Shaktiman Cement, Sankhu, Nepal

Indian cement manufacturer Shaktiman Ltd was founded in 1991 in Delhi. The company's logo makes full use of the name: indeed, Shaktimaan in India refers to someone, usually not from this world, with extraordinary powers ("शक्ति / shakti" means "power"). In other words, some kind of Superman.

शक्तिमान

सिमेन्ट

वास्तविक सिमेन्ट

[Shaktiman

Cement

The Real Cement]

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Brij Cement, Sankhu, Nepal

Solid Cement is manufactured by the Nepalese company Brij Cement Industries Pvt Ltd, part of the Keida Organisation, one of India's largest private conglomerates. The company was founded in 2000.

Brij

Cement

Solid Cement

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Gold Flake Cigarettes, Sankhu, Nepal

After the painted sign for Yak Filter, here is another one for different brand of cigarettes. Sankhu starts to look like a really unhealthy place!

गोल्ड

फ्लेक

[Gold

Flake]

Note the company's full name on the strip closing the packet and its shorter version above the logo with the rhinoceros.

नेपाल टोवाको कम्पनी

(प्रा) लि

नेपाल

[Nepal Tobacco Company

(Pvt) Ltd

Nepal]

नेपाल

[Nepal]

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Library, Sankhu, Nepal

Was this really a library that lended books, videos and/or music CDs or simply a shop selling these products? The name has faded a bit but looks as if it could be "Bajra."

[Bajra A/V CD ?] Library 

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

TCL The Creative Life (2), Sankhu, Nepal

Next to yesterday's sign for Araniko Cement is another one for a totally different company: Chinese TV, electronics and home appliances manufacturer TCL The Creative Life. This is the second TCL sign I came across while walking along the main street of Sankhu.

 TCL

Both signs side by side

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Araniko Cement, Sankhu, Nepal

Painted on both side wall and roller shutters, these signs advestise Advance, a brand of cement produced by Nepalese company Araniko Cement Industries Pvt. Ltd.

एडभान्स [Advance]

सिमेन्ट [Cement]

सदा सुरक्षित [Always Safe]

Araniko Cement

Industries Pvt. Ltd

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

TCL The Creative Life (1), Sankhu, Nepal

Founded in 1981, cheap cassette manufacturer TTK was forced to change its name to TCL in 1985 after it was sued by TDK. Since then this Chinese company based in Huizhou in the province of Guangdong has become one of the largest manufacturers of TV sets in the world and has expanded into other electronic products.

This is just the first of several TCL painted signs found in the small town of Sankhu.

TCL

The Creative Life

Color TV & Home Appliances

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Yak Filter Cigarettes, Sankhu, Nepal

Yak Filter is one of several brands of cigarettes manufactured by the Janakpur Cigarette Factory. The company was founded in 1964 and is based, as the name suggests, in Janakpur, in the lowland region of Terai, not far from the border with India.

याक

फिल्टर

जनकपुर चुरोट कारखाना लि

[Yak

Filter

Janakpur Cigarette Factory Ltd]

The cigarettes advertised here come in packs of 20.

Location: Sankhu, Nepal

Star Electronic Centre, Sankhu, Nepal

Star

Electronic

Centre

B/W TV. Color TV, Radio, Cassette-

Player, Iron & Emergency-

Light Repairing Here

Location, Sankhu, Nepal