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A letter of complain to Google Maps from Nimish:

If you search “birthplace of Buddha” you can see the map pointer is inside the area of Nepal but the location description is defined “Uttar Pradesh, India”. Well everyone is aware of the fact that Buddha was born in Kapilvastu, Lumbini in Nepal and even the pointer is pointed correctly in Lumbini area but how can the description be possibly written “Uttar Pradesh, India”? This has certainly drawn lots of attention, because it is delivering very wrong information to all the viewers of Google maps. Not to mention, this topic is very much emotionally related to all people who know the fact and of course Nepalese.

You may need to make minor effort for fixing this but, until its fixed, it will be major issue when it comes across people who are emotionally attached to it.

So, we would like to give you our very sincere suggestion to change the information accordingly. Also, we would like to encourage the team to find out other possible erroneous information.

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You can make a complaint to the Google Maps Support Team.

Another one from Boston.com, actually a lot of them this time around. Have a look at the gallery below:

Src: Bigpicture – Boston.com

There is no calendar on my wall. The only calendar I have is in the cloud, Google Calendar. It is also synced with my Outlook in my desktop. Every event that I need to attend to, every reoccurring things I do monthly/yearly, every bills I have to pay, every meeting I have to attend, Google reminds me. It has been a real convenience.

I don’t have a patro (पात्रो) or that matter even a bhitte-patro (भित्तेपात्रो). Forget it – I don’t have a regular calendar hung up in my wall. And for that I, if now always then most of the times, forget the festivities in Nepal. I don’t know when Indrajatra (इन्द्रजात्रा) is. When is yomari punhi (योमरी पुन्हिः)? I wouldn’t know when Nepal is celebrating Holi (होली), I even forget Nepalese new year. Yes, I read. I read about them, in the news, about a day later. In this regard I feel I am not in the loop, I don’t know what is going on in Nepal, until I read the news a day later, I’d care less about the politics in Nepal, but I miss festivals the most. Not just Tihar (तिहार) and Dashain (दशैं), but all of them. I know I can’t and and wouldn’t celebrate them here and now, but I’d like to know that it is happening, and my family back home is celebrating.

Then I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice and convenient, if there was something that would send me a notification, a tweet or SMS for everyday there is an event, a festival in Nepal?” As far as I know there is nothing like. So with my unemployment, my free time I created a twitter account, that will tweet everyday provided there is an event/festival (I am familiar with).

So, if you are subscribed to or following @AmINepali, you will be informed via a tweet, and if you have activated your phone on twitter like I have, then you will even be reminded via SMS.

Follow @AmINepali on twitter and get informed about the Festival’s of Nepal.

I have loved Boston.com’s The Big picture. Today I found Gopal Chitrakar’s picture and would like to share.

Dancers dressed as Kumari, The Living Goddess, perform a traditional dance in Kathmandu, Nepal in this June 13, 2009 picture. A group of boys and girls from Vajra Kala Kunja dance troupe performed in public to showcase their learning of fast-disappearing Nepali traditional dance. (REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar)

More of dance around the world can be found at The Big Picture.

UPDATE: 02/13/2010 – Dance around the world II

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