`Kora` for a Chance at Life

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events
hallofframe
entertainment
gourmet
HighSpirits
The “Bom Bhole Bom”
and “Aaideu Aaideu”
hitmaker, Jems Pradhan
is under our celebrity
surveillance this week.
Sarwanam is presenting another
theater performance – “Banki
Pristha”.Witness the play and
through it explore the scars of
our civil war.
We captured the winning
model and beautician of
Sunsilk Bridal Make-up
and Hair-do Competition
in our frames.
A heartfelt expression as One
World Theatre performs
“Ah, Wilderness!” on the
Fourth of July in Kathmandu –
far from home.
Cute and delicious cupcakes
make the perfect mouthful.
Learn some recipes so you
can make these irresistible
mini cakes at home.
A fun night-out at Thamel
spirals into a chaotic
search for a purse full of
essentials - blame it on the
mix of spirits.
‘Kora’ for a Chance at Life
A 50-kilometer kora, or auspicious clockwise circumambulation, of
Kathmandu on a cycle while you raise funds to contribute towards an
endeavor that every child born in Rukum lives – what better way to
spend a productive yet fun Saturday !
— Anubhuti Poudyal
Model: Rasna Shrestha; Makeup Artist: Sujata Tamang
For more, turn to page 2
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‘Kora’ for a Chance at Life
K
athmandu Kora Cycling
challenge started last
year where it brought
cyclists together for
a cause. Its history is just as
interesting as the concept itself.
As we say hello to this year’s
challenge, we cannot help but
recall what started it all.
In 2011, Maxim Jones came
to Nepal. This 16 year old boy
from UK had come to volunteer
in SAMATA School, Boudha
and
OCCED
Orphanage,
Naxal. He did have some ideas
regarding fund raising in Nepal
but with expert advices, cycling
challenge was regarded as a
good option to raise money for
a good cause. The challenge
was extremely successful with
money worth 4000 British
pounds raised. Another 16
year old, Shishang Lama also
raised funds around the same
time participating with Maxim.
Finally, Maxim and Shishang
rode some 50 kilometers on
cycle
around
Kathmandu
in July along with 35 other
riders. At the end of the event
Rs. 450,000 was raised and
distributed to SAMATA School
and OCCED. This entire event
was conducted by CHAIN bikes
last year along with support
from other organizations.
Considering the success of
last year’s program and the
social development possible
through programs like these,
this year Socialtours and
Talent Inc are executing this
initiative’s next step.
Raj Gyawali, the founding
director of Socialtours, and
Jojan Gurung of Talent Inc
are actively involved with the
cause and the event. Speaking
of
this year’s challenge,
Gyawali says, “We have
already started rallying riders
to join this Challenge, and
so far, about 65 riders have
confirmed participation in the
50 kilometer Challenge. We
also have the support of over
20 corporate companies already
of birthing facilities in Rukum
district. This district in Midwestern region of Nepal has
some of the poorest conditions
of birthing care and is often a
neglected area when it comes to
social development.
“The initiative started last
year, and we plan to give it
continuity in the coming years
too. It has been difficult to
make the people understand
the concept, but that will come
slowly. Climbers come to Nepal
Riders gather to start the
challenge and ride along the
agreed route. For each kilometer
they ride, they request the people
around them to contribute Rs.
100. Entire donation is voluntary.
and are seeking to get more of
them involved. We expect the
figure to reach around 80 – 100
riders by the time the day of
the challenge comes.”
So how does the fundraising
actually work? Riders gather
to start the challenge and ride
along the agreed route. For
each kilometer they ride, they
request the people around them
to contribute Rs. 100. Entire
donation is voluntary. Willing
people can also make a pledge
online
(www.tinyuri.com/
donor-ktm-Kora) and name the
rider they are pledging the
money for.
The entire sum that is
gathered in the challenge is to
be donated for the improvement
each year to climb Everest for
a cause, or even a trek to Base
Camp for a cause, raising money
as the challenge is completed.
This is pretty similar, and the
funds are raised based on the
challenge of riding the 50
kilometers.” shares Gyawali.
He goes on to explain that the
cause part is equally important.
They want to make sure that
the “cause” is rock solid, and
the money contributed by the
people who pledge for this
event, goes transparently and
without leakage to the intended
beneficiaries – this year the
birthing facilities in Rukum.
“For this, we have an established
foundation channeling the
money and conducting the
monitoring via direct contact
as well as through the Save the
Children mechanism,” shares
Gyawali.
Save
the
Children’s
EVERYONE campaign runs
under the slogan “No child born
to die”. The entire fund raising
program has been launched
according to their system
and Rukmeli Samaj has been
coordinated well to deliver the
equipments successfully to the
targeted area. The point is not
to bring drastic changes into the
place but to assist the process.
Most radical changes require
small initiation. Programs
like these are mere triggers to
create wave of actions that can
eventually work in making the
lives of people better in districts
away from Kathmandu.
So finally the details of
the
program:
Kathmandu
Kora Cycling challenge will
be held on 21 July 2012, a
Saturday, from 7 am. The
venue would be Patan Durbar
Square. “The route is a Kora, a
clockwise circumambulation of
Kathmandu. The route is - Patan
Durbar Square - Jawalakhel Ring Road - Kirtipur - Naikap
- Sitapaila - Syoyambhu - Balaju
- Dhapasi - Bansbari - Boudha
- Pepsi Cola - Gwarko - Patan
Durbar Square. The challenge
will end at the end of 50
kilometers though there will be
a lunch break at Boudha G Café
for the riders.
Through Facebook and
contacts, the challenge is
already starting to gather a lot
of attention. “These events can
use popular sport as a means to
raise awareness levels on serious
social inequalities that exist in
Nepal. They also help public
make a positive contribution
towards
change,
through
direct funding using very small
denomination funds. It also gives
all involved a warm feeling, of
having done something to help
a fellow Nepali. This is also
very important at this juncture
in Nepal, where negativity is
rampant, to do actions that
are solid and positive,” says
Gyawali. They have already
raised Rs. 100,000 of the Rs.
500,000 target.
So I suggest you get a bicycle
and start cycling for a cause on
the very day or simply contribute
and support those who are
cycling. Whatever you choose to
do, mere involvement will make
you feel good. If nothing else,
karma is a strong word when it
comes to generosity. Smile and
donate and you will know what
goes around does come around. !
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Jems Pradhan
A self-taught musician, Jems Pradhan is now a well-known singer and composer.
Pradhan is applauded for his catchy tunes and music videos. Simple yet stylish, career
driven yet a family man – Pradhan’s contrasting characteristics make him unique. We
take a sneak-peek into a day of the musician’s life:
— Mannat Shrestha
5:00 a.m.
Early to rise, Pradhan wakes up to an
early day with the sound of his alarm
clock.
8:30 a.m.
Paternal Chores
He gets ready, and drops his
younger daughter to school.
8:50 a.m.
Pradhan returns home, and checks
his Facebook. He has two Facebook
accounts to accommodate all his
friends:
A total of
5:18 a.m.
He freshens up, and starts his day
with positive energy – prayers and
religious rituals.
6:00 a.m.
A Healthy Lifestyle
It is now time for him to work
his muscles. He spends two hours
exercising:
30
30
1
minutes of Yoga
minutes of light gym
hour on the treadmill
10,449
friends in his Facebook accounts
9:20 a.m.
Brunch
He enjoys a home-cooked dal,
bhaat and takari meal for breakfast.
“You could say, I have lunch for
breakfast!”
10:00 a.m.
Particular about punctuality, he
arrives at Music Work Studios, in
Putalisadak, to start work exactly
on time.
10:06 a.m.
He makes sure his work hours have
a positive start as well – simple
rituals that include lighting up
an incense stick and uttering his
mantras are routine before getting
down to his tasks.
2:00 p.m.
Pradhan has sandwiches for lunch
at the office itself with his wife.
He looks into some pending
matters of the studio.
6:15 p.m.
He wraps up his tasks, and heads
home with his family.
10:37 a.m.
Musical Tasks
Pradhan opens up his little
notebook in which he has listed
the tasks for the day. The list
includes:
• Compose a Jingle for Ncell
• Lyrics for Lifebuoy
• Music for Image Channel
5:45 p.m.
7:20 p.m.
3:04 p.m.
Kitchen Work
Pradhan and his wife start
preparing dinner.
Back to Work
The musician works on some
jingles, he strums his guitar and
experiments with some melodies.
The usual:
1
1
song every month
jingle every week
On a record setting day:
1
15
album in a day
jingles in a day
11:36 a.m.
Progress Details
A meeting with the team where
they discuss and comment about
the progress of tasks so far.
8:32 p.m.
He makes a phone call to Music
Work Studios’ Dubai branch.
A Family Dinner
The Pradhan family gets together
to spend some quality time over
dinner. They talk about their day
and share details.
5:30 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
While he is on the phone about
another project, his daughters
arrive from school.
Early to bed
An early end to the day and he’s off
to bed.
feature
issues that matter
Where’s the Hero?
As Nepali cinema steers towards exciting ventures, women in the scripts
are still struggling to break free from their stereotypical image.
— Sumina Subba
I
n her most iconic essay
– Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema (1975),
Laura
Mulvey
wrote,
“The presence of woman is
an indispensable element of
spectacle in normal narrative
film, yet her visual presence
tends to work against the
development of
a story
line, to freeze the flow of
action in moments of erotic
contemplation.”
The statement is a testimony
to how women are still being
projected to the mass audience
and our national cinema does not
remain far behind in following
the judgment. It has only been
61 years since the first Nepali
feature film, Dibyachandra
Bikram Pariyar’s “Satya Harish
Chandra”, was released in 1951
so, comparatively Nepali movie
industry is still taking its baby
steps towards the horizon.
In such a short process of
evolution, women are being
subjected to portray ‘made to
measure’ stereotype roles.
This is alarmingly ironic
despite the fact that the first
movie made by the Information
Department of Nepal and
directed by Hira Singh Khatri
in 1964 was titled Aama.
Exactly after five years, a major
successful cinema was released
named “Maitighar” in 1966 and
the first Eastman colour Nepali
film, “Kumari” was shown in
1977. “Aama”, “Maitighar”
example of a perfect woman in
her society. She is idyllic in every
sense most true to a woman
which is further enhanced by her
dazzling beauty. Not to forget,
she is also the damsel in distress
often landing in situations
where chivalry follows. She is
often compared to Sita (wife of
Lord Ram) who is the prototype
of an ideal woman. She is as
patient as a still river when the
“As a girl is about to get raped by
4-5 men, the hero comes along and
saves her. Why can’t a male be put
in a position where the heroine
comes and saves him?”
and “Kumari”, the names alone
project a strong affinity towards
femininity. However, the flip
side of the coin is that women,
in Nepali movies are defined by
certain boundaries.
These boundaries would be
defined in the roles of a perfect
daughter to her parents, a loyal
wife to her husband, a doting
mother to her children and an
society ostracizes her, devoted
like a sage towards her husband
and selflessly lives for the
benefit of others. The handful
of movies that were produced in
the embryo stage, have largely
contributed towards creating
and maintaining a female
stereotype which has been
followed religiously in the latter
stages of movie production.
In “Aama”, Sanu (Bhuwan
Chand) is perfect in every way.
She is simple and beautiful,
caring and loving, and nurtures
love for the same man, Man
Bahadur since her childhood
into adolescence. She remains
dedicated to him throughout her
life. Sanu even hails the virtues
of his mother when she says
“Great is the lady who has given
birth to a son like you. My only
wish is to stay by your side for
my entire life.”
Women albeit being an
integral part of the plot have
far less to offer than being
a typecast. She sometimes
becomes the object of pity
because her entire life is a saga
of sacrifice. One such iconic
role is of Maya (Mala Singha)
in “Maitighar”. The audience
are not only enthralled by her
beauty but she directly portrays
that sacrifice is the essence of
womanhood. As an individual,
she sacrifices her freedom
after her husband’s death. As a
mother, she spends 15 years in
prison to save her daughter’s fall
from grace. In a confrontation
with her alter-ego, it questions
her, “Who are you? Aren’t you
dead? Didn’t your existence
disappear when your husband
died?”
The feeling of despair is so
gravely embedded in her psyche
which reflects how women
are groomed to think nothing
beyond her husband’s existence.
“A daughter’s birth means a
defeated fate.” This is how Usha
(Meenakshi) gets consoled on
the night of her wedding in
“Sindoor” (1980). A beautiful
young woman who is a dutiful
daughter to the core, she agrees
to marry the man she despises.
She surrenders to her father’s
mulish wishes and succumbs to
a barren life without uttering a
complaint yet remains deeply
dedicated towards her abusive
husband. She becomes a martyr
in her own silence. Submission
- a trait which is still believed
to be essential for a woman. As
Neer Shah, a respected director,
frankly
explains,
“Being
submissive is a natural character
of Nepali women and their
suffering also starts from this
(trait). The way she is perceived
on the day she is born, therein
is suffering. Her suffering starts
from the very first moment she
enters this world. She learns to
be submissive.”
Rakshya Singh Rana, a film
editor and director shares,
“... because we live in a male
dominated society. Women are
taught at a very young age that
we need to be protected under
the shadow of males.”
On the contrary, a new
wave of cinema in the early
millennium paved a way for
stronger character portrayal of
women. Films like “Mukundo”
(2000) and “Numafung” (2001)
have women as the powerful
links that hold the story together.
Both Saraswati (Gauri Malla)
and Gita (Mithila Sharma)
in “Mukundo” depict the
complexities found in a woman
with equal finesse. Numa in
“Numafung” also creates the
same magic. Set in a typical
Limbu village, she decides to
take charge of her life. For
instance, when her parents
decide her second marriage,
in lieu of remaining calm and
leaving things to fate, she
bursts out angrily and makes
her voice heard, “Marrying me
off once against my wish was
not enough that you all are
planning to do it again? Do you
think I’m an object that you can
sell? I am not your cattle. I will
not marry at all!”
Unfortunately,
in
the
successive years females were
yet again caught in the labyrinth
of stereotypes. “Bato Muni
Ko Phool” (2010), as a movie,
conveys a potent message
against caste discrimination.
However, Tulsi (Nandita K.C)
and Guras (Rekha Thapa)
have nothing more to suggest
than being pretty faces. Tulsi,
in particular is the damsel in
distress, when she becomes the
victim of physical assault and
rape. Her dignity is gallantly
saved by Suman (Babu Bogati)
who declares his unending
adulation for her to which she
replies in the sequential song as
“you gave life to a withered flower;
you gave hope to a bleak life. I lay
on your feet. I worship you.”
Why must a woman feel that
her place is beneath a man’s
feet after experiencing such
trauma? Why must a woman
be subjected to a horrendous
incident in order to shed light on
a man’s bravery? Strategies like
these not only typecast women
but they represent them as
weak. Moving on to the present
cinema, in “Chapali Height”
(2011), Bini (Binita Baral) in
some aspects represents the
modern liberated woman, a
woman who is not afraid to step
out of the conventional shadows.
Another perspective, however,
shows that her character has
been blatantly misused as a
sexual object for the movie. This
is seen rampantly on the posters
and throughout the movie as
well.
The famed director, Nabin
Subba shares, “As a girl is
about to get raped by 4-5 men,
the hero comes along and
saves her. Why can’t a male
be put in a position where the
heroine comes and saves him?”
The question raised by Subba
still remains quietly ignored
and seriously unanswered.
Women in national cinema
are still far away from being
comfortable shedding their
makeup and glamour and stand
on their own terms. On a closer
inspection, maybe the fault lies
not within the lines of a script,
rather in an attitude we have let
breed rampantly affecting the
society’s mentality as a whole.
Nonetheless, the presence of
filmmakers like Nabin Subba,
Neer Shah and Tsering Rhitar
Sherpa who repeatedly create
women centric cinema, signify
that a positive change is
inevitable. !
events
TOP 3
With events to the left and right, Fr!day makes it a little bit easier for
you to choose events to check out this week and the next. Here are
our top three picks:
get more out of your weekends
1. Coca-Cola Expressions 2012
what’s on
The annual event, Ace Inter College Festival- Expressions 2012 being held
this July, provides a strong platform to showcase the talent of students in
four different streams: Music, Fine Arts, Dramatics, and Wits.
2. An Eventful Saturday @
Moksh
things to do
Organized by Spak – six dance schools including the organizer will
demonstrate various dance styles at Moksh following the dance parade.
3.The Monsoon Workshop
sun. mon . tue . wed . thu .fri . sat
The Monsoon Collective provides an opportunity for engineers, artists
and thinkers to come together and organize projects.
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POST US: Email event details to [email protected] or call 5011571/
5011639/ 5011730/ 5011731 for listings. Listings are free but inclusion is not
guaranteed due to limited space.
“Banki Pristha” – Sarwanam’s Next
Opening Date: 4 July (Wednesday); Closing Date: 18 July (Wednesday);Time: 5.30 pm
onwards;Venue: Sarwanam Theatre, Bansjhyang, Kalikasthan, Kathmandu; Contact: 4464616
This July, Sarwanam Theater presents Banki Pristha – a play by the writer,
Ashesh Malla, which is being directed by the writer himself. The play reflects
the scars left behind by the civil war that vandalized values and traditions –
so victory or loss is pointless.
The artists for the play are Bhinmaya Prajapati, Om Mani Sharma, Nhucche
Shrestha, Shyam Khadka, Ram K.A.C., Avineet Malla, Shiva Adhikari, Meena
Khadka, Ramesh Khadka, Sangita Karki, Sangita Khadka and Tika Bhakta Jirel.
Indra Ratna Bajracharya is handling sound and music, Tika Bhakta Jirel and
Mahesh Tuladhar will be working on the lights, Bhinmaya Prajapati is taking
care of costumes, and Sabitri Malla Kakshapati is the Program Coordinator.
Tickets are available at the ticket counter and can be reserved over the phone.
Ticket : Rs. 100 ( 50 percent off for students)
3
Qs
With Ashesh Malla
Writer/director, Sarwanam Theatre
Scars of a Civil War
After nearly a month of tiring practice, the artists are now
performing their play at Sarwanam.The director invites everyone to
come and explore his portrayal of the hardships Nepalis faced in
the ten years of conflict, and its aftereffects.
Could you briefly talk about the theme of the play?
The ten years of conflict that we Nepalis faced is now over but it has left
pain behind. At the time of conflict, the war affected many common people
and is one of the main reasons for our country to be pushed backwards.
All these sorrows have been taken as the main subject of the play. The play
attempts to show how human values are disappearing from our society, and
how victory or loss in a conflict isn’t important but the end of rich cultures,
traditions and human values is. All those aspects are presented in a symbolic
way in the play.
What inspired you to come up with the play?
I’ve been into dramas for 40 years. It’s been 31 years that I’ve been writing
and directing plays in Sarwanam Theater. All my plays have political themes.
Actually, the lack of development in Nepal is due to political instability.
All difficulties in Nepal, be it lack of pure drinking water, poverty or
underdevelopment, are all because of the political instability. So a desire for
making people aware about this was what inspired me to write the play.
In what ways is the play different from other similar kinds of plays?
The play depicts Nepali society, our myth, folk tradition and also many
symbols and images. My theatre philosophy is “A play cannot be restricted
by the boundaries of the stage. Each theatrical presentation creates its
own time and space.” Originality is what makes it a bit different from other
similar kind of plays. (Suprasanna Aryal)
MUSIC AND
PARTIES
Live Sufi and Hindi
Ghazals
Date: 12 July (Thursday)
Time: 7 pm onwards
Venue: Maharaja Restaurant,
Grand Hotel, Soaltee Mode
4282482
The Indian Restaurant, Maharaja
brings to you ‘Live Sufi and
Hindi Ghazals’ by Rajesh Khadga
and Pooja Sunuwar all week
long, except on Tuesdays. If you
enjoy moving ghazals and the
passionate Sufi numbers you
may want to give this a try.
Asarai Mainama: A
month dedicated to
Nepali Music
Date: 13 July (Friday)
Time: 7:15 pm onwards
Venue: House of Music, Thamel
House of Music is presenting
traditional sounds that Nepali
bands have to offer to the music
enthusiasts. It is celebrating the
month of Asar with artists and
their talents. On 6 July, Re Sa,
Nepali eastern classical-fusion
band, led by Tabala guru Nawaraj
Gurung performed. Likewise,
13 July, Rock Sitar, A Nepali
rock-fusion band, led by Sitar
maestro, Bijaya Vaidhya (of Sur
Sudha fame) will be performing.
For the past three years House
of Music has been focusing on
promoting live music through
frequent events. So all the music
enthusiasts do come and enjoy
the music and support the local
artists. Come and explore the
tribute to the month of Asar
that brings along with it the
glory of monsoon rain.
Cover charge: Rs. 300 (with a
can of Tuborg beer)
The Party
Venue: Iclub, Durbar Marg
9843008899, 9851139089
Sangre Real brings to you ‹The
Party› to celebrate Sangre
Real first venture. The main aim
behind organizing the party is to
gather models and a crowd eager to
socialize through parties. The party
will also have a DJ session. So do
come with your dancing shoes on.
Price: Rs. 300
Friday the 13th (Scream to
Death)
Time: 3 pm to 8 pm
Venue:Vintage Pub, Durbar Marg
4230914
Be ready to experience a new kind
of fun as Vintage Pub has come up
with a party on 13 July, Friday. So try
the pub out this Friday where you
will be provided with scary masks
and face painting along with a dance
party to celebrate Friday the 13th.
DJ Sin and DJ Dhiraj will be the
highlights of the party.
Death Feast I
Date: 14 July (Saturday)
Time: 11:45 am
Venue: Silence Street, Tangal
An event supported by ktmROCKS
and Mepal Underground, ESOTERIC
NEPAL’s “Death Feast I” is a concert
featuring only Sub Genres of Death
Metal. Bands that will be performing
at the concert are Waak Thuu,
11, The Exorcist, Fall, Nakinjhyaa,
Suffocate The Unborn etc. Many
more bands will be there to get
your head banging.
Ticket: Rs. 160/ per person
MISCELLENEOUS
Photo Yatra 2
Time: 7 am onwards
Venue: TU gate
5546705, 9841242307
After the success of Photo Yatra 1
in Bhaktapur in 2011, Photo Yatra 2
is going to be organized in Kirtipur.
With final date of registration
being 10 July, the main objective
of the initiative is to increase the
visual literacy along with providing
platform for interaction between
locals, creators, photo practitioners,
professionals, amateurs and
passionate observers. The event will
SUMMER ISSUE
On
Stands
Now
see one-day travel in the culture city,
with more than 50 photographers.
Participation Fees: Rs. 555
( including breakfast, lunch ,
Remuneration for Mentors and
Exhibition expenses like photo
printing, rental of hall and other
marketing expenses)
An Eventful
Saturday @ Moksh
Time: 5 pm onwards
Venue: Moksh Live Restaurant and Bar
A dance parade from Dhobighat
to Moksh will trigger an eventful
evening. Organized by Spak – six
dance schools including the organizer
will demonstrate various dance
styles at Moksh following the dance
parade.Y-Stand, Salsa Academy,
Circus Kathmandu, Nritya Angan,
and Flamingo are the dance schools
involved. Everyone is invited; there is
no charge to watch the performance.
Following the dance performance,
‘What the Funk, We Are Soul’d
Out’ will perform for the Moksh
audience. Although the dance
performance is free of cost, there
is a Rs. 200 charge for the musical
performance.
Saturday Children Dance
Classes
Closing date: 14 July (saturday)
Time: 10 am to 12 pm
Venue: Salsa Dance
Academy,Bhatbhateni
4420564/ www.salsanepal.com
Kathak and Freestyle Bollywood
dance class session for kids began
on 12 May and will last till 14 July.
It is a 10 weeks session which will
take place every Saturday. Subima
Shrestha and Jenishha Bista will be
instructors for Kathak and Freestyle
Bollywood respectively. The classes
are for kids of 6-12 years age group.
Fee: Rs. 300/ per class (all new
student must register for Rs. 300)
Monsoon Workshop
Date: 2 July to 27 July
Time: 3 pm to 6pm (Wednesdays
and Thursdays; 12 pm to 4 pm
(Saturdays and Sundays)
Venue: Sattya, Jawalakhel
5523486, sattya.org
events
The monsoon workshop, brought
up by The Monsoon Collective, is an
opportunity for engineers, artists and
thinkers to come together and organize
projects. The workshop will conclude
with a public showcase of achievements
and projects. The orientation and Fee
Drop Off was on 29 June (10 am to
5 pm). Featuring twenty hours per
week, presentations will be given by
organizers and participants in the first
hour of class, followed by group work,
discussions, and more. Facilitators for
the workshop are Prabhas Pokharel and
Robert M Ochshorn.
Price: Rs. 2000 for the whole month
Nepal Education & Book Fair
2012
Date: 6 July to 14 July
Time: 11am to 5:30pm
Venue: Bhrikuti Mandap Exhibition Hall,
Kathmandu
GEMS (Global Exposition & Management
Services Pvt. Ltd.) is up with an
educational event that will consist of
Education Section: (6 July to 10 July) and
Book Section: (6 July to 14 July).The
education section will include information
about the National and International
Colleges, Education Consultancies and
Training Institutes.You can expect the
knowledge on National and international
publishers and distributors of Fiction,
Non-fiction, Science, Management,
Humanities,Training guides, Religious
books, Children books, Engineering
books, Medicine, Art and Culture and
many others.
ART AND THEATRE
Portrait of Everest
Date: 12 July (Thursday) onwards
Time: 9:30 am to 5 pm
Venue: Image Ark Studio, Patan, Kulimha
Tole
9813186573
Image Ark Gallery has been inviting
everyone to come and explore the
photographic exhibition by the
American photographer, Jeff Botz.
The collection showcases outstanding
black and white photographs of the
Himalayas taken by the artist in the
last 30 years that he has dedicated
to his fascination and passion for
the Everest.The artist has exhibited
dramatic spirit and sacred nature of
the world’s tallest mountain and its
surrounding regions.
Wilderness!” by Eugene O›Neill, the
Nobel Prize winning playwright›s
family comedy set in the early
1900›s. Several young actors
directed by Deborah Merola will be
introduced. It is a family comedy of
turn-of-the-century American life
that gives a picture of patriotism
and young love. An ensemble cast of
Americans and Nepalis will definitely
make your weekend a worthy one.
(The display is closed on Mondays.)
Price: Rs. 200 for Adults and Rs. 100
for Students or Actors with I.D
Ah, Wilderness
Date: 14 July (Saturday) to 15 July
(Sunday)
Time: 3 pm onwards
Venue: Naga Theatre,Vajra Hotel,
Bijeshwori
9808554122 , 4271545
One World Theatre presents
performances of “Ah,
(Tickets can be reserved online
through oneworldtheatreinnepal@
gmail.com and at the door)
Production Oriented
Theatre Training
Opening date: 24 June (sunday)
Closing date: 24 August (friday)
Fr!day
Time: 7 am to 9 am
Venue: Sarwanam Theatre,
Kalikasthan
4438947 / 9841978353/
9813121034
If you want a workshop on theatre,
Ashesh Malla and his team is
coming up with a two month
production oriented theatre training
cum workshop. The training will
divulge on every aspect of theatre
such as direction, acting, gestures,
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expressions, dialogue writing and
more. After two months of training,
the groups will then get a chance
to perform a drama of their own
in the theatre hall at Sarwanam.
All interested participants can join
the workshop through registration.
This is a chance for you to groom
yourself up in the field. Registration
forms and other details are available
at Sarwanam itself.
Fee: Rs. 3000
“Jamunko Rukh”
Date: 14 July (Saturday); Time: 4.45 pm and 6 pm;Venue: Nepal Tourism Board;
Contact: 9808886949
The annual event, Ace Inter College Festival- Expressions 2012 is being
held this July. This is the fourth time they are doing the event. The event has
gathered twenty colleges having Bachelors and Masters level faculties, in
Kathmandu. With the tagline, “Involve yourself”, the event specifically targets
graduate and undergraduate level students. It provides a strong platform
to showcase the talent of students in four different streams: Music, Fine
Arts, Dramatics, and Wits. Apart from the four primary streams, the event
showcases an inter-college dance competition on the first day and an intercollege fashion show as well as a rock concert by 1974 AD on the second
day of the event. A variety of stalls for food, beverage, games, career guidance,
etc. will be the other highlights of the event.
Koseli School runs under a registered NGO. It is a center for slum
and street children. Currently it has 120 kids with requests for more
admissions every day. Located at Sinamangal, the center also takes care
of their hygiene, food, clothing and recreational needs along with the
education. The school for slum and street kids and ‘Gari Khana Deu’ are
organizing a drama for charity which will raise funds to be used to donate
to the school, which is facing some financial difficulties currently. ‘Gari
Khana Deu’ is the organizing partner with Koseli School for the event and
Samriddhi, the Prosperity Foundation hosts the Campaign Secretariat of
‘Gari Khana Deu’, being one of the coalition members of the campaign. The
drama is the outcome of more than a year’s practice of the children of the
school and has been screened many times before on different occasions.
Since the school is engaged in educating slums and street kids, this is a
chance for you to enjoy the children’s performance and at the same time
contribute a small amount which will help in brightening up the dark future
of these children.
Entry: Rs. 100 per person
Price of ticket: Rs. 250
Coca-Cola Expressions 2012
Date: 12 July (Thursday) and 13 July (Friday); 14 July (Saturday) and 15 July
(Sunday)
Time: 10 am onwards
Venue: Ace UGS Seminar Hall, New Baneshwor (12 July and 13 July); Nepal
Academy Hall, Kamaladi, (14 July and 15 July); 4110697, 9851051986
Events Index
THURSDAY
Coca- Cola Expressions 2012
(Miscellaneous)
Live Sufi and Hindi Ghazals
(Music and Parties)
Monsoon Workshop (Miscellaneous)
Nepal Education and Book Fair
2012 (Miscellaneous)
Portrait of Everest
(Art and Theater)
Production Oriented Theater and
Training (Art and Theater)
FRIDAY
Asarai Mainama: A month
dedicated to Nepali Music
(Music and Parties)
(Miscellaneous)
Friday the 13th (Scream to Death)
(Music and Parties)
Monsoon Workshop
(Miscellaneous)
Nepal Education and Book Fair
2012 (Miscellaneous)
Portrait of Everest
(Art and Theater)
The Party (Music and Parties)
SATURDAY
Ah, Wilderness (Art and Theater)
An Eventful Saturday @ Moksh
(Miscellaneous)
(Miscellaneous)
Death Feast I (Music and Parties)
Nepal Education and Book Fair 2012
(Miscellaneous)
Photo Yatra 2 (Miscellaneous)
Portrait of Everest (Art and Theater)
Saturday Children Dance Classes
(Miscellaneous)
SUNDAY
Ah, Wilderness (Art and Theater)
(Miscellaneous)
MONDAY
TUESDAY
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Qs
With Dilip Gurung
Campaign Coordinator, Gari Khana Deu
(National Campaign for a Livable Nepal)
A Play for Charity
Everyone is invited to watch the show. Kids and youth will be
prioritized as the play is about practicing good governance and
being accountable towards the nation.
What is the play about? Who is directing it?
The play is about good governance and accountability among citizens
as well. The theme tries to reflect how people suffer from leviathan
bureaucracy. Rabindra Singh Baniya is directing the play.
In what ways is the collected money going to be used?
National Campaign for Livable Nepal “Gari Khana Deu” is completely
run by local resources; we do not use any international donation for this
campaign, that›s why we need to raise the required fund locally and this is
one of the initiatives towards it. Out of all collected fund, some will be used
to produce campaign materials (Stickers, Leaf-let, flyer, T-Shirts) and some
part of it will be contributed for Koseli School.
Is it the first charity show you’re doing? Do you have similar plans
for future?
In regards to play, this is the the first charity show we are doing. However,
we successfully completed charity show of highway on 8 July,2012. Since
the campaign raises funds locally we might come up with other fund raising
events, but we have not scheduled any charity show in the immediate
future so far. (Suprasanna Aryal)
events
get more out of your weekends
mark your calendar
events in the next few weeks
Showing “True West”
Opening Date: 20 July (Friday); Closing Date: 21 July (Saturday); Time: 5 pm and 2 pm;
Venue: Moksh Live Restaurant and Bar, Jhamsikhel; [email protected]
The Poetics Theater
Company consists
of a small group of
enthusiastic and dedicated
individuals. True West, a
classic American play by
Sam Shepard is the first
theatrical production
arranged by the team. The
Poetics want to begin a
dialogue with the Nepali
society through theater and
especially engage the youth
in creating professional
productions.
True West is a play about brothers Lee and Austin, a myth-filled journey
from the old west to the new west, exploring the meaning of blood-ties,
creation and power. Directed by Hannah G. Lilly, assisted by Ankit Sharma
and produced by Ashok Sharma, the play stars Sansar Kshetri as Austin,
Pragyan Thapa Ghimire as Lee, Saurav Marasini as Saul Kimmer and Rhea J.
Gurung as the mother. Be there to witness their work on stage and have a
great time.
To reserve tickets, please e-mail them at [email protected]
Entrance: Rs. 200 (Adult), Rs. 100 (student)
Note: If anyone has difficulty paying, they can discuss volunteer
opportunities in exchange for the ticket price.
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With Hannah G. Lilly
Director, The Poetics’ First
The Poetics’ First
A small team of theater aficionados come together to present a
classic play by Sam Shepard, with a touch of their own. Director Lilly,
sheds some more light on the event.
Can you please elaborate on the play “True West”? Who can be
potential audience for this play?
“True West” is a classic contemporary American play written by
Sam Shepard. It is a play about two brothers, Austin and Lee, and the
relationships’ evolution and devolution. This is a play about familial ties and
the difficulties that can come between siblings. The potential audience for
True West can be anyone looking to expand their theater horizons, anyone
looking to witness a classic American play and anyone who wants to see
what a group of talented young Nepalis are creating through theater.
How well will the Nepali audience be able to connect to this play?
It’s hard to say how an audience will connect and react to any play. “True
West” is an important play to show to a Nepali audience, as always within
families there are conflicts, there is love and there is obligation. The play
will provide the audience with things to think about, situations that they
know, and an opportunity to re-examine their own family life. Saying that,
since theater is live and is a completely different experience each time,
it’s hard to say. All we can hope for is that the audience leaves the theater
thinking and questioning.
What does you theater company plan to do next? Any future
plans yet?
Our plans for the future are as theater is - unpredictable. But we will
hope to be continuing our theater dreams, and may even put on another
production in the upcoming months. Some of us will be leaving Nepal but
some of us will remain here. Despite the separation, we will continue to
work from corners of the globe to put forth theater productions here in
Kathmandu. (Akriti Shilpakar)
MUSIC AND PARTIES
Shuffle Get Tipsy
Time: 1 pm tp 12 am
Venue: Tipsy Lounge, Durbar
Marg
Bollywood Dance in the dance
classes being done by Salsa Dance
Academy will be showcasing their
talent on 21 July. The session
performance will be a short one,
with each dance style group giving
a performance on one song each.
MStella Events and Shuffle Jerk
Productions Present “Shuffle Get
Tipsy”. Dance to your favorite
beats from electro to shuffles.
Different DJs from Kathmandu
will be making music the entire
day to give you a good time.
Moreover, be ready for a Shuffle
Battle too. Top shuffler groups
will be going head to head
on a challenge so, expect the
unexpected.
Tickets: Rs 300 (Pre-sales), Rs
500 (Door)
MISCELENEOUS
Demystifying Portraiture
Date: 21 July (Saturday) and 22
July (Sunday)
Time: 9 am to 3 pm
Venue: photo.circle HQ,
Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur
9801065064, 5013501, learning@
photocircle.com.np
Here is a chance for people
interested in enhancing their
general photography skills,
but particularly interested
in meeting new people,
making their portraits and
telling their stories. Spanish
photographer Arantxa Cedillo
will be holding a workshop
with 10-12 participants who
are interested. The workshop is
designed especially for working
professionals. Each six hour
session will consist of theory
and practice and review sessions.
One extra optional session on 25
July, Wednesday, will be available
during the week for participants
who wish to touch base midweek. The workshop will also
take place on 28 and 29 July.
Workshop fee: Rs 16000 + 13
percent VAT (the fee includes
teaching hours, all reading
material and lunch on all
workshop days.)
Participants must have a DSLR.
Application deadline: 5 pm, 15
July 2012 (Sunday)
Kids Dance Performance
Date: 21 July (Thursday)
Time: 11:15 am onwards
Venue: Salsa Dance Academy,
Bhatbhateni
4420564
The groups that have been
learning Kathak and Freestyle
Entrance: Free
Kathmandu Kora Cycling
Challenge 2012
Time: 7 am to 3 pm
Venue: Patan Durbar Square
4412508, [email protected],
facebook.com/kathmandu.kora
Following the success of the
first Kora Cycling Challenge last
year, Kathmandu Kora Cycling
Challenge 2012, organised by
Socialtours and Talent Inc., will
bring together around 100
riders from Nepal and abroad
to participate in a 50-kilometer
challenge around Kathmandu
valley, raising money per
kilometer biked for a worthy
cause.
The first Cycling Challenge was
also a fundraiser for SAMATA
School and OCCED orphanage
in Kathmandu. Maxim Jones from
UK and Shishang Lama had taken
the challenge and together they
raised around Rs. 450,000. This
time around the money raised
will go to upgrade the facilities
required during child birth in
Rukum district of Nepal. Riders
are to request people around
them to contribute Rs. 100
for each kilometer they ride.
The contribution is completely
voluntary. Willing people should
make a pledge at www.tinyurl.
com/donor-ktm-kora and name
the rider they are pledging the
money for.
instructor, G.M.B. Akash, along
with Corbis Images Photographer
and TCI Founder, David Bathgate.
From your “Student Area”, you
will be able to upload your 12- to
15-image photo-story submission,
along with a brief description of
your submitted work and a shortform of your resume. To enter,
sign up for a free TCI account
and enroll on the free scholarship
competition course. The winner
(there will be only one winner)
will be announced on 1 September
(Saturday) on the TCI Blog.
The scholarship does not include
accommodation during the
workshop.
Teej Festival
Opening Date: 23 August
(Thursday)
Closing Date: 26 August (Sunday)
Time: 9 am to 7 pm
Venue: WTC, DECC, Tripureshwor
4425898
Teej is approaching ever so near
and with that comes a long
shopping list. To make the tiresome
job easy and fun, the 11th Teej
Festival is back. With a line of
different exhibitions and stalls,
displaying pictures related to
the festival of Teej itself and also
the pictures of the past ten Teej
Festival, the visitors will also get
an exclusive chance to do their
Teej shopping under one roof. One
of their major attractions of this
year’s festival is a Teej fashion show
on the last day. For those willing to
put up a stall, call the concerned
bodies for more details.
Regular stall: Rs. 9500/ 4 days
Food stall: Rs. 10,500/ 4 days
International Night Market
– II
Date: 27 August (Monday)
Venue: Garden of Dreams, Thamel
4425340
For rider registration go to www.
tinyurl.com/reg-ktm-kora
M.A.A.U.R, an upcoming new
boutique in town will be featuring
handpicked shoes from many
international destinations at a night
market at Garden of Dreams. The
shoes on display will compliment
Nepal’s fashion world. Wooden
carved shoes are some of the
samples that will be on display for
the visitors to explore.
Free Scholarship
Competition
FAIR AND EXPO
Cost: Participation is free
(Request to raise Rs. 100/ per
km)
Submission Deadline: 15 August
(Wednesday)
Workshop’s Date: 18 October
(Tuesday) to 27 October
(Saturday)
http://www.thecompellingimage.
com/
Kathmandu and Dashain Festival
Photo and Multimedia Workshop,
a free competition is open only to
all emerging still and multimedia
photographers from India, Nepal,
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The
submissions will be judged by
Panos photographer and TCI
Career Edufair - 2012
Opening Date: 26 July (Thursday)
Closing Date: 28 July (Saturday)
Time: 2 pm onwards
Venue: Fun Park, Bhrikuti Mandap
The Kathmandu Post in association
with Array International is coming
with Career Edufair 2012. For all
those people out there, who are
still trying to decide a suitable
career choice for themselves
or for students who are willing
to take advice for their further
studies, this is an opportunity not
to be missed.
events
the week that was
event reviews of the
past week
Civil Mall –
Surprise Prizes
Distributed
Kshitiz Singh
Kathmandu, 7 July
Civil mall organized a program to
give away surprise prizes to the
shoppers at the mall this Saturday. A
total of 21 prizes were given away
to the winners randomly selected
from the mass of shoppers with a
shopping coupon during a musical
event. Performing at the event were
rock icons Robin and the New
Revolution and Nepsydaz. Collecting
the scattered Saturday shoppers
towards the safety railings in the
mall, the rock band who recently
returned from their five city tour to
Australia started off the show with
their all time hit songs. Nepsydaz
gave continuity to the event after
a brief interval with some of their
upbeat numbers.
After finishing their bit of the
show, the front man of Robin and
the new revolution, Robin Tamang
said, “It’s good to be performing
for the Nepali crowd in Nepal
again. Australia was a nice place to
perform at but nothing beats the
audience back home.”
Civil mall will give continuity to the
program until 15 September with
live music on Saturdays by various
other Nepali bands. The grand
prize of the event is a trip to Dubai.
Besides the grand prize, the mall
will be giving out an R15 motor
bike, home appliances, watches, Ray
Ban sunglasses, cell phones, cash
vouchers and many more prizes.
Little Star 2012 –
Winners Declared
Suprasanna Aryal
Kathmandu, 7 July
Green Arts Media held an innovative
event titled ‘Little Star’ on 7 July
(Saturday) .The event was held at
Cultural Corporation, Naach Ghar at
3 pm. Chief Guest and judge for the
event was Malina Joshi, Miss Nepal 2011.
The other judges were Ashok Paysi
Rai, Rojin Shakya, Srijana Duwal, Manju
Banjara, Pratul JB Rana, Sarmin Rauf and
Sahara Pradhan.
The title ‘Little Star’ was introduced
in 2010 with the purpose of boosting
the motivation and talent of children
while preparing them for challenges that
they will face in this competitive world.
Abishek Man Joshi won the title for male
whereas Aayusha Kapali won the title
for female. Other winners were Nikunja
Singh Karki (Mr. Photogenic), Eva Shakya
(Miss Photogenic), Best Smile (Aayusha
Lamichhane), Ankit Rajkarnikar (Art
competition Male), Laghima Pandey
(Art competition Female), Prince
Karmacharya (Charming Personality),
Aarasi Shrestha (Best Performance),
Smriti Bhandari (Best Dress), Aniva
Maharjana (Most Cute), Shekhar Adhikari
(Most Talent), Dristee Manandhar
(Most Discipline), Abshiek Man Joshi
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Just Event Organizes ‘Music, Fashion and More’
Kshitiz Singh
Kathmandu, 6 July
Just Event Entertainment organized a music and fashion event at the Radisson
Hotel Kathmandu in Lazimpat on Friday. Despite a brief shower, the number of
attendees at the event was fairly impressive. The event kicked off with Abahaya
and The Steam Injuns performing their all time hit numbers for the audience that
consisted of musicians, fashion enthusiasts and representatives of various media
houses.
Following the musical performance, the students of Lord Buddha Fashion College
showcased the various trendy measures of carrying off the traditional sarees,
Nepali dresses, evening gowns and casuals. Flaunting the designs were models as
well as amateur students from Holiday International School walking the ramp
under the dazzling lights.
Explaining the purpose of the
event, Ravinder Saini, the country
manager of Pernod Ricard said,
“100 Pipers, as the name suggests
is all about music. Hence, today
we’re presenting Abhaya and the
Steam Injuns. The event is more
of a concert; the fashion show is
a showstopper that will spice up
things tonight.”
(Most Friendly) and Runiva Shakya
(Most Innocent). The choreography
was done by Anila Shrestha and Dance
Choreographer was Brihes Man Sunwar.
“Pepsi Drink N’
Drive”: Road Show
in Kathmandu
Conducted
Eren Shrestha
Kathmandu, 7 July
With the motive of creating a
connection between the brand and the
consumer, Pepsi organized a road show
to promote its “Pepsi Drink N’ Drive”
campaign in the premises of Civil Mall.
Under this campaign, one can participate
simply by drinking a bottle of 250ml
Pepsi and sending the code under the
cap of the bottle as SMS to 3636. A
consumer can win Suzuki Alto car, eight
Bajaj Discover motorbikes, 40 Sharp 32”
LCD TVs along with a lot of Reebok
wrist watches, sunglasses, footballs and
number of free Pepsi drinks.
The road show hosted a fun- filled
combination of games, music and dance
beside creating awareness about ills of
driving under the influence of alcohol
and the golden opportunity of drinking
Pepsi and winning a brand new car.
Along with the games, the road show
also conducted a short session for girls
versus boys dance competition where
the participants were chosen among
the crowd. The winners in all the games
were given a pet bottle of Pepsi and a
music CD of top 10 Nepali pop songs.
A series of road shows were conducted
in different parts of the Valley- Patan
Durbar Square and Kirtipur. It will
continue at New Road and Bhaktapur
on 13 and 14 July respectively.
Guitar Maestro
Announces Auditions
Suprasanna Aryal
Kathmandu, 10 July
A press meet was held at Cube the
Club, Kamaladi on Monday at about 3
pm for the awaited guitarist TV reality
show, Guitar Maestro. The press
meet was held to spread the word
about the schedule of activities for
the show.
Being organized by Guitar Maestro
Pvt. Ltd. and Seagram’s Royal Stag, the
National Level Guitar Competition
will be telecasted on E24 TV Nepal,
26-episode series on Fridays and
Saturdays with grand finale of three
hours live from Hotel Yak & Yeti.
The program will be on TV from
9 pm to 10 pm. The auditions are
scheduled to be on 27 July and 29
July in Nepal at Cube the Club, and
in India, Darjeeling on 15 August to
17 August at Windamere Hotel. Top
50 will be selected to perform and
be voted by public and judged by
the personas like Gaurav Sharma,
Jyoti Ghimire, Baiju Rai, Rju Gurung,
Iman Bikram Shah, Deep Bikram
Shah and other renowned celebrities
from Nepali Music. The top 50 will
have an opportunity to meet the
musicians, media persons and also an
opportunity to display their talent.
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An Effective Visual Narrative
7 July,The Bakery Café, Sundhara
Photo.circle presented a photography exhibition early Saturday morning
at the Bakery Café in Sundhara where the participants Phurpu Tshering
Gurung and Lucas Pernin shared their individual experiences of what they
saw through their lenses. Phurpu, the Nepali photographer at the event
showed and shared his stories about internal migration in Nepal and
explaining his photographs he said,“Most of the workers migrate in search
of work and almost everyone ends up doing labor work. Getting them to
open up and talk was hard during the initial days but as time passed they
were more than happy to share their thoughts.”
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Lucas Pernin exhibited his pictures after Phurpu. He showcased the
pathetic state of the female migrants who went to Lebanon under the
Kabalaa system.The Swedish photographer explained the state they lived
in and how they were imprisoned within the boundaries of the four
walls of their work place. Both photographers, Phurpu and Lucas actively
interacted with the audience and critics present at the event.
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Photo.circle, the organizer of the event will be organizing similar
events on the first Saturday of every month.
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1. Kesang Tsetan 2. Scott Faiia 3. Phurpu Tsering Gurung 4. Lucas
Pernin and Kesang Tsetan 5. Sagarika Dahal and Samir Palti
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Remembering Dev Sahab
July 6, Russian Cultural Center
A tribute to commemorate Dev Anand’s life and success in the Indian
cinema was jointly organized by the Indian Embassy and BP Koirala
India Nepal foundation. Present at the event held in the Russian
Cultural Center were dignitaries from the Indian Embassy, members
of the Nepali film fraternity and media personnel.
Anand who passed away on 3 December last year was remembered
through a series of acts. The tribute began with a troop of dancers
performing to the evergreen song ‘Dam Maaro Dum’. Michael
Chand, who impersonated Dev Anand’s memorable style as he
hosted the show, kept the audience glued to their seats till the very
end. Various speakers from the Nepali film fraternity remembered
Dev Anand for his contribution to cinema.
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Remembering his meeting with the legendary Anand, Avash
Karmachaya quoted the late actor, “Nepal is a God-gifted country,
no place anywhere, is as beautiful as Nepal.”
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As a part of the tribute, Dev Anand’s “Harey Rama Harey Krishna”
and “Jhonny Mera Naam” was screened in the Kumari Hall on 8 July
at 12 noon and 3 pm respectively.
1. Shanti Chhada and Bhuwan Chand 2. H.E. Jayant Prasad 3. Suraj
Thapa 4. Hari Bansha Acharya and Ramila Pathak 5. Prakash Sayami
6. Anuradha Koirala 7. Sunil Thapa 8. Avas Karmacharya
9. Navin Singh Yonjan and Srijana Yonjan 10. Michael Chand and
Basant Thapa
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The Sunsilk Bridal Make-up and Hair-do Contest had 36 beauticians of the original
300 contestants exhibiting their talents in bridal make-up and hair-do. The judges,
Rachana Singh, Dolly Singh, Rachana Gurung Sharma and Reecha Sharma, had a
tough time deciding which of these extremely talented beauticians to select
as the winner of this contest. From the traditions of the Himalayas to the
ones of Terai, and through those of Pahadi regions, the contestants displayed
their talent to mix traditional outfits and more or less modern hair-do and
make-up. Finally, it was beautician Sumita Shrestha who received the welldeserved prize from the hands of the beauty specialist - Kamala Shrestha.
She was not the only one to be rewarded that evening. Sophie Sunuwar received
two prizes as 1st runner-up and best make-up for the simple beauty of her style.
Amrita Shrestha was designated 2nd runner-up, Durga Khadka was rewarded
for the best hair, Neelam Kaur for the best dress and Sumitra Shrestha for the
best personality.While all beauticians were praised by the audience muttering
compliments during the entire show, the quality of the models wearing the
designs was also highly appreciated.The event was punctuated by a performance
by Shreya Sotang and a short dance show from Manisha Rai’s Step Dance
Institute making it an entertaining show for the audience.
1. Sapana Adhikari 2. Anita Khadka Rayamajhi 3. Shreya Sotang 4. Sheetal
Neupane 5. Parbati Dangora 6. Jeena Gurung 7. Laxmi Shova Nakarmi
8. Amrita Shrestha 9. Gyanswori Shrestha 10. Sangita KC 11. Rujula
Manandhar 12. Reenu Gurkhali 13. Ramila Shakya
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Liquid
Inspiration
6 July, Moksh Live restaurant
and Bar
“Me & My Dio” Grand Finale
7 July, Syakar Safety Riding Training Center, Gwarko
Organized by Syakar Trading Company Pvt. Ltd., the sole distributor of Honda Motorcycle in Nepal, the Grand Finale event of the “Me and
My Dio” facebook competition was exactly what their tagline read, “Come Get Wet! Get Wild!” The top 20 finalists; 10 male and 10 female,
out of the 1687 entries on the “Me and My Dio” facebook campaign arrived on stage on their Dio and spoke briefly about what their Dio
meant to them. Based on their answers and presentation, two winners - a male and a female - were chosen by a panel of celebrity judges:
Saddichha Shrestha, Nima Rumba, Suraj Singh Thakuri, Prashant Tamrakar, Gopal Kashyapati, Rachana Sharma and Kishore Kayastha.
Before the winners were declared, the popular singer Nima Rumba, performed some of his hits and dazzled the crowd. Jyoti Singh Bhandari
won the competition in her category along with Rs. 1,00,000. Bijay Sharma was announced the winner from the male category. On the
very occasion, the all new “Honda Dio 110cc” was launched as well and the unveiling was done by the winners along with STC Chairman
Saurabh Jyoti, STC Vice Chairman Suhrid Jyoti, HMSI Deputy Director Tomoaki Nagayama, and HMSI Advisor Takashi Watarai. A pleasant
surprise was thrown in by singer Rumba, by becoming the first customer of the all new Honda Dio.When asked about his purchase, he
answered, “I obviously did some research on the new Dio before I decided to get it.The new scooter looks great and has some really
fantastic features. I actually bought it for my wife but there is a good chance that I would be using it a lot more than her!”
1. Rachana Sharma 2. Srijana Jyoti 3.Takashi Watarai 4. Gopal Sundarlal Kakshapati 5.Tomoaki Nagayama and Nima Rumba
6. Roop Jyoti 7. Jyoti Singh Bhandari 8. Suhrid Jyoti and Padma Jyoti 9. Bijay Sharma
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On a stormy Friday night,
Liquid Inspiration performed
at the Moksh premises.
While the thunder rumbled
outside, the beats of popular
numbers resonated in Moksh’s
indoor area. Starting off with
“In the Streets” by Cheap
Trick, the band continued to
“Somebody I used to Know”
by Gotye. They did covers of
artists that included Metallica,
Incubus, John Mayer, Beatles,
Beegees and many more. They
ended their act with Michael
Jackson’s “Beat it”.
The band’s performance was
thoroughly enjoyed by an
expressive audience that cheered
throughout the act.“I heard
Liquid Inspiration for the very first
time, and I regret missing their
previous concerts! I can’t wait to see
more,” said Ash Shakya, one of the
attendees. Saswat Bajracharya, the
vocalist of Liquid Inspiration shared
that their performance’s success was
reflected in the audience’s interactive
response and applauses. In all, it was
an enjoyable evening for both – the
band and the audience.
1. Asheesh Bhattachan
2. Saswat Bajracharya 3. Rahul
Malla 4. Ashish Pradhan 5. Bigya
Rajbhandari
Asarai Mainama
6 July, House of Music
Re Sa, formerly known as Trikaal, performed six of their numbers at House of Music on Friday. A team of
talented musicians on an assortment of instruments, the band played Nepali Eastern Classical Fusion.
The performance started off at around 8 pm. Salil Kanika on the didgeridoo, began by talking about the month
of Asar and its importance in our lives. The audience enjoyed a musical night that started off with their number
– “Gypsy”. The melodies created by a harmony of tabla, drums, bass, guitar, flute and ishraj were enjoyed by the
audience. The stage setup added more to the act with lights and a good sound system. The framed posters of
musicians that accessorized the walls of the venue made an ideal setting for the musical performance.
On 13 July, Rock Sitar, A Nepali rock-fusion band, led by sitar maestro, Bijaya Vaidhya (of Sur Sudha fame) will be
performing at House of Music, another night of tribute to the month of Asar.
1.Nikhil Tuladhar 2. Salil Kanika 3. Pravin Shrestha 4. Navaraj Gurung 5. Nirjan Rai 6. Gopal Rasaili
entertainment
let the good times begin
Deborah Merola
Ph.D., was a 2011 Senior Fulbright in
Theater at Tribhuvan University, the
Institute for Advanced Communication
Education and Research, and Gurukul
Theatre.With over 50 productions to
her credit, Merola is involved with One
World Theatre and Theatre Institute of
Kathmandu.
Bringing It Home
A
Spangled Banner”, I found my
eyes surprisingly filling with
tears. I looked at our little band
of mostly Nepali artists, all
of us earnest and excited to
perform a play in English about
the Fourth of July, the very day
on which the play is set.
These sudden tears at the
national anthems reminded me
of the vulnerability expats and
tourist can feel at important
holidays away from home, devoid
of community celebration or
even commercial reminders. I
remember Thanksgiving Day
Dinner at Mike’s Breakfast at
11 am in the bright garden sun,
a world away from the snowy
landscapes and family gatherings
of my youth. So I have been
grateful for the Fourth of July
celebration provided by AMA
and the US Embassy, a welcome
bit of national carney.
For One World Theatre
(OWT)
to
present
this
quintessential American comedy
Movies at QFX
Malati Ko Bhatti
Release date : 13 July
Abraham Lincoln :
Vampire Hunter
Release date : 13th July
The movie explores the
secret life of the America’s
greatest president,
Abraham Lincoln, and the
untold story that shaped
their nation. His discovery
of blood-thirsty vampires,
planning to take over the
US, leads Lincoln to make
it his mission to eliminate
them, becoming history’s
greatest hunter of the
undead.
Cast : Benjamin Walker, Rufus
Sewell, Dominic Coopernate
them, becoming history’s
greatest hunter of the undead.
Director : Timur
Bekmambetov
Aditya (Jiwan Luitel)
is going through
a rough marriage
with his boss’ (Sunil
Thapa) daughter
Sabitri (Nandita K.C),
while she has got
herself into some bad
company and trouble.
Meanwhile, Aditya
finds love and comfort
in Malati (Rekha
Thapa ) who runs a
local bar (bhatti).
Cast : Rekha Thapa, Jiwan
Luitel, Nandita KC, Sunil
Thapa
Director : Ganesh Dev
Pandey
Cocktail
Release date : 13 July
Director : Homi Adajania
Gautam is an
incorrigible flirt, who
runs after every girl he
sees. Meera is a pretty
girl with desi values and
attire, who comes to
London from Delhi for
a fresh start.Veronica
is a spoiled bombshell
who loves partying
and drinking. Though
different, these three are
perfect friends staying
under one roof until
friendship becomes
confusing, and love
becomes complicated.
during the festivities was an
added treat. This big sitespecific tent production was in
the middle of an actual carnival,
complete with cotton candy and
barbecue chicken, watermelon
eating contests, dunking booths,
magic shows and raffles. But the
hot, loud tent was actually not
the ideal setting for a two and
half hour classic comedy, which
in earlier days would have been
presented in an elegant Victorian
theatre with the audience as
“gussied up” as the actors on
the stage and anticipating at the
traditional theater going hours
of 8 to 11 pm, with two generous
fifteen minutes intermissions.
Still, we were touched and
grateful for the support of
AMA and the US Embassy that
made this show possible and
for our loyal audiences, some
wondering at this foreign culture
parading across on the stage
and others perhaps nostalgic
for a bit of home. There was
enough enthusiasm from our
actors and friends who wanted
a chance to see the show that,
thanks to Sabine Lehmann,
Artistic Director of Studio 7, we
are adding two specially priced
matinee performances of “Ah,
Wilderness!” on 14 and 15 July at
3 pm at the Hotel Vajra. (Rs. 200
for adults, Rs. 100 for students.)
Surely the play paints an
idealized picture of life in early
small town America showing the
best of our national character
and culture, with some qualities
still recognizable 100 years
later. The extended Miller
family is practical, decent and
optimistic, with enough sense
to recognize a “great” future
for Richard, the young stand-in
for Eugene O’Neill who became
America’s only Nobel Prize
winning playwright.
Photo Courtesy: One World Theatre
s the Marine Guard
marched to a small
platform to inaugurate
the Independence Day
celebrations at the American
Mission Association, our cast
and crew came running to the
edge of the big tent where
we would be performing “Ah,
Wilderness!” by Eugene O’Neill.
To see the Nepali actors in
American costumes circa 1906,
the men in suits with ascots and
high collars, the women in long
skirts with elaborate upswept
“dos”, and the girls with bright
bows in their long black hair,
was already a sweet cultural
juxtaposition. These were the
kind of period clothes I had
seen in old photographs of
my own grandparents, looking
unbelievably gracious and old
timey to modern eyes used to
jeans and skimpy ready-to-wear.
As the recorded music blared
out first the Nepali National
Anthem and then “The Star
The extended Miller family is
practical, decent and optimistic,
with enough sense to recognize
a “great” future for Richard, the
young stand-in for Eugene O’Neill
who became America’s only Nobel
Prize winning playwright.
O’Neill himself said he
dreamed “Ah, Wilderness!”,
which was a picture of his
childhood as he wished it had
been. A very different family
picture emerges in his tortured
autobiographical
masterpiece
“Long Day’s Journey into
Night”, also set in New London,
Connecticut. Bit many characters
in “Ah, Wilderness!” are based
congratulations
Sharan Khanal
(https://www.facebook.com/sharankhanal)
for winning 10 tickets to QFX
*
Corrigendum
Please claim your prize by July 18, 2012
Tel: 5011730, 5011731
Cast Saif Ali Khan, Deepika
Padukone, Diana Penty,
Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani
Director: Homi Adajania
on real people, including a local
sympathetic newspaper editor,
a young love, and more healthy
versions of his family members.
Like the American people, the
Nepali people place a high value
on family and share a dream of
democracy, and we all can be
touched by the magic of young
love. I am often critical of my own
country, and I hear many Nepalis
criticizing their government, but
on such an occasion, we hope
we can celebrate the best of
our national pasts and persist
in our ideals, including the
ideal of citizen diplomacy and
international friendship. !
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conditions apply
Neelima Sharma was mentioned
as Neelima Bajracharya in the Film
Special (Issue 126). We deeply
regret the error.
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Fr!day
Issue 127
| 18 July 2012
13
maverick’s musings
Women Who Want it All
I
“
sipped champagne, greeted
foreign dignitaries, and
mingled. But I could not stop
thinking about my 14-yearold son, who had started eighth
grade three weeks earlier and
was already resuming what had
become his pattern of skipping
homework, disrupting classes,
failing math, and tuning out any
adult who tried to reach him.”
Anne-Marie
Slaughter
stepped down from her job as
director of policy planning at
the U.S. State Department. She
left partly because she needed
to return to her job at Princeton
University once her two-year
public service leave was over.
But she also left because she
missed her spouse and two
teenage sons, and they needed
her. So in January 2011, she put
Washington and her high-flying
life in politics behind her and
went home to her university job
and her family. She continues:
“A rude epiphany hit me soon
after I got there.” She came to
the conclusion that juggling
high-level government work
with the needs of two teenage
boys was not possible. As I read
this lengthy piece, I was struck
by Slaughter’s honesty and her
ability to reveal her worst fears
and speak to the core issues that
she has faced as a mother and a
career woman.
A firestorm has erupted in
certain circles in the West and
wherever folks follow feminist
writings over Slaughter’s “Why
Women Still Can’t Have it All,”
a personal and heart-rending
introspective discourse about
mommy track versus fast track.
and generally holding forth.
Many were sympathetic, others
skeptical while a few are irate
that she still has choices unlike
women who are single mothers
or cannot manage without a
job. And a few were entirely
disbelieving that Slaughter
would expect anything else if
she was planning on rubbing
shoulders with the Beltway
We all need to think outside the box
if we are to create a global paradigm
shift so women may not have it all,
but they can balance their work and
family lives in a healthier way.
A senior policy wonk in the
Obama Administration, close
to the inner circle and part of
Hilary Clinton’s team, Slaughter
would be considered someone
who is respected in academia,
in government and in feminist
circles as a woman who has
“made it”.
The reaction has been seismic
– the article in the Atlantic
magazine reportedly had a
million hits within a week – and
the blog sites and commentators
“went viral”, a quaint expression
for an unimaginable volume of
people pontificating, commenting
Brahmins as Washington’s
political crowd might as well be
called.
For me, Slaughter touched a
chord with her revelation that
she had been on the other side
of the debate – with unswerving
dedication to the life of a career
woman and the religiosity of
smugly judging women who are
scornful of those who abdicate
their positions on the corporate
and career ladders, she was
among those who just didn’t
fathom why women could not
have it all. As I read on, I felt for
her, and for all the women who
MITA HOSALI
loves to observe, comment and
sputter – but she hopes you take
everything with a pinch of salt.
When she is not penning her
columns while living in Nepal, she
works for the United Nations in
New York.
continue to juggle and struggle
– some at the apex of their
profession, others just earning
bread and butter. Because, if
truth be told, I also did not fully
understand women who would
give up careers to “just” be a
mother and housewife. With a
lifetime at the United Nations, I
chose to have my children when
I was already well on my way
up the career ladder. But I had
my own rude awakening when I
realized that the UN, not unlike
the U.S. and other governments,
despite lofty pronouncements to
the contrary, were institutions
which although they were
supposed to be standard-setters,
lagged way behind when it came
to putting policies into practice.
A little over a decade ago,
the UN began to talk about
Work-Life balance and Flexible
Working
Arrangements
–
what many corporate entities
had already put into practice
with tangible positive results.
For example, telecommuting
arrangements where you could
work from home for a few days
based on an agreement with the
office; working compressed hours
so you could get an alternate
Friday off; or taking time off
to combine study with work.
The backlash, mostly male,
but occasionally female, was
ferocious, almost reminiscent
of
Industrial
Revolution
Europe! The outpouring of
objections was often irrational,
unprogressive and sorry to say,
male-centric.
I was the first person in my
Department of 750 people
to put this new policy to the
test – I asked to telecommute
when my second child was
about to be born. With some
reluctance from the Head of
Department, but enormous
encouragement from his Chief
of Staff (a female), and from my
immediate supervisor (a male),
I was allowed to work two
days from home. At that time,
I had a fairly high-pressured job
working with the inner circle of
Kofi Annan’s team on strategic
communications. Determined
to make it work, I spent hours at
night and in the morning and at
the weekend doing whatever had
to be done. If the senior honchos
emerged from their day at 8
p.m., I would happily sit down to
finish up work after dinner. This
allowed me to make deadlines as
much of what I needed to reach
Europe or Asia and the news
cycle was unrelenting. There
was no point in cutting corners
– my sense of responsibility
did not allow it, and working
in this rarified atmosphere
simply meant that too much was
riding on my little shoulders
to drop the ball. I called it the
guilt-gratitude nexus – I was
so guilty to be away from the
office and so grateful to be able
to see my baby daughter when
she awoke from her afternoon
nap or to pick up my son from
school. I was a trailblazer and
had to set an example so other
colleagues could benefit from my
experience
The next major decision I had
to make was to put my career
on hold when I came to Nepal
to join my husband who took an
assignment with UNDP in 2009
and the whole family relocated
to Kathmandu. So many people
cannot understand why we
would choose to come to what
the UN terms a hardship duty
station, to give up two salaries
and a comfortable life in New
York. Many women, including
friends of mine, were incredulous
that I would take time out in the
slow lane although they were
supportive and perhaps a little
amused. Are you really going to
survive this mommy track, they
asked.
I embraced life in Nepal by
immersing myself in the arts –
writing, theatre and film. I felt
occasional twinges of regret
that I was no longer considered
a serious contender for highminded responsibilities at UN
Headquarters. Of course, I am
now being pressed to return to
New York, sans famille. The UN
does not want any responsibility
for someone who takes time
out from a prestigious perch
in New York to join her family
in the field, even if the original
reason was because I followed
my spouse who came here to
work on Nepal’s constitutionwriting process, an important
step because of the UN’s new
emphasis on “mobility” which
requires readiness to move duty
stations.
Like Slaughter, I have
decisions to make – when my 12
year old son and my eight year
old daughter say it is wonderful
to have me around and not be a
working mother, the heartstrings
are almost broken. I am grateful
that I can manage to live here
without working full-time – this
is a luxury for many – but I am
honestly conflicted about the
superwoman trajectory. And
disheartened when the most
highly regarded institution in the
world is basically unable to look
beyond numbers and policies and
rules – and leaves us frantically
struggling to either pursue a
career at the risk of damage to the
family, or to give up the pretense
of trying to have a rewarding
career and a happy family life.
I want to salute Slaughter
for speaking to the difficult
choices and compromises that
face millions of women around
the world – and their spouses.
We all need to think outside the
box if we are to create a global
paradigm shift so women may
not have it all, but they can
balance their work and family
lives in a healthier way. Call me
the irrepressible optimist – but
the UN could be in the vanguard
of such enlightened change. !
gourmet
for the adventurous palate
Cupcake Craze
Cupcakes are the ultimate modern-day dessert because they are easy to
make, the varieties are endless and they make for delightful gifts too!
— Andrea Newton
I
have always loved cupcakes. The little cake base topped with a swirl of colorful frosting and
sprinkles – just the thought sends my salivary glands on a run! Last summer I landed my ideal
job. It was to help out my friend who ran the gourmet cupcake store, Butterfly in Mumbai. My
job entitled me to sit and work with fondant all day, crafting little figures for cupcake toppers. The
perks that came with the job were too good to be true – all the cake in the world that I could possibly
devour and the opportunity to learn the craft of baking.
And, it was not all a cakewalk. Baking requires some serious concentration. A few minutes can
go a long way in ensuring the cupcakes have risen to perfection or could end up looking like flat
buns. The right ingredients and the freshest possible ones always help in making the cake bases
moist and not stiff. As for the frosting, there are so many different types of frosting that you
could choose from, fudge frosting, butter cream frosting, fresh cream frosting, ganache, fondant,
marzipan, royal icing etc.
The basic vanilla cupcake recipe is a prize winner and can be the base for numerous toppings. The
recipe follows.
Vanilla Frosting
Vanilla Cupcakes
For a dozen cupcakes you will need:
120 gm all purpose flour
50 gm butter
2 eggs
½ cup of milk
140 gm sugar
1 vanilla pod
1 tsp of baking powder
Pinch of salt
Method:
Method:
In a large bowl cream together the sugar, butter and vanilla on low
speed with an electric beater. Slowly add the milk depending on the
consistency of the frosting which you desire. Increase the speed of
the beater till the frosting is fluffy and forms peaks.
You can use gel food coloring from Wilton to color your frosting.
They have the best range of food and baking colors and can be ordered
online from their website. For healthier, children-friendly alternatives to
using food coloring, add pureed fruits like strawberries and raspberries
for pink frosting, mango pulp for a yellow tint, blueberries for an almost
purple color, a paste of mint leaves gives a gorgeous green color with an
interesting minty flavor! Chocolate cupcakes with mint frosting are a very
delicious combination especially after a heavy meal. And, if you want a
really decadent dessert, a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and hot fudge sauce
can accompany your minty cupcake! For brown frosting, coffee or cocoa
powder can be used and you should ideally use fruits and flavors that you
like to experiment with plain frosting to see what works best for you!
My favorite recipe for a cupcake topping and filling is ganache.
And this rich and indulgent recipe is so simple to make.
Photo Courtesy: Andrea Newton
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners. In a large bowl mix
together the dry ingredients first and then the melted butter. Whisk on high speed till the mixture
resembles crumbs or sand. Take half of the milk and mix this into the flour to make a batter. In
another bowl whisk the remaining milk, the eggs and the vanilla till fluffy and then combine the
two mixtures to a smooth creamy batter.
Fill the liners to about 2/3rd the capacity, making sure not to overfill the cases as this will lead
to the cupcake batter spilling over. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 25 minutes.
The basic cupcake recipe can be enhanced with almost anything and you can conjure up your
very own cupcake mix for a special occasion. To make chocolate cupcakes add four tablespoons
of cocoa powder to the mix and a generous serving spoon of Nutella. For fruit based cupcakes,
there are two methods to making them. One is by mixing the fruit pulp into the cake
batter before baking. Good combinations are chopped strawberries with chunks of
white chocolate; stewed apple and cinnamon; spiced pear and vanilla; cherries and
toasted coconut; caramelized banana and walnuts and, orange rind and dark
chocolate…etc. You can use your favorite fruits in combination with nuts,
herbs and chocolate to create a special signature cupcake unlike any other!
Another way to make fruit-based cupcakes is by preparing the
chopped fruit with a thick sugar syrup or maple syrup or honey
so that it resembles a sort of jam-like consistency. Once the
cupcakes are baked, make a round coin-sized incision into
the head of the cupcake and scoop out that piece. Fill the
cavity with the fruit mix and top with the cut cupcake
head which may need to be re-shaped to fit. What you
have is a surprise cupcake that reveals a delicious
filling once bitten into!
The classic frosting for all kinds of cupcakes is
a vanilla frosting that you can add food color to or
different flavors as well. Essential oils, chocolate
chips, sprinkles, chopped and roasted nuts,
toasted coconut shavings, ground coffee,
liqueurs, colored candies, jelly beans, granola,
crushed cookies and dried fruits are just
some of the million ways you can add
zing to the basic frosting. You could
pipe the frosting with special nozzles
or you could just use a spatula
to create rough swirls. Either
way this recipe is so delicious
I won’t be surprised if most
of it is wiped clean before it
reaches the cupcake tops!
Ingredients
4 cups powdered sugar
4 tbsp soft butter
5 tbsp whole fat milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Ganache Frosting
Ingredients
250 gms good quality dark chocolate
1/3rd cup of heavy cream
Method
Break chocolate into tiny chunks and keep aside. Heat the cream in a
saucepan till it gently reaches boiling point. Take it off the heat. Add
the chocolate pieces to the cream and stir the mixture till it is a nice
glossy paste without lumps. You can directly spoon the ganache over
the cupcakes while it is still warm or pipe it with a piping bag and let
it set. For a refreshing change you can try bits of candied orange or
crushed, toasted hazelnuts to flavor this frosting beautifully.
To decorate the cupcakes, readymade fondant is available through
most baking supplies stores online. The fondant is extremely easy
to use and can be colored using the same gel colors you use for
the frosting. Shape the fondant into stars, flowers or just about
anything! With some practice you can craft little sculptures onto
your cupcakes. Happy cupcake crazy weekend!
gourmet
Fr!day
Issue 127
| 18 July 2012
15
vicinity picks
A Melting Pot of Cultures and Cuisines
Thamel exhibits variety when it comes to cultures and cuisines– even a cluster of close-together eateries proves it. With Tridevi
Temple as our landmark, we pick five eateries located nearby that reflect this culinary assortment.
— Akriti Shilpakar
O
ne look at the people that walk the streets of
Thamel, and it reflects a cultural variety. This
implies a treasure trove of cuisines to cater
to those diverse taste buds. From a variety
of international dishes to well known local delights,
Thamel is home to all. This week, we explore the
culinary variety located around the Tridevi Temple.
Master Baker & Confectioner
Better known as
pauroti bhandar
for the locals,
Master Baker &
Confectioner is
one of the old
bakeries around.
Serving freshly
baked breads and
sweet confections
every day, the
bakery has it’s
outlets in Kamal Pokhari and Ason as well. Step in for their
famous Black Forest and dark moist muffins. The array of
doughnuts available in chocolate, cream, peanut and coconut
are a must-try that fall in the price range of Rs. 15 to Rs.
25, and the crossiants are available for Rs. 20 to Rs. 35. For
those with savory preferences sandwiches and pizzas are also
available. You don’t have the comfort of seats here, so go
ahead and ‘take-away’.
Dechenling Beer Garden and Restaurant
This restaurant with a sort of calming
ambience is a relieving contrast to the bustle
of Thamel. The epithet – “Beer Garden”
implies the green lawn that accommodates
seating arrangements perfect to soak up the
sun. Though you might be in a mind to sit in
Himalayan Java
The name clearly needs no
introduction. A brand name in
itself, Himalayan Java is known for
its Himalayan coffee. Opened 7
am to 9 pm, seven days a week,
Java is again known for their being
a coffee destination. Specializing
in everything brewed, one might
be a little overwhelmed by the
range of coffee they serve. My
suggestion for the rainy days – Caffe Latte and Cappuchino;
for the summer heat – Blended Vanilla Mocha or a
Browniccino is a bliss. Sandwich, pasta, momo, salads are
what their menu covers for delights to munch on, and with
the price ranging from Rs. 80 to Rs. 195, you won’t have to
worry about emptying your wallet.With a spacious sprawl
of both couch and table seating, finding a place is never too
hard here. But don’t bet on it, the place can be pretty occupied when least
expected. Call them at 4422519, for more information.
Location: When heading west on Tridevi Marg, Himalayan Java is on your
right, opposite Himalayan Bank.
Location: As you walk down Tridevi Marg on your way to
Thamel, it is the first shop in Sanchaya Kosh Bhawan.
Picnic Korean Kitchen
the cooler indoors for these warmer days,
I suggest the cabanas outside during cool
summer evenings - always wonderful. Opened
from 8 am to 10 pm, their menu revolves
around five Asian cuisines. The menu covers
Bhutenese, Indian, Nepali, Chinese and Tibetan
dishes. Their specialty, Gyakok-Tibetan Hot
Pot is a favorite here during the cold winter
days. Try Erma Dhatsi, a Bhutanese dish chilly, cheese and mushroom curry served
with rice. Their menu price ranges from Rs.
150 to Rs. 900; I would think it a good deal
for a quiet and tranquil environment paired
with a scrumptious meal.
Location: Take the alley next to
Himalayan Java. Around 50 meters
inside, Dechenling is on your left.
Picnic Korean Kitchen is a popular eatery
serving nothing but typical Korean dishes
such as Pork BBQ, Kimbab (sushi), Rapoki
(Rice cake) and even Soju - the famous
Korean drink, the eatery is everything
Korean except the owner and those who
cook the dishes.The place looks Korean
as well with floor seating and low tables.
Enjoy the complete Korean experience
in a price range of Rs. 100 to Rs. 450.
Opened from 11 am to 9 pm, the kitchen
takes orders only till 8:30 pm. In case you aren’t familiar with Korean dishes and
are not fond of surprises then the menu conveniently has pictures of the dishes.
The place is open every day, except once a month.The eatery is closed on 25th
of every month.
Location: Take the first alley on your right when you go past Himalayan
Java towards Thamel. Picnic Korean Kitchen is situated around 50 meters
inside on your left.
Gallery Café - The Coffee Espresso
Variations
The cafe lives up to its name and
more. Serving a variety of only organic
coffee, it is a coffee lover’s haven. From
the famous latte, mocha, cappuccino
to some rare blends such as caramel
macchiato, espresso macchiato and
more, the cafe’s coffee menu goes
on and on. Run by the duo, Kang
and Kai, the couple has their
work cut out; Kang blends all
the coffee and Kai does all the
baking. Famous also for their
home-baked cookies and
biscotti, owner Kang says and
I quote, “We serve the best
cookies in Nepal.” Vanilla
and Cocoa, Rum Raisin, and Sesame
and Honey cookies, and Coffee and
Walnut biscotti are some of the
few goodies to name among the 30
varieties they make.With prices on
the menu ranging from Rs. 110 to Rs.
210, the café is open from 8 am to
8 pm.You can also walk in for a light
meal of roti wrap sandwich, Korean
style Ramen or Japanese style home
rice, and smoothies, tea and beer are
also available.
Location: Take the alley next
to Himalayan Java. Walk past
Dechenling. Approximately 50
meters inside, Gallery Café is
to your right.
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A Very Tasteful Café
Issue 127
| 18 July 2012
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In a quiet little alcove, just off of the super busy Maharajgung road is a café
with a lot of character – Nina’s Café.
— Prerana Pakhrin
A
s you approach Nina’s
Café, you cannot help but
feel a pang of nostalgia
for you are greeted by
a huge mango tree near the
doorway – a familiar landmark
of the Kathmandu skyline most
of us fondly remember from our
childhoods. However, as you step
into the café itself, you realize
that you have somehow been
transported to a hip young café
somewhere in New York City.
The “food bar”, which
dominates the space of one
of the three rooms, is a new
perhaps even foreign concept
in Nepal. It is very “New York”.
In spite of its “newness”, the
Nepali crowd will not find it
daunting to just go up to the
wooden bar, sit down and order
a good-sized sandwich and a
drink because the ambiance will
put you at ease.
Everything about this café
speaks of the affection with
which it was created. A well
lit, spacious and altogether
comfortable café, Nina’s Café
is very personalized. The wall
is peppered with bright and
quirky souvenirs collected
from travels - often also
contributed by thoughtful/
loving customers, Nina Tiwari’s
own sketches, postcards, posters
and anything beautiful. The
owners are all foodies who love
food and therefore the menu is
unpretentious and customizable
just like at home, yet at the
same time prepared with great
care and presentation. Taking
a hands-on approach, Nina and
her cousin – Neeraj Katwal not only actively take part in
putting together the café but are
also seen running around taking
care of their customers.
Nina’s Café is just what an
eatery should be all about –a
great place to enjoy your food. !
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Steak with Chicken liver pate
Burger Deluxe
Bacon wrapped Quail
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Synopsis:
In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane
crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless
weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements -and a vicious
pack of rogue wolves on the hunt - before their time runs out. Review:
Joe Carnahan’s The Grey provides everything you could reasonably want from a
release about Liam Neeson fighting wolves. That may sound like faint praise, but the
truth is, I pretty much loved this movie from start to finish. An admirable survival
thriller, “The Grey” abounds in qualities that are rare in movies of its type.
I don’t mean to suggest that “The Grey” is some sort of chin-stroking art film—if
you’re in it for the Neeson-on-wolf action, you will be amply provided for. But this
efficient man vs. nature battle fantasy also doubles as a surprisingly somber meditation
on some pretty huge (and unanswerable) questions: When disaster strikes, why do
some people live and others die? What kind of debt do the living owe the dead? How
is it possible to maintain one’s faith, or even the courage to keep going, in the midst of
great grief and suffering? When, if ever, is it the right time to just give up?
Giving up is not something that comes easy to the hero, Ottway, played by
Neeson. Ottway works as a sharpshooter at a remote oil-drilling outpost in
Alaska, picking off wolves that come close enough to endanger the workers.
That job description is pretty much all we know about Ottway, other than
the fact that he’s suicidal: After writing a note to a lost love addressed only as
“Dearest One,” he prepares to shoot himself with his own rifle, but takes the gun
out of his mouth when he hears a wolf howl close by.
Ottway and a group of men from the drilling site board a plane to Anchorage.
The plane crashes, in a scene that’s all the more frightening for being unadornedly
realistic—no suspenseful music or clever editing, just a lot of screaming people
in a metal tube falling through space. Only seven men survive the wreck—a tally
that will rapidly begin to diminish as the survivors discover they’ve landed on
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the hunting grounds of a pack of
highly territorial wolves.
As the group’s resident wolf
expert Ottway soon becomes
their de facto leader. This does
not sit well with Diaz (Frank
Grillo), a blustering, macho excon who challenges Ottway’s quiet
authority at every turn. Among
the other survivors are family
man Talget (an unrecognizable,
and terrific, Dermot Mulroney),
cowardly loudmouth Flannery (an
amusingly hyper Joe Anderson),
and the mysteriously taciturn
Henrick (Dallas Roberts). The
men resolve to trek to a distant
tree-lined mountain, hoping to
encounter either civilization or at
least better cover along the way.
From there on in, almost
nothing can be revealed about the
central question gripping both the
audience and these frightened men:
Which of them will live and which will die? Every death in “The Grey” is
experienced as a singular, tragic, and unrepeatable event: That person who was
there a minute ago is gone. There’s an extraordinary scene early on in which,
just after the crash, Neeson’s character gently encourages a dying man to let go
and accept his fate as his fellow survivors look on in stunned horror. An hour in,
you start to realize that that small but powerful moment was a template for the
entire movie.
For all its macho standoffs and action set pieces and menacing off-screen
howling, “The Grey” is at heart a simple moral fable about how true heroism
consists in helping other human beings to live as long and die as well as they can,
which is, after all, the task all of us face each day, even when we’re not fending
off wolves with broken glass duct-taped to our knuckles. !
highspirits
for the love of drinking
and a Palestinian
holiday
maker.
This
particular
collective
have
made my days in
Kathmandu very
interesting to say
the least. Every
evening has been a
wild adventure and
a rollercoaster ride
none like any other
I have experience
before. So when we
decided to hit the
clubs last Friday, it
was only natural to
A regular weekend turned into go all out.
The
evening
a hazy disaster thanks to the
started with some
calm serenading of
help of some generous friends
local Khukuri rum
and way too many cocktails!
which I learnt with
— Andrea Newton
ice and cold water
can be a very easy
hamel has the busiest way to get happy and easy on
streets on a Friday the pocket! After a glass or two
night. Happy party goers of this simple yet strong mix,
shuttling between this my good friend Shirley of Funky
club and that, drinks in hand, Buddha offered me her signature
bare-footed and dizzy, there cocktail – a lychee daiquiri.
is a surge of energy in the Sweet and powerful this heady
air and it’s impossible to not combination sent me soaring.
lose oneself a little bit in that With the accompaniment of
atmosphere.
great music and superb company
Recently I met a very the night was beginning to look
exciting bunch of travelers here very colorful. Within an hour, I
in the valley -a charming Italian began to lose sensation of my feet
rock climber, a Turkish software and felt as though I was walking
engineer, a Russian dancer on air.
Spirited Away
T
I even took on the personality
of a Goddess and in my drunken
state I must have looked
extremely ridiculous with this
forced calmness on my face and
look of infinite knowledge. With
my long silk mermaid skirt and
a spillover of my Goa closet – a
gold midriff baring one shoulder
top I really did resemble someone
who must have gone through
a time travel blunder mixing
the past and future styles in one
outfit!
this Cheshire cat grin plastered
on our silly faces and went on
to our next destination strolling
merrily arm in arm.
Another half an hour of crazy
dance moves and more drinking
followed and then we decided to
call it a night. Alas! My bed was
finally beckoning! But to my utter
shock when I went behind the
bar to ask for my handbag they
calmly replied that I had never
given it to them! And, that’s the
exact moment that turned my
Voices were muffled, my vision
was highly distorted and my
speech was so slurry, I could barely
form a proper sentence.
So with this newly discovered
ethereal
princess
persona
and the surge of alcohol in
my bloodstream, there was a
promised chaos creeping up
slowly around the bend. The
lychee daiquiris then progressed
into vodka cranberries with a
dash of tonic water and my vision
began to look like a soft focus lens
in a retro film.
When midnight struck and
the party crew decided to change
party locations, everything was
a blur. Voices were muffled, my
vision was highly distorted and
my speech was so slurry, I could
barely form a proper sentence.
But, the good thing was we all had
very extravagant night into a
downward spiral. So with the
help of my equally intoxicated
friends we began our hunt for my
bag. In the process I must have
annoyed all the bartenders and
security guards, insisting they
were responsible for losing my
bag that had my passport, ATM
cards and money in it!
When I realized my passport
too was in the bag I went into
a state of panic, completely
running around like a headless
chicken turning the whole club
upside down and dragged my
friend back to the previous club,
tore that place apart too looking
frantically for my bag. Almost
in tears and convinced my bag
was stolen we went back to the
place where I lost my bag and
I tried to back track my moves
since entering the place one hour
before.
When I saw the smiling DJ
waving at me, it all came back to
me! I then remembered the first
place I went was straight to the DJ
cabin to give my bag to my friend
because I had played a gig at this
club few weeks before and became
good friends with the resident
DJ and trusted him to watch my
things! With flushed cheeks and a
sheepish grin I meekly collected
my bag and like a dog with its tail
tucked between its legs, I slyly
made my way out of the club. I
could feel the burning glares of
the bartenders singe holes in my
skin but I ignored them and made
my way home.
At the end of the night we
all had a good laugh about it
and sure I was the target of
many below the bet jokes and
remarks! But after a good night’s
rest and a whole weekend of
nursing my hangover I swore to
myself, never again would there
be another night of indulgent
cocktail mixing and uncontrolled
drinking. And, a big note to self
– passport and all other precious
belongings should not make their
way to any club or any event that
involves free drinks and electronic
music !

`Kora` for a Chance at Life

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