Comments on: Bait and switch

By: Cosmic Cow

Cosmic Cow — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:23:52 +0000

I’m the other Nepali (nice handle momoking), I read the story last month, after digging a bit, sounds like it was the outsourcing by Royal Nepal Airlines to an Indian company to make the Ad. poster who mistook Machu Pinchhu for Machhapuchhre (Fish Tail Mountain). BTW, Abhi, time permitting, I would advise you to spend less time in Ktm and more around Pokhara (where Machapucchre is) and other places like Mustang, Namche Bajar and Khumbu….happy travel.

By: santosh

santosh — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:49:32 +0000

i think the NAC (Nepal Airlines Corp) apologized to the Peruvian govt for this mishap.. here is the link to this story http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=126941&version=1&template_id=44&parent_id=24

http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/01/nepal_tourism_a.html

peace

By: fob-come-lately

fob-come-lately — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:47:21 +0000

This sort of thing boils down to the devil-may-care attitude which has become very prominent in the sub-continent now. Factual accuracy can go down the drain – we need to get the idea out..I don’t remember the site now, but I remember visiting a page of some Kolkata tourist agency where they had a silhouette photograph of the Golden Gate with the caption – Vidyasagar Setu : Kolkata’s pride.

By: razib

razib — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:41:10 +0000

first thought when i loaded my browser and so the pic: wutz the brown angle on machu piccu?

By: Asha's Dad

Asha's Dad — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:52:20 +0000

Maybe Kavvya is doing the advertisement work for Royal Nepal Airlines and Peru somehow unconsciously was on her brain at the time?

Do you have any change? All I have in my pocket are these Nepalese coins. Did you say Nepal? Yea, I never should have bought the place (walks back to car while Mary follows. Door opens and out fall architectural drawings).

Incidentally when the wife and I went to the DFW Hindu temple after our wedding, I was asked if I was from Nepal, since I was and still am quite pale with blue eyes. (Note: I'm from Dallas via way of Austin and Harrisburg)

By: floridian

floridian — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:34:01 +0000

The other day a friend of mine who has a few daycares in Hyderabad sent me his web link. I noticed all the children shown on his web pages were white! And all were American stock photos. Something similar might have happened with the Royal Nepal Airlines ad. They just grabbed a Western stock photo that they thought would be representative of the mountainous terrain of Nepal. As advanced as Indian (South Asian) advertising has become in the last ten years, they have not compiled a significant, indigenous photo library that would be hi-res for print use and still royalty-free or relatively free.

By: Sourav

Sourav — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:50:35 +0000

Hey, I've been reading for a while but never commented before. Is it possible the person who made the poster was thinking of Macchapucchre in the Annapurnas? I always got the names confused when I was there. http://www.earlham.edu/~pinema/pics/Machapuchre.jpg

Highly likely. In fact, on a second thought, that probably is the case. The person in charge reeks of ignorance. Its quite weird for a country like Nepal to "steal" when it has enough of its own.

By: MoMoKing

MoMoKing — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:26:43 +0000

My grandfather crowned the former king of Nepal. Kid you not.

By: red-headed girl

red-headed girl — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:23:21 +0000

It could be a very clever Where’s Waldo device. Are you sure there isn’t a tiny image of Nepal in there somewhere?

By: Prasad

Prasad — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:20:01 +0000

Funny, you guys mention Nepal and Dakota in the same post.

The only Nepali American I met here was in Rapid City, SD! Some Bhattacharjee and he used to claim to be close to the king