(Written for SAWNET, http://sawnet.org/books/reviews.php?Aids+Sutra)



Today there are approximately 3 million Indians living with HIV and AIDS, a number that masks the human faces behind a disease that has been reviled and misunderstood as the worst plague in human history. A disease often considered to afflict only those regarded as the dredges of society, AIDS has the potential both to expose the dark underbelly of society, and also to inspire triumphs of human compassion and perseverance.
AIDS Sutra, funded by the Gates Foundation, is a compilation of 16 vibrant essays about Indians living with HIV by some of South Asia’s most gifted authors, including Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Kiran Desai. Several of the essays are narrated directly from the authors’ home communities; others are the fruition of their travels to the vastly different regions of India.

Siddharth Deb’s poignant account, “The Lost Generation of Manipur,” brings him to a remote corner of India bereft of employment opportunities and constantly on edge due to communal violence. Uncontrolled injecting drug use in the region puts young people of working age especially at risk for HIV infection.

Salman Rushdie’s piece on the politics and culture of the hijra (intersexed and/or transgender) community is a concise account of a population that defies society´s common [mis]perceptions around gender and HIV risk. Rushdie interviews a transgender AIDS activist named Laxmi, who lives in a constant duality of gender- going as a man by day and living with her parents, and transforming into a woman at night and on the weekends. Her advocacy on behalf of this distinct community in India has helped to distinguish hijras as a third gender- with different needs and challenges than men who have sex with men.

Other stories included in the book examine the lives of truck drivers, sex workers, and devadasis, women traditionally given to god, and nowadays women who choose or are forced into sex work as a means of income generation. In Sunil Gangopadhyay’s essay, “Return to Sonagacchi,” the author returns home to Kolkata to compose a compelling account of the lives of sex workers in Sonagachhi, narrating both the deprivation they face and also their power as an organized movement fighting for their rights as sex workers to safety, health services, education for their children, freedom from police persecution, and dignity.

Bill and Melinda Gates give the anthology’s introduction, and its insightful forward is written by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen. Sen revolutionized the traditional economic paradigm by asserting that development is not simply about increasing per capita income, but rather “a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy.” His examination of the economic effects of AIDS in India is nuanced in its consideration of both the beneficial impact of Indian pharmaceuticals in producing affordable antiretroviral drugs for much of the world, and the irony that income disparity in India prevents the majority of Indians living with HIV from accessing treatment, quality medical facilities, shelter, employment opportunities, and community support.

Sen argues that stigma is the primary fuel of the epidemic in India, where widespread ignorance pervades about how HIV is—and is not—transmitted. Among young Indians just reaching working age, knowledge how HIV is spread is dismally low at 25% of the population according to UNAIDS (20% comprehensive knowledge among women and 36% among men). Because many Indians still believe that HIV can be transmitted through touch, sharing food, or through aerosol transmission, Indians living with HIV face discrimination in schools and workplaces, ostracization, rejection from their families, and in many cases, violence and even death.

India’s uncomfortable and often times paradoxical relationship with sex and sexuality is often at the root of ignorance and discrimination against HIV, with 87% of new infections in India occurring through unprotected sexual intercourse each year according to India’s National AIDS Control Organization. Despite an ancient culture rich in celebration of natural human sexuality, imperial-era taboos surrounding sex continue to create a stifling conservatism that limits access to scientific information about sexually transmitted infections, reproductive health, and the rights of women and sexual minorities.

In Amit Chaudhuri’s essay, “Healing,” he remarks that “The troubling ambiguity of sex through history— the fact that it bestows life and pleasure, and also, in a way that can’t be entirely explained by morality, confuses and shames— have converged in a new way upon this disease.” His interviews with Alka Desphpande, an AIDS researcher and physician in India’s first AIDS ward, reveal the challenges faced even by the medical community in becoming educated about HIV. Large numbers of Indian health care workers still believe that HIV is transmitted by touch, and widespread denial of treatment and discrimination against people living with HIV is common.

The first essay “Mister X Versus Hospital Y” by Nikita Lalwani tells the story of a Dr. Tokugha who is infected with HIV and becomes an important activist when his results are disclosed to his family (and bride-to-be’s family) before he himself is made aware of his status, just days before the wedding. His lawsuit against the hospital’s breach of his privacy sparked controversial debate and the release of his name in newspapers all across India. The court ruled against him, “decreeing that the hospital’s release of the information to the minister without his consent had ‘saved the life’ of Toku’s proposed fiancée. The essay forces us to consider the complexities behind forced disclosure of one’s HIV status. Not only was Dr. “Toku”’s right to self-disclose taken away from him, the judge tacked on a devastating addition to the ruling, that suspended the right of HIV positive people to marry. The laudable human rights organization, The Lawyers’ Collective, fought for years to restore this basic human right to people living with HIV, succeeding in 2002. Since then, Dr. Toku has become a prominent physician in the field, and goes above and beyond by arranging matches between people living with HIV.

Discrimination and national legislation intersect most brutally in India with the penal code provision 377 that makes homosexuality a criminal offense. Drafted in 1860 during British Rule, the anachronistic law fines and imprisons Indians caught in the act of sodomy and even oral sex for between ten years and a lifetime in jail. The law has served to drive homosexuality “underground” where men having unprotected sex with men cannot be reached for HIV awareness raising, sexual health services, STI screening, or recourse for police persecution and demanding of bribes.

One story included in the collection was strikingly disappointing— to the point of giving offense. Shobhaa De’s “When AIDS Came Home” reveals the author’s ignorant, discriminatory and classist lack of understanding of HIV and AIDS. Her account of how her driver becomes infected with HIV and gradually dies from AIDS is peppered with comments about her “repulsion” that he had spent so much time with her children, speculations about his involvement with sex workers and his sexuality, and self-congratulatory accolades when she provided occasional money for a doctor or medicine.

De’s piece examines her misconceptions about AIDS and vaguely suggests that she has seen the error in her was (perhaps simply because it would not be politically correct to admit otherwise), but still fails to include what lessons she has learned. Indeed, to conclude her story Shobhaa marvels that “Although they are such an intimate part of our lives, how little we really know about the people who work for us… it took Shankar’s death to see him as a human.” She concludes by lying to her children and telling them that the driver was infected through a blood transfusion because the reality that many men purchase sex is too shocking to bear.

By far the most thought-provoking inclusion in the anthology, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s “Hello, Darling,” diverges from the book’s overall focus on more “marginalized” populations of sex workers, drug users and truckers, to recount the life experiences with HIV of an upper-class homosexual film director whose pseudonym is given as “Murad.” Openly flamboyant, driven to success, and yet still slow to “come out” about his homosexuality, and later, HIV status, Murad escapes the confines of Bombay and moves to New York City. He is unable to move in the local film circuit and returns to Bombay years later, where he eventually succumbs to AIDS.

Shanghvi’s piece is particularly well-researched and deeply-felt; his account considers early chronicles of the impact of AIDS on art and artists in Edmund White’s “Esthetics and Loss,” and the strange phenomenon of how AIDS “got noticed,” as explained in Urvashi Vaid’s “Virtual Equality,” in which she observes “how the passing of an entire generation from AIDS helped give rise to the modern idea of homosexuality: thousands of men had to die, in fact, to have to be seen as alive in the first place.” Shanghvi’s inclusion was particularly important and contrasted sharply with De’s story. “Hello, Darling” should serve as a wake-up call to elites believing in their infallibility, since the risk behaviors that propel the spread of HIV in India are by no means limited to lower socioeconomic echelons of society.

Overall, the anthology is an important, moving, and transformative read. Each story is relatively brief and gives a taste of the authors’ diverse and prolific literary talents. Some tales, such as De’s, are clearly geared toward upper class Indians who are beginning to understand the complexities of the AIDS epidemic in India. Still others delve into economic, political and human rights aspects of the disease. Till now, literature and artistic works on AIDS in India have been limited and relatively unknown. AIDS Sutra gives voice to communities and individuals that have been destroyed, silenced, affected and transformed by AIDS in a jarring and yet deeply meaningful manner.

This morning I was reading a newspaper report about a “funny god” in facebook.

Whether you’re christian, atheist, buddhist or whatever — it seems you can now befriend God on Facebook. And he has a wicked sense of humour.

As I went through the news about the God of facebook, I was gradually impressed by his reported sense of humor.

Looking at His profile, we were shocked to discover He has a surprisingly wicked sense of humour. “God is high like a kite… literally cuz I’m in da sky” reads one of his status lines. “God is borrrrrrrrrrred lol” reads another.

I wanted to find the facebook god when my eyes stopped at the following lines:

Anyway, see if you can hit God up to become one of his friends. Right now, he’s just “sittin’ around being omnipotent.” Trouble is, searching Facebook for “God” yields no results — perhaps He is being deliberately mysterious, or maybe it’s just an invite-only party for now.

Now the task waiting for me was to find the god, I googled the God with so many possible keywords, like: “God’s Profile in facebook”, “Who is God in facebook” and finally “the god in facebook, real or fake?”

Google was poor to give the results I was looking for. I used the engine of facebook itself to find the God. I used some tricks and finally reached the mini profile of The God. I could not stop laughing when I saw that he had only 2 friends; Adam and Eve. However, I sent a friend request to the God with a personal message. Lets see God loves me or not.

Dear Visitors,

You might have already known that my blog was off for more than one year. Finally I am able to have the same domain working. But you might have already surprised or sorrowed to see no previous contents. I used have free hosting in freehostia.com. Weeks ago they said that they were having some technical problems because of server migration. As their transfer of data completed, I was not able to log into my hosting control panel. I got the message that my account was suspended. I contacted them and tried to convince them that I was not involved in any activity that breaches the terms of use and causes account suspension. I hoped for weeks. They did not reply. I did not even have the backup of my database. Man learns by mistake. Though it was not my fault, I realized that we should have always backup of our database. So that we are not going to be the victim of such incidents.

I waited very long for their reply. But they did not tell me anything about the reason of the suspension of my account. I sent an email again

Hi,
When I tried to log in to my account after your servers were transferred.. i was unable to sign in. I got the error message that my account had been suspended. But believe me I was not involved in any of the mentioned activities that cause the suspension of my account. I am the only owner and administrator of my account. no other people are involved. Please show me the way to restore my account. I have a large database also and i even don’t have the backups. If the restore of whole account is impossible, please let me have a copy of my database.
I hope you will understand. I was a very loyal and happy customer (though it was a free account). I also told many friends about free hostia. Is this the reward I should get?
Please try to understand.
My domain:kamalkumar.com.np
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Regards,

Kamal Kumar

But this time I got a quick reply from freehostia.com. They mail is here:

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Your account was suspended due to service abuse. Your scripts have
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You know what I replied to this man? Guess it! It was just two words, “F**K You”

I will try my hard to find any old contents and will post as many as i find. However, every end is for another beginning. I hope I would be able to give you regular “alternative-contents” that matter.

I took some notes from the last report for the UN, Building resilience: A human rights framework for world food and nutrition security, from Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Human Rights Council. Olivier De Schutter is absolutely wonderful and I am amazed at everything he is doing to advocate positive change for the right to food. The main idea of the document is that the current increase in food prices can be seized as an opportunity in order to advance the realization of the right to food by the adoption of structural measures, leading to a profound reform of the global food system.
Here is a random list of facts and figures I compiled:
- It has been estimated that with a 20 per cent increase in food prices in 2025 relative to the 1996 baseline, the number of undernourished people in the world would increase by 440 million
- It has been estimated that the production of food will have to increase by 50 per cent by 2030, and double by 2050, if an increase growth in demand is to be met
- Most of the food insecure live in rural areas. Agricultural workers are among the most vulnerable, owing due to the often informal character of their employment, depriving them of legal protection from their employers. They amount to 450 million, and represent 40 per cent of the world's agricultural work force.
- There are approximately 500 million small-holder households, totalling 1.5 billion people, living on two hectares of land or less. Many are facing an unprecedented increase in the price of inputs, as a result of the increase of the price of oil and, for livestock farmers, of crops, at the very same moment that, as net food buyers, they are spending larger amounts of their budgets on food.
- The surge in prices in 2006-2008 is the result of policies that have systematically undermined the agricultural sector in a number of developing countries over a period of 30 years
- Food crops currently used to produce ethanol are also the crops that form the largest part of the diets of poor people, maize, sugar cane, soy, cassava, palm oil and sorghum provide around 30 per cent of mean calorie consumption of people living in chronic hunger. There is a need for international guidelines on the production of agrofuels
- At both ends of the chain (producers and retailers) and in the middle (the food processing sector), the degree of concentration is particularly high: for instance, the 10 leading food retailers have a 24 per cent share of the $3.5 billion global market, and their activities in developing countries have expanded dramatically in recent years.
- “Cargill, the world’s biggest grain trader, achieved an 86 per cent increase in profits from commodity trading in the first quarter of this year. Bunge, another huge food trader, had a 77 per cent increase in profits during the last quarter of last year. ADM, the second largest grain trader in the world, registered a 67 per cent increase in profits in 2007. Nor are retail giants taking the strain: profits at Tesco, the UK supermarket giant, rose by a record 11.8 per cent last year. Other major retailers, such as France’s Carrefour and Wal-Mart of the US, say that food sales are the main sector sustaining their profit increases” (GRAIN report, Making a killing from hunger, April 2008, available from: www.grain.org/articles/?id=39)
- In 2007, approximately 23 per cent of coarse grain production in the U.S. was used to produce ethanol, for a share of ethanol in the gasoline transport fuel market of 4.5 per cent in 2008; in the EU, although 47 per cent of vegetable oil production was used in the production of biodiesel, causing higher imports of vegetable oil to meet domestic consumption needs, the biodiesel share of the diesel transport fuel market was 3.0 per cent.

Friday September 8th, 2008. I attended a conference organized by Rights & Democracy and the Canadian FoodGrains Bank on the theme: “Solutions for Hunger - A Policy Seminar on the Human Right to Food”. Basically we discussed how the Right to food (adequate food) should be incorporated in the national laws of every country, and in the mandate of international UN agencies. I have understood the “right to food” primarily as a participatory approach by which people can actually participate in the process of establishing or advocating for good food policies such as claiming the right to food. Indeed many countries ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which article 11 says “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.” According to international law, every people if they could not have any response from their national judicial system to claim their rights were violated, can have access to an international court. Other international commitments are enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Additionally, article 56 of the Charter of the United Nations that states must cooperate in the identification and elimination of the obstacles to the full realization of the right to food. In 2004, the FAO adopted “Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of Food Security at the National Level” (the Guidelines) as a follow up to the World Food Summit series of conferences. The Guidelines provide a roadmap for states and civil society who want to apply the human rights framework for strategies to end hunger. Since their adoption, the Guidelines have inspired a number of initiatives designed to implement the human right to food. These initiatives have included country-level assessments, grassroots awareness campaigns, legislative and judicial procedures and violation monitoring.
I want to use this blog to write stuff I learned. For those interested in having access to some resources, they can read the following documents:
Building resilience: A human rights framework for world food and nutrition security, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Human Rights Council http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of Food Security at the National Level
www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/009/y9825e/y9825e00.htm
3 case studies:
The Human Right to Food in Malawi: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy and FIAN International, 2006
www.dd-rd.ca/site/_PDF/publications/globalization/food/food_malawi.pdf
The Human Right to Food in Nepal: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy, 2007
www.dd-rd.ca/site/_PDF/publications/globalization/food/report_nepal_sep07.pdf
The Human Right to Food in Haiti: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy and GRAMIR, 2008 http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/publications/index.php?id=2316&subsection=catalogue

Have you ever wondered, what have you searched about in Google? I have. One day I googled whether google stores my search history. And amazingly, I found a google feature that tracks all of your search and browsing activity. To view what/when/how/where you searched or browsed something you just need to log in google.com/history with your google [...]

yellow, originally uploaded by Giga Pixel. Nothing special about this post. I am just trying to post a blog from my flickr account. If it works, then its great. Web has been really powerful. And of course, INTERNET IS MORE THAN BROWSING. *- This Picture has got 2 favs in flickr within 5 days of posting. I [...]

Google today surprisingly sent media releases to the journalists telling that it is launching a web browser. “Chrome” will be available to download as beta version for the users of 100 countries from Tuesday. Google has said “Chrome” is about more than just browsing, but enriched with lots of web application. The open source browser [...]

1. SIMPLE INTERFACE: its cool and its simple. Easy to use/understand user interface. Any novice user can find the facebook ‘wow’ at first sight.

2. OPEN & WIDE: Finally it has welcomed the great developers from all over the world. The independent developers are the greatest assets of facebook.

3. FLEXIBLE: What do you want? photo, notes, video, blog, rss, anything that rocks.

4. LESS SPAMMERS: unlike in hi5 and myspace, there are less spammers inside the facebook.

5. LESS ADVERTISING: you might have already felt so

6. INTERNATIONAL: facebook is just INTERNATIONAL, INTERCULTURAL

Song by Celine Dion

Every night in my dreams
I see you, But can’t feel you,
That is how I know you alone…

Far across the distance
And so many people between us
You have come to show you’re alone

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go alone
Once more you open the door
And you’re there in his heart
And my heart will go alone and alone

Love can touch us one time
And injure for a lifetime
And never let go till we’re all alone

Love was when I saw you
One true time I hold to
In my life we’ll always go alone

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go alone
Once more you open the door
And you’re there in his heart
And my heart will go alone and alone

There is some love that will not take us away

You’re not here, there’s something I fear,
And I know that my heart will go alone
We’ll stay forever this way
You are safe in his heart
And my heart will go alone and alone

Rewords by: K.K

Thursday, August 7. 2008
MILF rebels sightings trigger panic in Zambo
by Dan Toribio Jr. & Jemeuel Mojica
Article courtesy of Daily Zaboanga Times site.

Residents panicked yesterday amid reports that Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels are in Zamboanga City since Monday when a big rally against the Bangsamoro homeland was in progress.

The situation became more tense when Moro National Liberation Front founder Nur Misuari and his entourage arrived in this city yesterday in what was described as a “journey of peace.”

Live radio coverage of Misuari’s visit made the residents confused as they thought that Misuari’s group was one with the MILF rebels.

At least three schools sent their students home for fear of eruption of violence in the streets. Text messages likewise circulated that Zamboanga City was on “triple alert”.

The tension started after DZT reported the presence of MILF rebels with firearms eating at a restaurant along Gov. Camins Road.

Reports also disclosed that unidentified armed men believed to be MILF rebels were sighted in Manicahan, Cabaluay, Sangali and Labuan.

Soldiers and policemen were dispatched to the mentioned places to secure the people and the barangays.

Many parents stopped their children from going to schools for fear of kidnapping.

Last Tuesday night, residents living along the highway in the east coast were thrown into panic after they spotted a group of persons aboard trucks heading towards the city proper. It was later learned that they were supporters of Misuari.

As this developed, the police and the military in the city have intensified the conduct of security patrols and checkpoints to deter possible attacks by the MILF or their sympathizers in the wake of the cancelled signing of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) on ancestral domain by the GRP-MILF panels.

Police and military units have been placed on red alert since Tuesday, and the City Police Office and Task Force Zamboanga have beefed up its forces manning the checkpoints and conducting mobile patrols especially during night time.

“We are on heightened alert to deter any possible sabotages or atrocity that might be committed by rebel groups and other lawless groups. The police are close coordination with the Task Force Zamboanga and other military units here,” Sr. Supt. Lurimer Detran, city police director, disclosed.

Police and military intelligence operatives are also closely monitoring movements of armed groups from the nearby provinces with plans to slip into the city.

As of press time yesterday, there were unconfirmed reports of armed groups in some Muslim dominated barangays like in Manicahan, Cabaluay, Sanggali, Sacol and Sacol Islands.

“There are reliable reports that some MILF rebels were able to slip into the city from nearby provinces and are already here in the city proper,” a military official who refused to be named told DZT.

A checkpoint of the Police Regional Mobile Group in Putik yesterday dawn stopped a Strada pick up truck with three men after they discovered that they were carrying firearms. Police held them for questioning and were later released after they were able to produce documents for their firearms.

Sr. Supt. Detran said they are now strictly enforcing the gun ban in the city as he stressed that personnel manning the checkpoints were directed to strictly scrutinize persons carrying firearms if they are really authorized to carry firearms.

He disclosed that buses and vans coming from nearby provinces like Zamboanga Sibugay are being subjected to rigid inspection.

Detran said the present situation calls for more vigilance in the police and military forces.

“We are also appealing to the general public to report to police authorities the presence of any armed men or groups in their neighborhood,” Detran stressed.

He added that barangay tanods were also tapped to assist the police in the maintenance of security and peace and order in their respective communities. — Dan Toribio Jr. and Jemuel E. Mojica

Article courtesy of Daily Zamboanga Times site.
Tuesday, August 5. 2008
Zamboangueños again say NO!


Zamboangueños have spoken again in a huge rally yesterday strongly opposing the inclusion of any part of Zamboanga City into the proposed expanded autonomous region. They have said NO twice in the past and they have not changed this position.

Massive crowd from several sectors wearing the fighting color of red jammed the Rizal Park in front of City Hall and spilled over its perimeter in a show of unity against the proposed Moro ancestral domain that seeks to include at least eight barangays of Zamboanga City, among which are Zones 3 and 4 where City Hall, the Metropolitan Cathedral, Fort Pilar, the residence of Mayor Celso Lobregat, Ateneo de Zamboanga University and the city’s main commercial district are located.

Though everything is not final yet vis-a-vis the territory issue (ancestral domain) in the GRP-MILF peace negotiations, it is imperative for Zamboanga City to voice out its sentiment this early so that the negotiators and the government will be aware of the city’s ardent stand on this controversy. Let us not allow anybody to ram down our throats anything that is against our will.

We are not against the peace negotiations, nor we oppose the establishment of a Bangsamoro Homeland. What we want is a fair and just settlement of the Moro problem. Everybody wants peace, but it should come with respect over the rights of others who are non-Moros.

We expect more mass protest actions from the residents and we plead with the government to consult the people before signing any deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Bhuwan Jee,

Another rainy morning of late July would have been attributed with same old shit if your letter hadn’t pop upped. I want to express my immense gratitude for remembering me so respectfully and so non-critically. I was always used to be the platform of your criticism. I still remember, they were sharp, they were logical and they were very genuine. I always acknowledge your great effort to shape some crucial parts of my mind.

I still hate Kathmandu, as I used to. But you may know I am proudly living a paradox. Being real, your absence has not dismantled any of my dreams we discussed together. But being more real, your presence would have made things little bit easier. Anyway, it was you who taught me to think big, think smart and think alternative.

There are so many things that I want to talk to you when we meet. We will talk about our ‘failed’ project of “ODD Nepal”, we will talk about Om Jee, Tashi, and other talk-worthy figures of Shepherd College of Media Technology, like Principal Narendra Pal and many others. We will talk about how we wanted to be changed and how we have been changed. We will talk about further possibilities of another venture like ODD Nepal. Of course we will talk about Mongolia, Thailand and other nations that matter to us. But like you, I am also not sure when we will meet again.

Bhuwan jee, I am sorry that I couldn’t reply your previous mail and you bothered to find my website and post a comment about my whereabouts. My words of describing the professionalism and job satisfaction are the same as I told you when I met you last time. I am tired of translating the transcripts of authorized dealers of western propaganda, where abduction of a Jew in the Middle East and the pregnancy of a polygamous Hollywood actress is the greatest news and the ethnic cleansing in Southern Nepal is nothing. At least you are doing great. A multinational Human Rights Defender, working in Mongolia.

I had been to Shepherd College few weeks ago for some documentation. I met your brother. He told me that you were safe in Mongolia in that time of the state of emergency.

At last, I am grateful for the love and respect that all of your family has shown towards me.
Wishing you great success and BIG dreams ahead,

KamalKumar

Kamal G
Namaste

I am really surprised to see your effort in form of this website . Going though the pages of this sites gives me a reflection of what you aim in your life . It seems you are trying hard to break the trend . I am sure you will succeed one day . Try your best to do the things in newer way . As you know that innovation is what we always preached when we were together . I am in Mongolia bored and was looking for your new contact fourtunately i found the website . I found more than you , more than what i was looking for . Make effort to get it going .