1. A Perry Mason Mystery, favorite from my dad's time: "The case of the drowsy mosquito" by Earle Stanley Gardner, cited by the Guiness Book of World Records as the #1 best selling writer of all time, who outsells Agatha Christie, Harold Robbins, Barbara Cartland, and Louis L'Amour COMBINED; an unstoppable whodonit for time pass, in lieu of dasain tihar taash!ART
2.Soul Mountain: by Gao Xingjian, Winner of the The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. A peek into Chinese soul, if there is such a thing, given there are at least 1.37 billion Chinese living and maybe 7 billion Chinese that have lived so far, since Gao goes into all of known Chinese history both documented and legendary, the stories, myths, local cultures from Tibet to the misty karst topography of swirling foggy landscapes with craggy Daoist temples hugging cliffs, from all the deaths from Cultural Revolution, butchering,slaughtering headless torsos by railway sleepers: how may ways can u think of killing 280 million throughout the history of Chinese civilization from Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan to Great Wall and Great Canal and still come with a Chinese entity that the human race must take cognizance, not only for the current dominance as the second largest economy of the world but also as the most dominant human Enterprise in all of our human creation, yet how much do we know of the Chinese, relative to the fewer Indians (1.2 billion) and even fewer Amrikans (330 million) who are all over dominating the media and our attentionscape. Fabulous Must Read Book, a cutting edge of absurd-ism school in literary trope! Amulya Tuladhar
3. Just completed one of my teenage favourite author: Daphne du Maurier's "The Breaking Point" with 9 strange stories but the one that really got under my skin was "Chamois" named after a rare mountain deer of Greek crags that a hunter has to kill because it is beautiful and rare, like the movie The Deer Hunter, where nice homey, steel plant buddies go hunting in this beautiful misty mountains to shoot deers and cut they are in Vietnam where they are being hunted down like the deers by nice homey Viet Congs or The Ancient Mariner of S T Cooleridge who kills a good albatross that gives company to lonely sailers that are lost in the doldrom and are fed by them and all liked as good omen, for no good reason that this deep human instinct to kill and destroy beautiful good things and life even if they had no enmity or bad stuff to humans.
Why oh why oh why, that is why i just don't believe when all religions proclaim Man is the greatest creation of God, Bull shit. art
TOTAL TIGERS KILLED = 90
This is 60% of the last official census of tigers in Nepal at 155!
These hi-fi European colonial murderers should pay for increasing our Tigers for at least extra 90 by aiding in all tiger conservation costs!!
Here are the details:
1870 Duke of Edinburgh kills 2 Tigers
1876 Prince of Wales later King Edward VII kills 23 Tigers
1894 Duke of Connaught kills 3 Tigers
1890 Prince Albert Victor or Duke of Clarence kills 6 Tigers
1911 King George V and party kills 39 Tigers
1921 Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII kills 17 Tigers
TOTAL KILLED = 90 TIGERS
For simplicity sake other wildlife kill details are left out.
Source: Diary of Field Marshall Kaiser Shumsher JBS Rana, in whose donated palace is the Kaisar Mahal or Ministry of Education and the Umar Khayaam poems in the Garden of Dreams housed in Thamel area, as quoted in the book:
"Notes on Hunting and Wild Life Conservation in Nepal" by Rishikesh Shaha, April 1970. Rishi Kesh Shah, a well read liberal diplomat, historian, and writer was Nepal's First Permanent Representative to UN; author of many books including "Nepal in Retrospect and Prospect" which I read and convener of political parties at Jawarhlal Nehru University New Delhi, during 1979 (Nepali 2036 saal kanda where King Birendra had to declare a referendum between Reformed Panchayat Democracy led by the King or Multiparty Democracy, led by Nepali Congress and other communist parties banned; among the participants were our last Prime Minister Babu Ram Bhattarai, his wife Hisila Yami and Nirmal Lama and Pradip Giri...
Why oh why oh why, that is why i just don't believe when all religions proclaim Man is the greatest creation of God, Bull shit. art
2.Soul Mountain: by Gao Xingjian, Winner of the The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. A peek into Chinese soul, if there is such a thing, given there are at least 1.37 billion Chinese living and maybe 7 billion Chinese that have lived so far, since Gao goes into all of known Chinese history both documented and legendary, the stories, myths, local cultures from Tibet to the misty karst topography of swirling foggy landscapes with craggy Daoist temples hugging cliffs, from all the deaths from Cultural Revolution, butchering,slaughtering headless torsos by railway sleepers: how may ways can u think of killing 280 million throughout the history of Chinese civilization from Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan to Great Wall and Great Canal and still come with a Chinese entity that the human race must take cognizance, not only for the current dominance as the second largest economy of the world but also as the most dominant human Enterprise in all of our human creation, yet how much do we know of the Chinese, relative to the fewer Indians (1.2 billion) and even fewer Amrikans (330 million) who are all over dominating the media and our attentionscape. Fabulous Must Read Book, a cutting edge of absurd-ism school in literary trope! Amulya Tuladhar
3. Just completed one of my teenage favourite author: Daphne du Maurier's "The Breaking Point" with 9 strange stories but the one that really got under my skin was "Chamois" named after a rare mountain deer of Greek crags that a hunter has to kill because it is beautiful and rare, like the movie The Deer Hunter, where nice homey, steel plant buddies go hunting in this beautiful misty mountains to shoot deers and cut they are in Vietnam where they are being hunted down like the deers by nice homey Viet Congs or The Ancient Mariner of S T Cooleridge who kills a good albatross that gives company to lonely sailers that are lost in the doldrom and are fed by them and all liked as good omen, for no good reason that this deep human instinct to kill and destroy beautiful good things and life even if they had no enmity or bad stuff to humans.
Why oh why oh why, that is why i just don't believe when all religions proclaim Man is the greatest creation of God, Bull shit. art
4.just read Pavlov and the Star of David; nice reading but too tired about Jews and Russian christians complaining about their persecution for world attention, drowning out more deserving Darfur or even Nepali tharus and dalits and jan jaatis.. art
5. vacation over, just completed the set of short stories of BP Koirala's Doshi Chasma including the highly acclaimed Colonelko Ghoda where the 19 year wife of 43 yr Colonel transfers her sexual feelings to the sinewy horse because her hubby collapses contemptibly when she jumps on him for a hug. All BP's supposed Freudian transfer to Nepali literature sounds so sophomorish, and un nuanced, today any 19 yr old would jump on 40+ Khan superstars of Bollywood: Saif Ali, Salman, Shah Rukh or AAmir and characterising a 43 ur Army Colonel who have more than share of physical exercise than many other professions as a wimp is a highly unrealistic, perhaps a 63 yr old civil servant or business man is in order, but fun vacation reading anyways... ART
6. Reading "Rato Sweater" by Tarini Prasad Koirala, a brother of BP Koirala, nice sexy story that includes oral sex description, in 1950-60s.
7. Just re_read Bhupi Sherchan's "Ghumne Mech Mathi Andho Manche" (Blind Man on Swivel Chair). Same Bang, UUUF like 20 years ago and still relevent for Nepal.
8.Just read Manu Brazaki's "Timri Swasni ra Ma" (Your wife and Me), a collection of short stories, a la Samrat Upadhyaya's Guru of Love, contextualizing so called sexual and social deviancy as a result of poverty and circumstances in lower middle class society of Nepal, mostly in mofussils or villages. ART. Quite enjoyable reading.
9. "Here on one side of the stream I stand, And gaze on my love on the other Strand. Oh! not to be with her, what sadness! Oh! not to be with her, what madness! If but a red-lacquered skiff were mine, With paddles strewn over with pearls so fine, Then would I pass the river, And dwell with my love forever!...." JAPANESE LOVE POEMS, edited by Jean Bennet and Illustrated by Scott Cumming, 1976; short haiku type poems from ancient to current times, Amulya
10. Wildlife Murder by European Royals and Nobles between 1870-1921 AD:
TOTAL TIGERS KILLED = 90
This is 60% of the last official census of tigers in Nepal at 155!
These hi-fi European colonial murderers should pay for increasing our Tigers for at least extra 90 by aiding in all tiger conservation costs!!
Here are the details:
1870 Duke of Edinburgh kills 2 Tigers
1876 Prince of Wales later King Edward VII kills 23 Tigers
1894 Duke of Connaught kills 3 Tigers
1890 Prince Albert Victor or Duke of Clarence kills 6 Tigers
1911 King George V and party kills 39 Tigers
1921 Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII kills 17 Tigers
TOTAL KILLED = 90 TIGERS
For simplicity sake other wildlife kill details are left out.
Source: Diary of Field Marshall Kaiser Shumsher JBS Rana, in whose donated palace is the Kaisar Mahal or Ministry of Education and the Umar Khayaam poems in the Garden of Dreams housed in Thamel area, as quoted in the book:
"Notes on Hunting and Wild Life Conservation in Nepal" by Rishikesh Shaha, April 1970. Rishi Kesh Shah, a well read liberal diplomat, historian, and writer was Nepal's First Permanent Representative to UN; author of many books including "Nepal in Retrospect and Prospect" which I read and convener of political parties at Jawarhlal Nehru University New Delhi, during 1979 (Nepali 2036 saal kanda where King Birendra had to declare a referendum between Reformed Panchayat Democracy led by the King or Multiparty Democracy, led by Nepali Congress and other communist parties banned; among the participants were our last Prime Minister Babu Ram Bhattarai, his wife Hisila Yami and Nirmal Lama and Pradip Giri...
Historial tid bit,courtesy: Amulya Tuladhar
11. Just completed one of my teenage favourite author: Daphne du Maurier's "The Breaking Point" with 9 strange stories but the one that really got under my skin was "Chamois" named after a rare mountain deer of Greek crags that a hunter has to kill because it is beautiful and rare, like the movie The Deer Hunter, where nice homey, steel plant buddies go hunting in this beautiful misty mountains to shoot deers and cut they are in Vietnam where they are being hunted down like the deers by nice homey Viet Congs or The Ancient Mariner of S T Cooleridge who kills a good albatross that gives company to lonely sailers that are lost in the doldrom and are fed by them and all liked as good omen, for no good reason that this deep human instinct to kill and destroy beautiful good things and life even if they had no enmity or bad stuff to humans.
Why oh why oh why, that is why i just don't believe when all religions proclaim Man is the greatest creation of God, Bull shit. art
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