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| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 02:57 PM
The first thing I was asked to do when I left Nepal for the first time for my undergraduate study was to shave my moustache. Moustache, my seniors said, makes one look ugly, and perhaps dirty. I bought what they said. When Madhav Nepal was the leader of UML, he started to grow moustache. Asked why he was changing his moustche-do, he said he wanted to look 'mature'. Unfortunately, what he hadn't noticed was the fact that it had been long since someone with moustache was given the post of Prime Minister. Rana rulers enjoyed to have long, bushy menacing face.Their hirsuit front foreshadowed the cruelty they had within.But Tribhuvan resisted that bushy chic of those days.He loved to be cleanshaven. After democracy, IK singh, who was fiercely 'revolutionary' and who sported curly long moustache, was probably the first one to be PM. His tenure didn't last long.After then the only person who became PM with his hirsuit face was Man Mohan Adhikari. But his moustache was not alone. It came with beard. Sher Bahadur Deuba, who otherwise had a slim line of moustache, too became clean shaved by the time he became PM. During Panchayat era,circa 2045, Professor Ram Kumar Pande published a book called Nepal Kirtiman, a counterpart of Guinness book for Nepal. He included several records for Nepali there. I remember reading about a man whose moustache were the longest in Nepal, who served in the Nepal police then.Boy, his moustache would have made Peter The Great of Russia proud. He was awarded something like Rs 400+ for his moustache. Police and Army seemed to love those straight,long and menacing moustache. Admittedly, the most fashionable moustache was that of King Birendra's. He was cleanshaved before. Then he started to sport this quadratic equation shaped moustache, with no accompanying beard. It was awesome. It provided him an aura of affability, and charm. Only Bhuwan KC's moustache was as recognizable as his. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the leaders, the actors and others have demonstrated that keeping moustache is not going to be the trend anymore.As for luck, think about the (bad) luck of Madhav Nepal, and in this context, think how Prachanda and Babu Ram will fare! |
| nsshrestha | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 03:16 PM
Another curly mustach fell into oblivion :) 
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| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 03:26 PM
ns: He didn't have moustache when he was PM, as long as I remember.Both he and Pushpa Lal, with moustache, couldn't make it to PM's chair, while cleanshaven youngers like KP Bhattarai/Girija made it. Also, is it any wonder that moustachioed Saddam is out and cleanshaven Chalabi is in? And it is also reasonable to assume that if Pashupati Shamsher had been supported by as many parties as Madhav Nepal for PMship, his dream of becoming PM wouldn't have been unrealised yet. |
| bhunte | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 03:32 PM
superstitious? |
| Gerox | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 04:33 PM
>>>is it any wonder that moustachioed Saddam is out and cleanshaven Chalabi is in? Biswo, If you talk international and about presidents....... Pervez Musharraf is an answer for you. 
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| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 04:57 PM
Bhunte: This joke is just an observation. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody sees and thinking what nobody thought:-) Remove the thinking part from discovery and this is it! Gerox: Venturing outside Nepal and towards the nations with Islam as its state religion was a bad search to prove the point. Got it. To make the matter better,Musharraf removed Tarar(?), a totally totally hursuit man.But to make the matter worse, the strong man he removed was Sharif, with a cleanshave! |
| Bhunte | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 05:37 PM
Biswa, the matter with monarch is different though. If you look at the portraits of monarchs of Nepal from Prithivi to Gynendra, mustachhe is attached to most of them. The listed kings with or without mustaches are below: 1. Prithivi Narayan : Yes 2. Pratap Singh : Yes 3. Rana Bahadur: Yes 4. Girvan Yudda : No 5. Rajendra Bikram: Yes 6. Surendra : Yes 7. Prithivi: Yes 8. Tribhuvan: No 9. Mahendra: No 10. Birendra: No/Yes 11. Dipendra: Yes 12. Gyanendra: No I will suggest you to visit the following link where there you can find short sketch of their biography, and evaluate their achievements. You can then get some spurious statististics about Nepal's progress during the tenure of jungawala raja and junga nabhako raja....he he he. again nice joke... - http://www.nepalhomepage.com/general/kings/shahkings.html |
| Gerox | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 05:37 PM
As for me, Iraq is also an Islamic country, if i am not wrong. And you brought the topic first about Saddam, not me. .....If you browsed outside Nepal to support your view, thats well done, and if somebody did the same thing to deny it, thats bad......Well, Nepalima "MA" ramro.I dont think I was serious.Instead you are becoming serious.You know its a human nature. If you were joking, i was also joking.If you were serious, me too.Take it easy. |
| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 05:46 PM
Well, Gerox. I am surprised to read your caustic note. Pls read my response to you carefully. I have not accused you of anything. I said it was my fault to go outside to Islamic nations to prove my point. I have acknowledged what you pointed out. Bhunte,tks for the link. |
| Gerox | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 05:50 PM
My apology for getting your point adversely, but it seemed you were blaming me. |
| ashu | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 06:22 PM
Talking about joonga, can hair be far behind? "What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives?" Read this interesting review: http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-book3feb03,0,6286495.story?coll=cl-books-util oohi ashu |
| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 07:03 PM
After reading the article in the link, I am wondering about coiffure of Nepali women historically. Interestingly, I can think of no Nepali women who has dominated our history, and whose any kind of photo/statue is still with us. Sati Devi, the mother of Maan Dev, was a strong lady, but her appearance is of anyone's guess. There were a few strong ladies during Malla era, they were very powerful and acted as a regent, according to Babu Ram Acharya. But I don't remember their name now. So, the only early women with visual records, as far as I remember, are the wives of Rana rulers who posed for their family photos. Their coiffures were not so clear in those pictures, they often looked obese and in exaggerated ornaments. Their clothes didn't look like Sari or anyother aesthetically pleasing feminine apparel of modern day. From that perspective, alteration of hair style as a mean of sensual appeal may not necessarily be relatively recent phenomena in our context, but it seems so due to the lack of documentation. However, old books are rich with the description of what women used to apply in their hair to make it(and themselves) more attractive. |
| SITARA | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 07:27 PM
Needless to say, Bush does not need to grow hair; having a hairy name sufficed for both the father and the son!!! |
| Biswo | Posted
on 12-Feb-04 11:32 PM
The attached picture of Birendra is cool, with his trademark moustache. Isn't it? 
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| nsshrestha | Posted
on 13-Feb-04 09:18 AM
He will definately never be a priminister. :) 
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| Spark | Posted
on 14-Feb-04 02:16 AM
that is like bhimsen thapa's mustache but very long. |