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Deepika Padukon's Choice

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Recently, Deepika Padukon's video about women's choice was released. It came as another instalment to Vogue empowerment series. #Going_Home starring Alia Bhatt and #Start_with_Boys starring Madhuri Dixit. Both the videos were nice. Going Home made me feel ashamed of being a male and Start wit Boys made me feel that even I had been through such situations where I was discouraged to stop my tears. I liked them and so did many other people. Going Home got more than 5 million views and Start with Boys got more than one million views. There were dislikes in the video and some contrasting opinion but was such opinion were not so popular in social media. When the third installment "My Choice" came, it went viral in social media and was seen more than 3 million times within two days. I first came across praises from everyone. And today when I woke up, there were posts saying why Deepika or the video was wrong. I thought to collect all those opinions and present it to ...

The Heart Breaker

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Wind-chime. My father calls it 'Pawan Ghanti'. People believe that couples shouldn't gift this to each other. They separate if they do. People, they simply make stories out of nothing.

तेजाब आक्रमण र हाम्रो कर्तव्य

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तस्वीर श्राेतः इन्टर्नेट अहिले संचार माध्यमहरुमा तेजाब आक्रमणमा परेकी दुई किशोरीहरु सम्बन्धी समाचारले प्राथमिकता पाएको छ । तेजाव आक्रमणमा परेकी संगिता पुलामी मगर र सीमा बस्नेत दुबै स्वास्थ्य लाभको प्रतिक्षामा अस्पतालमा छन् । एसएलसी परीक्षाका लागी तयारी कक्षामा पढ्दै गर्दा भएको उनीहरुमाथिको आक्रमणले उनीहरुको भविष्यनै अन्योलमा पारिदिएको छ । फलामे ढोका भनेर चिनिने एसएलसी परीक्षा आउन केहि हप्ताको समय बाँकि रहेको अवस्थामा उनीहरुमाथि भएको यस्तो आक्रमणले उनीहरुलाई परीक्षामा सामेल हुन पनि गाह्रो हुने अवस्था देखिएको छ । राजधानीमा घटेको यो घटनाले महिला हिंसाको नयाँ रुप देशमा भित्रिएको संकेत गरेको छ । तेजाव आक्रमणका घटना भारत र बांलादेश जस्ता छिमेकी मुलुकहरुमा हुने गरेको भएतापनि नेपालमा भने यस प्रकृतिको यो पहिलो घटना हो । ‘जव पुरुषहरुलाई सानै देखि यो भनिन्छ कि नारीहरु उनीहरुभन्दा कमसलहुन, नारीहरुलाई दबाएर राखिनु पर्छ, उनीहरु भोगका लागी बनेका हुन, तब कसरी नारी–पुरुषको बीचको सम्बन्ध सुमधुर बन्न सक्छ ? यही सोचका कारण हामी हाम्रो समाजमा महिला विरुधका घीनलाग्दा अपराधहरु देख्न पुग्दछौँ ।’ यी कुर...