FACTS, FIGURES AND INFORMATION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

• Indigenous people population 37.2 percent of total national population. 
• Only 14 percent Indigenous people are in the civil service.
• 216 Indigenous CA members in the Constitution Assembly.
• Majority of 13,000 people killed during 10 years of Maoist Movement are indigenous people. 
• 65 percent of ancestral land of indigenous people are occupied by national park and conservation and forced majority of indigenous people to migrate else where. 
• Majority of Nepalese migrated abroad are indigenous youths.
• Majority of soldiers serving in India, UK and other countries are indigenous people.
• Majority girls sold for the prostitution are indigenous.
• Majority of school drop out are indigenous students
• Majority of prisoners are indigenous people. 
• Many indigenous sale their kidney and blood to buy foods for the family.  
• The word “Indigenous/Aadivasi” is not mentioned in any of the text books, in the past 5 constitution of Nepal, history books and museum in Nepal. 
• There are public holidays in the name of dog, cow and crow but  there are no public holidays for many indigenous festivals. 
• Many Indigenous people eating the beef meat are jailed for 10 years alleged of killing cow and ox because cow is national animal of Nepal. But Bahun and Chhetri owner of restaurants freely sale beef steak and no legal action is taken against them.
• Police and army celebrate Hindu festivals such as Dasai, Tiahar, Basanta Panchami spending million of rupees from national revenue.
• Buddhist indigenous soldiers are forced to worship Hindu religion in police and army barracks.
• Spends over 200 millions rupees to preserve dead sanskrit language. No sufficient but budget to print indigenous language text books and hire teachers to teach indigenous language.
• Bhote Indigenous people of Bajura District including many indigenous in the far west of Nepal are forced  to take citizenship with Brahman and Chhetri identity.
• Raaji, Kusunda and Tharu are still working as slavery and bounded labors. No change in the living standard.

What's Real Love ? : Some childrens' view

This list is found in hundreds of locations in the Internet. There is no way to know whether it is a real collection of children's sayings or a hoax. But, ultimately, it doesn't really matter.

Children aged 4 to 8 were asked "What does 'love' mean. These are allegedly some selected responses.

Rebecca- age 8: "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

Billy - age 4: "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

Karl - age 5: "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

Chrissie - age 6: "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."

Terri - age 4: "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

Danny - age 7: "Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."

Emily - age 8: "'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mummy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."

The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World

Pos	Language	Family	Script(s) Used	Speakers (Millions)	Where Spoken (Major)
1	Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	1151	China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2	English	Indo-European	Latin	1000	USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
3	Spanish	Indo-European	Latin	500	Mexico, Central and South America, Spain
4	Hindi	Indo-European	Devanagari	490	North and Central India
5	Russian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	277	Russia, Central Asia
6	Arabic	Afro-Asiatic	Arabic	255	Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
7	Portuguese	Indo-European	Latin	240	Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8	Bengali	Indo-European	Bengali	215	Bangladesh, Eastern India
9	French	Indo-European	Latin	200	France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
10	Malay, Indonesian	Malayo-Polynesian	Latin	175	Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
11	German	Indo-European	Latin	166	Germany, Austria, Central Europe
12	Japanese	Altaic	Chinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets	132	Japan
13	Farsi (Persian)	Indo-European	Nastaliq	110	Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia
14	Urdu	Indo-European	Nastaliq	104	Pakistan, India
15	Punjabi	Indo-European	Gurumukhi	103	Pakistan, India
16	Wu	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	90	China
17	Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	Based on Latin	86	Vietnam, China
18	Javanese	Malayo-Polynesian	Javanese	85	Indonesia
19	Tamil	Dravidian	Tamil	78	Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
20	Korean	Altaic	Hangul	78	Korean Peninsula
21	Turkish	Altaic	Latin	75	Turkey, Central Asia
22	Telugu	Dravidian	Telugu	74	Southern India
23	Marathi	Indo-European	Devanagari	72	Western India
24	Italian	Indo-European	Latin	62	Italy, Central Europe
25	Thai	Sino-Tibetan	Thai	60	Thailand, Laos
26	Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	Burmese	56	Myanmar
27	Cantonese	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	55	Southern China
28	Kannada	Dravidian	Kannada	47	Southern India
29	Gujarati	Indo-European	Gujarati	46	Western India, Kenya
30	Polish	Indo-European	Latin	46	Poland, Central Europe