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The Aquaculture Sector in Nepal

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Nepal is a landlocked country located north of the Indian border, with no sea access and therefore it is heavily reliant on inland marine resources to meet and sustain the domestic demand for fish and fish-based products. A predominantly Hindu nation, more than 80% of Nepal’s population are Hindus, fish-based protein is an important source of nutrition and sustenance, given the lower intakes of red meat Hindu nations have when compared to other countries. Aquaculture in Nepal started in the 1940s, so it’s by no means a new industry, but progress has been slow, stalled or hampered, by a lack of R&D in the sector. Freshwater fish are normally cultivated in natural ponds and the most popular species to be bred in captivity are carps and carp variants, possibly because they are easier to cultivate in controlled environments when compared to other species of fish, and over the years, carp poly-culture in ponds has become the most viable type of aquaculture in Nepal and currently acc

Uttara Huddar - Sharada

The case of Uttara Huddar and her alternate personality Sharada presents us with a unique opportunity to study what might possibly be an actual case of an external alternate personality entering the body of another that resulted in dramatic changes to the actual person. Let us start by looking into the personalities of both Uttara Huddar and her alternate personality Sharada to give us some understanding of both personalities and to try and comprehend the cultural diversities that separated both personalities. Uttara Huddar was born on Friday, the 14th of March 1941 (Friday is a day that is synonymous to Sukracharya). Persons born on this day, theologically at least, have the faculty to see into the past, present and the future and have an affinity to the dead by virtue of Sukracharya’s ability to raise the dead) in Nagpur (a city in Maharashtra). Venus (Sukra) is the governing planet and persons born on this day have a closer affinity to the Goddess Durga than others. It is the

Gretchen Gottlieb

On May 10, 1970, a Methodist minister by the name of Caroll Jay conducted a hypnosis session with the objective of curing his wife’s, Delores’s, back pain. When Caroll started asking his wife questions under hypnosis, she did reply, as per the norm, but oddly enough she replied in a language that was foreign to her i.e. a language that she had no prior knowledge of, and her answers were all in German. This prompted Caroll to question his wife further and in so doing, he managed to establish the identity of the speaker. Her name was Gretchen Gottlieb and she was murdered when she was 16 years old by some men in a forest close to the town of Eberswalde, in the 1870’s, while she was waiting for her uncle. The information came to light after a series of sessions. Gretchen lived in particularly difficult times, during a period known as Kulturkampf – which was in reference to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the political powers that were trying to subject the church to