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on 21-Sep-03 01:53 PM
A nation's state of prosperity can be gauged by the advertisements in its billboards, newspapers and TVs. It was therefore quite interesting to go through the advertisment pages in Nepali newspapers: most of them are of highschools. 16 years old thick glasses wearing kids are our new business models, and schools put them in their advertisements in national newspapers:" come to our school which is the choice of this board nth guy", and even the coaching centers had their own way of promotion:"come to our center, we got this many students in IOM.!" The plethora of choices could easily "razzle dazzle" edgy parents looking for a good future in the midst of civil war in Nepal.
Quite an interesting row was observed last summer between two schools: both claimed that their student was the board first. I think the contestants were Nobel Acadamy and another school (was that grandest of the grandest name: Himalayan White House?). Nobel is run by an esteemed retired diplomat Jaya Raj Acharya, whose book on Yadu Nath Khanal is most read if you know some Sanskrit. (I got bored, though I had a very good opportunity to read Yadu Nath's great speeches.) Anyway, the interesting thing about the contest was that the related board doesn't publish the 'board first' list. It seemed later Nobel's boy was board second, or let's say not the board first. No apology was tendered from Nobel.Not quite a nobel , isn't it?
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Nara Shamsher tried to dictate his biography in "Uhaakai Juwaani", which is not a must read, but can be funny at times. The man whose grandfather Juddha Shamsher announced the death sentences for Nepal's very respected great four martyrs in 1997 shows some remorse about the sentence that he personally carried out. But Mr Nara Shamsher also claims that Ganesh Man Singh suggested to king Tribhuvan in New Delhi that Nara Shamsher be made the first IGP of Nepal. What sounds fishy about this account is: Ganesh Man was in Kathmandu at the time this meeting supposedly occured between Nara and King Tribhuvan in New Delhi. During Delhi Samjhauta period of 2007, Ganesh Man was in jail in KTM and was released only in late Maagh. He was the person who welcome every NC leader and the king in Kathmandu.
Another account about K. I. Singh is also not very plausible. Nara Shamsher claims that K.I. tried to rope him in to start another 'jahaaniya shaashan' with him being 'sri 3', and that was the reason why king Mahendra kicked him out. Nara also mentions that later when king Mahendra was touring western Nepal, KI 'forcibly' wanted to meet with the king, but Nara deliberatedly made him wait for a few days. However, the whole world knows that king Mahendra was actually the person who tried to get KI Singh on his boat. Remember 2017 coup? King Mahendra had appointed KI Singh as a head of "Raaj Shabhaa Sthaayi Parishad" in his effort to buy support. And while veterans like Tanka Acharya and Dilli Raman Regmi were supporting the king , KI singh had denounced what the king did, then resigned from Raj Shabha Sthayi Samiti and then went to the western Nepal to spend his life as a common farmer. One can disagree with Mr Singh, but no one can say Mr Singh was 'padalolup' in my opinion.Mr Singh's life suggests that he was a man of conviction, he had opposed Delhi Samjhauta, he had staged a modern coup in Singh Darbaar during his detention, and he had resigned from Raj Shabha in 2017 much to embarrassment of the king Mahendra: it doesn't seem to me that KI would be grovelling for a meeting with the king.And the negative tone in which KI singh is addressed in the book only subtracts from its own credibility.
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