Dear All,
Saw this movie ''Rang de Basanti". It may sound funny but sincerely,
after childhood days, for the first time I really got inspired by a
movie. I really started to think about Nepal and the political crisis
continuing. Lack of interest in country's system and adequate patriotism
prevails in Nepal too, I felt that. That doesn't imply that the solution
is to kill someone as shown in the movie. I tried to see within myself,
what is my contribution? Found its ok, I am studying and becoming a
manpower for the nation. But went through the news from Nepal and this
time I could not satisfy myself. Going regular is not enough; felt that.
It's high time for each of us to try to do something more than the
regular! On the process, what can I do at most now, I found I can share
my understanding of the crisis to my friends and then forward it to
maximum Nepalese as far as
possible. There might be various view points on that between us. This is
one amongst them.
PLZ READ IT ONCE. GIVE A SECOND THOUGHT ON THAT. AND IF YOU DONT AGREE,
IT'S YOUR RIGHT NOT TO . BUT I BELEIVE MANY OF YOU WHO'LL READ THIS MAIL
WILL CERTAINLY GET CLEAR ABOUT MANY THINGS. And in due course, I'd be
grateful to get your opinions as well. This way we can interact and start
to think about the country more seriously. UNTIL AND UNLESS WE START A
STEP, NO THING BIG WOULD BE ACHIEVABLE. Believing on this, I am sharing
my opinion.
"As we see the situation in Nepal, anyone would think that the problem
lies between the King, seven Political parties, and Maoists. And why?
What each of them wants? We'd find answers for that also. One may say
political parties want full-fledged democracy. Similarly Maoists want the
communism, and King wants to reestablish Panchayat or something like that
in other form. It may sound weird to you at first, but I see this crisis
in completely other way. This is not any kind of conflict between
Nepalese themselves. This is something between India and Nepal. It's a
grand and interesting game. At the same time, highly challenging for both
the states.
Every one of us knows the Indian approach of trying to dominate others,
especially the neighboring countries. Defense and foreign affairs related
decisions of Bhutan are directly handled by India. Nothing new about it,
right? Which country in the SAARC except Bhutan is happy with India?
Forget SAARC, what about other neighbors? China? Burma? Mentioning these
issues just to rethink on India's foreign policies! Now let us go to
what's there between India and Nepal? Care to see it thru big brother's
side. India 's average economic growth rate has reached around 7.5% which
is one of the best in world today. India is second largest market in the
world in terms of population. Foreigners are seeing China and India as
the new markets of this age and investing here rapidly. Bottom line is-
India is developing. But how long people will invest in India if basic
infrastructure is not there? How much investments would be there in
Agricultural industry if outsiders don't see basic irrigation facilities
in the field? In other way, when other area is developing, what about
large Indian farmer population? When they'll prosper if irrigation is not
there? And most importantly, energy is vital for all development-
industries, technology and everything. India is not capable of producing
the required amount. India has successfully taken control over Bhutan's
energy resources and already started to have the benefit. Bhutan is also
getting something out of it but in cost of sovereignty.
Now comes Nepal's part. Nepal is second richest in water resource having
potential of large amount of energy. Enough energy to cater India's
energy need for industrialization and irrigation and clean drinking water
for eastern India (perhaps more than that). For that, India can have
straight business deals with Nepal. Take it if u want, but please pay.
But no! India wants all those in the way they got from Bhutan. They want
to have total control in any hydro projects that'll be build in Nepal.
They want to give us something out of it- lot less value than what we
deserve. Since history India has been trying for this and as it was
obvious for them to get refusal. In the mean time, foreigners wanted to
invest in Hydro projects in Nepal. But India always fumed and fretted for
any manipulation in rivers will lead to flood in India. So, all the big
projects were cancelled. India didn't stop. They wanted to get the
resources according to their desire. When Nepal refused, they came into
games with long vision. What I interpret the game could possibly be as
such- Change the non cooperative government of Nepal. Keep people in
power that will be ready to sell the resources of the country fro some
money. And if required, will be ready to sell the whole country. India
knew that until and unless royal family is in power, it's not possible.
This is because for the royals, Nepal is the only place in the world
where they will get highest degree of respects and they'd never sell the
country. For that, India played the key role to instill democracy in 2046
and implant corrupted people in the government. According to the plan,
some leaders of ours sold out rivers and lands during the 15 years. That
we all know.
Now India could not depend only on those dogs. For that, how to make
Nepal completely helpless in shortest period? So that Nepal will come
down on the ground with knees. There won't be any other option remaining
for Nepal and finally turn towards India and beg them to utilize our own
resources, and give some riots two feed Nepalese twice a day. Attack on
the source of economy was the simplest route towards Nepal's bring down.
And then something happened out of blues. Maoists were born in western
Nepal which is the hub of ayurvedic medicine and one of Nepal's major
exports. The area is still under Maoists control and no one knows how
much of yarshagumba is smuggled from there every year. Country's revenue
is going in vain. And let us recall, it was Girija's tenure and whole
Nepal knows how Maoists flourished in no time. Besides that, major
objective of giving birth to Maoists was to attack the spinal of Nepal's
economy- tourism. And things happened accordingly. Nepal broke and got
trapped into the crisis we r seeing today.
Now please don't doubt on who gave birth to Maoists. India was the first
to call Maoists as terrorists when Nepal government was still calling it
as insurgents. After that, US hit listed Maoists of Nepal in top ten
among the world terrorists. Nepal government never called them terrorists
those days. And in many cases, we have seen Maoists leader making rounds
to Delhi in the same fashion as Girija and his daughter. The recent
meeting between the parties and Maoists leaders occurred in Delhi. How
could India arrange the facility when Maoists are terrorists? Do they
want to send a message that Lashkar-e-taiba should be entertained by
governments of various nations? And surprisingly, nowadays Indian media
do not right the word "terrorists" for Nepalese Maoists. The respected
word given by them these days is " Nepal rebel". This is all happening
because of the slavish mentality India possesses due to 200 years of
British rule. Anyways, now let us come to the major issue. After knowing
all these, I m not in a condition to agree that the dispute in Nepal is
for democracy. What I believe is it is for nationality. It is for saving
the nation. It is for raising the nation with what we have. It is for
replying back to all
those who try to play with us. Now, it's up to your intellect to identify
who is working for what. What King is doing, parties are doing, and
Maoists are doing. It'll be a very appreciable opinion if you say what
those pancheys are doing again here? We should not forget that democracy
is nature's law. When you are born, you come along with your freedom. No
force can stop u for that. Let's see the cause and what's happening
around. Democracy within the boundary is so important? Or democracy in a
country will be there when a country will b there? Let all Nepalese get
together and stop the external force for some time when Nepal will try to
lift up in a position from where no force would be able to bring it down.
Democracy is always there. When Nepalese can change the government in
2046, same Nepalese can change the government again in 2066. And if
required, forever free Nepalese could change the system around the world.
We don't have to doubt in our capability. But the current need is not
"restore democracy" as India is saying. Current need for each and every
Nepali is to "save and raise the nation". When US envoy to India made one
statement related to India's internal politics last week, whole India
shouted back to the ambassador. This is something good we need to learn
from Indians. When India, and other far away nations are repeatedly
trying to interfere our internal matter, our corrupted media (do I have
to name the media which have bosses of Non Nepalese origins? Or u find it
yourself) is not tired of singing their songs everyday. These Medias are
responsible for creating a pessimistic environment in the nation. People
are not protesting those external interferences which are vital in
present. Restoring democracy is not the issue as far as I understand.
What if democracy is restored tomorrow immediately? Same old faces who
tried to help the neighbor more than own country itself will be back to
power. And the process of losing the nation's independency which has been
stopped temporarily through king's move will get momentum again. But if
Nepal and Nepalese succeeds to pause that external force for some more
time, its strength will be minimized. Many things can happen within few
years. Zest is- country first! Now, If you don't agree on this, I m open
to have your opinion. If you feel that there is some logic in what I have
said, please forward it to as many Nepalese as possible. There is nothing
good happening to you within 24 hours or 3 days or 1 week or so forth.
But only God knows, long term benefits could be there.
Thank you
Nepali Citizen
regards'
honest citizen
KTM,Nepal
