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CHIYA BISKUT by PRERANA PAKHRINPrerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184368049319650955noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380606218699415100.post-29844230508165809642018-01-26T18:47:00.002-05:002018-01-26T18:47:31.677-05:00Sitthi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank you for supporting me! Last week, I saw a surge in "likes" on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChiyaBiskut" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Chiya Biskut Facebook page</span></a>. This is mainly because people appreciated and shared this <a href="http://chiyabiskut.blogspot.com/2015/05/let-us-go-home.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Chiya Biskut cartoon</span></a> all over social media. Thanks once again!<br />
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Prerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184368049319650955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380606218699415100.post-66883567754807359982015-05-27T12:36:00.000-04:002015-05-27T12:45:27.348-04:00घर जान देऊ। Let us go home.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue;">'<a href="http://time.com/3646505/world-cup-qatar-nepalese-worker-dying-soccer-football/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A Nepalese World Cup Worker Dies Every Other Day in Qatar</span></a>'</span>- this was the grim headline of a <i>TIME </i>magazine article in December 2014. Yet it is not this article, or a plethora of similar articles from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=qatar%20nepal%20migrant%20workers&oq=qatar%20nepal%20migrant%20workers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.5800j0j9" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">various publications</span></a>, nor Amnesty International's report on the bleak status of ill-treated Nepali workers (<i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/16/qatar-world-cup-400-deaths-nepalese" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Guardian</span></a></i>), that elicited a response from the Nepali government.<br />
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For the first time, the Nepali government broke its silence and finally, spoke out when Nepali workers in Qatar were blocked by the country and FIFA to return home to attend funerals of those recently deceased due to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">devastating earthquakes</span></a> in Nepal. This is what Labor Minister, Tek Bahadur Gurung, said to <i>The Guardian</i>,<br />
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"After the earthquake of 25 April, we requested all companies in Qatar to give their Nepalese workers special leave and pay for their air fare home. While workers in some sectors of the economy have been given this, those on World Cup construction sites are not being allowed to leave because of the pressure to complete projects on time.</blockquote>
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Nothing will change for migrant workers until FIFA and its rich sponsors insist on it. … (but) we are a small, poor country and these powerful organizations are not interested in listening to us."</blockquote>
READ FULL<i> </i>ARTICLE by <i>The Guardian</i>: <span style="color: blue;">http://bit.ly/1dy1flr</span><br />
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Dear friends,<br />
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As you might have heard, my home country of Nepal is devastated, and so are we, her people. On April 25th, 2015, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">7.8 magnitude earthquake</span></a> left fear, grief and ruin in its wake. However, in spite of that adversity, or rather, because of it, we got to see a lot of fantastic people, in particular the Nepali youth in Nepal, who have picked themselves up, dust themselves off and got to work with relief efforts. The Nepali diaspora living abroad are also helping in various ways, digitally and through fundraising activities. We have hope.<br />
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A second earthquake of magnitude 7.3 hit Nepal on May 12th, 2015: more fear, more grief, more ruin. What hope the Nepali diaspora had painstakingly mustered up in the past 16 days since the first earthquake, crumbled instantly.<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-maps.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">As the death toll rose</span></a>,</span> and more homes fell, hope seemed like a hollow word. But we couldn't and didn't let it be that way. We reclaimed the word hope and made it ours once again. We still have hope.<br />
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<b>Thank you to all donors, aid-workers, volunteers, journalists - domestic and foreign - for everything you do for Nepal. </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/world/asia/where-to-donate-for-nepal.html?_r=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Here is a NYTimes list of where to donate.</span></a><br />
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<i>Jai Nepal </i><br />
"Long Live Nepal"<br />
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As a cartoonist, I research a lot of material including considering the implications and message my cartoons convey before I put it out there. I did the same when I say #JeSuisCharlie, because I am. I find cartoons by 'Charlie Hebdo' offensive - and that is just my personal opinion. However, I condemn and oppose the actions of a group of people/ terrorists, who decided it was okay, in fact, noble to take the lives of people who drew these cartoons. Je suis Charlie because people shouldn't die as a consequence of what they draw and opine on. Je suis Charlie because I fear that when people start killing people over materials they find offensive, they start dictating on behalf of everyone else what is offensive. I condemn the killings of the Jewish hostages from the supermarket, of the Muslim policeman and laud the brave Muslim man who helped many hostages. Je suis Charlie because terrorists are not Muslims. They only believe in terror.</div>
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May 17, 2014 marked the graduation of Dickinson College Class of 2014 and some of my favorite people in this world. One among those favorite people actually said in his speech, "It is in the nature of major milestones to be both, bitter and sweet." And indeed it is, those are truth in words ;)<br />
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<i>Avgi</i>, Greece</div>
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<i>Ziggy</i>, Nepal</div>
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<i>Dani</i>, Switzerland</div>
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<i>Nguyen</i>, Bulgaria</div>
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<i>Kia</i>, Argentina</div>
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It has been a while since my last illustration post, and even longer since my written post. Busy with schoolwork, I just did not have enough time or the inspiration. It saddens me that today, when I have found the motivation to draw something, it is based on national and perhaps even subcontinental tragedies. </div>
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I am talking about the recent highly publicized series of sexual assaults - rape - of women in Nepal and India. Of course these are just the ones that came into prominence: there are many more that are swept under the rug but are no less gruesome and hurtful. I cannot even begin to pretend what it must feel like for these women, especially under the context of an Indian-subcontinent culture, but I can empathize. It is certainly easy to say this or that from the comfort of a hypothetical situation but at the same time, it is important to have this conversation.</div>
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