Indrajatra Photography Competition Results

After a long wait, the winner to the Indrajatra Photography competition 2012 has been finalised. The event started from 27th of september with an intention to promote our festival and culture world-wide and moreover, provide opportunity for thousands of Nepali currently staying abroad to enjoy the most beautiful moments of the festival.
The event was proudly sponsored by "Swoyambhu Banasthali Motors WorkShop", "Cannon Imaging School" and "New Snapper Photo".




After two months of voting time, the winner of this competition selected from the like category is Kapil Raj Khadgi with 1086 likes.

The other two winners selected by judge from category A and B are:
The winner from category A is Ayush Mananda Bajracharya
The winner from category B is Kaushal Hissaria.

The winners will be contacted through facebook and be advised, the instructions to collect the prizes.

We, the organiser, would like to thank all the people who supported this event by taking part in it and also to those who helped us promote, not only the event, but our festival and culture too. 

IndraJatra Mishap

27 September, 2012
Today is the first day of IndraJatra and according to at the time prescribed by the priests, the "Yosheen" was erected at around 9:30. But according to witnesses, as soon as the ropes, used to erect the yosheen, was left loose, the yosheen fell straight on the ground. With all the blessings of GOD, no one was injured and the yosheen was successfully erected again.
Following this event, we also recieved a news that while bringing the chariot of "Kumari dyo" out from the "dyo chenn", one of the "singha" was destructed, but was soon fixed by the locals and the military people.
I hope these are not signs of a bad omen and are just a co-incidence.

IndraJatra PhotoGraphy Competetion-2012

Competition Detail:
Indrajatra : 27th Sep-3rd Oct
Photo Submission : 29th Sep-31st Oct
Voting Starts from : 16th Oct,-30th Nov

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOGRAPH
Send us an email with your Photograph along with your name, contact number(at least one). Metadata also needs to be submitted for category A contestants and captions for each photograph has been made compulsory.
Email Address: jatranepa@gmail.com

Entry Category
A) Taken from Digital SLR Cameras
  All photographs submitted under this category must be taken by high-tech gadgets (at least a mini DSLR).

 B) Taken from Compact Digital Cameras or Mobile Cameras
 Photographs submitted for this category can be of any type  (mobile/ordinary digi-cam), provided it meets the requirements.

Terms and Conditions:
Entry is open to all the Nepali people; provided they were present in Kathmandu during the festival (Evidence may be required).

Photos must be taken by the entrants themselves and it must be of this year’s Indrajatra.

The photo must reflect the aspects of the festival and its cultural importance. Using a good caption for photos is highly recommended and is compulsory.

Contestant must submit the Meta data along with the photo. (Only for Category A)

Digitally manipulated or cropped Photos will not be accepted.(Minor adjustments, including spotting, dodging and burning,  sharpening, contrast and slight colour adjustment or the digital equivalents, are acceptable. But the entrant should mention this during the submission).

Pictures with watermarks will not be accepted.

Each participant can upload only 1 for each category (contestant can choose to replace their existing entry with a new photo and in that case, the old picture may be transferred to other albums of the page).

The organizer reserves the right to amend competition rules at any time.

The organisers have all the rights regarding the selection of the winner.

By entering the competition, the contestant will grant rights to the organizer to use the photographs for promotional use.

The entrants must send their uploaded photos along with
   Real Full Name,
   Active email address
   Contact number
   Metadata (required only for professional category)

For submission, contestant must email their photograph with all the mentioned details.

All entrants must accept to the terms and conditions of the competition.


Winners:
There will be 3 winners from this competition:
One from the A category selected and judged by the judges.
One from the B category selected and judged by the judges.
One from the most likes/votes from the viewers. (ONLY one from both category)

अपवाद not really an exception

The previously released Nepali movie 'अपवाद' (Apabaad) has touched the hearts of many nepalese, many of them rating the movie, 10/10. But very few knows that the story of the movie is completely based on the 2000 hollywood flick 'Cast Away' starring Tom Hanks. Critics like to say that the makes of Apabaad have copied from hollywood, which could be true, but they should agree when said that, despite the story having been adapted from the hollywood, the movie has been beautifully made and the acts, Screenplay and the music, which are all originally (hopefully lol), perfectly blends with the story. This is a very positive development in Nepali Cinema and so the criticism, which is legimate, should be ignored for better. We should never forget that Rome was not built in a day. ;-) [[Image Source: http://www.http://xnepali.net]]

Federalism

I doubt, 80% people in Nepal has not yet known the true power of democracy and they are already fighting over the issue of federalism... To those who thinks that federalism will divide the state, if that were the case, USA should have been divided into many small countries, India should have been divided. Many of the first world countries are now federal. Federalism helps to enhance the development of a nation by decentralizing the power and giving it in the hands of the locals and now my question here is, to the supporters of federalism, Are all the citizen well educated about the merits and demerits of federalism? more importantly, are our leaders worth the power? For federalism to be applied, we need to educate ourselves first, we need to understand what is right and what is wrong. Since 2007 B.S the citizens have many times shed their blood in the street for a better future, initially for democracy, then for referendum and recently for republic and now a new platform is being set for the demand of federalism. But what benefit has the people ever got after all their sacrifices? Yet, we don't stop ourselves from fighting for the selfish desires of the leaders. Well, the demands in itself are not selfish, it is for the people, for the country but those demands when fulfilled, are not being used as they were meant to be. People fought for democracy, they got it, but it gave more fruitful outcome only to the political leaders and their supporters, to the local/ordinary people, it made no difference.

Calling out for strike, will surely strike back on us

Protest doesn't have to be violent, Things can, sometimes be sorted out in silence.
Let me tell you a short story about the protest of the Japanese labors of a shoe factory against the management over their issues being neglected. the Japanese labors didn't stop the manufacture process, they didn't initiate any strike, they didn't shout any slogans but rather, until the management considered their issues and got it all sorted out, they only produced shoes for the left feet. And when their demands were fulfilled they started producing the other pair.
This didn't hamper the production yet they got what they needed.
In our country also, we are pissed off with many issues, load shedding, price hike, water scarcity as such. Calling for strike, burning tyre in the road, burning vehicle might give us justice, but is that also not a loss of ours. We are human, the source of innovation. Like the Japanese people, can we also not come up with a better idea of protest, which will not hamper us in anyways but still our voices would be heard. As there is a proverb in Nepali, "सर्प पनि मर्ने लट्ठी पनि नाभाचिने". Can we not work together to make a proper use of this proverb.