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Follow Your Dream

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Life is full of assignments. When you are young, your parents will command you to do this and that, not to do this and that. So many things are related to the morality, sins and punishment, virtues and rewards. When we begin to go to school, our teachers teach us, including the mathematics and science. We have to do what we are told and so on. In fact, it is necessary to take a specific shape. What, when we can think what we can do? Well, I will give you an example. One of the younger brothers in my village was going to higher education after SLC. He had good marks in many subjects. His parents wanted that he would study science and do better. Because they think that it is very necessary to become a successful person in life. He joined science. It was not his subject of interest. Almost when the exam was about to come, he wanted to change the faculty and became the student of education as a major. Luckily he did. The whole year went to know he should study education. My

Bitter Historical Reality: Sati Pratha in Nepal

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Some histories are really worth to glorify and some are worth to forget. That are pros and cons of any nations and it remains in the history that the latecomers will learn about it. Nepali society had followed the Sati Pratha in the history. For a long time, this evil deed of the society existed. It is a system of the society where a widow is placed on pyre of the demised husband and burnt alive along with the dead body of her husband. This system was existed in India and later spread in Nepal in the middle age. In the ancient period, it was not mandatory. During the Malla reign, Sati custom flourished. At that time, Nepal was divided into various mini states. If a King died, his wife and maids would go to Sati. It was highly practiced during the reign of King Mahendra Malla, Bishwojit Malla, Bishwojit Malla, Parthivendra Malla, Nripendra Mall, Shree Niwas Malla and Yog Narendra Malla. It was so deeply rooted in the Royal families that even the great leader of Nepal unificatio