A big joke on heritage of Kathmandu Valley

Do you wnat a big, crude and "pakhe" kind of joke on sacred Kathmandu Valley? You can't imagine? UNESCO Kathmandu Office is going to help you. To satisfy people like you, it has recently produced a #$%^ DVD, which cuts joke on the 2,000 years old history, art, architecture and demoralises the world-class civilisation the valley has catered since its holy origin.

The DVD deals wtih two half-baked animated characters - one opens a box, finds a book and tells the "tales" about the seven wonders - the seven monument zones of the Kthamndu Valley. It is as clear as the day, the makers have no knowledge of the topic which they were dealing with. They just thought that that they can do it because they wanted ... no becasue they won the project without competition - they have the cunningness and they thought they can do it. I will tell later you who they are.

The expensively made DVD tells nothing about the origin, size, history and significance of the sites. And you belive that the viewers will love the place they take you to. They do not know the exact location, names of the monuments and their histories. Why should the viewers take any ordinary stone in the backyard and the masterpiece idols in Hanumandhoka with same passion? The narrator should know the difference and have capacity to tell others. Truth bites, but you are insane if you think you know even something about the places, you wanted to earn money from. Even ordinary hippie tourists would be bored to watch the film. Don't ask me how heritage conservationists and local people from the sites would react.

Do you think the children would enjoy? I don't. Don't underestimate children of this century. They have better knowledge of the hiertage and monuments than you, who only eye on dollars the monuments can bring to you. Write anything and UNESCO will pay for you. The passion the local people have developed in thousands of years, regardless of the indifference of the political system cannot be viewed with the tourists' binoculars. Just imagine what the the local children who grow in the colours of the culture of the monuments are gonig to say about you? And I would love to take some words for the songs (pooh!). It was neither rhyme, nor beat nor chose words - why should you sing if you can't? Adding "Jeri Swarai Tarakari" would not make it local or child-firendly. Even my son will tell you - "Mukhan hanun jasto!".

Now, the "great" makers - they were none other than Pallav Ranjan, Param Limbu and Para Limbu, the newer versions of Rinchen Yonjan. You can understand the quality and content of the DVD, without watching them.

UNESCO has money. Blow it up. They know how to do it. But you don't have to ridicule the local art, artistic lifestyle and magnificant architecture. Don't invite the day when the locals will come to your office and pelt stone on window screens for causing damage to their heritage, which can sustain some more thousand years wiothout donation projects of UNESCO.

Sorry guys, you might be upset. I was just trying to be gentle to what you have done. Otherwise I know better words to react.