By Seira Tamang As noted by various scholars, Hinduism, the Nepali language, the monarchy and a rastriya itihas (a chronicle of progress in which the dark era of Rana rule is contrasted with the enlightened, progressive and modern period of Panchayat rule) formed the core of the Panchayat regime’s national culture. The formation and consolidation of this national culture have required the expunging of uncomfortable facts and stories that might raise ambiguities and questions. While the selection of what and who is and is not acknowledged to exist (or at least exist in historically important ways) in official Nepali history is complex, social scientists have begun to provide more comprehensive historical accounts of the past through oral histories and re-readings of historical documents. Such accounts reveal how ordinary people lived in the past, and offer ways to think through how ‘history’ is crafted, shaped and managed in order to reflect ‘the reality’ best suited to the status quo, ...
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our very own Paljor Stadium(Polo Ground) ?!!
ReplyDeleteomg!! is it palzor stadium? unlike now the landscape look beautiful and uncluttered...
ReplyDeleteomg!! is it palzor stadium? unlike now the landscape look beautiful and uncluttered...
ReplyDeleteThings do change with human greed...ni hai!!
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ReplyDeletesometimes dont you think we have reached the pinnacle of consumerism??...I just wonder what we will be left with by the time everyone in our state will become a "lakhpati"....Being a Lepcha my roots are still with forests and rivers....and it pains to see the rapid changes we are going through. We can buy comfort with our money but tranquility coems only with nature.....we lost it. and the saddest part is we could do nothing about it....