Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Megh Ale's tuppi

Mega-investments, billions of dollars, the construction of a Guggenheim museum and a dependance of the Louvre. It's all happening in Abu Dhabi. I was there on a short visit for the first GIBTM fair (Gulf Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition). People told me that this city will be unrecognizable by 2011. Isn't it surprising then, after all these explosions of numbers to see someone with a tuppi on his head? I got intrigued by the little pony tail that Megh Ale has in the middle of his bald shaven head. It looks like a pigtail and it's called a tuppi in Nepal, he told me with a mischievous smile. In Buddhism it serves as an aid to perform a spiritual act every morning after waking up. You have to tie a knot in the lock of hair by which you create a moment of reflection that stimulates you to do something good during the day. Be yourself and continue. Whoever looks up the name Megh Ale in Google will notice that there is more to Megh than just his mini-pigtail. In Nepal, he devotes himself to the conservation of the most beautiful piece of nature on the planet, especially to the Nepal River Conservation Trust. He's also the founder and president of The Borderlands Eco Adventure Resort. And in the political department Nepal is doing better and better, he told me, because Nepal has been down in the dumps! http://www.borderlandresorts.com/

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