Dhaasoo's Argumentative Essay

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This youth started a unique business of making wonderful lamps out of trash liquor bottles, Story of Dhaasoo Dhaasoo is really Dhaasoo!! “Back home at evening when I came back from work there was a small get together me, my dad and uncle were drinking beer and slowly our conversations shifted from politics to kawadiwalas. I thought that these people who collect scrap were poor and lived in slums but then my uncle splashed me with reality, which really shook me. Yes, it might be a glass but it worth more than a rupee since it goes under labelling, processing, refilling, etc. So, I thought if a bottle of Tuborg values more than a rupee what about the thousands of bottles, which makes it way to trash can,” recounts Nitesh Sharma of the moment …show more content…

Slowly by slowly, he collected scraps from Restaurants and Hotels. At first, they were giving away the bottles happily but as soon as they got to know that he was making profit out of it, they stopped giving me bottles and replied “Oh! We just threw it away”, and made similar other excuses. “I even paid for the scrap to some people but along with paying it from my savings I lost my funds for Dhaasoo and after that, I completely shut down Dhaasoo for a year because I was in need of funding,” he shares. So, to collect funds, Nitesh came up with Dhaasoo wears, and started uploading pictures of clothes on Facebook and Instagram dhaasoowears. “I knew I won’t be regular in Dhaasoo wears because I only needed funding and wanted to make aware people about Dhaasoo after selling some of the items,” he shares. But, Facebook blocked the page since they were selling replicas, nevertheless they kept on going with Instagram. “After I got enough funding, I visited the scrap yard again and again for my Dhaasoo search. I even planned to open a store but my parents weren’t happy about it since I need an accessible place where I can create my own ideas and store some scrap. Added to this, the rate of rent in Kathmandu is too expensive,” he shares. Luckily, he found a place near Campion College where it was little cheap and small and peaceful where he could work on his ideas. “And when people visited me through dhaasoowears, I even made them aware about Dhaasoo as well. After knowing my story, people used to get shocked and some even asked me whether it is a store or an office or a workshop. I would just reply that it isn’t a store, neither an office nor a workshop but a fusion of all,” he

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