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| GP |
Posted
on 23-May-03 04:43 PM
Politico-economics of Mahendra Path and Prachanda Path By Surendra R Devkota
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(Author has doctoral degree in Economics. He has scrutinized the 10th Plan of Nepal to appraise whether it is practical and achievable. He has also analyzed it to discern whether or not will it reduce poverty level in Nepal.)
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Full detailed article is in current issue of TND.
Interesting things, you should know.
Who is Surendra R. Devkota? Surendra Devkota studied in the same school as
Baburam Bhattarai: Amar Jyoti MB Gorkha. He is probably as close to Minister Devkota
because of they come from same area. Surendra Devkota, if I remember correctly
is either first or second boy in his batch mate, expected to be in SLC BoardList.
Hey, I knew him since those SLC examp preparation days, my classmate used to point to
him that this guy might appear in SLC Board List, and we shared the same questions in SLC exam..... He was my SLC Batchmate.
So, what is the contrast. He is not Maosit, nor a commie. It is also clear from his writing.
He seems to belong to Nepali Congress (as he slighly praises Girija, but, not presented Girija that a dire supporter would present). He was in TU Kirtipur Campus as a student
during 2046, so was he a very important activist during 2046 ( :I heard) and was jailed (?) during the old Panchayat regime of Mahendra Path. Its good that he did Masters from
world reknowned institute: Asian Institute of Technlogy, Bangkok, later got a Ph.D. from
a US University in New York (?). Surendra hates commies much more than I could hate a
commie.
I like his articles no only in politics, not only in economics, but, in other areas too.
In fact, the Amar Jyoti graduates have the best writing training in Nepal that we could imagine from a public school graduate.
Its good to see the Amar Jyoti's polarized graduates spreaded in Nepal.
Well, some may argue Hey, there is St. Xavier ... and others,
mind you, I am not talking about private schools where son-n-daughter of elites go.
Amar Jyoti was for commoners who even don't have money to buy a set of HattiChhap chapal. I was talking about the graduates from such schools. Lets not compare Syawu and Amba. .....
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 23-May-03 06:23 PM
GP ji,
Amar Jyoti is also a missionary school like St Xaviers or St Maris, and you people are few of the luckiest kids of Nepal to get an education there. So, there is no point to compare St Xaviers with Amar Jyoti. There are thosuands of other schools in Nepal that lag far behind Amar Jyoti in terms of physical and human infrastructures necessary for a highschool education, such as the one I attended (it is both painful and joyful to recall those days). Just to give you a feel, the school infrasctructure was so poor that you had to sit in the dusty floor as there was no class room for most of classes and the teacher used teach sometime in the porch of a nearby temple, school ground, etc. When I didn't do class homework, stick and sisno was the usual reward. We were also used as a child labor in the sense that, we had to collect stones for some construction works in the school, carry small 'faleks' (flat pieces of timber), etc. Every Friday, we had to 'litpot' classroom with cow dungs and red mud. When you are back home from the school, you also take care of small scale of household chores (which most other kids in rural Nepal also do) like taking care of 'Bhaisi' 'Boka' 'Bakhri' by taking them to a grazing land, collect forage, and also take care of smaller children at house. In my SLC time, we had no science, math, english teacher in my school. A non-SLC test pass temporary teacher used to teach all these courses, and he was barely able cover a third of the total chapters in those courses. Rest you prepare yourself, and rely on luck. There used to be one test center for the SLC exam in the district which was about 12 kms away from my home, and I was not able to commute daily, as it had no modern means of transport. While I went to take the SLC, me with 3 other companions rented a room in one Kumale's (mata ka bhanda kunda banaune jat ko manchhe) house near the test center where we all four used to cook by collecting fire wood, study and sleep. Forget about thinking of SLC board list, but getting 1st division was a dream in itself in the district. First division to someone happened once in blue moon. If someone had 1st division, he is honored by the people of the district with vermillion and garland. Thanks God, I got SLC driving licence (12 out of 68 students in the district made it)....and now I have a doctorate degree from a prestigious US university.
My whole point is Amar Jyoti is one of the premier school in Nepal. And, I always wished to attend such kind of school when I was a kid. I believe that things might not have changed significantly in many parts of rural nepal.
By the way, here is a brief CV of Mr. Devkota.
Surendra Devkota received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, and MS in Biology (Botany) from Tribhuwan University, Nepal. He switched to the study of brown fields at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, where he received an MS in Environmental Management. Now he believes that the Ph.D. program in Ecological Economics will lead him to integrate environment, economics, and society in a comprehensive way.
Surendra R. Devkota, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY 12180. Email: devkos@rpi.edu.
Can you provide the link for Devkota's analysis about Mahendrapath and Prachandapath? Thanks.
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| GP |
Posted
on 23-May-03 07:24 PM
Bhunte ji,
Thank you for your inputs. Believe me, I am not far from your feelings and experiences of attending public schools. While reading your posting, I felt whether you wrote it on
my behalf. As a unbeaten first boy in the primary school, I was asked to find a stick
to stirke on my class mates who could not do what Teacher expected to do. I went
and searched in near by JHADI, and brought a weak stick. Teacher realized that
I played a game by bringing the weak so that it breaks if teacher stirkes with force.
Then, the teacher was angry, said, he want to test its strength. He striked it on
my palm (at an age of 6), it broke immediately. The teacher asked me not bring
a weak stick next time onwards. Then, I again went to jhadi and got a Bamboo
stick ....... The teacher used to strike 10 ulto 10 sulto on right hand and left ....
Imagine ......... the hands: palms............. terrible. Those days.
those who come from south of Prithvi Highway, Pokhara, know a Dunde Master.
He used to hang students upside down and strike his stick on back and thigh....
There were dozen cruel teachers in the area whom everyone knew. I still remember
a scene that our teacher striked on my classmate so much he started urinating and
he seemed like a 1 year kid waiting for someone to rescue..... It did not happen
one day, it was there as I moved from class 1 to 3 ...... I heard it lasted several
years........................
Well, to support your Dhunga lyaue or khojne story. We were asked to bring two stones
every morning we go to attend classes. Two stons on two hands.....
I remember we drained out the water in a nearby pond, brought the mud to
make floor in the class room. The middle school that I attended was made
from scratch ............. When I go to my village these days, I still tell peoples that
there are some stones in this school building that I carried on my two hands
every morning for at least one year.
I also remember the days, when went to clean a near by government's agriculture
farm. We were cleaning their farm to get stones for the school......... Well,
the story does not stop here. I am surely proud to be what I am today,
considering the begining of education, but, I wish my dream does not stop here.
As I tell many friends, you drive a car ahead not by looking the mirrors, but,
by looking ahead. Well, when I look through the mirrors, I find very from from
where I was, and I can see a lot many friends of mine were left far behind me.
But. when I look ahead, I find myself lagging far behind those who are driving
ahead of me. Well, I am now checking side mirror, and I want to overtake
those who don't let me go ahead with my desired pace, use another lane with the
help of overtaking lane which is risky, but, entertaining like in roller coaster
...........
I am desperately looking for a highspeed lanes. I am coming to the high speed lane brother.... very soon. See you in that highspeed lane.
Bro bhunte, keep it up.
GP
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