every character and thoughts beyond your imagination. You will become a completely transformed person filled with virtuous and righteous thoughts and character. It leads your life towards complete happiness. Things started to become extremely beautiful and pleasant.   even on small achievements, you begin to cherish them with maximum contentment. characters and. Hence, you will have a happy and joyful mind which works more properly and efficiently than an anxious and worried mind. So you don’t need to crave for successful and prosperous life however it comes as a byproduct of a spiritualistic pathway.

Earning money through morally acceptable work is not heinous however it is the result of your strong commitment and hard work. This is what actually spiritualism teaches us to be focused concentrated, dedicated and hard-working. Success is inevitable when people become focused and dedicated in their work. Some of the enlightened gurus have insisted that earning lavishing amount of money is not wrong, enjoying a luxurious life is not wrong but he/she needs to spend some of his earnings for the service and welfare of poor people and mother earth.  

The major highlight of the 5th Amendment of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 2029

The National Park and Wildlife Conservation Act was promulgated in 2029, which had brought paramount changes regarding the conservation and protection of wildlife and their habitats. In the very beginning, Nepal followed the Yellowstone model, which more importantly emphasized the protection of flagship species and their habitats. As a result, Chitwan National Park was established in 2030 primarily focusing on the conservation of One Horned Rhinocerous and Tiger. Eventually, other national parks were also established giving higher priority to species-focused conservation like Baridya National Park for Tiger conservation in 2032 and so on. However, with the passing time, the modality of conservation was to be reviewed, so addressing this need, The National Park and Wildlife Conservation Act had amendments in the different time periods for five times. 

The 5th amendment poses special attention as it has made some terrific provisions concerning wildlife conservation and protection. Firstly, the management of wildlife corridors is an important input it has made. Increasing construction of linear infrastructure, population growth, and developmental works have resulted in the fragmentation of wildlife habitats. It has impeded the movement of animals and is forced to be confined within the narrow habitat which causes in loss of genetic diversity due to genetic drift. Corridors connect fragmented habitats thereby easing the flow of animals which will eventually reduce the severity of genetic drift while maintaining genetic diversity.

It has made a provision of wildlife farming, breeding, and research of various wild animals, reptiles, and amphibians. The person or any organization who wishes to start wildlife farming can easily begin their business after permission taken from the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation. The major purpose behind the formulation of this provision is to enhance the livelihood of local people through the farming of wildlife, however, the policy doesn't look supportive to marginalized communities.  However, some wildlife conservationists widely criticize this provision accusing, unless we don't have good monitoring mechanisms, this will further increase the possibility of wildlife poaching and illegal trading.

The provision of providing animals for research and educational exhibitions would allow national and international scientists and researchers to investigate the various aspects of animals and their habitat. It will yield evidence and findings regarding the status, ecology, habitat, and threats of the concerned species and will assist in carrying out research-based management and protection activities. 

The provision of the establishment of zoos, wildlife rescue centers, and wildlife hospital is another positive input of the 5th amendment. Similarly, the person who illegally stores, transport, and sell wildlife's body parts of protected species is fined up to Rs. 10 Lakhs and sentenced to 15-year jail or both. 

The provisions made in the 5th amendment of NPWC act 2029 are strongly inclined towards the protection and conservation of wildlife and their habitat. 

 

Experience of learning online course on community forestry with RECOFTC

For a very long time, I was locked inside my home due to an unprecedented lockdown and I was frequently wondering for something productive task, which might assist me in keeping busy. Unexpectedly, I got encountered a post on Facebook about the free online course that was going to be taken by RECOFTC. When I saw it, instantly, I had made the mind that, I will definitely going to participate in this course. Now, I am happily sharing my experience of successful involvement in an online course and through which I got an opportunity to enrich my knowledge in community forestry. 

I am a forestry graduate student and I am looking vehemently at my carrier in the field of forestry. For this simple reason, this course has been a great boon for me. Besides, I am really interested in social science, particularly, how people in the community operate rights in maximizing benefits from the forests. Additionally, I have read, how magically, the community forest of Nepal has changed the fate of millions of creatures and the lives of people depending upon the forest resources. This dramatic transformation, the country has achieved through community foresty has often intrigued me to delve inside it. 

So far, during these few weeks, I have learned so many things about community forestry. Before, I was completely naive about, how community forestry is practiced in other Asian countries. Indeed, it somehow helps me to get the general idea of different modalities of community forestry, their tenure rights, kinds of rights devolved to the local people and so many things associated with community forestry. Besides, I came to know about, problems and challenges faced by community forestry across the South-Asian region. However, I see multiple advantages of community forestry too, ranging from improvement of livelihood of people to imperative contribution in curbing green-house gaseous. Furthermore, I learn about various kinds of principles practiced in community forestry. So, the last few days have been extremely worthful for me.

#ForestForLife 

The series of Scandal: putting the ruling party down

The series of scandals: Scandals and controversies related to bribing of political leaders of the ruling and opposition party are no more novel issues in the short political history of Nepal. Every week, or at least within an interval of a month, new scandals of political leaders embroiled in some controversies get viral throughout the nation, especially in social media bringing the new cause of despair and anguish to citizens around the nation. With the dire hope of witnessing prosperous and developed nations, people around the country elected KP Sharma Oli and his companion as one of the strongest governments of the history. Nepalese people who were exhausted from the repeated ephemeral and turbulent government system before were seeking some hope of rise and shine on the current ruling party leading by KP Sharma Oli. Unfortunately, the government has not been able to persuade even their own followers on their favors in recent times leaking their fame and popularity. Despite powerful government, the constructional work and developmental project are not going in bearable rate and they are not getting momentum as they were supposed to take before the formation of the government. The questions must be raised when the stewardship for the development and constructional works were repeatedly taken by the Dhurmus-Suntali Foundation raising money from common people. This is totally disgusting and the government needs to be serious about these kinds of issues.
The series of scandals and controversies of the ministers from the alleged rape case of  Krishna Bahadur Mahara-Bishnu Poudel's illegal land transaction to Gokul Baskota's 70 crore bribe has put the government completely down as result effectiveness and popularity of government has been constantly impaired and wrecking.

The dealing audio recording for a commission (70 crore) by Gokul Baskota with Swish agent has gone abruptly viral in the social media today, due to which he was compelled to resign from his ministry post. These are the few representative cases that were being caught mistakenly. So we can easily speculate how corrupted this government has been. The frequent scandals and controversies embroiled by their own ministers have made the journey of KP Sharma Oli as a prime minister more difficult and troublesome. In recent times he found busy dealing with controversies of their own ministers and rescuing them from the arduous situation rather than vesting his energy on building a prosperous and developed nation. These kinds of situation have created complete havoc around the nation and questions have started to rise gradually against the government, simultaneously looking for better options for the next election. 

The sensitivity of Chure region

Chure region of Nepal: The Chure region runs along the flank of the northern base on the Himalayas of Nepal extending from the far-western region of Kanchanpur to the western part of the Jhap district. It is the most sensitive and fragile mountain range of Nepal but conversely, it possesses surmountable diversity and has been an imperative biological and ecological corridor linking the Terai and the Mountain region of the country. Additionally, it is an important water recharge zone of terai and provides multiple intangible environmental services from where thousands of people living downstream benefit from it. 

Chure (Siwalik) range 

It covers about 12% terrestrial land area of Nepal. The anthropogenic impacts had exacerbated its severity and sensitivity leading to irreplicable damage and destruction to the biodiversity and watershed condition.  The condition has been further intensified by global climate change, causing drought, unconditional floods, and the inundation of exotic and invasive species. As a result, the decrease in productivity, uncertainties of environmental services, degradation of the Chure landscape are the prominent impacts, which are creating hardship for the people residing around the Chure and Terai region.

Acknowledging all these harshnesses due to improper management and utilization of the Chure region, the Government had emphasized and promulgated various Chure conservation programs. However, most of the programs had turned out to be futile, making negligible progress regarding the conservation and restoration of the Chure landscape. The various studies have shown the intimidating future of the Chure landscape if proper management and conservation interventions are not taken at the right time.

Recently, The government of Nepal has formulated Master plan for Terai Madhesh Chure Conservation 2074, which aims to protect, conserve and extract optimum benefits from it without adversely affecting it's natural condition. 

The joy of watching live Cricket in Nepal.

Fans at TU ground during the world cup league 2 match at Kathmandu 

The joy of watching live cricket in Nepal: Recently, cricket world cup league 2 matches were held in TU ground in Kritipur where Nepal was the host country and was one competitor among other participating nations. The international cricket matches have arrived and conducted in Nepal after so long period of time. The presence of cricket in Nepal celebrated in very different ways by the Nepali fans at TU ground. The first match of Nepal was against Oman where the partially furnished ground was fully packed on such a cold morning on Feb 5. The passion and love of the Nepali fan and spectators towards the cricket was amazing and it was regularly admired by the commentators commenting on the live game. Among the associate countries, Nepal supposed to have the maximum number of fan followings for the Cricket. Even the former caption of Nepali cricket team Paras Khadka repeatedly acknowledge the immense support and love for the cricket and players by the Nepali fans.

Nepali fans during the T20 world cup in Bangladesh

Cricket matches of Nepal at any corner of the world found to be surrounded by Nepali fans with a red jersey and red Nepali flags on hand and cheering Nepal Nepal Nepal !! Being my self as a cricket lover it provides me enormous pleasure seeing all those red jersey and flags on the ground watching live streaming on Tvs and youtube back at home in Kathmandu.


But the real journey of Nepali Cricket has just started as they played world cricket league 2 ODI matches at home soil against Oman on Feb 5. They will regularly play competitive ODI matches during the 2 and half years, if they stand top 3 in the table, the door will open for the world cup to be held in India in 2023. Slowly Nepali cricket is getting attention and concerned around the cricketing world. As cricket is getting solid popularity in Nepal with the continued good performance of the Nepali Cricket team, the cricketing future of Nepal seems bright. 

Reminiscing My Childhood

Reminiscing My Childhood: Every person's childhood carries different, joyful and challenging circumstances and I do also have some kinds of child stories and some moment which brings me back to those days, time and often. Very often, I feel privileged and fortunate to be born on an identical middle-class family, when those beautiful and mesmerizing moments provoke on my mind and heart. After being young and struggling in ruthless Kathmandu and confining on a rectangular shape small room and dreaming big parallelly, these kinds of childhood memory provides immense happiness and a  kind of respite from that hectic and busy mind and time at the same time.   

I grew up in a complex family, with the care of grandfather, grandmother. My grandfather was a teacher and so I got a bountiful opportunity to learn from him as a student. On the other hand my grandmother, mother was a housewife so their responsibility was to finish all the household chores and support growing me up with my other younger brother and sister. Those days were completely different from these colorful and brightening days. There was no electricity, no phones, no TVs, but those childhood days were so pleasing and mesmerizing. 

Slowly disappearing rays of the sun used to bring back the evening followed with the dark and fearsome nights for us. Being a small child, dark nights used to be horrifying and scary. There was no electricity at those times so whole the village used to fall into complete dark only putting some beauty by the sound of insects. We used to rely on kerosene light for the brightness at night. My grandfather used to play radio, it used to be around 8 o clock at night. There were no other broadcasting radio channels other than radio Nepal. For the songs, news around the globe and any other information, we need to be catchy and attentive towards radio Nepal. Sometimes melodious and old traditional songs sung on the radio used to hit on my young mind, among them Deuda songs were the one which still gives me subtle pleasure. On those dark nights, music and lyrics of those Deuda songs used to provide some different kinds of impact on my mind. Usually, I used to felt on that music and lyrics of those songs. When I am writing these words, I am envisaging those night crawling and being on a warm lap of my grandfather. Though time has changed, still memories are alive on my mind.