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| ashu | Posted
on 06-Oct-03 08:14 PM
Sajha folks in Kathmandu may enjoy the following. oohi ashu ktm,nepal ************** Italian Film Screening October 10th, 11th and 12th at 5.30 pm each evening Venue: Nepal Tourism Board, Bhrikuti Mandap "La Vita รจ Bella" (Life is beautiful) An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all. A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.A Triumph of the Human Spirit! (Friday, 10th October 2003) and followed by two other Italian movies shown on Saturday, 11th October and Sunday, 12th October (Free Entrance) ********************** AUTUMN /WINTER 2003 AT THE SIDDHARTHA ART GALLERY Calender of Events September 7- September 23th "Sound of Intimacy" Paintings by the young Nepali Artist Manish Lal Shreshtha "Exploration of the Magical Realm" An Exhibition of Etchings by Seema Sharma continues at Cafe Mitra,Thamel September 25th - October 13th "Secrets of Angkor" An Exhibition of photographs by National Geographic Photographer, Paulius Normantus "Graphics Today and Tomorrow" An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints by fifteen Indian Artists: Anupam Sud, Anita Das Chakraborty, Anand Moy Banerjee, Avijit Roy, Bula Bhattacharya, Bulbul Sharma, Dattatrey Apte, K.R.Subbanna,Kanchan Chander,Kavita Nayer,Krina Patel,Paramjeet Singh,Sukwinder Singh,Uttam Basak and Yashpal Chandrakar. Exhibition will continue at Cafe Mitra,Thamel till November 1st. October 15th-October 31st "Personal Encounters on the Journey of Life" An Exhibition of Paintings by Prakaash Chandwadkar November 2nd-November 23rd "Fate and Freedom" An Exhibition of unique handmade carpets by the American Artist John Collins. Digital monoprints by John Collins at Cafe Mitra November 24th -Dec12th "Impressionist Photogrpaphy: Himalayan Mandala" by three American photographers:Sandy Shum, Jo Bellacera and Paula Wenzl.The Exhibition will continue at Cafe Mitra from December 13th-January till 15th December 15th-January 12th "Reflections of Colour" An Exhibition of Paintings by American Artist Susan Boggs January 15th-January 31st "Reactions" An Exhibition featuring Photography by Simon Mark from New Zealand and Mixed Media Artworks by Carolyn Fitzpatrick from Australia FOR ENQUIRIES: SIDDHARTHA ART GALLERY BABER MAHAL REVISITED, P.O.BOX 1776,KATHMANDU NEPAL Open Daily from11am- 6 p.m Tel:009771-4218048 www.siddharthartgallery.com FE MITRA THAMEL: Tel 009771-4259015 cafemitra@mos.cojm.np -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| eNigma_too | Posted
on 06-Oct-03 08:38 PM
With so much going on around who would feel that Nepal really is in turmoil. Wouldn't it be nice if Kathmandu carves a niche for itself in the world cultural and art scene just as it did for the flower power generation in the 60's ? Thank you, Ashu, for your tireless effort to keep the world, in particular the nepalese diaspora updated with positive news from Nepal. Your posting is the fresh coffee for a lousy morning. |
| najar | Posted
on 07-Oct-03 05:53 AM
Ashu, Thanks for sharing, will try to go to some. |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 07-Oct-03 06:57 AM
najar, you should be a member of KFA. Just send an email to kfateam@yahoogroups.com and you will be in. Its a great team to be in. |
| najar | Posted
on 07-Oct-03 08:08 AM
Thanks Isolated Freak--I will do it. Btw, how is life in Beijing? |
| dautari | Posted
on 08-Oct-03 02:02 PM
I did not know KFA was active again. |
| ashu | Posted
on 08-Oct-03 05:48 PM
Enigma _too, thank you for your kind words. Dautari, KFA or Kathmandu Film Archive is sort of active once in a while. Thanks to a number of friends, and Sajha's own Biswo, a fellow movie-lover, who has sent us a number of good videos to be screened in Kathmandu. Still, some of us are in the process of consolidating KFA and other disparate arts-related effrots into one entity, and then organize arts-related events. Let's see. It may take some time. Stay tuned for further details. **** BTW, those of you who know or like to learn tango, salsa, rumba and cha-cha and other assorted ballroom dancing steps, check out: www.kathmandudancers.net oohi ashu ktm,nepal |
| Biswo | Posted
on 09-Oct-03 12:50 AM
>Sajha's own Biswo, a fellow movie-lover, >who has sent us a number of good videos > to be screened in Kathmandu. Thanks for mentioning my name. I sincerely hope that we can have some kind of movie library in Kathmandu, where people can go and watch classics not only from Hollywood, but from all around the world. I am more than happy to chip in whatever I can for this endeavor if someone takes initiative. May be dudes from Nepal Chalachitra Nirmata Sangh( or whatever the organization there is which is always protesting [against so many things])! |
| ashu | Posted
on 09-Oct-03 02:04 AM
There is going to be a classical guitar festival in Kathmandu this week-end. Please check out: http://mountain-retreats.com/fort/GuitarFestival/Psummary.htm |
| deepak_bista | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 03:50 PM
Ashubaje, Thank you for being such a sychophant of Syrya Bahadur Thapa's daughter-in-law re: promoting Siddhartha Art Gallery. Is Sangeeta Thapa's partner being another Tiwari your mother or sister from Sifal ? Why are you trying to promote Babar Mahal Revisted ? You know that it does not represent Nepal. In fact, it humiliates Nepal by propogating Rana related peculiar themes. For example, the poofy G2 Rana witha sound like or name like R2D2 makes his Kancha waiters wear Rana slave outfits. That is not a nice thing to do in the modern era. That is why the Communists are targeting Surya Bahadur Thapa and relating people. I could not guarantee you from now my Pyuthane khalaks will leave you in peace. Siddhartha Art Gallery promotes second class arts that is not even fit for public display in any western world. Sangeeta Thapa is not an artist and does know nothing about art management. She may have some qualifications in Anthropology and Media, and that does not make her an expert in Nepalese art or Special Events. She and her sister promotes only bizarre Jazz musicos from Pakistan and other third world countries. Why cannot they not promote South Asian arts and music and food and artefacts and that is something that Nepal could develop to integrate people, art, costume, performance, installation arts and music and much much more. You were saying Nepalese movies are good and I doubt it as the only international Nepali movie was made by a Sherpa and was not in Nepal's best interest as it promoted usual Dalai Lama related juju magioco-religious themes. You come back and tell me what more creative ideas you may have and I will share with you the art of managing and marketing Nepalese Mega Events. |
| Bhunte | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 04:07 PM
Just few weeks ago I was amazed window shopping some art gallery here, and one of the art piece cost just $129,000 without that beautifully carved woodframe. With frame $150,000. I believe these prices are well below some rare fine arts like Monalisa or so, but for a nepali thito it is huge.......... |
| ashu | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 04:21 PM
Deepak Bista aka the same old Ranjit Rana from Australia, I have never met you. I don't even know who you are or what you look like, and I don't care. I don't think our paths have ever crossed -- either professionally or personally. But with this and other postings in the past, you seem to have a mission: To discredit me (and others) on the Net for no apparent reason, except for your own whatever pleasure. My attitude? I wish you you well in the Land Down Under. I am sure Sajha folks visiting Siddartha Art Gallery at Babar Mahal Revisited can DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES whether it puts on the shows that they want to see. If they like what they see, fine. If not, that's fine too. Let them have the choice to reach their own conclusions. Other than that, have a good day. ********* BTW, I have no affiliation of any kind whatsoever with Siddartha Art Gallery. It was out of Nepali-to-Nepali goodwill that I posted that email detailing the highlights at the Gallery, thinking that others too would enjoy knowing about some aspects of what's going on in the art scene in Kathmandu. That was all. oohi ashu ktm,nepal |
| deepak_bista | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 05:14 PM
The Benefits of Trade: I will not comment on Economic Efficiency and The Principle of Absolute and Comparative Advantage Theories. Perhaps, Ashubaje could show off his chit shit from Harvard ! I propose without ant assumptions that there are a number of benfits the citizens and firms of a country may enjoy as a result of being able to trade arts freely with the citizens and firms of another country. * The benefits of specialisation * The benefits of competition * The benfit of choice By specialisation in the production of goods and services the firms of a country will produce with higher level of productive efficiency. The surpluses produced can then be traded with surpluses of other countries. By specialising in the production of goods and services where there is an absolute or comparative advantage there is an overall gain in welfare. Increased global competition will encourage allocative and productive efficiency. The concepts of consumer and producer surplus can be used to assess the benefits of free trade. The difference between the amount that consumers would be prepared to pay for a good or service rather than go without, and the pricethat they actually pay is called consumer surplus. It is used as a measure of satisfaction or welfare of consumers. The difference between the price that producers would be prepared to sell their produce at and the price they actually sell, it is the producer surplus. These two together are a measure of the welfare of the product and much more (I cannot do diagrams here to demonstrate via partial equilibrium analysis). Hare Ke Garne Ashubaje. |
| Bhunte | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 05:38 PM
Bista kajisab, Jadau! Feri yo Movie & Art in Ktm ko chhalfal ma international trade ko concept kasari ghusyaisya hajur le ta...eheheh Anyway, what Ashu is informing us that things and events going in Ktm. Isn't that good what he is volunteering to keep us informed the happenings in that part of world? Let's trade exchanging information of what you know in ur side and his side or mine. That will be a win-win for all of us in this age of info. ankhir ma info is power ni ta... About you bringing the Intl Trading's mool mantra * The benefits of specialisation * The benefits of competition * The benfit of choice we don't have them in Nepal. The concept of privatization has been misused in Nepal without encompassing the above three issue u presneted above. That's why inflation in Nepal is like 'Akas ko Changa jasto' as one of our sajhites MrMarich wrote in the following thread - http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/openThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=12608 What do you think? I am thinking for quite a while that do we have comparative advantage in Art work? Can you or Ashu or some other sajhites (art lovers) shed some lights on it? |
| Bhunte | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 06:02 PM
Deepak wrote "....Increased global competition will encourage allocative and productive efficiency. ..." I'm wonder why many Nepali econ/ag.econ students studying in Aussi talks mostly on efficiency issues?? |
| deepak_bista | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 06:26 PM
Bhunteji, Nepal needs to specialise in services marketing and management (aAtypical Dalali Sewa for Chinese Arts). Through development of Guangxi network effect then Nepalese could benefit through Overseas Chinese money laundering racket too. Nepal needs to use a balanced score card strategic management concept (try to beat the swiss banking loophole via imitation and then continuously innovate the money laundering system in secretive ways and much more). Try to learn more on bingfa. Nepal can attract big art dealers from advanced nations for investing in Chinese stolen arts and provide tax deductions as negative gearing. Then allow them through creative accounting to export the Chinese arts to their countries as gifts (I mean the process is very lengthy as it moves from a $ 2 company to another and so forth and in final destination the tax authority allows through tax ruling maximum allowable tax deduction. I willhave to provide you several case studies and then for now it is beyond the scope and considerations. China has four-thousand year old civilisation, the first records of which traditionally were inscriptions on oracle bones. These inscriptions were considered the ancestors of Chinese written characters. however pottery, dating to the latter part of the Nelithic period, to be even earlier. The evidence for this long and rich cultural tradition lies in the cultural relics which have been excavated or passed down from ancient times and curently housed in China's museums and other departments (Princess Dilasha's father-in-law Kishore Bicram Rana is involved in this seretive trade). According to statistics these amount to over ten million pieces. The number of private collections, and the lost or still unexcavated relics is unknown. Ancient Chinese religion mainly consisted of the workship of nature, supernatural beings, divinations and witchcraft. naturalism later developed into workship of God (approximately formed during the Yin, or Shang, dynasty); the workship of supernaturalbeings developed into the workship of ancestors; and divination and witchcraft later turned into flk religions. Offering sacrifices to deities became a particularly important mark of status in China's religious activities. Unearthed cultural relics belonging to the latter stages of Neolithic period have verified the view of archaeologists that primitive religion in China was formed at that time. For instance, utensils such as the tripod, bowl, cooking vessel, wine container, cup, pot and otherunearthed implements, were not only used as daily utensils, but also used as ritual vessels for the offering of sacrifices. Jade objects, whether flat or hollowed, were actually musical instuments used by sorcerers during memorial ceremoniesand much more. |
| deepak_bista | Posted
on 12-Oct-03 08:37 PM
Bhunteji, The lure of living in big cities like Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar and Nepal Ganj has become the most trying experience. If you have a minimum wage income, the regular price hikes have turned the cost of living at these places dearer over some years. The raises in international tariffs and also in the Indian Railway freight charges has caused the sharp increase of prices of many goods. Every increase in the price of goods in neighbouring nations affects our Nepali economy and prices. The graph of inflation in Nepal goes usually on upward swing. It refuses to come to a downward turn. It is saddenening to see that prices do not fall even if they keep coming down in the internationational markets. One of the example is the escalation in the prices of petroleum products. Despite the fluctuations in petroleum price in foreign markets. Nepal seems to be doomed to see the rise in petroleum prices, one of the basic reasons that shoot the prices of other goods. The final impact of every increase in the prices, needless to say fall on the Nepalese middle class people, who live on a modest income throughout their lives (the only insurance is to build more houses to defeat inflation). The frequent increase in the petroleum prices is sure to multiply the fares of transportation. As soon as petroleum prices are hiked, the owners of transport raise the fare of transportation. Consequently, the suppliers of the goods are in no way ready to bear the hike in the transportation fares. Ultimately, it climaxes in the rise of every goods that are carried to the diffrent parts of the nation. The common people, whose modest income is not increased in the same proportion as in the rise in the inflation, feel the heat of price hike. In many occasions, they are forced to live the life in perpetual poverty, thanks to the frequent rise in prices of goods of daily uses. There is no denying in the fact that lack of industrial and other steady agricultural back-up are reasons behind the fickleness of the vicious cycle of Nepalese economy. While some happenings in the international activities that force the price increase remains beyond our authority's control. There are man-made reasons such as hoarding, artificial shortages, the vicious circle of commissions, corruption under Gyanendra and Surya Bahadur Thapa all trying to gain a cut in building hydro dams using Himalaya Pandey, while awarding contracts and licences that shoot the prices of goods and services in Nepal. It has become a common phenomenon that in the event of some crisis in the market, the retailers are well as well as whole-selling Marwari merchants stop selling the goods in higher demands so that they can hoard the things to sell them in high prices later on. Some of them even go further. With a keen sense of speculation that the prices of goods in future would certainly rise, these suppliers create artificial shortages of goods, so that the people will have to pay more to buy goods of their use. Hoarding, creating shortages and black marketeeing are glaringly noticed during the time of Gyanendra led crises such as bandhas and in evenmts of calamities when supply routes to the major points of the nation is disrupted. The arrival of festive corrupt Hindu Dasain and Tihar also saw the rise in the prices of commodities needed by the people, so that they can observe these Bhramanic evil festivals as per customs and tardition amidst the Pahadiyas. The people have no options but to pay whatever prices the retailer or whole-sellers demand during these stressful times. All these unsavoury activities of the Nepalese suppliers are again aggravated by some of our officials going for commissions and bribes. The officials who are entitled to look after the matters of controlling prices do engage in taking grafts and commissions on a regualr basis. This provides opportunities for the businessmen/women to pass off their costs to their unknowing customers. The officail then will turn a blind eye in the unofficial price hike. The cost of living gets higher also due to lack of good administration and financial discipline in some of the important service and goods providing organisations. These organisations like Nepal Oil and much more increases the prices of their services on a regular basis so that they can meet their rising administrative expenditure and other financial leakages of which impact is always born by common citizens like you and me. Forgetiing the external environment, the Nepalese authority domestically must effectively monitor the activities of business communities as well control corruption at the offices, and introduce effective measure of financial discipline in the government service sector organisations. It should always be on guard against those creating shortages and selling goods later on higher prices. I doubt it will occur under Gyanendra and Surya Bahadur Thapa. |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 13-Oct-03 11:01 AM
Deepak, Its Guan Xi, not Guang Xi. Guang Xi is something else. aaba thaha nabhako bishaya ma pyatar pyatar bolera aaru lai kina tyattikai gaali garne gareko deepak ji? |
| ashutoshchora | Posted
on 14-Oct-03 04:27 PM
He mero Ashu Buba, When are you coming back to teach me SALSA and TANGO ? I miss you buwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa very much. |