NAYA NEPAL, A DOMOCRATIC REPUBLIC NEPAL

We believe in change. today barack obama got the nomination as a democratic candidate for the presidential election. I believe that Barack Obama is getting his vote and gaining popularity for the word he is using "CHANGE". i also believe that american economy and the foreign policy need to be changed.
Besides, US our monarchial kingdom has been changed into a democratic republic of Nepal, which is a drastic change in our political system of our country. Gyanendra Shah is now a citizen like me, moreover a businessman,lets not forget that. I am updating myself everyday through the media like BBC NEPALI RADIO, KANTIPUR ONLINE, MYSANSAR.COM, and so on and sometimes i get frustrated that our leaders are still not ready for the change that we poeple want in our nation. they just wanna rule in a system which is benificial for them. they should not forget that the revolution was people's revolution, not a seven party or a maoist revolutuon. Right now Maoist shuld cooperate with all the parties no matter small party or a looser party. and rest of our 24 political parties should give maoist a chance that if they can change nepal to Switzerland , as they said. lastly i am really worried about our country's media freedom that our proposed President PRACHANDA has challenged the one of the active media of our country which has a great role during the people's movement.i will really appreciate your comment.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2065

happy hew year to all our nepali people wishing you a happy, peaceful and prosporus NEPAL.

Historical Election in NEPAL

well..its kind of mixed feelings right now. I am focusing into the upcoming constitutional election in Nepal. Lots of comments, arguements, and misunderstandings are still there although the election is going to held shortly. i was shocked when i read the news about our underage candidates...not only one or two but 66 of them . not only this but also i am shocked about our candidates more than 250 who are still unable to prove themselves as a Nepali citizes. welll,,, whats goin on brother???? Are we doing or acting like a play ? Do our responsible government knows about the norms and nominations of the general elections? i still have doubts. some of our candidates for this election are below 20 ...then what they going to do to form our national constitution.
Our major political parties are also breaking rules by creating voilence. it seems like they actually are not representing peoples will.. all they are acting to be honest and making promise to hold a powerful position in the government.. everybody knows about this . I am telling this again because, after a long revolution we Nepali poeple were expecting something new and different regarding to us but everything is worse. there is no change and how could we expect a great change and a formation of new Nepal from them ? they still are trying to confuse us for their sake of power and money after the election. its preety clear....
One thing I don't understand is that why our economy is affected so badly by the revolution although there are a lots of revolution going on in many different countries in the world. I know we are trapped between two big nations but we are rich in our natural resources though. the other thing is all our manpower is not collected because of the revolution and lack of oppertunities in our country also.
Now all we can do is to pray for the fair election so that people's will could be represented in making our new constitution. So I request all our Nepali people to partcipate actively in the election and to choose for the best candidate. JAI RASTRA, JAI MATRIBHUMI..

Euthanasia, should it be legalized ?

Euthanasia has been a growing moral issue for about three decades. Every so often, it is in the news that some medical personnel has ‘helped’ a patient to die. According to the Vatican's 1980 Declaration on Euthanasia, euthanasia is "an action or an omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated. Euthanasia's terms of reference, therefore, are to be found in the intention of the will and in the methods used” (Lauritzen 1). Euthanasia is an answer to those who wants to end their pain and suffering and to those who want to die with dignity and should be made legal for use under established guidelines.

The euthanasia debate becomes complex when the carbon-based life form put to sleep is a human being. In this regard, the debate rests heavily on the words ‘assisted suicide.’ In the world these days, when someone fails at an attempted suicide, they are forced into psychotherapy to evaluate their problems, compared to the ways in which suicide attempts were dealt with in medieval times – a person who failed to commit suicide was jailed until such a time that the person stopped attempting to kill himself.

Intolerable pain is the common reason why people consider euthanasia and would like it legalized. In most cases of euthanasia, the person is already in great pain and suffers a lot. No one wants to suffer; therefore, they would rather kill themselves. For a patient in great pain, prolonging his life becomes prolonging the pain and suffering. At this point, the choice of euthanasia comes up. The person could actually end his suffering by letting the doctor or person in charge administer a lethal injection to end his life. When the person has given permission for the lethal injection, the person’s death will become an act of euthanasia.

Some think that euthanasia should not be done because even in great suffering life is still valuable. Because death is final, euthanasia prevents recovery and survival of terminal illness. According to Li Yan a 28 year old woman in Northwest China suffering from progressive muscular dystrophy since shortly after her birth; “those who decide to terminate their own life must be living with incurable disabilities or diseases. Tortured by pain, loss of dignity and surrender of hope, some choose suicide (Should Mercy...)”. Therefore, intolerable pain is often the cause of suicide.

Today, many people end their lives in hospitals and clinical care settings than at their private home. According to an important 1977 study on death and dying led by Dr. Joanne Lynn, Director at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. (published in Annals of Internal medicine, January 1977), most of those people end their days in pain, breathlessness, depression, and confusion (Vastag 2). Due to modern technology, patients these days are tested with different treatments like cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or attachment to a respirator or a feeding tube to prolong their lives. Doctor’s don’t know that many patients prefer comfort care rather than aggressive treatment in their last days.

The supporters of the right to die revolution are from different sectors: physicians, lawyers, ethicists, and ordinary men and women, most of who are united by their experiences with painful, prolonged death. Their desire for a “good death” or a death with dignity is the principle of this social agenda of euthanasia. Those who have witnessed a loved one suffering from pain can explain how hard it is to suffer from the pain. Financial problems in such families create a terrible situation for other members of the family. Although they have a family responsibility towards the dying patient, they can do nothing due to their financial situation. At that time, the patient feels both physical and psychological pain which can only be solved by euthanasia.

There are very few chances that a patient comes out of coma. It is one of the most complicated health problems that exist. The cost of caring for a comatose patient is a big financial burden on the family and to the health institution. One can argue that he has a fundamental right to die, but we must not forget that death is a natural process and science prolongs death. These days society is fully dependent on the invention and discovery of science and technology in the medical field to prolong lives suffering from disease and accidents. Realizing the fact that man is mortal, a family of a patient in a coma could make a decision to allow his natural death. Although it is not easy to decide, families should consider all the socio-economic consequences of keeping their loved one’s heart beating and accept the natural law of mortality. This does not mean they want to kill him rather they are choosing to artificial means.

There is nothing new about cases that involve physicians who have helped patient’s end their lives when they are suffering without hope or relief. For centuries, this act of mercy was carried out in the shadows, heavily guarded secrets kept locked within the family and between their physicians. There is no actual available data that shows how many people have died with another’s help, or how many physicians have helped their patients to die with dignity. But legally few such cases have been found in which physicians and loving family members were involved.

“In November 1994, 51 percent of Oregon votes approved the Death With Dignity Act by ballot initiative, making it the first State in the Nation to allow physicians to assist terminally ill patients in ending their own lives” (The Right 1). Not only in Oregon, but in the Netherlands as well physician-assisted suicide is legal. Although this widely condoned around the globe, only one nation and one state in the US is able to practice this legally. Brian Vastag in his article “No Slippery Slope” wrote:

Thirty-five U.S. states ban physician-assisted suicide, and Oregon is the only state to explicitly permit it. There, two doctors must certify that a patient wanting to end his or her life is mentally competent and has less than 6 months to live. A doctor then a write a prescription for a lethal dose of drugs but can’t administer it. The Netherlands allows physicians to assist in the death of a patient who, even if not terminal, faces “unbearable and hopeless suffering”.(Vastag 2)

Euthanasia should be based on a patient’s free will. Not only in Oregon and the Netherlands, it should be legalized everywhere so that no one has to suffer physical and psychological pain. Legalized euthanasia will also help those who have no other options than stock-piling drugs, suffocating loved ones with pillows and plastic bags, administering carbon monoxide or increased doges of morphine to end their suffering. While one recognizes that euthanasia can become a social problem, it can be standardized through laws and regulations.

Works Cited

"Should Mercy Killing of the Terminally Ill Be Allowed?" Beijing Review 50.15 (12 Apr. 2007): 46-47. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Northlake Library], [Irving],[TX].13February2008..


Lauritzen, Paul. "Caring at the End." Commonweal 133.5 (10 Mar. 2006): 14-16. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Northlake Library], [Irving], [TX]. 13 February2008..


Vastag, Brian. "No Slippery Slope." Science News 172.14 (06 Oct. 2007): 212-212. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. [Northlake Library], [Irving], [TX]. 13 February2008..

मेरो आफ्नै वीरतन्त

नयाँ साल २००८ संघै हर्स र उमङको हुरिले मलाई कहाँ पुरैराखेको छ त्यो मलाई नै थाहा छैन । एक महिनको छोटो हेहुदे बिदा पछी फेरी पढाई सुरु भयो । फेरी पनि तेही बिहान ५ ३० बजे उथ अनि काम मा हतार हतार गरेर पुग ।काम सकिदा नसक्इदै पढाई को च्याटअरो सुरु हुन्छ अनि फेरी हतार हतार गर्दै क्याम्पस अनि फेरी घर । यस्तै छ यहाँ को जिन्दगानी । कहिले कही कम्प्युटर को आघडी बसेर आफ्नो वीरतन्त सभै समू पोख्न खोग्छु तर यहाँ सुनिदिने पढिदिने को ?सभैलाई आफ्नो कम बाट फुर्सद नै छैन । हुन पनि कहाँनी त आफ्नो पनि त्एही त हो । आरु लाई दोश दिएर पनि के नै हुन्छ र ।शायद नेपाल बाट आएको पनि एक बर्ष भन्दा बढी भाई सक्यो । घरा फर्किने रहर सधैं सिरानी पछी बुन्छु । आखिर गर्न त्यो शिवए के नै सक्छु र मैले ।उही पशुपतिनाथ लाई सधैं सम्घन्छु अनि भन्छु । सभै को कल्यान गर्नुस् ।

Happy Holidays 2007

Wishing you all the best. Have a happy and safe holiday.

Confucianism in China

Chinese culture is influenced by the philosophical traditions of Confucianism. A religion or an ethic based on Confucians social teachings. He was a great teacher whose teachings have profoundly affected many people in the world. “In 130 BC the Confucian text became the basic discipline for the training of government officials, a pattern that continued until the Empire collapsed in 1905” (Smith 119).
The tradition of Confucianism started in China and spread to Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and to communities of South Asian immigrants worldwide with Chinese cultural and political dominant. Moore wrote in his book:
The Confucian tradition actually began well before Confucians (The Latinate form of Kong Fuzi, “master kong’) and is known in Chinese as ruijia or the school of the RU vu meaning weak or yielding. Ru also referred to the learning to the learned aristocracy of the defeated sharing dynasty (ca. 1776-1050 BCE) who nevertheless continued to share on specialist in li( ritual and protocol) that is in determining appropriate behavior and techniques of government . (Moore 6)
The first teacher whose principle focuses on creating harmony in human society had a modest life. He lost his father in his early childhood and grew up learning many things including his family’s problems. When he started working as a government officer, his principles, and norms and values helped him to spread his reputation. He spends more than a decade visiting states to states, proffering unsolicited advice to administrators. For his teachings Smith wrote,” Confucians was undoubtedly one of the worlds greatest teachers prepared to instruct virtually all the disciplines of his day, he was a one-man university” (Smith101).
“The meaning of self-cultivation and social political reform: Confucians believed that political order must be established on social order, and social order must come from individual cultivation “(Tsai 1). It basically explains the interrelation between politics and society. If every individual will be rectified then the whole nation will be governed and peaceful. Therefore, Confucians said “Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated their families regulated. Their families being regulated their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy (Tsai, 1).
Confucians stresses filial piety and family values through articulating the five basic human relationships. These relationships are the relation between ruler and minister, between father and son, between husband and wife, elder and younger brother, and between friends .For this he remarked “The life of the moral person is an exemplification the universal moral order…the life of the vulgar person, on the other hand is a contradiction of the universal moral order” (Novak 119).
Although Confucianism is a similar to Buddhism, Coniferous was a different personality than the common religions or spiritual leader. Philip Novak describes his different personality as follows:
Confucius is different kind of sage, unlike the great spiritual personages of the Western traditions; he is not a prophet out in the wilderness, proclaiming the revelation of God and railing against human indifference. Nor does Confucius fit the profile of the classis spiritual hero of India, the yogi, who through ascetic withdrawal from the world and sustained psychophysical discipline taps superhuman reservoirs of wisdom. Rather, Confucius is, unabashedly, an educator. He is a learner and a teacher, a person-in-community who encourages nothing less than the full moral maturity of the entire body politic. (Novak 119)
At the time when Confucius was born, the Chinese society was facing many social problems. Disintegration of the feudal system was one of the major social problems and many individuals and families were suffering from that social turmoil. When he started working on that issue, his principle was to create a perfect society by creating by perfect individual leaders. He thought that excellent individuals created excellent societies and in a similar manner, excellent societies would nurture excellent individuals. For this Molloy in his book stated:
According to Confucius, excellence comes partly from the cultivation of an individual’s virtues and intellect. Thus, education is essential. We should recognize, thought, that for Confucius education meant more than knowledge; it also involved the development of skills in poetry, music, artistic appreciation, manners, and religious ritual. Confucius valued education because it transmitted the lessons of the past into the present. He believed that much of the wisdom required producing excellent human beings is already expressed in the teachings of the great leaders of the past. Convinced that the past provides fine models for the present, Confucius thought that education could show the way to wise and happy living. (Molloy 239)
In China the three main religions Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism are compared to the sun, the moon, and the planets as the necessary past of a complete universe. As a common tradition people started unifying the pictures and statues of the Buddha side by side in friendly poses. This is a great example of religious tolerance in China.
Confucianism has played a prominent role in shaping the social norms and expectations of Chinese society. Here Confucianism serves more as a cultural institution rather than a specific religion. That’s why Moore wrote, “Confucianism has remained the dominant influence in the realms of the socialization, social structure, and ideals and practice of government” (Moore 98). Confucianism’s impact on Chinese society could be seen easily in the realm of the Chinese government. In China, emperors were called “Son of Heaven” and they were assisted by cultured, educated bureaucrats steeped in Confucian ethics.
Confucius is revered as the first teacher, and his followers throughout the centuries have made education a high priority. In China, even the poorest people strove to educate their sons in the hope that at least one would pass the civil service examination, bringing prestige and influence to their family. This proves him as the best teacher whose teachings are still popular among the worlds largest population. In a show of respect of Confucius, people celebrate his birthday on September 28th as Teacher’s Day every year.
Although the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and MaoTse-Tung’s anti-Confucian ideals were particularly destructive to the Confucianism theory, it is often actively promoted in countries like Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea. However, the Communist Party still promotes Confucianism due to its historical and tourism value. The economist (US) wrote, “On topics ranging from political philosophy to personal ethics, old Confucian ideas are gaining new currency”( Confucius makes ).