King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal (born
July 7, 1947) has been the king of Nepal since June
2001.
As
the second son of Prince (later king) Mahendra, the
infant Gyanendra was declared king for two months
(1950–1951) when the rest of his family was
in exile, but was not internationally recognized.
His grandfather Tribhuvan was returned to the throne
shortly after, when the Rana family conceded power.
Fifty
years later, when his nephew Dipendra apparently staged
a murder suicide, killing most of the family, including
King Birendra (Dipendra's father, and Gyanendra's
brother), Gyanendra became king again.
As
king he has sought to exercise active control over
the government, twice in three years dismissing the
elected Prime Minister to appoint governments of his
own choosing. His brother Birendra had conceded a
constitutional monarchy in 1990 accepting a minor
role for the King in government, and Gyanendra's interference
in this constitutional settlement has provoked substantial
popular unrest. Gyanendra took control once again
on February 1, 2005, accusing prime minister Sher
Bahadur Deuba's government of failing to make arrangements
for parliamentary elections and of being unable to
restore peace in the country, which is currently in
the midst of a widespread rebellion by Maoists waging
a "people's war". read
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Mr.
Surya Bahadur Thapa was appointed Prime Minister by
King Gyanendra to succeed Lokendra Bahadur Chand who
resigned from his designation. The King nominated
Thapa after seven political parties failed to recommend
a consensus candidate five days after a collective
meeting with the King who said he would endorse their
common choice. Mr . Surya Bahadur Thapa was the President
of the then Rastriya Prajatantra Party as well as
the leader of it's Parlimentry Committee.
KING
DIPENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH DEV |
HRH Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev was born
on 30th December 1971 in Kathmandu, educated at St.
Joseph's, Darjeeling, India and Budhanilkantha School,
Kathmandu. He is an undergraduate in Business Administration
from Schiller International University, United Kingdom.
He held the position of Chairman of the Council of Royal
Representatives during the state visits of His Majesty
the King to India and China in 2002. He cordinated the
Zoo Development Committee, King Mahendra Trust for Nature
Conservation till 2001 then he became the Chairman of
the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC)
since December 7, 2001.
Decorations include: Shubha Rajyabhisheka Padaka (1975),
Gaddi Aarohan ko Rajat Mahotsav Padaka, (1997); Vishista
Seva Padaka (1999); Birendra-Aishwarya Seva Padak (2001);
Suprasiddha Prabala Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (2001). His
hobbies were horse-riding, music and composing poems,
he married 25th January 2000 in Kathmandu, HRH Princess
Himani Rajya Laksmi Devi, born 1st October 1976 in Kathmandu,
(daughter of Rao Raja BIKRAM SINGH of Sikar), proclaimed
Crown Princess 2001.
His late Majesty King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
was born to late King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev
and the Senior Queen Kanti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah on
June 11, 1920 (Asar 30, 1977 B.S.) at Narayanhity
Royal Palace. He studied Politics, Economics, Nepali
language and culture, and also English language privately
in the Palace. The study of Nepali literature and
composing Nepali poems formed part of his busy life.
King Mahendra married Indra Rajya Laxmi Devi on May
8, 1940, at the age of twenty. The Royal couple were
blessed with 3 sons and 3 daughters. Then on 4 September
1950 Indra Rajya Laxmi Shah died and King Mahendra
again married Ratna Rajya Laxmi Devi (the younger
sister of Indra Rajya Laxmi Devi) on December 10,
1952. At the sudden death of King Tribhuvan on march
13, 1955 in Zurich Canton Hospital (Switzerland) King
Mahendra ascended the throne of the kingdom of Nepal.
His Coronation Ceremony was held on May 2, 1956. After
ruling the country for 17 years, King Mahendra died
at Diyalo Bangalow in Chitwan, on 31st January 1972.
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Mohan
Koirala was born in 1934 in Kathmandu, Nepal. His
early poems show clear anger against the Rana oligarchy
system, witnessed in "The staute." As he
and his poetry matured, he addressed social issues
("The Nepali violin" and "The roots
of the pumpkin"), male-female relationships ("Like
seeds") and, later, moral fraility of himself
and other human beings (the finest examples of which
may be "I have not become a god", "Wounded
years", and "The worship"). Today most
students of Nepalese literature believe that Mohan
Koirala is hard to understand, that his poems require
extra attention, and provide richer emotional rewards.
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Madhav
Ghimmire is a living legend. Born in 1919, he is among
the last of the older generation of poets in Nepal.
His contemporaries – Bal Krishna Sama, Laxmi
Prasad Devkota, and Siddhicharan Shrestha –
have become historical figures in the annals of Nepalese
literature; Ghimire is the only link to their past.
A time in which these poets created some of the most
powerful verses in Nepali literature. Today, their
works are studied in school, college, and university.
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Modnath
Prashrit was born in 1942 in Arghakhanchi District
of Western Nepal. He has Master’s degrees in
Ayurvedha, Nepali language, and Sanskrit and has published
29 books on social issues and traditional medicine.
He received the coveted Madan Puraskar in 1966 and
remembers equally fondly the Rs. 5 award given to
him for good writing by his headmaster when he was
ten years old.
Besides being a writer, Modnath Prashrit is a celebrated
political personality. He is an elected member of
the Lower House of Parliament and has been Education
Minister. He is a polit-bureau member of the influential
main opposition party, the Communist Party of Nepal,
United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML).
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Siddhi
Charan Shrestha started writing poetry from the early
age of 13. It seemed that he had a natural flair for
writing poetry. His first published book was Bhuichala,
which he wrote after the terrible earthquake of 1936.
But because of his revolutionary thoughts expressed
vividly in his work, he was sentenced for 18 years in
prison. His family belongings and property were also
confiscated by the then autocratic Rana regime and his
wife was left alone with their two little children.
She must have felt shattered when she saw him being
arrested. He was released after five years read
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Usha
Sherchan was born on August 22, 1955 in the Pokhara
Valley in central Nepal. Her first poetry collection
was Njanmeka Asthaharu (Unborn Beliefs) and her second
collection Akcharharuka Shivirbata (From a Mountain
of Words). She has received the Ratna Shree Award,
Byathit Kabya Puraskar, and Kavita Mahotsav for poetic
excellence,
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Megh
Raj Sharma, known as Manjul in Nepal’s literary
circles, is a poet who breathes life into his work.
With eight publications written over a time span of
six years, Manjul, at fifty-two, is at the peak of
his writing career. There is spontaneity in the way
he talks. He is gregarious; expressing feelings freely,
humoring himself in a lighthearted manner: Manjul
tends to look at the brighter side of life. He is
nature’s poet and, on this cold wintry morning,
as he talks about his childhood, student life, and
adulthood on the verandah, he welcomes the sun gladly.
He is at ease talking with the sky wide above him,
the air crisp, and his thoughts clear. His words resound
with a poetic rhythm that comes naturally to him.
Manjul is first a poet and then a writer. He feels
he will always write poetry, essays, or lyrics as
a poet. read
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Diamond
Shumshere Rana is a writing force to reckon with among
Nepal’s novelists. His writing career began
in the late 1940s, during the autocratic Rana regime,
a time when writers and poets were not allowed to
publish their work. Under the 104-year-old oligarchic
rule, only those who were assigned by the Ranas could
publish their articles. But even then, the information
to be printed had to be approved first. Today, as
he thinks back on that period, Diamond Shumshere is
nostalgic.
At eighty-one, he feels strongly about the past. It
shows in the way he talks passionately about his life,
his involvement in the political movement that overthrew
Rana rule, and its outcome. His interest in writing
was inspired by the adverse political conditions of
the country. Diamond Shumshere Rana’s Basanti,
which covers the period during the Rana regime, is
among the first serious novels published in Nepal.
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Manisha
Koirala was born on 16 Aug. in NEPAL into a royal
family where in her early childhood she inherited
all that royal behavior, personality and communication
skills, carefree attitude through total liberalism
and love for everything around in the world.
She'd flown to INDIA and did her schooling in ARMY
PUBLIC SCHOOL - DELHI finally landing in BOMBAY in
order to pursue an acting career in BOLLYWOOD and
was given a hearty welcome and so the offers. She
had her debut in SUBHASH GHAI's movie "SAUDAGAR"
which had given a chance to her to prove herself.
The break she was given by the popular director SUBHASH
GHAI who is considered to be the god father of every
newcomer had a lot to do with that Manisha never had
to look low.
An absolute beauty she is, Manisha, with her transparent
body captured the audience as well as the producers
and the directors. She's got the charm, looks and
acting talents too that she attracted the attention
of the likes of RAM GOPAL VERMA and MANIRATNAM who
offered her their projects so confidant of her acting
capabilities. And she did it. She acted in a few films
in SOUTH where she won a pretty audience too. read
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Manjushree
Thapa was born in Kathmandu in 1968. She studied in
St. Mary's School (Kathmandu), the National Cathedral
School (Washington DC) and the Rhode Island School
of Design, where she majored in photography. She has
an MFA from the University of Washington, which she
attended on a Fulbright scholarship.
Her first book, "Mustang Bhot in Fragments,"
was a travelogue published in Nepal in 1992. Her short
stories have been published in the Bellingham Review,
Tampa Review, Artful Dodge, Himal South Asian, and
elsewhere.
Thapa
lives in Kathmandu, where she helps to manage Martin
Chautari, a center for public interest and advocacy,
and writes a regular column for the Nepali Times,
Nepaliterature, which includes translations of many
original works. She is working on a nonfiction book
that is expected to come out in 2003.read
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Madan
Mani Dixit writes with clear perspectives in his mind.
He draws from past experiences–his study of
Sanskrit, philosophy, and history–to write stories
and novels flavored with scholastic insights. Madan
Mani has, from the age of eight, been studying religious
literature like the Ramayana in Sanskrit. He was brought
up in a joint family (his grandfather had eleven sons
and eight daughters) in which all his kakas (father’s
brothers) were well-grounded in academic studies.
His primary education began at home. Educational tools
like the dictionary, world atlas, and statistical
maps his kakas used became an integral part of his
childhood and the English lessons they gave provided
the young Dixit with a strong base as did his reading
of English novels. read
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On
April 22, 1993, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa created mountaineering
history by becoming the first Nepalese woman to blaze
a trail to the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest
peak in the world. Pasang Lhamu's achievement has
not only proved that Nepalese women are as brave and
strong as their men, but also shown their determined
and resolute character. Pasang Lhamu was extremely
committed to her dream, the reason why she succeeded
and, in so doing, did her nation and her people proud.
For many Nepalese women, Pasang Lhamu is a fugue that
they will try and emulate for a long, long time.read
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Ming
Kipa is the youngest person ever to have climbed to
the summit of Chomolungma, also called Ms. Everest.
She reached the summit on 24 May, 2003. Her sister,Lhakpa
Sherpa was part of the expedition, as was her 24-year-old
brother, Mingma Gyalu Sherpa. Nepal bans climbers
under 16 from attempting Everest, but Ming Kipa Sherpa
summitted from the Tibetan side.
Anil
Tandukar is a young and dynamic music video director.
He is always looking for innovative ideas to implement
in his music videos. He is a veteran in the field
of television production. He started his profession
as a production manager of 'Sayapatri' film magazine
which was broadcasted in Nepal Television. "Cinema",
a televeion film magazine was his first production.
At
present he is a very popular for his music videos.
He has directed 35 music videos till now. He is also
involved in video editing work and training on "Non-Linear
Editing".
Bipana
Thapa, plays the title role in Gaajal. She is one
of the leading actress in the Nepalese cinema industry
and has given lot of hits.
She has been in this industry since a decade and is
a promising actress.
She has acted in over 30 films and is continuously
busy doing new films every day.
Udit
Narayan is, without a doubt, the reigning king of
male playback singers. He was born to on the border
of India and Nepal.Udit's capability as a playback
singer knows no bounds, as he has been magnanimously
acclaimed in every kind of melody - soulful, romantic,
fast-paced and recently, even pop. Udit has an extremely
versatile tone which appears to flawlessly suit every
Indian hero on screen. And today, innumerable awards
and accolades later, Udit Narayan possesses one of
the largest arrays of hit songs in the industry.
Udit
Narayan was born on the 1st of December to father
who was a farmer,Hare Krishna Jha and mother Bhuwaneshwari
Devi. He belogs to the Brahmin caste.
Udit
Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Kathmandu
Radio Station where he used to sing Maithli and Nepali
folk songs. Udit worked for Kathmandu Radio for almost
eight years before the Indian Embassy offered him
the chance to study classical music at a prestigious
school in Mumbai,Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan on a music
scholarship. He wasted no time and came to Bombay
in 1978. But success did not come instantly. Only
after years of study and several unnoticed recordings
did he hit gold with his vocals for Aamir Khan in
1988's Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.
Parijat
was born in 1937 ,who was interested early on in Nepalese
literature, was to play an important and well-appreciated
role in strengthening Nepalese literature. She completed
part of her schooling in Darjeeling, she came to the
Kathmandu Valley in 1954.
In 1959, Parijat's poem was first published by Dharti.
She published three poetry collections: Akanshya,
Parijat Ko Kavita, and Baisalu Bartaman. Her first
short story was "Mailey Najanmayeko Choro".
She is, however, best known in Nepal as a novelist.
Altogether, she wrote ten novels of which Siris ko
Ful gained the greatest popularity. In 1965, she was
awarded with the Madan Puraskar for the novel. She
also received the Sarwashrestha Pandulipi Puraskar,
Gandaki Basunahara Puraskar, and Bridabrit. read
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