Disasters as Global Concerns with Local Interventions

 

A disaster shifts geography, people, and culture. It also initiates movement in space, causes various networks to form, and creates a local space for global stakeholders to act. Different types of networked communications begin to occur. Daniel Aldrich defines a disaster as “an event that suspends normal activities and threatens or causes severe, communitywide damage” . Indeed, larger-scale crises create disruptions in normalcy by causing threats to living entities’ well-being and natural or infrastructural damages. The United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) defines a disaster as “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts” (“Disaster”). Therefore, disasters are events that have extreme, largescale impacts that affect a great number of lives. They can have a multidimensional effect that requires the involvement of national, local and international entities to address the aftermath. So, disasters disrupt people’s normal lives, but they also bring local people together to form various communities both in online and offline spaces via public discourses on the web, collective interactions in transcultural ways, and through the sharing of the affective sentiment. As such, the discourses of local catastrophic disasters transcend boundaries as these disasters become a global concern.

Note: This is a part of an introduction from the book " Transnational Assemblages: Social Justice and Crisis Communication during Disaster" written by one of our blogger friends Sweta Baniya. This book can be accessed by visiting this link: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/swr/assemblages/

नेपालका प्रदेश, कति प्रभावकारी?

 

नेपालका प्रदेश, कति प्रभावकारी? यसमा धेरै को फरक मत हुन सक्छ।  तर जनगुनासो अनुसार यो राजनीति कार्यकर्ता भर्ति गर्ने थलो जस्तो भएको । 

 यस बारेमा प्रदेशको औचित्यमाथि गहिरो बिस्लेषण  । 

प्रदेश सरकारहरूले काम गर्न थालेको गत फागुनमा ६ वर्ष पूरा भएर सात वर्ष लागेको छ। संविधानले प्रदेश सरकारका एकल र साझा गरी दुई प्रकारका अधिकार र जिम्मेवारी तोकेको छ। यी अधिकारको सीमाभित्र रहेर प्रदेश सरकारले कानुन बनाउने, वार्षिक बजेट बनाउने, निर्णय गर्ने, नीति तथा योजना तयार गर्ने र त्यसको कार्यान्वयन गर्ने काम गरिरहेका छन्।

ए सराद्दे बाजे

ए सराद्दे बाजे - Prem Oli

ए सराद्दे बाजे 

आज एक दिन भए नि

मेरी आमालाई भेटाइ देऊ

आमाको झलक्क देखाइ देऊ

हरेक बर्ष मेरी आमाले नै पाउछिन भन्दै

दाल चामल र फल दान माग्छौ

आमालाई न दिएर के आँफै राख्छौ 

आमाको नाममा चढाएका

हरेक कुरा  आमाले पाउछिन भन्नेले

एक दिन भए पनि आमालाई बोलाई दिन सक्दैनौ 

एक छिन भए पनि आमाको  देखाइ दिन सक्दैनौ 

हैन भने किन तिथी र स्राद्द गराउछौ 

सबै आमाले पाउछिन भन्दै कराउछौ ।

How do you rescue a person from Mount Everest?

Mount Everest, the height place on earth. What happens if you get stuck there? 

Well there is no road or airport. If you are immbackpackobalized, only way to get you back is on somebody's back. Just like a back pack, a person has to be carried down the the base camp for further help.

Here is one example how a Malaysian climber got rescued from Mount Everest. 

A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a "very rare" high altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) Everest summit on May 18 when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area called the "death zone," where temperatures can dip to minus 30 degrees Celsius (86F) or lower.

बिदेशीको आखामा नेपाल

15 Breathtaking photos from Nepali visitors: The most beautiful photos of Nepal!

1. Lumbini

 

2. Bhaktapur

3. Himalayan Range

4. Chitwan National Nepal Park 

Walking to the Roof of the World

Darrel Hartman 

Why climb Mount Everest? “Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously said. Then he died trying.

A century on, Mallory is best remembered for those three koanlike words. As Mick Conefrey writes in “Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition,” they are “both the simplest and the most enigmatic explanation of the lure of high mountains.”

Alas, Everest, highest of them all, is less enigmatic and arguably less alluring these days. Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay logged the first successful ascent in 1953, it has been summited more than 12,000 times by upward of 6,500 different people. Every spring the Nepali army removes several tons of trash from this high-elevation tourist attraction. The human-waste problem has gotten so bad that, as of this year, visitors are required to pack their poop and take it with them.

The Everest that Mallory explored in the 1920s had less excrement and more romance. The climbing equipment was rudimentary: the flax ropes were as threads compared to modern nylon ones, and the wool clothing and hobnail boots were more cumbersome and far less effective than modern goose down and crampons. Mr. Conefrey, a documentary filmmaker who has written several books about Himalayan mountaineering history, also notes another major difference between then and now: Mallory and his peers “took risks that many of today’s climbers would find unacceptable.”