| Biswo |
Posted
on 30-Sep-00 06:46 PM
Indian press lately has been too audacious
to suggest that Nepal is too poor.One article
I read today in The Times Of Indian has used
"Poverty stricken" "Cash strapped" like
attributes several times before writing
Nepal. And that too, while writing about our
performance.Apparently, they forgot that some
poverty stricken countries like Ethiopia,
Cuba and Mozambique, and to some extent China
also, put up spectacular performance, while
cashrich Singapore/Hongkong were empty
handed.
Specially since the advent of IT boom,
Indians has really forgotten their "haisiyat"
and started speaking "anapsanap".The BBC
which put some offending question in website
is also mostly run by Indians(I mean
southasia section.), and thought I think the
British as racists who are really unfair to
our fighters in their army, they would still
have some politeness to ask such a ludicrous
question.
We all feel that we have been unfairly treated
by Indian colonialists. They eye upon our
resources, their prehensile tentacles have
constricted our business prospects, and still
we have always played fairly. The fact that
our neighboring states of India are either
worse or of same level to our standard is
generally forgotten by Indians.
Some years ago, I was invited to a party of
Indian consular in Shanghai by a diplomat
friend of mine in the consul. They had got
a new consul general.After being little bit
tipsy, he was heard telling a Chinese guest,
"There is no independent country called
Nepal. They don't have airport, they don't
have their own money, they don't have even
their own army..." The consul general, Mr
Biren Nanda, still serves there. Interestingly, since it is always cheap for
them to travel to Shanghai via RNAC operated
Shanghai-KTM flight, he probably travels this
route.(Unless he can scrounge a better flight
ticket from his country.)
A fire of disgruntlement flares in my mind
when I find Girija/or Bhattarai or anybody
proudly claiming they are Bharatmukhi or in whatever they couch their word. We need some
Nepalmukhi politicians in KTM, we need some
patriotic leaders who can stand up to any
person right there in South, and tweak their
nose whenever they try to mess up with us.
We need to create frontiers of every domain,
sports/intellect/debates/poetry/health/roads/
whatever, and try to checkmate them as an
independent country.Just see their audacity,
they won a simple bronze in Olympic, and they
brag to us as if they won thirty golds.
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