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[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Demonstrations in Pashupati against the government </b>

A day after the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PDAT) announced ban of any assemblies, protests or rallies in and around the shrine, locals begun demonstrations from early morning Tuesday.

The Bhandaris of the shrine have also extended support to the protests, which interrupted the regular transport service in Gaushala area. The Bhandaris and their followers stopped the vehicles at the Jaya Bageshori.

They are sloganeering against Prime Minister saying he must respect the verdict of the Supreme Court and stop all forms of interference in religious affairs.

PM on Monday said the government will accept the SC verdict regarding the appointment of Bhattas in Pashupati.

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2009/ja...news04.php<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src='http://www.nepalnews.com/today/frontpic/2009/jan/jan_06_09_Pashupati_protest1_b.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Students and locals of Chabahil and Gaushala areas staging protest against the appointment of new priests at Pashupatinath temple on Tuesday

[Bodhi]

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090106/i/r3985268931.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Placard says: Save Dharma, Sanskriti, Parampara

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090106/i/r2670268486.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20090106/capt.cps.ory12.060109070556.photo00.photo.default-512x337.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Reminds of Amarnath?

[Bodhi]

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20090102/capt.cps.ora09.020109055417.photo01.photo.default-381x512.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
woman feeds a calf near pashupati shrine.

nandi invoked...!

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090105/i/r3889220225.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090105/i/r888777287.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

[Bodhi]

scenes at the outskirts of the shrine

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20090102/capt.cps.ora08.020109054552.photo00.photo.default-512x368.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090106/i/r3543960089.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Riot police deployed in temples of border towns in India.
<img src='http://l.yimg.com/ki/epaper/jagran/20090106/09/GKP05cnt10-1_1231215457_m.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

[Bodhi]

looks like maoists have not learnt lessons of what happens when one messes with trilochana and his gaNa-s.

- arrest of kanchi shankaracharya --> jayalalitha routed
- arrest of the junior gorakhnath --> mulayam routed
- amarnath adventure --> kashmir ki kali routed

now it is turn of maoists for messing with pashupati, and dravidists for messing with rameshwara (and reddy for messing with venkatadri)

[Bodhi]

<img src='http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/17/images/2006061724260101.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44645000/jpg/_44645079_zardari.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Why do these folks look so much alike? Any theories please...

[Bodhi]

More:

<img src='http://sundaytimes.lk/080817/images/Prachanda.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://newsx.com/files/images/zardari.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Man!

[Bodhi]

<img src='http://monkeysmashesheaven.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/prachanda-pushpa-kamal-dahal-1-5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://www.voanews.com/english/images/ap_Asif_Ali_Zardari_pakistan_175_eng14may08.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why do these folks look so much alike? Any theories please... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
same parents. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Pandyan]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jan 7 2009, 03:00 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jan 7 2009, 03:00 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why do these folks look so much alike? Any theories please... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
same parents. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[right][snapback]92774[/snapback][/right]
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More like same pimp.

Bodhiji, good photos. If you have source, please link, I'll try to make youtube videos.

[Husky]

Eewww, Bodhi, why did you do that to us? The same deeply ugly guy plastered all over the place over and over and over again.

<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+Jan 7 2009, 04:07 PM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ Jan 7 2009, 04:07 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jan 7 2009, 03:00 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mudy @ Jan 7 2009, 03:00 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why do these folks look so much alike? <b>Any theories please...</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
same parents. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[right][snapback]92774[/snapback][/right]
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More like same pimp.

Bodhiji, good photos. If you have source, please link, I'll try to make youtube videos.
[right][snapback]92776[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very convincing arguments.
Still, my theory <i>also</i> explains the clones:
All sheep/zombies look alike. Once someone converts into the christoislamicommunitwit cult (Prachanda=christo+communist, Zardari=islami), they also end up looking bland and insipid and the same as all the other drones.

Monoculture (terrorism), monotheism, monologuing, monoface. I'm sure there's a pattern to all this....

Pandyan:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If you have source, please link, I'll try to make youtube videos.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The links can be obtained from rightclicking on the images and choosing "Copy Shortcut" or "Copy Image Location" or something similar offered by your browser.

Hmmm, a video of the face of the Prachanda-Zardari (christoislami).... Promises <i>mono</i>tony.
Nah, just kidding Pandyan, a youtube video exposing the clones will be very welcome. After all, even the pictures above are amusing in a morbid way.

[Husky]

Actually, the above example of striking likeness - christoislami twins separated at birth - reminded me of this:
Monkey Bush (evidence for reverse evolution?)
(Sorry for the chimps...)

[Bodhi]

pANDyan - just search for 'prachanda' and 'zardari' on images . google . com

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/01/tho...nda-wanted.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>those that the christist prachanda wanted to replace: the humble bhattas of udupi</b>
jan 9th, 2009

kolloor mookambika is one of the loveliest temples in india. near udupi, next to the sauparnika river and the kudajadri mountains, in the foothills of the western ghats, it is quiet, peaceful and a place of obvious sanctity. adi sankara is reputed to have consecrated the temple, and the devi temple there has a strong connection with the devi temple in chottanikkara near cochin and the devi temple at chettikulangara near mavelikara.

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090105/jsp/...ry_10344209.jsp

<b>Kathmandu ripples in Karnataka</b>
CITHARA PAUL

Newly appointed Pashupatinath priests Bishnu Prasad Dahal (right) and
Saligram Dhakal at the temple on January 1. (AFP)
New Delhi, Jan. 4: The Pashupatinath priest row in faraway Nepal has a
Brahmin community from Karnataka's Udupi region worried.

The Bhattas, who reside in the Karnataka-Kerala border area of Udupi,
have served as priests in the Pashupatinath temple for nearly 300
years.

Three days ago, the Maoist government's police stormed the Shiva
shrine in Kathmandu and replaced the Indian chief priest,
Mahabaleshwar Shastri, with a Nepalese national.
("Nepalese national?" No Hindu would have allowed this to happen, let alone usurp the place of a rightful Temple priest.
Maoists of Nepal are christoterrorists, and anyone in on their plot is either a christoterrorist maoist or is in their pay - same thing.)

"The Bhattas have been performing puja in the Pashupati temple since
time immemorial. My humble request to the Nepal government is that
they should not mix up politics and God. Please do not break an
age-old tradition," said Narasimha Adiga, a Bhatta community leader
who is the chief priest of the Kolloor Mookambika temple in Karnataka.

Nationality should not be a criterion while appointing priests, Adiga
said. They should be assigned the duty after assessing whether they
have the required knowledge to conduct the ritualistic worship.

There are several stories on how the Bhattas came to be the priests in
the Pashupatinath temple.

One account connects the community with the Shankaracharya in the
sixth century. The Shankaracharya had gone to Pashupatinath on a
pilgrimage and found the temple had no priests. He sent for Brahmins
from the southern India community to look after the temple. The story
goes that the Shankaracharya himself served as a priest for a while
there.

Another version says the Indian priests were appointed by a Nepal king
in the 17th century to make sure that Pashupatinath was worshipped
even during the period of official mourning after a monarch's death.

According to Nepali custom, all religious services had to stop for a
year after a king's death. As Pashupatinath was to be worshipped every
day, Indian priests were deputed.

Another version says Indian priests were considered to have superior
knowledge of the scriptures.

According to community leader Parameswara Adiga, the Bhattas who went
to Nepal still maintain close links with those in India. "For every
major event in the community, they would come. The Bhattas who have
gone to Nepal always come back for marriages. Recently, there was one
such marriage," Parameswara Adiga said.

He says the Bhattas who have gone to Nepal as priests always come back
to their native village once their stint is over.

One of the best known among the Bhatta priests in Nepal was Raval
Padmanabha Shastri Adiga, who served the Pashupatinath temple from
1955 till his retirement in 1993.

<b>Appointed chief priest in 1967, he started the practice of using
temple funds for local development.</b>

Posted by nizhal yoddha at 1/09/2009 03:19:00 AM 0 comments<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

<b>Rally as Indian priests return to Pashupatinath</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KATHMANDU: Hundreds of people cried and sang in jubilation on Thursday as Hindu devotees began a victory march to celebrate the return of Indian  priests to Nepal's 17th century Pashupatinath temple and the pledge by the humbled Maoist government not to interfere in its management.

"It is a victory for Hindus worldwide," said Bharat Jangam, a social activist and regular visitor to the temple, who was among the three groups that had asked Nepal's Supreme Court to intervene after the Indian priests appointed at the shrine nearly a decade ago were replaced by Nepali priests under the new Maoist government.

After nearly two weeks, the shrine, regarded as one of the eight holiest Hindu pilgrimage destinations, Thursday returned to its nearly three-century-old routine with the main Indian priest, Mahabaleshwar Bairy, resuming the daily worship.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I can bet, they will kill him.

[Husky]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jan 10 2009, 12:41 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jan 10 2009, 12:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Rally as Indian priests return to Pashupatinath</b><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KATHMANDU: Hundreds of people cried and sang in jubilation on Thursday as Hindu devotees began a victory march to celebrate the return of Indian  priests to Nepal's 17th century Pashupatinath temple and the pledge by the humbled Maoist government not to interfere in its management. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]92880[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Jai <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jan 10 2009, 12:41 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jan 10 2009, 12:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I can bet, they will kill him.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Am hopeful that our Pashupati will sever the christomaoists' heads with his Trishul before they can try it.

[Guest]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sunday_...how/3961836.cms

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>In the name of God, Nepal tries to rewrite history</b>

KATHMANDU: Ashes from the burning pyres fall into the stagnant green drain, clogged with burnt wood, dead flowers and polythene bags. Mangy dogs snarl at hungry monkeys harassing the devotees. Slender hill women try to sell cheap silver bracelets to backpackers busy clicking a body at the royal ghat. Small groups of people jostle against each other at the gate, waiting for the main door to open as security guards keep watch. Inside the compound, the temple’s huge courtyards wear a deserted look. The priests have vanished. No prayers are being performed.

This was the scene for five consecutive days this week at the abode of Lord Pashupatinath — the deity believed to protect Nepal — on the banks of the Bagmati, which is like an apology for a river.<b> The Pashupatinath temple is one of the four shrines every Shiva devotee is expected to visit at least once in his life. Now, it is the centre of a row that may give a new twist to already complex Indo-Nepal relations.</b> At the heart of the controversy are five priests from Karnataka, who were given their marching orders by the shrine authorities. They were replaced earlier in the week by two Nepali priests and only restored to office by PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the end of seven days of hue and cry.

The Indian priests may be back at the shrine for the moment, but almost everyone agrees that their days are over. They don’t fit into Nepal’s changing scenario, where <b>nationalism is on the rise</b> and Big Brother India disliked, if not despised. This week, as the temple bhandaris, who provide logistical support to the priests, came under attack from members of the Youth Communist League, the mood in front of the main gate was clearly anti-Indian. Young Nepalese men asked loudly, “what the hell are Indian priests doing at a Nepali temple?” Gopal, a bhandari, says, “The bhandaris, who are mostly Nepali, are not allowed even to touch the deity. Only the Indian priests can do that”.

It is a 350-year-old tradition that Indian priests manage Nepal’s holiest shrine. Though Gopal doesn’t support the way Nepali priests were imposed on the temple, he says he understands and backs the sentiment behind it.

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Rest at the link.

[Guest]

http://www.ptinews.com/pti\ptisite.ns...BA?OpenDocument

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->All Nepali citizens should be given the right to carry arms for protecting themselves from "colonial powers", a controversial Maoist Minister said.
<b>Gopal Kiranti</b> did not elaborate on the "colonial powers", but the statement comes a day after media quoted a yet-to-be released Maoist political document as saying that "American colonialism is moving ahead through Indian expansionism with the intention of increasing its hegemony in South Asia." "As human rights cannot be guaranteed in the absence of a gun, each and every Nepali citizen should be entitled to carry arms," the Maoist Culture Minister told a gathering of pro-Maoist journalists in Banke district in western Nepal.

"The 20 million Nepalese, except the minors and elderly, should be allowed to carry weapons... If we don't carry weapons, the colonial powers will swallow us," he was quoted as saying by the 'Nepal Samacharpatra' daily.

<b>Kiranti, the main man behind the controversial sacking of Indian priests and appointment of local priests in Pashupatinath, said the move was scrapped not as a result of "Indian interference", but due to lack of proper procedures.</b>

He insisted that new Nepali priests will be appointed by fulfilling all the formalities. PTI<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Husky]

^ Rajesh_g's posts above very important.


<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Jan 12 2009, 03:27 AM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Jan 12 2009, 03:27 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sunday_...how/3961836.cms

<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>In the name of God, Nepal tries to rewrite history</b>

[...]
The Indian priests may be back at the shrine for the moment, but almost everyone agrees that their days are over. They don’t fit into Nepal’s changing scenario, where <b>nationalism is on the rise</b> and Big Brother India disliked, if not despised. This week, as the temple bhandaris, who provide logistical support to the priests, came under attack from members of the Youth Communist League, the mood in front of the main gate was clearly anti-Indian. Young Nepalese men asked loudly, “what the hell are Indian priests doing at a Nepali temple?” Gopal, a bhandari, says, “The bhandaris, who are mostly Nepali, are not allowed even to touch the deity. Only the Indian priests can do that”.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Rest at the link.[right][snapback]92978[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->"Nepali Nationalism" is a christian cloak, same as "Tamizh" LTTE in Sri Lanka, or "Tamizh" DMK in TN. Eventually all start revealing themselves: to be anti-Hindu movements; to be - 'surprisingly' - christianising movements.
Christoterrorism always uses a secular cloak to first sow dissent and then to reap a harvest of sheep.
Hindus need to recognise christianism in all its aspects.


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Rajesh_g said it better:
<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Jan 5 2009, 03:15 AM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Jan 5 2009, 03:15 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->This is a classic politico-religious move. Now being a Hindu in Nepal is anti-national. South Korea's christianization process followed similar trends. Geopolitical and violent upheavals always accompany missionary activities.[right][snapback]92676[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

Woman scribe hacked to death in southern Nepal
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In the past, Singh had been forced to leave Siraha district in the plains due to the Maoist insurgency and relocated in Dhanusha.
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Nepal radio journalist murdered
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Uma Singh, a radio journalist in her 20s, was hacked to death by between 12 and 20 men in her room in the southern city of Janakpur.
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