My Friend of the Day: Bhagirath Khatiwada

18th April 2017

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Why do I emphasize R and Stata?

Once learning alphabets was enough to be literate, then it was computer and now Statistics has come up. If you do not know statistics, you may not be considered a literate any more. People will not believe your percentages and discoveries. Then, there are metadata, Giga data, and Tiga data to handle. More data are on the way. If you want to be prepared to face the tsunami of data you need R. R is free, easy to learn and productive.If you have small data set Excel and Access will rescue you.  If you have systematic data sets, go for Stata. If you want to play the data with your concepts and novel ideas of presentation of your results, R is for you. If you have large data sets to handle or want your staff to handle them, remember me. Let's sit together and solve them productively. I learned R and Stata in the hardest way. You don't have to. It's my pleasure to share my hard-learned expertise in R and Stata with you if you are burdened with data.

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This is the best place to start learning R.

विष्णुमति नदि सरसफाइ -एक झलक

नदिमा फोहोर फाल्नु हुन्न भन्ने कस्लाई चेतना छैन र ?  अटेरहरूलाई जनचेतनाको सट्टा सजाय र जरिमाना लगाउनु बढि प्रभावकारि होला कि।

वाव

सफा देखियो त।

सफा गर्दा सफा हुने रहेछ।

अब फोहोर नफाल्नु हो भने कति राम्रो हुने थियो । 

Worst recorded Earthquake in Nepal

The earthquake of 7.9 RS that shook Nepal and the Himalayan region on 25th April 2015 midday,  left behind unprecedented deaths, casualties and damages. Several, houses, historical buildings, monuments were destroyed. Several mountaineers on the way to Mount Everest were trapped and killed by avalanches following the earthquake.Within 30 hours of the first quake, there were more than 60 after-shocks.People are  on the road. Whatever data is reported, its changed faster with a higher digit.The estimation of loss hasn't started, there is no upper limit to guess the loss. Governments around the world have started to dispatch the relief and assistance. There seems no reliable mechanism in place to channelize the support, especially in the hinterland and remote areas. 

The government of Nepal has requested for international support (Reuters) to cope up with the natural catastrophe. 

The Prime Minster of India was first to show support and sympathy (Bloomberg), he has initiated "Operation maitri" to carry out the assistance (The times of India). The U.S. is sending Disaster Response Team, $1 Million in Aid to Nepal (TIME). 

Israel is set to send the aid (Times of Israel ).. Bhutan is preparing a special flight  for Kathmandu with medical team for assistance and to get back the Bhutanese stranded in Nepal (Kuensel) . 

Four Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft carrying rescue and relief assistance, including a 30-bed mobile hospital has left Pakistan for Nepal (DAWN). 

China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) was scheduled to leave for Nepal at 6 a.m. Sunday Beijing (CCTV-America) 

Canada sending advance Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team to assess earthquake-stricken Nepal (Globalnews ). 

The list is endless. Several organizations, trusts and foundations have started to mobilize donations.

The social media are filled with the messages from well wishers and photographs of the disaster. The world has come together to sympathize and pray for the people of Nepal. 

It may take a long time for Nepal to get back to normal working schedule, the support from the governments, international organizations, celebrities, individuals, show that the world has come together to support the brothers and sisters in Nepal. May this spirit of humanity remain on the earth for ever and ever. 

Photos from Facebook and Tweeter.

Book 3: Third Book Read in 2013

The Gurkha’s Daughter – PRAJWAL PARAJULI

Recently this book was much talked in news and social media. I eagerly appreciated the success of a new Gurkha writer trying his luck with English literature. 

The physical appearance of the book is perfect and touchy. As I pushed through the book, I was amazed with the use of Nepali words across the book indiscriminately.

  ‘The Cleft’- the first story of the book made me think “what is story telling?”. It’s a collection of unique characters who ride a taxi from Kathmandu to Birtamod. That is the story. The subsequent stories leverage the readers’ expectation back to original and even improve them. Each story has its own center and a diverse plot. ‘A Father’s Journey’ and ‘Missed Blessing’ are great stories, psychology based, which are to be read and realized. Other stories are for entertainment. ‘No Land is Her Land’- a story of a girl with multiple unsuccessful marriages of a Bhutanese Gurkha Girl in Nepal, could force the readers to generalize a gloomy image of the Gurkhas spilled from Bhutan. ‘The Immigration’, a story centered in Manhattan, USA puts reader in restaurants and feeds them with the type of good or bad Nepali dialect. The story “The Gurkha’s Daughter” inside the book with same title is not as simple as Kathmandu’s nine year olds’ bhara-kuti collections.

This is a great book in the market. To me it looks like a big experiment to study if a book, full of Nepali jargons with no explanation or glossary to explain, attracts Non-Gurkha English readers.