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| Kancho |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 10:03 AM
This picture on Kantipur online by Bikash Rauniyar was awesome.
Once in a while pictures like this should remind us of real Nepal.
Caption Title:
Villagers chat a while to take a little respite as they trudge back home after collecting firewood from a nearby forest at Dhunche in Rasuwa district on Tuesday.
(Online Photo : Bikas Rauniar )
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| bhole_babaji |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 12:49 PM
Are these guys maoists from Rolpa ?
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| darshankaka |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 03:18 PM
Nope.. the real Maoists are not be seen openly like that. They are hiding in Bihar or elsewhere...
The guys who carry operations for Those Maoists leaders are simply branded as Maoists .. but they are not really the Maoists... they have to follow the orders under pressure.
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| bhole_babaji |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 04:13 PM
I don't think the Leaders have any control over the local level maoists. It is a total anarchy.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 07:24 PM
Kancho wrote:
"Once in a while pictures like this should remind us of real Nepal."
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Just some questions in GENERAL to stir up some quiet thinking:
I often hear this phrase "real Nepal".
I wonder what this means.
What exactly is "real Nepal"?
Do hills and mountains and villages and people in poverty make up "real Nepal"?
If there is a "real Nepal" then, is there an "unreal", or an "artificial" Nepal somewhere?
And whose definition of "real Nepal" shall we adopt?
I, for one, carry no romantic notions about any putative "real Nepal".
To me, Nepal is as real as it gets when Nepalis gets killed everyday, when Nepalis dance at Surya Grind and when Nepalis hiding in the jungles of Rolpa wield terror . . .
In other words, EVERYTHING about Nepal is REAL and is in-our-face, and NOTHING
here is up for dress-rehearsal for something real.
oohi
ashu
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| An Indun Poet |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 08:32 PM
What's real and what's fake?
When people say Real Nepal, they are claiming "Surya Grind" as a fake, or copied Nepal. If majority of the population of Nepal was enjoying life like that of "Surya Grind" then that would be "real nepal." Once I watched on Discovery channel about some people near the Dolpo region, where a bride was married to all the brothers. Now nobody goes around saying that is "Real Nepal".
Surya Grind maybe could be "Real Kathmandu" but I still doubt if it could be termed "Real Katmandu" yet. How many people really did participate, what portion of the Katmandu population?
Its true that Surya Grind type of culture is not our home-grown culture but bought from outside. One could claim that everything is copied from somewhere, but how fast and how much of a copy does make the difference.
So to understand Real Nepal, you need to travel a bit and find what is REAL, not some copied material.
Its that simple.
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| saroj |
Posted
on 15-Jun-04 09:17 PM
Truth is relative. Reality is relative. What is real for one person is not real for another. The Surya Grind is real for those enjoying it. The little respite on their way back after collecting firewood is real for the villagers from Dhunche.
What is real country for any country? What is real US? Are the projects the real USA or the corn fields or Las Vegas or New York? What is real India? The slums, the glamorous Bombay or Darjeeling or Kashmir?
That picture does represent the real hardship for many Nepalis living in remote areas. In fact it might not even be perceived as hardship by these people - it's just part of their daily lives. But us priviledged can believe and guess that it might be.
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