London to Freetown

 Love and Marriage:  This is going to require some serious time.  A complex subject for a non love and marriage expert to tackle anyway, let alone in Nepal where the theme becomes even more complex to a novice and foreign novice of the subject.  But here goes.

 The Himalyan Times, a popular daily newspaper, provides a few introductory clues to the subject in the personal adds section entitled, ‘The Rite Walk, Wishing you an Everlasting Relationship’.   Accompanied with the informative by line, ‘ By ourselves we can enjoy life, but to really appreciate life we must find companionship’.  Great info for a, ‘by  ourselves person’.  Better take a look at the ads.   First off the ads are broken down by ethnic group, entries appear under, ‘  brahim, chhetri, newar, limbu, rai, chaudhari, Marwari, thakuri- I am not going to have much luck here.  Where is the white foreign English girl column?   Ok ok there is an , ‘others ‘column’ I must fall into the others grouping.  Which reminds me what’s going on in lost- who are the others?    The others column is not looking good for me, most entries mirror this one,

‘ a hindu citizen, 32 years of age, currently working in Nepal looks for a good looking  nepali girl from any caste or community from a reputed family.’ 

No caste bar but coming from a reputed nepali family may be problematic.

The rest of the columns tend to be caste specific,

‘ 34, handsome, elegant and divorced gentleman looking for an educated, open minded practical girl from the Brahmin community’

’28 years old boy seeks a good looking newar girl.  She must be the only daughter and belong to a rich family’

I am going to remain a novice of ‘love and marriage’.

 and if you are wondering there is nolink between the cows and the title today- just couldn’t upload the right picture.  But look at the happy cow family- sweet