By bluerasberry on 2008-07-03
I attended Gay Pride in Seattle 2008 as a presenter in the non-profit section of the expo. I was representing Sanjeevani Booti as an American agent and I was trying to raise awareness and get social support for issues relating to HIV in India. I talked about Benares. I told people that it was the […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, India, Nepal, non-profit, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged expo, heroin, Seattle Gay Pride, volunteer, war, women's rights, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-07
Today in the main Darbur Square the Young Communist League had a rally. There were a lot of people here. I do not know much about the political situation here now, but for those who do not know anything, the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist took over the government and defenestrated the king during a […]
Posted in museum, Nepal, religion | Tagged communism, mouse, rally
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-06
At Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle there is this type of minature deer called a pudu. I watched a pudu baby grow up there and I like the animal a lot. I read in the paper about the baby having been born and that is when I went to the zoo for the first time […]
Posted in animal, Nepal, religion | Tagged Buddhism, delerium, pudu, tiger, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-03
The drive from Varanasi to Kathmandu by bus was pleasurable. I caught a night bus to Gorakpur at the bus station in Cant in Varanasi. I arrived in Gorakpur before sunlight, and had no trouble finding a connecting bus to Sunali. I arrived in Sunali in the morning, got stamped out of India and into […]
Posted in Nepal | Tagged buffalo, food, Kathmandu, palace
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-04
Nepalese Embassy, London, originally uploaded by bluerasberry. I leave for Delhi tonight. My visas have been in order for some weeks now. The Indian Embassy was packed – it is at Aldwych near Trafalgar. They allow 1500 transactions per working day, and a lot of people get turned away. My visa will not cover the […]
Posted in England, Nepal | Tagged censorship