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We have selected excerpts from some of the best essays, poems and drawings from our students. They have purposely not been edited to show you the level of their written English. We hope you will enjoy them!
by Ganga Thapaliya, Class VI |
by Krishna Khadka, Class VI |
by Mohan Khanal, Class V |
The Growing Pollution in Kathmandu By Sanjaya Paudel, Class VII ‘Pollution’: the most common word for the people of the earth. Who does not know about pollution? Every human has suffered practically. Every child knows about pollution. Leave the rest of the world; just look at the pollution here in Kathmandu it self. My God, it’s so polluted once you stay in the road for a whole day then you won’t have a single hour without sneezes. Not only the air, actually every thing in Kathmandu is polluted. The air, water, in fact the whole environment is polluted. If the pollution goes on increasing in this trend then in the next ten years 50% of the people will die by pollution. And it will also be like terrorism, a great terror and solution, which is difficult to find. The pollution in Kathmandu is out of limit. If you go for a morning walk early in the morning then also you won’t get fresh air. The landforms of our country have always betrayed us, as we stay in a valley the dust collected cannot go out so the dust is collected back again. Not only air, the water is also polluted in our city. The water we are drinking is not of hydro standard according to World Health Organization. The water we are drinking does not contain the necessary amount of minerals and calcium that we need! Once when Hillary Clinton came to our country she suffered from diarrhoea just because she drank the water of Kathmandu. Isn’t it a shame for us? Normally all the foreigners catch dysentery here in Kathmandu though they drink the mineral water, and dysentery is said to be lost from the Western world! Just see how much have we been tolerating? And we want to be fit and fine like those foreigners with these pollution all around us. |
The Status of a Woman in Nepali Society By Sanjaya Paudel, Class VII ‘Woman’: a name that should be taken with respect, without whom this world is incomplete. Even our religious books talk about the respect that should be given to a woman. It is said that every house where woman are happy there the whole house is full of prosperity. Our religion also regards woman as the incarnation of all the goddesses worshipped in Hindu religion. That shows that even our religion believes that woman should be respected. Now the human civilization has become 2100 years old and going through all these years it has a brought a lot of changes in it. It has made itself very matured in various fronts and one of the thing which shows that it has become very matured is it considers everyone the same. It sees everyone equal without caring his or her sex, cast, religion, or anything that tries to discriminate people. Still our society comes in front if we talk about the discrimination. Our society is very smart in discriminating people on various backgrounds. And if we talk about the discrimination made on the preface of sex then also it’s very far ahead in it also. Due to this discrimination made in our society the status of woman is very low. Their status is so low that they are not send to school, they are never treated well, they never get nutritious food even when they are pregnant. They are not behaved well. Sometimes they are not even given job opportunities saying that they are woman. And many people have a silly thinking: they believe that woman should only be doing household works. Ain’t that funny where is it written that they should be trapped only within the four walls of the house. They have every right to do anything which male do. They have right to be independent and they have every right for liberty. They should also be given good education and every opportunity to show and develop their talents. But I still wonder why is this discrimination made? And I don’t see any difference between male and female, do you see? Yes, of course there is a difference of physical features but that doesn’t matter, does it? Okay, they say that since our ancestors time men are said to be superior to woman. But I don’t see any reason why even our ancestors use to call men superior to woman! Even educated people underestimate women. I don’t know what do they see in woman, which makes them underestimate woman. They sometimes even don’t want to work under a lady boss. When they do anti social activity they don’t find it insulting, but when they get scolding from a woman they find it very insulting! But If you look at it from one point it’s a prestige for woman as they find it insulting when a woman scolds them because naturally any person would find it insulting to get scolding from great people. And there is a famous saying that behind every successful man there is a woman and I believe in it. If you look at the life of any successful person you will find that there is a woman who is playing a great role in his life. And those successful people believe in it. There are various reasons why a woman should be respected but can anyone give me reason why women should be underestimated? It’s also a woman who has given birth to those men who dominate women. Your mother is a woman and I think everyone respects their mother. If you can respect a woman who is by relation your mother then why cannot you respect other women? There are people who perform a lot of ‘pujas’ and give away a lot of charity on the name of God but sometimes they are the men who are torturing woman who herself is the incarnation of God. Actually if you use a little bit of your sense then you can directly relate a woman to God. I guess everyone believes that it’s God who brings us to the earth and if you practically look at it its our mother who brings us to the earth and she is a woman. So you see that a live example of woman God is there in front of you. Our society is also strange it is composed of various types of people. For example there are women who underestimate women and there are men who give a lot of respect to women. My hats off to the men who respect women. And from the inner core of my heart I give a lot of respect to those people who respect women. What I believe is those who don’t give respect to woman have no right to get respect as well. |
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Education
(from "Factors of Development")
by Sanjaya Paudel, Class VII "Education is one of the basic needs for the development of the country. If the people are educated, then they can do well for their country. If the people are educated, then they will be good work force for the development of the country. Without education, no one can be successful in their life. They would be burden to the country. Even today, the people of remote areas are uneducated, and rich peoples are exploiting them. Therefore, for the development of the country, education is the most essential thing."
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The Impact of Computers in Today's World by Hridaya Khadka, Class VII Human civilization has gone far ahead today. The same humans who used to stay in cave and used to eat raw things are now flying in the sky! We have got a wonderful success within twenty one hundred years. We have invented a lot many things within these years, which have made our life worth living. There are many manmade things on which we are now very dependent; we cannot even imagine our life without them! One of the wonderful inventions, which is made by human, is computer. It is really a wonderful thing. It is made by human still it does more work than human. Today we can say that everything is dependent on computer. All the banks and offices are very much dependent on computer. It’s almost impossible for the offices to run without computer. The calculations, the data, everything is on computer. It does things so fast, to do the same thing it might take a whole year for the humans. Especially in the developed countries even the schools cannot run without computer. Even in our country the development of the field of computer is very rapid. Our Nepal is counted on one of the underdeveloped countries in the world. If Nepal, being an underdevelopment country, is so much dependent on computer then what about the developed countries in the world. Just look at the essence of computer in the preface of Nepal only, even this newspaper would have been hard to publish without computer. Today computer is made a compulsory subject in most of the schools. And the rapid growth of computer engineers in our country shows a bright future of Nepal in the field of computer. Computer has now become the backbone of development. No country can imagine its development without computer. Computer is now required in every field. If you want to join a job of any type in today’s world then you have to at least have a basic knowledge of computer. Today computer and Internet have jointly made this world very narrow. You can send a mail to your near ones within a fraction of seconds: can human ever do that? This is all because of computer. And computer can do a lot; it has made a lot of people great. It has made people scholars; it has made people billionaires. The worlds most richest person has also become rich due to computer. Computer is like television but the difference is TV makes a person dumb but computer helps a person to develop the mind. Computer is a thing which does dual function: it gives entertainment and over that it increases your knowledge too. The more you explore computer the more you find out. It’s something whose knowledge is endless. Every time you sit on the computer with an intention of finding something new then you are sure to find something new. It’s an amazing thing to explore. If you go through with interest then it’s a really interesting thing. You will never get fed up from it. And your mind will have a very good deal of exercise. It keeps your mental cells very active, which is the best thing for your mind. |
Drug Abusers: are they really a burden to society? By Subhidya Khanal, Class VIII There is nothing bad in this world but people and their thinking makes it so. Nothing is made for the bad of mankind but it’s the people who misuse it and make it bad. Even Albert Einstein did not made atom bomb for any type of destruction; he made it to produce various types of mechanism. But America misused it and destructed Japan. Likewise drug is not a poison and its not created with any bad intention. In fact it’s a medical boon. In other words it’s the other name of medicine. But every one knows too much of anything is not good. If someone takes too much of any medicine intentionally that is what we call drug abuse and those people who take it, drug addicts. No one has ever known exactly why do people become drug addicts but the most common reason is by the influence of friends. We all know how addicts are. There are also categories of addicts. Some are just beginners and some are chronics. But anyway they are addicts. It is seen that most of the addicts do develop diseases, which are very dangerous, and some might be life taking also. Diseases like Hepatitis B and HIV Aids are the life taking diseases which most of the drug addicts develop in them. These diseases develop as they are transferable disease and their friends transfer them when they use the same syringe to take the drugs. Drug addicts have always been proved to be a trouble for the family and society. They give a lot of mental torture to their family. Due to this addiction it leads them to unsocial things like stealing and robbing and sometimes they even steal in their own home. They are always insulted in the society. But do you think so that should be done to them? Do you think they should be given the title of drug addicts? They can also prove themselves to be a good person. There are rehabilitation centres where they can get rid of this habit ,of course if they want to. There they can get a new life and have a successful living. No one chooses the wrong track intentionally, it’s the time and situation, which leads them into a wrong track. We should take it in this way other than taking them as the culprits of the society. So what if they got into the wrong track once, they can again come to the right track and maybe have a better life than we have. But for all this they need a lot of support. They need all the support from us. We can make them better people. And they can make our society better. If we want to live in a better society where all these evils do not exist then we have to support them to make them normal person no more drug abusers. I have even seen people who had once left drugs and when they came back into the society to mingle with all of us and to live normal life, then they were so much insulted and it was impossible for them to exist in the society and they again got back to drugs. So who are the culprits, they or we? We made it impossible for a person to live a good life when he was so much willing to, it had taken him so long to be a normal person but we snatched away someone’s dream and hard work. I call all of us sinners who killed a person mentally or maybe even physically because we pushed them towards the place of death. We all should be guilty about all these things going on. And anyhow we all are also responsible for turning them into drug abusers. No one ever knows what will happen in the future. May be the time might also turn one of us into similar drug abusers and would you be expecting such a response from other people? Definitely NO. So if you don’t like something and don’t want something then don’t ever expect anyone to like that. We all should realize that they are in an extreme need of love and care. Even our own shadow leaves us alone in the darkness, if we don’t care about them then no one will be there to care about them. They are not in a need of any thing else then our love and care. If you give a piece of gold to a thirsty person then that’s of no use to him: he just needs water not that gold. Similarly a drug abuser doesn’t expect any thing from us other then love and care. So if someone near to you is a drug addict then go give him love, care and a lot of support and that’s all we can give for the good of that person. We cannot give him anything else than that. |
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Pollution by Hridaya Khadka, Class VII Pollution is known as a degradation, Which is bad for all the nation. It is degradation, Which makes the dirty nation.
Pollution is a dangerous thing, Which is bad for all living being. All Minister give lecture about pollution, But there is not anyone who found solution. All the person is making bad nature, And the ministers are giving lecture. Please find the solution To stop this harmful pollution. |
Cry by Subidhya Khanal, Class VIII Cry with a loud voice, Love with happiness. Bad to fight with a friend, Bad to be badly punished.
Do good things in your life, Make others do well. Country can't do anything. However, make it good to see.
Pray God to make life good, Cry in low voice; pat with love. Say the brother don't cry, Say the mother stop to cry. |
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Forests (from "Forests
of Nepal")
by Kishor Khanal, Class VI "Forests have great importance. It provides us with raw materials for herbal industries, furniture industries. In the past, our country was very rich in natural resources. If the people need firewood, grass, furniture, etc. they would bring from the forest, but they did not destroy the forest, so the past situation of Nepal was very good. Nowadays, all peoples are destroying the forest. Most of the peoples have forgotten the importance of the forests. If we need firewood, grass, furniture, etc., then we have to go far away from our house. Therefore, the present situation of forests in Nepal is very bad. Due to the destruction of the forests, erosion, landslide, flood is taking place. To stop these things, we must preserve our forests and we must use our forests properly. When we cut one tree, we must plant ten trees." |
Nepal by Hridaya Khadka, Class VII Nepal is our motherland, Where we can find people living hand in hand. It is land of mountain and rivers, Like Mt. Everest and Mahakali. Now, here increasing rate of population is higher, So, we must find right solution. Nepal is land of beauty. To preserve it is our duty. Gautam Buddha and Sita born here, To make our country peaceful for ever. |
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Accident
by Jayanta Rimal, Class V One bus was going to Pokhara. There was not any vacant seat. I was also there. Meanwhile I saw a man climb up the bus. I knew him because he had stolen my money. The conductor of the bus asked him for the money. He refused to pay the fare. He went in front of the bus and stolen the driver's money. I was looking all the things. I looked around there was a police. I said him all the things. He said the driver to stand and the man to come there. Then the driver and the man came there, near the police. I saw there was nobody to drive the bus. They began to fight. I looked out through the window there was a cliff beside the bus. I asked to stop fighting but they continue to fight. Meanwhile, a bus coming from opposite direction hit our bus. Then fell down from the hill. I tried to jump from the bus but I fell down from my bed. |
Drugs
(from "Drugs")
by Sanjaya Paudel, Class VII "This drugs misuse has come here through Western and Muslim countries. We must stop this habit. We must have the good security so that only good things can enter to our country. The Drugs addicted person can give up this habit. They can go to the place where we can do meditation. The meditation helps the person to think about good things only. And another main thing is that the negligence of the parents leads their children to be Drug addict. The parents must love their children. They must look after their children whether they are doing right or wrong. They must have knowledge about their children's friends. Are they good or not?" |