Nepali Label in American Coke
Coca cola was one of the sponsor for Beijing Olympics 2008 and to mark the event, Coca Cola – USA had launched bottles with labels in different languages that people from different participating countries speak. The bottle label also had the participating country’s name in English so that one could figure what country the bottle represented.
I first observed the labels when I was drinking a can of coke with the label in Russian and later came across cans with Thai labels. I was wondering if bottles with Nepali label were also released and then finally came across one.
I was in Texas the previous week and that is where I got this opportunity to drink coke bottled in America but with Nepali label on it. The coke tasted much better! Nonsense it may sound to some, but it had the same “aafnopan” that Tara Nath Sharma tried to describe when he said he liked Nepali snow better than the ones he had played with in a foreign country.
If I was from China, the bottle would not mean a lot to me as almost all products have ‘Made in China’ labels on them. Seeing products with Devanagari script and Nepal together is of course a pleasing experience. Moreover, as Nepal did not win any medals in 2008 Olympics, the coke bottle is apparently the only thing I am left with to blog about this particular Olympics.
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ya, it is a stubborn world. One proof is no proof. We just need to renew the validity of our potential, let me put it in this way, but it is not acceptable at all to hear that we have no potential. My point was that the rest of the population should not be there to celebrate the Olympic score only, they should extend equal concern and support in the making of it. It takes an era to make remarkable men and to do remarkable things. It’s a stubborn world.
To sum up, people should realize that Olympic score is not as easy as calling a Nepal bandh. Also, what is the contribution of those who question the potential of Nepalsee sportsmen who are firstly politically harassed, economically challenged and left with no one to listen to their woes in Dashrath Rangashala!
Sanyukta, I like your optimism. But then, when you say Bidhan Lama proved it in 1988, you could have said Nepal ‘had’ potential rather than ‘has’ potential.
Of course we all understand coke coming up with the label. As I mentioned in the last paragraph, if Nepalese products were common in the market (I wish!), I would not find the topic bloggable at all.
umm, well I think Nepal ‘has’ potential. Bidhan Lama had proved it in 1988. Given the scope, professionalism and social involvement in sports in Nepal, our struggling players who lost against world champions this time, are not to be blamed.
I can understand an international soft drink including Nepalese script. I would rather appreciate our youth working towards a Nepalese drink gaining international market instead!
nepal had been so unlucky in the olympics for years,standing with the same reason i was wondering about do the people of other country know that nepal is also a participating nation in olympics or not.this article made me so happy that atleast people are getting chance to know nepal even we have no potetial to win a medal.as our anthem stood 8th in favourite 10 in olympics and this coca cola will certainly help to introduce nepal in world market.