ELECTION-ECONOMY AND DATA

Paradigm of thinking has changed in the present context. Information has already surpassed the value of Oil. Data has become the power and jobs which derive their energy from the data provide more remuneration. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook which have roots in information are few of the highest valued equities. The information giants are now controlling the world economy as in a click they can take out investments from a country and make it go bankrupt. Such events already happened almost twenty years ago for elite countries of Asia called Asian Dragons.

World has witnessed four great economic revolutions. We mostly have studied first and second industrial revolution. They dealt with production, manufacturing and physical resources. Third revolution was the Micro-Chip revolution which automated the industries to a level. Now, we are dealing with the Data revolution. Data revolution is in a sense a psychological warfare where companies owning and controlling information use data to trigger your thoughts and actions. This might not make much sense but case studies of Cambridge Analytica which interfered in famously US 2016 elections and UK referendum shed much light to it. Cambridge Analytica psycho-reversed millions of population to vote using targeted ads, online games and what not. You won’t believe but they know more about you than you yourself. Beware! You’re being watched

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The stirring and landscape changes in the technology hasn’t left even the barren terrains untouched. The echo of this worldwide symphony can be felt in country like ours as well. The number of tech startups has risen exponentially. The number of academicians in the field of IT has increased dramatically. We can divide the entire population into two halves- tech friendly and tech unfriendly. The non-tech friendly weigh more. B ut the upcoming decades will show the seismic changes in this pattern. It might sound too optimistic for our country which never had any industrial revolutions but data revolution has already started. We have entered the fourth economic revolution without surpassing its predecessors it’s where I sense the trouble. Before talking about my opinions on economic conundrum, in coming paragraph I want to address perplex of Neplaese Election and Cambridge Analytica

 This subsequent changes in the population dynamics bred new voters. The impact is everywhere even in Nepal as well. Millennials who preferred crispy gossips on internet and didn’t bugged to look around the actual news where the newest brand to promote the tailored adult franchise of democracy. I don’t think Nepalese Politician didn’t recognize importance of these voters. But whether they sought for help from Cambridge Analytica or not is the question which has never sparked in the country’s mainstream as well as online media platforms. But international news has differed.

 

Highlighted countries have suspected to have used help of Cambridge Analytica in managing election campaign in some way (From Quartz).( https://qz.com/1239762/cambridge-analytica-scandal-all-the-countries-where-scl-elections-claims-to-have-worked/)

You can clearly see Nepal is as well highlighted among the countries whose election campaigns had been in some way aided. Nepal is included along with our neighbor India, UK and US has allegedly reported and their subsequent parliamentary committees have performed investigation as well. It was confirmed that the company had rigged the election in UK and US. A bunch of very influential voters, typically academicians, youth and foreign employees, are under influence by the social media. These voters influence huge bunch of others and thought of them psycho-reversed is really wrenching. But none of any questions at any level has been asked in Nepal at all. A simple picture of digital influence is when thousands of users dumped and boycotted ESEWA. I am neither defending nor alleging ESEWA but it is just a glimpse of this new force which made the company dumb millions to defend it. This already gave me sleepless nights as this debate never sparked in our country. Along with this impact upon revered institution of democracy, the question of how country manages our economy in these changing cosmos is interesting. In next paragraph, I have few of my opinions over this.

Our country called as agro-based economy is just a hypocrisy. We export manpower than any other agricultural products. The steps the country is taking and driving engine of the world all has favored service oriented economy for us. These steps look good, tourism and tech industry will surely flourish. But we don’t have the basic manufacturing and production capability to meet our own demands. The growth in these sectors is negligible. We import our food and medicinal supplies. The cultivation percentage has declined over the years as well. But the most important point of consideration is psychological denial and abandonment of these sectors. Investors don’t want to invest, youths would put their toil on foreign soil rather and government- I don’t know.

 As we are facing the greatest pandemic of our lifetime, this is high time to realize that we can’t eat computers and importing food is just like asking someone else to breathe for you. Until and unless government and authority intervenes and subsidizes the production of basic supplies in our own homeland it won’t matter what our rupee is worth. We will always be in verse of getting strangled by our two big brothers.

झापा काण्ड : धर्म प्रसादको अधर्म

नया पंचायती व्यवस्था, राजा  महेन्द्रले  नमुना ग्राम घोसणा गरेको बुधबारे ग्राम अनि त्यहाका सामन्त धर्म प्रसाद उपाध्याय। यो कथा थियो नेपालमा कम्युनिस्ट क्रान्तिको सुरुवातको र अत्ति नै मनमोहक बुधबारे गाउको । धेरै ज्ञानले बिध्वान अनि धेरै जमिनले सामन्त बनाउछ। ५०० बिघ्हा खेति अधियारमा दिएका र हजार बिघ्हा जमिनमा अनारस खेति लगाएको खरिदार भनेर चिनिने धर्म प्रसाद ढकालको जमिनको कल्पना गर्न मलाई अझै हम्मेहम्मे पर्छ ।

लेखपढ अनि आयका अरु श्रोत नभएका झन्डै १०० परिवार खरिदारको जमिन कमाउथे । हरेक अधियारको भागमा ५ बिग्घा जमिन पर्थ्यो । अधियारसंग आर्थिक स्वतन्त्रता थिएन र खरिदारले उनीहरुलाई आर्थिक घेरामा घेराबन्दी गरेर सोषणको उपहार पस्किन्थे। एक मुन धानमा दश किलो , १०० उधारो लिदा एक मुन धान अनि एक पाना गोरुको ५ मुन धान । अचम्मको कुरा त के थियो भने न त अधियारले आफ्नो गोरु किन्न पाउथिये न त खरदार बाहेकको गोरु प्रयोग गर्न । उनीहरुसंग त जाडोमा ओढ्ने धुसा किन्ने समेत स्वतन्त्रता थिएन । खरदार हरेक वर्ष आफ्नो मित्रको बाट ५ का दरले किन्थिये र १० का दरले आधियारलाइ बेच्थिए । त्यस्तै उपचार, बिहे , मृत्यु र बाकी जीवनका सम्पूर्ण कुरामा खरिदारले ऋणको उपहार दिदै अधियारहरुलाई झन् आर्थिक रुपले न्याक्थिये । आफुले वर्षभरि कमाएको धानले समेत ऋण तिर्न नसकेसि निमुखो अधियार उल्टै जहान पाल्न धान उधारो लिएर आउथियो ।

पंचायती व्यवस्थाप्रति जनतामा असन्तुस्टी बढ्दै थियो । राष्ट्रिय पंचायतका सदस्य समेत रहेका उपाध्यायको सामन्त ब्यबहारबाट अधियारहरु पिरोलिएका थिए , निसासिएका थिए । त्यहि समय झापामा कम्युनिस्ट विचार धाराको प्रभाव भने बढ्दै थियो । हार्ने हैन, छाड्ने हैन , सामन्तीलाइ जिउदो राख्ने हैन भन्ने नारा लिएर बुधबारे गाउमा खरदारलाइ मार्ने योजना बनिन थाल्यो । योजनाकारहरुमा  नेपालका कम्युनिस्ट आन्दोलनका पछि गएर ठालु पदसम्म पुग्ने प्रधामन्त्री ओली समेत थिए । योजना बनियो खरिदारलाई माछा खुवाउने बहानामा केहि व्यक्ति उन्को गाउको घरमा पसे । मालिक र मालिक्नी खानुस भनेर राखे । अनि गास हाल्ने क्रममा गोलि हानेर मारिदिए । खरिदार र उनको जहानको  तेही मृत्यु भयो । बन्दुकको आवाज सुने पछि खरिदारका भर्खरै डाक्टर पढेर आएका २४ बर्से छोरा दगुददै आए । उनिको नि घाटी छिनेर हतिया गरियो । पछि गएर योजनाकार मध्येका एकले व्यक्तिगत सम्बादमा स्वीकारपनि गरे-" कान्छो छोरा भन्दा पनि जेठोलाई मार्ने योजना थियो , कहिलेकाही निमुखो डाक्टरलाइ मारे जस्तो हुन्छ ।"

तेत्रो धेरै सम्पति , नेपाल राइस मिल र क्यानिंग  कम्पनीको अधिपत्य भएका सामन्ती धर्म प्रसाद मृत थिए । उन्नका जेठा छोरा जो सहरको घरमा थिए भागेर काठमाडौँ पुगे । यसरी खरिदारको सामन्ती राज्यको अन्त्य भयो । राजा महेन्द्रका प्रिय व्यक्ति उपाध्याय मारिए पछि धेरै कम्युनिस्ट नेताहरु थुनामा परे। योजनामा संलग्न केहीलाई पक्दियो र सुखानी भन्ने ठाउमा निर्मम ढंगले राज्यले मारयो।

प्रधामन्त्री ओली , आर के मैनाली , सिपी मैनाली लगाएतका नेतालाई जेल जडान गरियो । ओली येही कारणले लामो समय जेल जीवन व्यतित गरे तर उनले कम्युनिस्ट आन्दोलनको क्रान्तिको सुरुवात अनि राष्ट्रिय रुपमै पहिचान भने चाही  पाए । कसले सोचेको थियो होला र यो युवा योजनाकार पछि गएर नेपालको प्रम हुन्छ भनेर | कम्युनिस्ट पार्टीको कोशी समितिले गरेको त्यो नेपालको कम्युनिस्ट आन्दोलनको पहिलो निर्मम हतिया काण्ड थियो । अहिले इतिहास फरक छ । ओली लगायतका नेता अहिले सक्तिसाली छन् तर उहिले सामन्तीलाइ हटाउन हिडेकाहरु आफै त सामन्तबाद तिर लम्केका छैनन् भन्ने प्रश्न मेरो मनले सदैब गर्छ ।

(विभिन्न व्यक्तिगत अन्तरबार्ताबाट लिएको )

QUANTUM LEAP

QUANTUM LEAP

Is imagining an easy task? Actually, it's not when we try to imagine something totally different or tedious. Obviously, we can't imagine ourselves dying. So, it’s too difficult to imagine what is seemingly correct but difficult for us to accept .Changes are inevitable and everything is dynamic but not in terms of nature . Nature always follows its sets of rules (which is made by itself, probably) that aren't amendable at all but sometimes the one who try to mathematicalize the behavior of nature end up estimating something incomplete. We keep on adding the things based on incorrect or incomplete facts and end up developing view of different world then actual. But nature walks on its own and at the end we know we were incorrect and there is remarkable revolution when we get to know much of nature. Such revolutions too happened in physics. Some of the magicians just changed the way of thinking about the nature in its elementary level. This magical change from predictability to unpredictability is only called quantum leap .Its where we get acquainted with the most probable nature. So, let’s get ready to be colored in color of quantum physics where we visualize beyond imagination.

When we want to integrate something, the first step we take is to find out its infinitesimally small part. Now, you might think what’s the use of this assumption here. It’s actually analogous that if we want to know or explore our universe we must know its smallest part or the infinitesimally small parts which are to be integrated up to infinity to get this expanding universe. The first think that strikes our mind when we think of smallest things are atoms as we learned in school days. The great Bohr explained it as a small solar system with center like a sun which is larger and small entities of same physical constraints revolving around it. Actually our analogy of knowing small part to know the larger one is actually working here but seemingly it’s a mirage here. Now just try to imagine ,the chair in which I am sitting consists of tiny parts with something revolving around it. Yah it’s so tedious but it is truth in a manner (different structure of atom is suggested then that of Bohr's).Now, talking about this atoms the most interesting thing about them are their charge carrying guards called electrons.

Our own world is surrounded by quantum mechanical phenomena. One of the most common exploit of QM is our cell phones operated by micro-controllers with transistor. To know the transistor the science and mystery of semi-conductor is necessary and what actually working on these semi-conductors are electrons which are studied under Quantum Mechanics. So, its simple that Quantum Mechanics study of electrons has given us the smart world and wider use and exploit of QM will prove a great asset into the modernization of the society. So, we must get ready to see another quantum leap.

Entropy

Entropy

Physics is full of mantras which is interestingly weird and difficult to understand .Entropy is one among them . As you asked about entropy its basically taken to be analogous to energy but actually considering the statistical mechanics its well explained to be mixedupness (used by GIBBS) . We can well take entropy to be the molecular disorder in macroscopic system . In, a system microscopic entities have several microstates which they can occupy . If a entity has ''g'' microstates then ,

Entropy (S)=k log (g)

Considering this definition , we can take a system with subatomic particles and each particle can have many quantum states(possible energy levels or flavors ) and here we can get its entropy using the above formula .So, if we are considering a system with sub-atomic particle then obviously entropy encounters there.

SPACETIME

SPACETIME

The unidirectional Train of the universe’’ Time’’ finds it very beginning from the beginning of everything itself. Time which was thought to be a continuously flowing and same everywhere eventually was claimed to be interwoven with the space to result a wide as well quite interesting or most fundamental entity existing everywhere ,commonly termed as SPACETIME.

This spacetime is the theater or platform where every drama of universe takes place when there is presence of mass in the spacetime then only the bending of the spacetime occurs which indeed is popularly called as ‘gravity’.
So, absence or presence of mass time is everywhere interwoven with space. 

आशा

आशा

संस्कृति फरक छन् , सद्भाव एउतै छ।

मतभेद धेरै छन् , मनभेद छैन ।

समस्या अरबौ छन् , आशा जिउदो छ ।

अरबको खाडीमा ५० सेन्टिग्रेडमा काम गर्ने नेपाली देशले रोजगार दिन नसकेको भनेर गाली गर्दैन । उल्टै उ आफुले संचय गरेको परिश्रम देशलाई निछ्योर गर्छ। व्यक्तिगत रुपमा ति अरबको खाडीमा ज्यान अर्पण गर्ने हरेक नेपाली मेरो परिद्रिस्यमा देशको अर्थतन्त्र थाम्ने सेनानी हुन्, सहिद हुन् ।

राज्यले दिने र संबिधानले व्यवस्था गरेको सुलभ स्वास्थ्य उपचार नपाएर झाडापखालाले मेरा देशबासीहरु मृत्यु बहन गर्छन । नाबालक सिसु यो पावन धर्तिमा पाइला टेक्न नपाउदै बिदा लिन्छन । त्यो अवस्थामा पनि त्यहाँबाट देशको जयको आवाज गुञ्जिञ्छ ।आशा सहित त्यहाँबाट जनप्रतिनिधि चुनिएर आउछन । पटकपटक राज्यबाट हेपिदापनि प्रजातन्त्रमा आशा देखाउने ति नेपलि मेरालागि लोकतन्त्र धान्ने पिल्लर हुन् , संसद हुन् ।

देश बुर्जुआ हरुको सिकार छ । कर्मठ किसानले टमाटर १० रुपियामा बेच्छ । उपभोक्ताले १०० रुपियामा किन्छन । आफु ठगिएको थाहा हुदाहुदै पनि धर्ति गोड्न किशान छाडदैन। पसिना बगाएर अरुको पेट भर्न तयार रहन्छ । मेरो लागि तेस्तो किशान निजामती राष्ट्रसेवक कर्मचारी हो ।

भारि बोकेर एक अधुरो खान खाएर पनि देश बारे संताप्मा निद्रा बिथोल्ने नेपाली मेरो लागि कार्यकारी हो , प्रधानमन्त्रि हो , रास्ट्रपति हो ।

येस्तै हजारौ उदहारण छन् । प्रेरणाका श्रोत छन्-

सुदुर पश्चिमदेखि सुदुर पूर्व सम्म ,

हिमालदेखि तराई सम्म र

सात समुद्र पारीको खादिहरुमा जहाँ नेपालीत्व र रास्त्रियता जिउदो छ ।

तर

हरेक दिन पधाधिकारी बिकेको समाचार सुन्दा ,

सदन/संबैधानिक अंग /अदालत /बिस्वबिध्यालय मा राजनैतिक/आर्थिक /पारिवारिक चलखेल भएको बुज्दा ,

राष्ट्रिय गौरबका आयोजना अलपत्र परेको देख्दा ,

मलाई अचम्म र बिस्मात लागेर आउछ ।

आशा मरेर आउछ ।

निसासिएको महसुस हुन्छ ।

म कसलाई आरोप लगाम या नलगाउ थम्याउन सक्दिन । तर प्रसाशन ,नेतृत्व , कार्यप्रणाली , थुप्रै व्यवस्था र कानुन, सायद म पनि जागरुक नागरिकको हैसियतले ,देश प्रति अछम्य द्रोह गरिराखेका छौ ।

अझै नि प्रजातन्त्रमाथि र प्रसासनमाथि म आशावादी छु ।यो आशाको डोरी चुटिने तर्फ गएको देख्दा हरिब लाग्छ तर कैऔ आशावादी मुहार र मुस्कानले मलाई सधै प्रेरित गरेका छन् ।

मेरो देश , मेरो रास्ट्र - नेपाल |

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The Broken

I am strangling it.

In my heart and soul,

The thought of it,

The freedom of will.

Tick-Toks on the clocks

With the days and months gone.

I am killing it.

In my mind and work,

The pursuit of dream,

The desire to be the one.

Winds changed the directions

With the old calendars gone.

I have buried it.

In my life and wants,

The consciousness of aspiration,

The joy of hallucination.

झरी

झरी 

शिशिरको सररर
कुहिरोका पहर
काठमाडौँ सहर
ढाक्यो मेरो नजर

आउछ घरिघरि
हिउदको झरी
गर्यो मनपरी
रुझायो तनसरि

बढ्नथाल्यो झन्झन्
हृदयको धड्कन
गोडाको कम्पन
रोकिदैन झन् तन |||

Oh! Dear Feynman

Richard Feynman won Nobel in 1965 but was insanely popular for his teaching methodology. He was leading scientists in QED and his popular interpretation of Quantum Mechanics are really light shredding. But many people remember him for his great lectures.
The rockstar of physics has really produced scintillating lectures of physics which are transcribed and available in internet . Whenever i scroll through pdfs of his lectures it gives me a great joy to see through awesome illustration of fundamental facts.
Teaching is really sometimes beyond presenting facts , scrolling pages and reading paragraphs. It's an art. Feynman was master of the art.
I really want to take this quote from preface of Feynman lectures- When asked how did you feel on completing such a wonderful semester,Feynman quoted-"I really feel i failed as my students performance are below average, next semester i will come with more energy and practice". The man had won a Nobel , was part of the Manhattan project and had nothing to prove but was determined to deliver best to his students.
I believe we too need such wonderful teachers and students who are devoted to master this craft of learning.
Learning is actually quoted in here as Feynman famously implied you can grasp 95% of a concept (more than other means) by teaching.