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Post by spindrift on Jul 13, 2009 18:27:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2009 12:26:20 GMT
I want to traipse through it too.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 16, 2009 15:14:28 GMT
Me too!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 1:55:57 GMT
We should go and crash the place together!
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Post by spindrift on Jul 17, 2009 8:28:12 GMT
I'll meet you in Kathmandu any time! We'd have a LOT of fun! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 15:29:04 GMT
Yeah, we should go and paint the town red! (I wonder what they would make of us?)  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2009 15:30:40 GMT
Just be sure to wear gloves, Deyana!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 15:35:44 GMT
hahaha...good one bix!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 16:49:13 GMT
I don't think this is a big deal. Tourists have been tramping through Versailles for years, and that's fine with me.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 17, 2009 18:29:41 GMT
Well it is really. As you might know the ex-king has only recently been pushed out of the palace.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2009 19:43:25 GMT
Well, the Louvre was turned into a museum only a few years after the Revolution. I don't think there is a courtesy time lag for reusing buildings that were built with the taxpayers' money.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 17, 2009 20:19:43 GMT
Ok. But in the case of the Louvre being turned into a museum - both Louis XV1 and Marie Antoinette were already dead...whereas the King of Nepal is still very much alive and living in the Kathmandu valley - so no doubt he's appalled at tourists tramping round his recently vacated palace.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 18, 2009 10:44:23 GMT
I don't know what to think about the former King of Nepal anymore. I just hope the new political situation makes it better for the Nepalis...although I doubt it really changed anything. (might be wrong. general comment above)
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Post by spindrift on Jul 18, 2009 19:24:50 GMT
It's early(ish) days yet....I'm pleased to say that the government has recently offered a pension to widows (historically the most neglected, and even spurned, individuals).
(~See Deepa Metha's film ' WATER')......
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 22, 2009 11:14:28 GMT
How are self- confessed Maoists going to run a government successfully? It won't work.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 22, 2009 13:57:35 GMT
Prachanda is/was going the way of Federalism and studied how it is applied in Switzerland. Maoism was, perhaps, just a term to arouse people from their apathy at the start.
Let us see what happens. Any change needs time in order to be implemented. No need to be hasty in our judgements.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 23, 2009 1:15:22 GMT
hwinpp, the (informed) reports I have indicate that these Maoists are acting more like social-democrats. Nothing like Shining Path (Sendera luminosa) in Peru. This is not odd. People use historical references in many ways, some far more benign than others.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 1:53:48 GMT
'Water' was a great movie.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 23, 2009 16:20:34 GMT
Deyana - have you also seen 'Earth' and 'Fire' which complete Deepa Metha's trilogy? Jazz told me about these films and I'm so grateful to her.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 23, 2009 18:26:54 GMT
Earth, Fire and Water are a trilogy of films directed by Deepa Mehta. They are not a sequence and can be seen individually. The comman ground is India. Earth is the finest film I have ever seen of the turbulent time when the British finally left India in 1947 as told through the eyes of a group of young Indians, each from different religions and castes. Fire is an intimate study of two brothers and their wives and how these women survive on many levels. All three are brilliant films.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 18:33:41 GMT
I'll make a note of those films. Thanks ladies, I'd be interested to see them. I've had 1st and 2nd hand accounts from relatives of mine of the events that happened at that time, (I come from the North, a part that borders onto Pakistan), and from what I could see in 'Water', it looks like the film did a good and honest job of the what happened during that time.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 23, 2009 19:46:24 GMT
Ms Metha initially tried to make 'Water' in Varanasi but due to the content of the film there were riots. Finally she made it somewhere in Sri Lanka. I'd like to know where exactly as it's a truly beautiful place and I'd like to visit the location one day.
I was so moved by 'Earth' that, even now, I hesitate to dwell on it.
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Post by spindrift on May 1, 2010 15:58:27 GMT
......time has passed but still there are political troubles in Nepal. Today, May 1st, the Maoists have brought Kathmandu to a standstill - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8655767.stmAmongst other things they are protesting that the new constitution for Nepal, although long promised, has not yet been written. I'm not surprised that a lot of my Nepali friends are leaving to live in India and Singapore. |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2010 17:09:35 GMT
Are they able to settle their though, Spindrift? I thought India was tightening up it's immigration laws? And parts of Singapore are very expensive to live now aren't they?
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Post by spindrift on May 2, 2010 9:38:20 GMT
I think these people are regarded as 'special cases' and would be welcomed mostly anywhere. One of their number is already settled in Singapore  |
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