Question & Answer (Q/A)

    1) What is abacus?
Ans: Abacus was the first mechanical computing device developed by the Chinese between 500 and 600 B.C.E.

Note: Abacus could perform simple calculations such as addition and subtraction by shifting the beads which is present in it from one side to another.

    2) What is cyber crime?

Ans: The crime related to computer system and cyberspace is called cyber crime. In other words, cyber crime is the criminal or illegal activities involving the information technology with the help of computers.

Note: This type of crime is prevalent in modern technological society and is becoming more high profile as a greater number of serious crimes. Cyber crime is growing fast because of the evolution of technology is fast, but the evolution of law is slow.

Festival : Teej

Teej is a festival mainly celebrated by Nepali women for the long life of her husband and long and firm relationship between them until the death this life and all the lives to come. Teej is observed for marital happiness, well-being of spouse and children and purification of own body and soul. Teej is the most famous festival among Nepali women where both married and unmarried women take fast for long life of their life partner.

It is celebrated on 3rd day of Bhadra Shukla Paksha according to Nepali lunar calendar. It generally falls in late August or early September. Teej is mainly celebrated for three days. The first day is known as Dar Khane Din. On this day all the family members especially the women, both married and unmarried gather at one place, in their finest outfits of red called Saubhagya. This evening the grand feast takes place. The grand feast is called “Dar”. The fun often goes on till midnight, after midnight the 24-hour fasting starts.

The second day is the main day of Teej (the fasting day). Some women take it very rigid, they even live without a piece of food and drops of water while some others take liquid and fruit. On this day, they happily dress in red, married women wear their lagan ko pote, natthi, other jewelries and chadke tilahari ( jewelries are optional but chadke tilahari, lagan ko pote and natthi is said to be most important) and visit a nearby Lord Shiva’s temple singing and dancing all the way.The most important part of the pooja is mostly done in the evening burning the oil lamp (108 sute batti in a diyo) which should be burning throughout the night. It is a tradition of giving the diyo of teej by her mother in law to the married woman. Women get up early in the dawn and get cleaned and do the pooja once again to the diyo and goddess Parvati. Only after this pooja, women take solid food. 

This third day of Teej is Ganesh Chaturthati. Women eat Karkalo with (puree) food made with pure ghee. The fourth day of the festival is known as Rishi Panchami. After the completion of the previous day's pooja, women pay homage to various deities and bathe with red mud found on the roots of the sacred Datiwan bush, along with its leaves. This act of purification is the final ritual of Teej, after which women are considered forgiven from all their sins. The recent years have witnessed an adjustment in the rituals, especially regarding the strictness, but its spirit remains the same. On this day, the seven sages of the Hindu pantheon are worshiped by women in a belief that it will cleanse all sins of the previous year. Womenfolk take a holy bath with red mud found on the roots of the sacred Datiwan bush, along with its leaves. After three hours of rigorous cleansing, they come out purified and absolved from all sins. After this they sit in a semicircle while a priest sitting in the middle chants devotional prayers.

Teej is a cultural festival in which women dance and sing songs at home, temples and nearby public places. It is a traditional festival where women also express their pains through the lyrics of the songs they sing while dancing.

MY FATHER

A father is someone everyday who has a day full of profound reflection and that is with regard to his children and family. He is the most important member of the family whose love for his children is just like oxygen for the survival of the lives. There’s nothing that big that he could not do for his family and there’s no such sacrifice that he will not do.

It is the quality possessed by my father too. My father's good name is Basanta Khadka. He is in late 30s. It's my father who encourages me to be best in my class. He is the reason that makes me understand what’s wrong and what’s right and stops me from acquiring the bad and unethical ways of life. My father is very honest, courageous, hard working, good natured and very friendly person. My father is disciplined and he does not like to quarrel with others. He completes his work in time and sticks to his schedule and is always punctual. He is always polite. He believes in the powers of words, and makes sure his words do not hurt anyone. 

My father wants me to be a good human being with high morals. He believes in simple living, high thinking. My father is an ideal and role model for me. I love my father. He the best father in the world. I want to make my father proud of me, so I'm trying my best to work hard and achieve my goal. I'm very grateful to him for giving me such a prosperous life.