I was struggling to keep my eyes open when a phone call awakened me. It was from my African friend who wanted to know about "kumari" the living goddess. Surprised by her curiosity I asked the reason and she directed me to yahoo. Yahoo had featured the story of kumari that day and of course everyone here in US was surprised to know that there is a living goddess. However after knowing the details starting from selection process till the day she is finally returned there were just more questions coming up. What is considered culture in Nepal is considered violation of child rights in US.  My friend asked me if I supported the culture and to be honest I didn't know if I did or not.  I moved away saying since "I don't know what exactly happens in kumari ghar hence I am not the right person to comment". However the question still bothered me.  Is it really violation of child rights? How can a girl who was raised as a goddess suddenly live a mortal life? Are these girls facing psychological problems? Do they have same development as other kids who go to school and socialize? Or are they real goddesses who achieve everything just by performing the rituals??

My questions remain with me

I was browsing through the blogs of meromate .com and couldn't stop myself from scrapping a few words. I am not a regular blogger so I may not be correct on everything I write. As for my knowledge stretches blogs can either be a personal web diary or a corporate blog used for business or the more common genre blog which gives information on some particular subject. Meromate.com blogs I think falls into the last category. With due respect to all the bloggers I feel most of the blogs here are copies of articles from other sites which people cut and paste. I would personally like to read blogs that has a real origin in the minds of the bloggers. Once again with no offense to anybody, I think copying and pasting doesn't constitute blogging and I would request everyone to reflect themselves through the blogs. After all I think that's how blogging should be.