Lord - Lord Shiva

                                                   The Hindu Deity

                                                                 

Lord Shiva is the Hindu Deity. Concurring to the Hindu mythology, He is a creator, preserver, and the destroyer. Pashupatinath Temple (ancient temple) located at Kathmandu. The biggest temple of Lord Shiva. The month of Shrawan (July-August) is the month of Shiva. The month is dedicated to Lord Shiva. Hindu people used to worship regular Shiva in this month. Monday is the special day of this month to worship Shiva.

Shivaratri is one of the great festivals of Hindu. Shiva Ratri is a night of contradiction. Religiously, not much to say, every Hindu knew well about it. Culturally, however, we still have places we can go to. Bundled in one blanket, friends gather around the fire at Pasupati enjoying the chill of the night. The night of Lord Shiva is here. Considered the “Simple” God in Hindu mythology, Shiva enjoys weed with aplomb most earth dwellers can only dream about. He is magnificently flawed in the virginal Himalayas with his scantily-clad body, snake around the neck and a fountain running down his hair. He is the Destroyer. And it is night.

Then there are the fruits. The Bears and shimkhadas that we very rarely talk about. These seasonal and local fruits are as much a part of Shivaratri's memory as are the roads that children block for petty money from passers-by.  The fruits during the day and the mystery at night speak volumes of the cultural rather than the religious part of Shivaratri and it got me thinking. He did the dark night of the Lord land amidst the beauty of the spring?.  How in fact did we manage to enjoy the ganja along with the delicious shimkhadas?. We remember an incident.  People gathered around the fire and danced during Shivaratri enjoying the cool breeze and warm heat from the fire. There was something surreal about the way they looked- intoxicated and aware at the same time. And maybe that is what Shivaratri is all about. We eat fruits during the day and we get intoxicated at night. Like Shiva, the day is brimming with disagreement. Also, that is the place whose beauty lies. People flock to the temples, fast and feast during the festival. 

The way we celebrate this day is greatly affected by the way we are brought up. It is enjoyed by almost everyone in Nepal for it signifies the end of the cold winter. It is the day of the mighty God we all secretly fear and respect. And most importantly, it is a big part of the culture of Nepal. We fight in the queue outside the temple during the day and we dance around the fire at night. We eat and we fast. Either way, the dark night of the Lord is never ignored. Shivaratri exists very much like the feeling of God, thick in the spring air amidst the smoke that comes from a newly loaded ganja and the sweet taste of spring fruits. 

Wildlife - Animal - Horse Racing Today

                                   Horse racing at the top of the mountain

                                                                       

Individuals of Mustang assemble to commend the Yartung celebration consistently in the month of August. At the same time, the Hindu festival Janai Purnima concedes marks the end of the summer in the region.

The main attraction of this festival is horse-riding (races) which takes place in Mustang. Most of the (Men) participant is from Manang, Jomson, and Lamjung, They participate in a variety of events and flaunt their horsemanship. People (audience) encourage them with claps and whistles, daring horseman pick up shades from the ground while still riding on horses, which at high speed. The horse is not only the importance of the festival, but it also expresses that it is the central part of their lives of people in Mustang, where until recently horse riding was only the medium of travel. It is said that the type of horse that one has in the family is said to determine the fate of its owner - good horse brings good luck while a bad horse attracts misfortune.

Mustang is one of the last places in the world where horses are central to the culture and lifestyle. Horses to me represent the mythical power. The horse culture in Mustang in the most refined articulation of man's association with the creature. You may go and talk to a cowboy about his horse, but he would not be able to express it in the same way the people of Mustang can. I think that the future of horse culture now rests with the young of Mustang. Now the area is modernizing, there is the road, and people used the motor vehicle to get around. Continuing the culture of horses forward will be the challenging one. There are other tangible things like temples and monuments that are part of their culture. These things must be preserved & restored. There are also other things, horse-riding culture, that can’t be preserved in the same manner.

Wildlife - Animal - Fish Keeping

                                                    Fish Keeping Hobby

As shown by the investigator, keeping fish in the home brings good karma. It expands positive vitality and controls negative essentialness, Bastu Sastra moreover communicates the equivalent. It has additional medical advantages. It will be useful for a little child or the senior who is experiencing an uneasiness issue, mind-set issue or gloom. Hindu folklore expresses that fish is one of the manifestations of Lord Vishnu (Narayan). Along these lines, Hinduism regard in their own particular manner. Some of the time, it is a great idea to loosen up watching the playing fish. It revives the psyche and state of mind.

Entertainment - Story

                                                         From then to the present

The fairy tales have entertained, it has a fan in numerous in number. There is an innumerable number of people, who listen, read as well as watch the fairy tale stories. The fables of Aesop, Kidnapped, Pride & Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Gulliver Travels, the adventure of tin tin, Cinderella, Harry Potter, etc. Most of the people are familiar with this entire name. Who has an interest and who has no interest, directly or indirectly they have touched or listen about these stories. Most children have a keen interest to know about such stories & listen to them. In early times, there is no books, comics, movies, etc, at that time these stories are told by people to each other or to the children verbally only. There is no other medium to share these. Nowadays, we have books, comics, movies, etc to share and watch all these. With the advancement of technology, we can get such stories or fairy tales on the internet or DVD. The objective of these stories to entertains people but mostly children. The stories came from early time or some stories are written recently. There are many stories that we have to listen to from another time to time. The nature of the stories is also varied. Some stories are adventuresses, some stories are vocational, etc.  The major aim of these stories is to entertain, share Knowledge & teach morals.

We are listening, reading, and watching the stories, movies till now. The fairy tale stories often told in homes, schools, sometimes in the pedestrians (roads). In the schools, teachers told the stories to their students to teach them, in-home parents or elder told the stories to their baby to cheer them when someone became sad. Such stories made people happy when someone listens to them in bad condition. Traveling through the unknown lands with Gulliver to the land of fairies with the Grimm Brothers, an attempt has been made to bring unabridged classics to the general reader. Harry Potter is very popular among people between a few years. The Harry Potter books were sold in the market in huge amount. The Harry Potter movies were also made, it is watched by people all over the world, in the cinema, TV channels and more. It has made history in the entertainment industry. It was liked by all the categories of ages. The small baby to elder, all the people have tasted the sweetness of Harry Porter's story. The story narrative of the youthful man who knows the magic spell. Titanic, the romantic movie was also very popular among the youth. The movie was released before few years.

Most of the fairy tale stories are imaginary. Some stories are real. The real stories are about the place, person, things, etc. The true story is about ancient Egypt, the true story about the Buddha. The true story about the discovery of internet technology, networking technology, flying cars, hybrid cars, etc. The great authors like William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson all come together in this series to take the reader through an enchanting journey of their times depicted in their books. The main aim of such stories is to entertain, provide knowledge or teach morals to its readers & followers.

History - Chanakya

The Chanakya

The Chanakya, generally called Kautilya has been known as the Indian Machiavelli. The commended counsel to the Indian ruler Chandragupta Maurya (fourth third century B.C.) was most popular for his treatise on the study of commonwealth entitled Arthasastra (The Economics). Of more noteworthy general intrigue is an assortment of gnomic stanzas credited to Chanakya in Sanskrit, which arrived at Nepal, Tibet, and Burma, where they were interpreted and turned out to be extremely well known. An engraving on a stone in Kathmandu dated 1413 A.D. portrayed a ruler, Jaya Jyotirmalla (1407-28 A.D.), as "refined by all the adapting, for example, Chanakya (and) who is the sea of the whole commonwealth."

As late as the main quarter of In the twentieth century, Chanakya was well known among Nepalese researchers. In excess of 250 augmentations of Chanakya Niti or Sar Samgraha, an assortment of exactly 300 sections, in Sanskrit, Nepal Bhasha (Newari) and Nepali have been noted. Most kids took in the Devanagri letter set by presenting Chanakya and instruction for some started and finished with his work, a duplicate of which, arduously replicated by hand, are still be found in numerous homes.

Interpretation of Chanakya in English and Latin showed up in the nineteenth century. All the more as of late, Ludwik Sternbach has distributed legitimate investigations of Chanakya. In 1971 Prem Bahadur Kansakar drew out a release going back to 1745 A.D. with rendering in present-day Newari alongside the old Newari adaptation and the Sanskrit content. "A Translation of a more up to date form of the Chanakya Sar Samgraha" by Ian Alsop and Prem Bahadur Kansakar were distributed in the English language diary of Himalayan and studies, Kailash, Vol. VII, no 3-4 out of 1979.

In certain regards, Chanakya's thoughts might be really antiquated however his name has become an equivalent word for an ambassador and his work keeps on reviving interest, Chanakya himself hasnoted: "It is extraordinary to isolate nectar paying little heed to whether it is found in poison. Regardless of whether gold rests in an unclean spot, it ought to be separated. Genuine information ought to be gained even from those of low position. In the event that ladies are incredible, it is great to take her, regardless of whether she is of low station.

Religion

                             

                    The Religion 

Science versus Religion is a hotly debated issue everywhere throughout the world. Today, the propensity is far-reaching among individuals to imagine that religion amounts to only sentiment and visually impaired confidence. Before, individuals would swing to religion to discover genuine learning and genuine direction for their lives. Be that as it may, the advancement of present-day science has driven individuals to surmise that religion is outdated and that religious composition is only some old sacred writings speaking to the perspectives of individuals from the medieval period who may have made them interest bits of knowledge into life yet who truly didn't have genuine information. These days, individuals think science is the wellspring of genuine learning. Actually, the alleged science has achieved that phase where it can't clear about the higher working of nature and religion. 

Material science and science portray the world as far as electrons, protons, electrical fields, and different other such marvels, and the current researchers are instructing to the world that life gas emerged by just the communications of iotas, as per the laws and hypotheses of physical science. In the event that individuals are only electrons, molecules et cetera, working as indicated by generic physical laws, what clarifications can science give with respect to cognizance, conclusions and otherworldly measurement of life? What sort of God acknowledgment can electrons and protons have? Consequently, advanced science's decision that life originates from matter has prompted wisp to read, irreligion. 

The Darwinian hypothesis of advancement is another solid rationale which the cutting edge researchers are taking after and it is additionally one of the principal instruments for spreading irreligion and skepticism. The thought behind the hypothesis of development is that we don't have to conjure a remarkably canny maker to clarify the wonder of life. Darwin's hypothesis of advancement keeps up that life has occurred simply by physical procedures. It's just a question of electrons protons cooperating with each other are step by step meeting up to frame increasingly confused structures until, at long last, people come to presence. Be that as it may, nobody has ever clarified how iotas can meet up to shape individuals or even microorganisms, so far as that is concerned, Darwinian advancement hypothesis is totally vacant theory. 

All in all, mysticism and science are not two conflicting angles, rather they are two countenances of the same coin. When we see one face, the other face is covered up. Similarly, the Supreme Lord Krishna put profound learning in the eastern face of the globe and investigative information in the western face. Along these lines, eastern individuals have confidence in God's words with no uncertainty while individuals of the western world just have faith in logical proofs demonstrated by hypothesis, investigations, and results. Fundamentally, the general population from two inverse appearances talk the same thing yet in various ways. This demonstrates mysticism and science are two aspects of the same coin.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Music

The Gandharvas and their Sarangi.

  

Sarangi Musical Instrument

Music, The sarangi, a one-piece instrument having a neck and dug out the body, is cut out from light wood, privately known as Khiro. The wood is cut into a length of around afoot. The body is cut into an empty edge with two openings. The lower opening is then concealed with dried sheep-skin. The first strings were made out of sheep digestive tract. 

You've seen them on the bustling roads of Thamel, playing this musical instrument that looks dubiously like a violin, finishing sightseers the group trusting that one of them would purchase their item. What's more, some of you presumably have been affected by them and now and again even been bothered by their nearness. However, behind that basic façade is a man urgently battling for survival –not just of his own against neediness yet that of the Nepalese musical convention against the impact of expanding western musical society. 

Contending with the booming Bob Marley on the stereo being played in the eateries, these roaming artists of Nepal sing melodies that have a place with each pulse of the Nepalese individuals.  Gandharvas, since time immemorial, have been perceived as the artists of Nepalese society. Radio introduces first than TV. Gandharva would circumvent the towns playing music and spreading the news, much in like manner to Europe's meandering minstrels. Complicatedly blended with music, these Gandharvas would relate stories running from records of fights battled long prior to going on of nearby talk. In an area where training was the privilege of the favored few. Their commitment to matters of chronicled issues has additionally been critical. Ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah, who brought together the different scattered kingdoms to frame the kingdom of Nepal, utilized Gandharvas to sing the wonderfulness of the Shah Dynasty. They were utilized as a method for purposeful publicity amid the unification time frame and were sent to towns to sing for a bound together Nepal. 

The Gandharvas figure out how to sing their extraordinary tunes and play the Sarangi in a customary way –elders go on their abilities to the more youthful eras. The Sarangi is a genuine Nepalese musical instrument. The name Sarangi is a mix of two words. "SA" – the main note of music (parallel to DO as in DO, RE, ME...) and RANGI meaning vivid. So the instrument that hues up notes of music are known as the Sarangi. A comparable musical instrument can be found in different parts of the world. For instance, the western violin. Sarinda, the Indian musical instrument most likely is the nearest in likeness to the Sarangi. The strategy for making the Sarangi is interesting to itself.