Showing posts with label Nepali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nepali. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

मेरो टेक ब्लॉग मा नेपाली भाषामा लेख्दा

यो मेरो टेक ब्लॉग हो। यहाँ म पहिलो पटक नेपाली भाषामा लेखिराखेको छु। मेरो नेपाल ब्लॉग छ जहाँ मैले नेपाली मा हजारौं पटक लेखेको छु। तर त्यो राजनीतिक ब्लॉग हो। यो चाहिँ मेरो टेक्नोलॉजी र बिजनेस सम्बन्धी ब्लॉग हो। नेपालमा टेकेर ग्लोबल साउथ मा पस्रिने किसिमका टेक्नोलॉजी स्टार्टअप हरु बारे कुरा गर्नु छ। अंग्रेजी मात्र होइन, नेपाली पनि विज्ञानं प्रविधि र बिजनेस को भाषा हो। हामीले देखेको ईकॉमर्स को सपना मा देश र दुनिया को प्रत्येक भाषा बिजनेस को भाषा हो।

मैले केही महिना देखि यूट्यूब मा विडियो ब्लॉग्गिंग पनि गर्दै आएको छु। मुख्य रूपले नेपालीमा। तर मैथिलि र हिन्दीमा पनि बोलेको छु। विडियो ब्लॉग्गिंग को त्यो मजा हुँदो रहेछ। बोल्दा बोल्दै अर्को भाषा मा बोल्न पुगे फरक नपर्ने। मुख्य कुरा भाषा होइन, मुख्य कुरा हो कुरा बुझ्नु।

निजगढ एयरपोर्ट ले भारत र चीन जोड्ने काम गर्छ







Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Number One Reason I Dig Jackson Heights


New York City is culturally the most diverse city on the planet: people from every little town on the planet are here. Queens is the most diverse borough in New York City. And Jackson Heights is the most diverse locale in Queens.

That is the number one reason I so dig Jackson Heights.

I have to frankly admit that Little India is also part and parcel of the appeal. But although the most happening part of Jackson Heights might look Indian, the locale is big and diverse. There is a huge Hispanic population. People from 50 different countries live here. Most people's idea of Jackson Heights is 74th Street. But the locale stretches all the way to 90th Street or thereabouts.

I guess it is cheaper than Manhattan. But then I know of a ton of Nepalis in Ridgewood on the L line - another Nepali stronghold in the city - who complain of not being able to afford to move to Jackson Heights, which is perceived to be more expensive.

"Ridgewood is a village," some Nepalis in Jackson Heights like to say.

Many events I go to tend to be in Manhattan. Once you get on the E or the F express trains, it is but 10 minutes to the Manhattan border. Long Island City and Jackson Heights are not that far apart when it comes to train distance. It is all in the mind.

Jackson Heights is the biggest train station in Queens. So if your work and life involve ending up in Manhattan often this place is perfect.

If Jackson Heights is like Little India, Flushing is like Little China. I have walked from Jackson Heights to Flushing and back many, many times. That actually is one of my evening walk routes.

Jackson Heights is a city inside a city. You can have a near complete existence here. Broadband takes you everywhere, and you can walk around to seek some clients for whom you might do some tech consulting, some online marketing.

I am looking at a local restaurant - the top Nepali eatery in the city - a law firm and a grocery store to work some internet magic on. It is good to be grounded. It is good to have a few local clients.

And the air around here feels cleaner.

A few days back I discovered the local Buddhist temple while working on this blog post: Jackson Heights: My Neighborhood.

Every evening I have been going to a local mosque for dinner. My lunches have been at the local Gurudwara, both only a few blocks away.

Leave Biological Programming To Allah

When the holy month is over I will start cooking again.

The India-Pakistan partition was a painful experience. There are Pujabis who are Muslim and Punjabis who are Sikhs. There is a Punjab in Pakistan, and one in India. They paid a huge price when the partition happened.

Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting suspect’s tattoos tell the tale of his white supremacist affiliations

For someone working to launch a microfinance startup, Jackson Heights is as good as it gets. No place in New York City represents the Global South better.

So yesterday I showed up at the Gurudwara for lunch and many elected officials - Congressmen, Comptroller - were holding a press conference in the front. They were there to denounce what happened in Wisconsin.

I had not seen John Liu in a while.

Comparing the Liu Inquiry to a Soldier's Hazing
Chinese-American leaders came to the defense of the embattled city comptroller, John C. Liu, on Thursday, comparing the federal inquiry into his campaign fund-raising to what has been called a hazing campaign before the death of Pvt. Danny Chen. .... Mr. Liu’s campaign fund-raising troubles were fanned by potent forces determined to prevent him from becoming mayor in 2013. ..... invoked Private Chen, a Chinatown native who apparently committed suicide in Afghanistan in October after being subjected to harsh treatment by fellow soldiers .... “I see another assassination. This is a character assassination. Worse than death, you lose your good name.” .... The news conference was the first time some of Mr. Liu’s ardent backers had voiced their support in so public and unified a fashion, after months of what they said was nonstop negative publicity. .... Mr. Liu has not been accused of wrongdoing. .... “This is politics,” said Nora Chang Wang, a commissioner at the Department of Employment under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. “When people see him as a viable candidate, such a strong solid candidate for that highest position in the city, in a way it’s a threat.” ..... Another former city official, Hugh H. Mo, a lawyer who was a deputy police commissioner under Mayor Edward I. Koch, said Mr. Liu had been denied due process. “I believe it is an effort to destroy John, who really represents the hopes and aspirations of Asian-Americans, and particularly Chinese-American immigrants,” Mr. Mo said. “We take pride in John.” .... the city’s leading Chinese-language newspaper, World Journal, sent three reporters, and two others, Sing Tao Daily and China Press, each sent two
John Liu: Mayor Of NYC: 2013
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

US Ambassador To Nepal On Facebook


It started here. That took me to here. And to here.

This is the US ambassador to Nepal using Facebook to step right into a controversy. If all US ambassadors did this, Wikileaks might go irrelevant, like I said in a comment. By now I have left four comments. My latest comment is as follows.
(1) Biotechnology is like software, like nanotechnology, like green/clean energy. A country that wishes to go into the future can not be saying no to any of those. That is not me saying a big yes to Monsanto. Monsanto is just one company, although a big, influential one, and some might say a little notorious.

(2) Hybrid seeds are not news. Nepal has been using hybrid seeds for a long time now. But I must admit the kind of hybrids Monsanto seems to have in mind are leaps and bounds beyond what Nepal has been using so far.

(3) A new medicine sometimes is not what it was thought to be. But that is no argument against medical progress. Hybrid seeds can have and have had drastic eco consequences. That is an argument for a much more rigorous regimen to how the new hybrids get approved for the market in the first place.

(4) Biotech is going to play a key role in upping Nepal's agricultural production by a factor of something like 10, something dramatic. Again, that is not a vote for Monsanto. That is my positive vibe for biotech as an emerging field in applied science.

(5) Monsanto does seem to have some notoriety. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto A lot of it seems to come from its non biotech moves, in how it lobbies governments, how it influences decision making, how it enters countries. The solution to that is to have a full fledged intelligent discussion. It is for the Nepali people to decide if Monsanto is to be allowed. But at this point my stand is that a pilot project will not hurt. With a pilot project the Nepali people will have something concrete to talk about and debate.

(6) In this day and age of internet and globalization that pilot project local to Nepal can be coupled with global experiences with Monsanto. There's some good and some bad out there. Software programs have bugs. The early ones had even more of them. Windows crashed a lot in the early years. Some of what we blame Monsanto for is the fact that humanity is in its early stages of using biotechnology. And so there are "bugs." The effort has to be to fix the bugs. For that a corporation like Monsanto, a government like that in Nepal, and collectively a people all have to work hand in hand. I think cooperation is possible, and that starts with an open dialogue like this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology

Thursday, July 21, 2011

"Can You Understand This?"

William ShakespeareImage by tonynetone via FlickrRadio Nepal would serve the news in Nepali at seven, morning and evening, and the news in English an hour later at eight. This was during the days of the autocratic monarchy. And so there was much state propaganda. I much preferred listening to the BBC. In English, of course.

Of course no one in my village listened to the news in English. The smart ones listened to the BBC Hindi service.

But then there was always some smart alec who would turn the radio on for the eight o'clock news in English.

"Can you understand this?"

"Yes."

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Think Different


Yesterday some of my Nepali friends had a meeting about me.

"He is not like you and me. He is different from us," one said.

Months back another Nepali friend bought bakery products for me. That was his way of his saying this guy has become too Americanized.

There is a flip side to the coin: Americans coming to me from the Bollywood/yoga angle.

Happy 4th From My Friend Luke
The Facebook Effect
Meeting Fred Wilson In Person

From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Subject: {New York Metro Madhesi} Sunday ---- Come out and dance --- free event
To: nycnepali@googlegroups.com, New York Metro Madhesi

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137120103034144
http://www.acehotel.com/newyork/calendar/sundays-live-music-series
https://twitter.com/USRoyalty/status/90104312633622529

Ace Hotel
20 West 29th Street
Sunday, July 10 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Ignite NYC Premonitions


I had a few Direct Messages from Tikva this morning. Looks like I did not make it in the first round of Ignite NYC slated for Internet Week. None of the panel people I reached out to on Twitter reached out to me either. How does this work?

Excited About Internet Week

In Tikva's case she said my description of what I was going to talk about was incomplete. So I sent her an email. She wrote back. Other than the fact that you are suggesting you are a gift from God to the world I still don't have a description of what you are going to talk about.

So my newest mail goes something like this.
The first major revolution of the 21st century happened in Nepal, and
Paramendra Bhagat was the only Nepali in America working full time for
it. In April 2006, over a period of 19 days, about eight million
people out of the country's 27 million came out into the streets to
shut the country down completely to force a dictator out.

"There is a concrete mathematical theory called the butterfly effect.
A butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon forest could be the
reason a cyclone hit Bangladesh. What happened in Nepal in April 2006
was a political cyclone. I was the butterfly flapping my wings in New
York City."

http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com http://democracyforum.blogspot.com
http://technbiz.blogspot.com
@paramendra

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Kiva Is In Nepal


I have been looking for that first country to go into with my microfinance startup, and it is amazing how I have gone all over the world. And now I am thinking Nepal, the country where I grew up.

Having Kenya And Chinatown Thoughts