| sparsha |
Posted
on 26-Dec-00 09:39 AM
A news from "The Times of India" which I found interesting and here it is FYI.
Tenzing Norgay was Tibetan and not Nepali: Book
LONDON: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who accompanied Edmund Hillary, the first Everester in 1953, was a Tibetan and not a Nepali, according to a new book.
While Hillary and the expedition's leader Lord Hunt both believed that the Sherpa had been born in a remote mountain village in Nepal, a new book Snow in the Kingdom by American mountaineer Ed Webster claims that not only was Tenzing born in Tibet, but he spent much of his childhood there. The world's most famous Sherpa was not really a Sherpa at all.
Even after Tenzing's death in 1986, the truth was considered too sensitive to disclose, not least for fear of embarrassing the Indian government which had supported Tenzing after his ascent. It would have handed a propaganda coup to the Chinese authorities in the Tibetan capital Lhasa that a "Chinese climber" was the first to climb Everest.
But now Webster has been given permission by the family to reveal the truth about Tenzing's real origins, The Observer reported.
Throughout his life, Tenzing remained vague about his background. In his autobiography, Tiger of the Snows, he obscured the truth of his childhood without quite denying it, telling ghostwriter James Ramsey Ullman that he grew up in the village of Thame, in Nepal. In fact, his parents migrated there during the early 1920s after a period of financial hardship and debt to a local Tibetan governor.(PTI)
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Here are couple of news from Hindustan Times
AFTER NANDA, Dharmendra and Madhuri, it's Hrithik Roshan, the newest Indian heartthrob, who seems to have rubbed the Nepalese the wrong way.
Angry pro-Left students took to the streets on Christmas to protest against the rising Bollywood star's reported disparaging remarks on their country and people in a private TV channel programme beamed from India on December 14.
Fans of the Kaho Na Pyar Hai hero seemed to greatly outnumber the followers of any other Indian film star, including Manisha, in the kingdom till they saw a news item on the TV interview in a vernacular daily this morning. Later Hrithik's posters were garlanded with old and discarded shoes at various intersections. Manisha, in fact, shifted to Mumbai after her Nepali films bombed in the kingdom in the late Eighties.
According to the daily, Hrithik described "Nepal and the Nepalese people as the place and people he dislikes most."
Leftist students have warned that they will punish hall owners if they screen Hrithik's films.
Two years ago, Madhuri angered the Nepalese by describing Nepal as "a former part of India" at a programme here. Resentment against her subsided only after she tendered an apology.
In the late Sixties, Nanda became the focus of anger after she made a controversial remark on the Nepalese in a film magazine.
Around that time, members of the community gave a call for the boycott of Dharmendra's films after the Bollywood he-man reportedly made fun of the Nepalese cap.
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Hrithik denies he gave any TV interview
POPULAR ACTOR Hrithik Roshan today shrugged off reports that he had made derogatory remarks against people of Nepal, which triggered protests in Kathmandu on Sunday against him.
"I have never given a TV interview to any channel, stating that I dislike Nepal and its people. It is a figment of imagination of some vested interests. It is really astonishing that people can stoop down to such mischievous deeds to tarnish my image," Hrithik said here.
In an emotional appeal to the people of Nepal, the actor said "please do not pay heed to such concocted reports. The fact is I love Nepal as I love India and have tremendous respect for the Nepalese people" .
Hrithik, who last week married his girl friend Suzanne Khan in Bangalore, is leaving for a foreign destination on Thursday night for shooting of a new movie.
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Once again, I beleive Police Force is using it's strength at the wrong group of People. So excessive force toward students is unwarranted and the andha dhunda goli chalauneharu should not be allowed to walk around saying they are there to protect Lives. (my opinion).
I support Hritik Roshan's movies should be banned for good, if he in fact made such derogatory comment towards Nepal and Nepalis.
sparsha
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 26-Dec-00 03:01 PM
Hi Sparsha and Generation X:
I think it is time we restart assessing our policy of allowing
Hindi movies and Hindi movie magazines ( a collection of gossips
on which Bombay Nautanki sleeps late,or drinks in party)so freely,
or at least start imposing excruciatingly high tax on them.
A group of students in our country is trying to escalate violence
in any excuse.However, with the wrong policy of government, they
have plenty of those pretexts.The government should rise above
the party politics and general intelligence to implement rules
that are good for Nepalese people.
A recent report said 32 Nepalese movies were made this year
alone. My assessment is that: though most of the Nepalese movies
are technically inferior to Bombay Nautankis, most of our movies
are as good as most of their movies.So, it is sheer opportunism
of our Hallwallahs to create hooplas when asked for filming only
Nepalese movies.We shouldn't let every Bombay movie hijack our
market.May be the best way is to allow only those movies to
screen in Nepal which has Nepalese cast/singers, and not anti
Nepalese actors/stories.Movies like "Salaam Bombay" ,though
they showed Nepalese girl as prostitute, were really nice and
fact, and we should promote such movies in Nepal.
These movie actors expressing derogatory remarks against us
are only cog of wheels. There is a famous joke about Nepalese
in Bombay:
"You know why there are no thieves in Nepal?"
"Because everybody is Chaukidaar!"
Now it is high time we protect ourselves from Bombaya Nautankis.
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