Kathmandu

had less management skill which resulted for maximum time spend. They found problems to get the appropriate vendors. In search of vendors they contact the friends and family back in Nepal and India. The store starts getting the ethnic item from Kathmandu and New Delhi. But it arrived late here and sometimes the item received were broken due to which store bear loss. The item cost expensive to the seller so does to the buyer. To minimize the cost of the product the store started searching local…

game on that day. It was the night of 4th February in 2009. My little cousin sister "Belis" wanted to play hide and seek. She was about four years back then. My cousin 's parents left her with my mother for a few months so that they could go to Kathmandu (Capital city of Nepal) and do their work. My mother especially told me not to do or tell anything that would hurt my cousin’s feelings. So following my mother’s guidance, I told my cousin I 'd play the game. As we were about to begin the…

Swiffles: Disrupting the Chocolate Market in Nepal The idea of starting the venture sparked when 'Idea Studio' called for submission of ideas for a competition last year. Ishan Pandey together with Smriti Tuladhar, both the students of BBA at KUSOM, applied for the competition with their business idea of Chocolates. This marked the starting of the venture as the idea was then selected for the competition by the organizers and was successful to reach finals in the competition. A foodie since her…

Scottish Culture The Scottish culture is very unique and interesting. Although there are many stereotypes about the Scottish culture, their food, clothing, behavior, the list could go on forever, but in all reality all scots are very different (Koranki). The Scottish culture consists of many old and less practiced traditions, but also some more modern traditions. The Scottish are most commonly known for their clothing style and their food and drink, but are also less commonly known for their…

This week, Mount Everest claimed the life of 3 climbers and 1 Sherpa, still two other climbers are missing — is the risk of death really worth the adventure? Article: Why would someone risk their life to climb a mountain when the odds of surviving may not be in their favor? For survivors, Everest is the ultimate high, but with triumph also come tragedies. And no one understands that more than the families of those who recently died trying to reach that ultimate high. Three dead – two missing In…

“Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?” Kevin Kelly the author of “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs” brings up a topic that has been in the minds of middle-class Americans for the past 10 years. The fear of technology taking our jobs and not just that but doing better than us is a topic that is in early development but it seems like every day new and better technology is being invented and that topic comes closer and…

The Nacirema is a “tribe” in North America. The ethnographic analysis describing the rituals of the Nacirema was written by Horace Miner and actually describes American culture in the 1950s. The article illustrates how anthropologists view and describe other cultures. By turning the analysis on our very own culture, we see how language can influence the reader’s perception of that culture. For example, Miner uses words such as “ritual” “ceremony” and “religious” to describe ordinary activities.…

Farce to Serious Neelam Adhikari Nepal’s politics has gone from serious to ridiculous to farce. What is responsible for it? Lack of women in leadership. We women are repositories of love and compassion and good at multi-tasking. Our heart bleeds for our family and other’s children as well. We can work our hands and brain at different things at the same time. That makes us smarter but imposes on us disproportionate burden as well. The experience of Western countries where women and men have…

A., Rauniyar, R., Raut, p, p., Manandhar, K, D., and Gupta, B, P. (2015) Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity ELISA AGAINST Widal test for typhoid diagnosis in endemic population of Kathmandu. BMC Infectious Diseases. 15:523. DOI 10.1186/s12879-015- 1248-6. This article compares and contrasts the sensitivity and specification of Enzym-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and the Widal test for diagnostic purposes. To compare the two assays…

Child Labour Child labour is a common mutiny in all developing countries. However, in 2000 the child labour has had a decrease from 246 million down to 168 million, which shows that all the charity work and awareness has made a big impact. Because we’re talking big numbers here a lot more needs to be done. The reason why child labour exists is because of families being poor, and parents don’t have a sufficient income to keep their families fed and clothed. Parents are then pressured to resort…