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Namaste, Welcome and
Escape to the mystic world...
Nepal
is a kingdom of diversity, of contrasts, of multilingual multicultural
population, of changing and unwavering values, the spectator of
history of the rise and fall of rulers and eras, the witness of
prosperity and poverty, the ever changing never ending beauty.
The valley in itself with cities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur,
Bhaktpur and the forgotten city of Kirtipur is full of mysteries
and sagas and beliefs that are still significant and yet time forgotten
for the exact reasons behind the signicificance. Each and every
architectural corner has a story to tell, temples, stupas, formation
has its own interpretation of what was and is to be. A patient observer
could easily get lost in the city of wonderment of awe inspiring
tales that follows nearly all the constructions.
The life of an ordinary person earning his
daily wage goes on in the same way as his ancestors - hard work,
sweating and poverty. While his fellow inhabitants have gone ahead
to compete and earn a living in the world of dot com and cloning
and satellites, he still has not had the luxury of keeping his evenings
bright with electricity. He still lives in a world full of awe for
the supernatural, the paranormal, the rules and the ritual that
are necessary to please the omnipresent. For it is the omnipresence
of theunseen one that brings the rain in time for plantation, the
thunder and lightening in time to open up the earth and bring forth
springs to water the fields and the sun at the time of harvest and
to melt the snow into pristine rivers of the drinking water. It
is also the same force that sometimes turns into terrible disaster
in the forms of natural calamities in the broader sense and illness
or death in the family in a personal sense. Hence, the divine being
must be pleased in all its forms and manifestations, for the wrath
of being could be equally severe as the magnitude o this uncountable
blessings. Therefore in this belief are the hope and the fear a
common man in Nepal… but there is a certain degree of satisfaction,
of the assurance that a protective force is always present and is
the benefactor for all the devotees, though it needs to be pleased
form time to time with sacrifices and offerings and rituals…
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