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के नेपाल सानो छ (Is Nepal Small?)

Original text by Laxmi Prasad Devkota “ के नेपाल सानो छ ”   Translated by:   Biranchi Poudyal Note –     I’m looking forward for comments and reviews from readers to improve this translation. Still working on it to make it better! Nepal! Beauteous, serene, vast! One day I wrote myself, I can't say how I got this feeling of "vastness". Go through the map of world and behold the size of Nepal.  This little droplet seems like vanishing in the ocean. This small piece looks like a small cave lying on the Himalayan mountain range. People from many countries and races may not have even heard its name.  This tiny lovely slice of earth existing like a green capital of peace tends to hide itself than exposing its treasure to the outer world.  It adores solitude. It's more interested in enjoying the icecap of knowledge and wisdom than taking part in scorching struggles of the world. Despite some curiosity in modernity, it's the worshipper ...

Changing Lockdown Modality: Learn from Ants

                               W hen any infectious disease spread massively among a large population, the authorities usually struggle to find the best ways to limit its contamination while allowing society to function as normally as possible. Here I'm not talking about just the human society; even other living creatures have confronted similar issues for thousands of years. Some social insects, particularly the ant colonies, have been practicing sophisticated defense mechanisms- against such an epidemic -which humans should learn to normalize Covid-19 lockdown. Humanity is standing at dead-end since we have no medical solution or any other immediate way out rather than relying on lockdown. However, we need to change the nature of lockdown and make it systematically flexible for people as well as for economic balance. The change in l...