| Biswo |
Posted
on 10-Jun-01 04:17 PM
That Nepali people get easily irked by any negative suggestion
from any section or person from India is well known. The anger
stems from virtually everything: from rumour, from facts, from
interview of those person who were never known before, from
nautanki kalaakaars etc etc.
I always favor close relation with India. Millions of Nepalese
have relation across the border. Millions of Nepalese go to
India each year. Indians are virtually in every field of Nepal:
they are industrialists, and they are beggar, they are skillled
craftsmen in KTM and they are farm workers in Chitwan. Such
close relation only asks for more mutual understanding, and better
consideration of each other's problem.
I was thinking one day that we Nepalese are imbued with anti-India
feeling for nothing and that we should cultivate good
relationship with India. As a peace-lover, I didn't like the
widespread suspicion about Indian-motive, lurking fear that
Indians will intervene if maoists have some advancement in their
'people's war', and so I went to some Nepal related discussion
rooms of Indian papers.
While most of the Indians are sympathetical and considerate
towards our problem, there were some comments that provoked me
very badly. Some wrote: "We should have taken Nepal long ago."
Some other comments were : "Nehru was foolish when he rejected
Nepalese King's offer to annex Nepal with India." "We should take
Nepal state now" etc etc. Such comments, even though coming from
fringe enraged me a lot.
Indian leadership was never serious about informing its citizen
about Nepal as a sovereign country. It not only claimed Lumbini,
it also featured Sagarmatha as their own. Kanchanjanga and other
bordering landmarks were also claimed to be exclusive Indian. The
movies which are supposed to reflect Indian perception about Nepal
portray Nepalese as 'chaukidaar' only.
Indians seemed to forget that India is also a poor country, their
leaders were given a safe haven by Nepal in their independence
struggle, that some Nepalese are also smart, that a large
percentage of work force in Nepal also comprises of Indians. From
their much powerful media outlets, they are unremittingly spewing
anti-Nepal feelings in India.
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I have one complaint against our establishment. Why our foreign
affairs ministry doesn't hire smartest of our kids? I mean why
the hell a lot of our diplomats are so lousy and uncouth? Most
of those avoid limelight, stay in their own official quarter counting how much money they horded in this foreign stay. There
was a time when Indian foreign ministry was famous for attracting
the brightest of Indian kids. Still some of the topmost diplomats
of the world are the Indians.
Most of our diplomats have weak expression power. When they go to
meeting with foreigners, they lack preparation about background
knowledge. This shows how their student life was. This also
explains why very rare of our diplomats really wrote any good
back about their experience. They have virtually nothing to pass
down to the posterity. And of course, on top of that, they have
neither writing skill, nor the gumption to write anything.
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