चाेखाे माया डट कम: जन्मभूमि नेपाल र नेपालीहरूमा समर्पित

  Electric vehicles are a new rage all over the world where fossil fuel-run vehicles are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Given ever-increasing petroleum prices and a large carbon footprint that the conventional vehicles leave behind, not to mention increasing costs of running a fossil fuel-based economy, Nepal is also not immune from the this switch to the EVs. Against this backdrop, SERES—an EV brand born in the USA, mastered inChina, proven in Europe—has entered Nepal, where a couple of other brands already have their presence. Devendra Gautam had a free-wheeling conversation with Jeevan Jung Shahi, director of LRR Group, the authorized distributors of SERES for Nepal conveniently located at Panipokhari, Maharajgunj:           Q: SERES took part in the NADA Auto Show 2023. How was SERES´ performance? What word best describes the customers´ response?   The customer response was absolutely fantastic, there was an incredible crowd and they were cr...

Devendra Gautam Early morning, May 23, 2023. Overcast skies on the foothills of Nagarjun and much beyond have put up a huge warning sign that reads: It might rain soon, but without the Murakami effect.  A struggling writer imagines sitting by the window and sipping black tea in the name of doing something while raindrops splitter-splatter the panes, with tears in torrents keeping the cup brimming.  Even the thought of rain brings pain in waves in times like these. Stabs from economic hardships, stabs from Aama's late-stage cancer that won’t go away, with or without Proxyvon, despite soul-wrecking chemo sessions.   All this triggers a short travel back in time, about 30 years back.  Past is a no place to go, but with the rains, floods and landslides blocking the journey ahead, where do you go? The winter vacation has begun and the hostel is getting emptier with each passing day as parents, siblings or acquaintances come to pick friends and others up, even as a boy co...

Let this being made of Panchatatwa (the five elements)—a little bit of light, the ether, water, air and the earth—begin with a frank admission. This sapien has a hunch that those precious, born-in-a-gym type made of Panchadhatu (five metals)—gold, iron (for a strong body), silver (for a sharp mind), copper (ductile and malleable) and zinc—and other rare earths are fuming at the very first line from a lesser mortal.  Well, they have every right to explode, even.  They are free to seethe with rage, for this being has realized over the years how futile it is to try to wow all and sundry with your thoughts. It has dawned on him that table sugar ( C 12 H 22 O 11 ) gives a bitter taste whereas bitter gourd tastes sweet in the long run.  Ain’t it a great finding? Naturally, this sapien has a thing for science. What say you, guys? Let's leave the sciences behind and go a bit metaphysical.   With its price heading northwards amid the festivities, sugar has become ever m...