| GP |
Posted
on 01-Oct-01 04:59 AM
Hi!
The so calld scissors of Nepali economic policies have two
objectives, that, I had seen and observed.
1. To criticize the policy, one after another, chase it,
never appreciates, and finally, let the policy makers
of Nepal surrender on you that "Hey, we will give you
a public position, join us, and become our part, and
be corrupt like us, then, your big mouth will be filled
with notes." This is how these so called scissors gone
rusted.
2. Second category, they are honest, criticize and
promote. These peoples might one day get public
position with the aim of employers getting them
good for country, and finally, end up resigning from
the post after frustrations that the network of
corrupt policy makers, Kaam chors, and government
officers never coperated because these good policies
will not help them in funneling money to their pocket.
I am wondering if the bulletine, journal, or magazine
that you are going to publish falls on which class. If
you are going to confine on government's top level
policies that normal public or middle class can not
understand, what you are talking, it will turn out
to be technical journal, which is for me, a few kilograms
of paper ready for recycling or chanamasala in
Dasarath Rangasala and Tudikhel. What I mean
is the lack of constructive and neutral (49/51 is OK)
scissoring on government policy will attract readership
only if you make your magagine more sarcastic,
pinching, to suit Nepali culture.
On the other hand, what I would be interested to
have Nepal's magazine or writers to include is the
sectors where markets could open job market,
like agriculture (local or national level), construction
industry. I have found hardly any news papers or
magazines talking the prospects of construction
industry and it institutionlization in Nepal. In Japan,
NIKKEI = Japanese Economy/Business, has publications
in wide area of businesses, all most all major sectors.
They cover from small construction technology to
government policies, thus, readership is so wide,
all businessmen would like to read the daily news
paper to weekly magazine. It also make them high
profitable, thus, the same group of reporters
have quite a good overlapping to make the publication
a great success. Today's business, as I see is how far
you can have sisterly relation with fellow business
groups. I mean your tie-up relation. As Ashu was
mentioning a few weeks back when we were discussing
here the lack of representative results in Kantipur online's
eBalloting on certain issues, where he said why not
they tie up with some small companies who can carry better
Polling in the field with less expenses. Nepali businessmen
lack enterpreneuership, they can not be united, and as
TP said, when there was one ePashmina shop, all rivals
started the ePashminaShop, finally, they lacked the
minimum information to run an ePashmina Shop. If it
was Japan, from my knowledge, they would have made
a group (something like association) and run a joint
ePashmina shop allocating a corner for each member.
What can be advantage of such associaion type of
groups, would use unique advertisements that could
cost negligible per head, and would allow its customers
access to each producer's unique characteristics, to
suit individual customers, and we know no products
can be same, the intellectual property right mean so,
but, in Nepal, we produce same chapati, same bhature,
same samosa, same daal bhat, ... we lack intution and
uniqueness "typical ness -- the nepali equivalent word".
So, how far unique is your publication,
how wide is its contents, and how far is your targetted readership.
Meanwhile, with the voltatile economic situation, I will
ask how far you are motivated. Well, when we return to Nepal
we don't have job and jointly start a new business, but, within
a few months or years we get job and once we get it we also
get satisfied. Thus, we leave those poor friends who could
not get better job and hanging in the old project, and finally,
sabai jana lakha pakha, and only a few really honest, and poor
guys will be hanging finally, giving up the projects. Thus,
as the saddle point curve (http://www.geocities.com/greatavatars/saddlepoint/
) approaches saddle point, how many of your colleagues at the
beginning in your project are sticking with you? I guess in Nepal's
perspective, a few? Are prepared to solve this problem?
My opinion is that when you start such magazine, it would be better
to have joint work with some established teachers in universities,
"Oh! No! I forgot , the Prof.s , they say, why do I need publication,
because i am already a professor. ". Anyway, its worth to have
such groups, because they can have better data, and can analyze
in low price, and the Professors have to produce students,
so they have to make some papers to sell the students in market.
Am I too long? too sarcastic? Hopefully not, if you something
worth here. Publishing a Pragatisil news paper is different,
like Lila Mani Pokharel's bhasad, because you can get those
teenagers around you, but, if your customers are salary
earning parents and housewives, then, your publication should
have impact on their lifestyles or should touch their heart.
I am not pure economist, but, had worked in a technology
developement to PR for technology from zero to billion earning
stage that was based on my own research. Believe it or not.
My experience with a journal publication, gives me a inside
look of what is a data (not communist's profanity or sensational
fake news), how data should be presented, and the feedbacks.
Well, from first paragraph, you might derive a conclusion, I
trying to do PR to be included in your publication business, my
answer is "NO, THANK YOU". I mean, please don't interpret that
way. But, i want to be your reader. I want to see how do you
see construction business? No one economist ever dared to talk in
Nepal. In Japan, 30% of job is occupied by construction industry.
In Nepal, we could have used peoples save in construction
industry, but, . . . . . . . . . . . . Construction business
is a industry, you have to work more and talk less.
Keep it up.
GP
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| GP |
Posted
on 01-Oct-01 05:21 AM
Hi!
Personally, what I am really interested is in starting a Nepali mass
media monitoring (=watch dog) orgnization. This one , I got idea
from a Korean who had give n 15minute lecture in NHK TV where
he mentioned he was surprised with the news / mass media in
Japan, where there is no control or timing of showing scene
and restricted-scene depending on ages, that he said his
group in Korea was doing. They do not watch all TV or news
papers, but, they have network of peoples who can complain
and praise on any article and news or advertisement, thus, the
groups allows all peoples to access them, thus, their analysis
is very critical to those who run sensational and short sighted.
I want we too have this kind of WATCH DOGS. This will surely
harass those who ran hritik roshan scandals ro Lila Mani Pokharel
type of idiots who make only sensational Bhasad. They should
be analyzed and let peoples know, let peoples discuss on them
and have access to such forum. It should be open, but, they
should be accountable, I mean maintaining their privacy, there
should be enough room for verification if required. As SAN had
skillfully done here in this forum. I liked your encription of
IP address. Its really a brialliant idea. Anyone interested,
please lets think towards that direction. Before we launch
we should have enough resources to overcome the
SAD(DLE) Point. WE should not be another nepal.org
Well, if you think we can have good and sustainable group,
we can use the website : e-nepal.org This is for what I
had registered it for. It can be real e-Nepal. We can
launch it after 1 year or 5 years or 10 years, but,
only when we are sure that we can sustain SAD(DLE)
Point.
That is why, I do post those silly articles in TKP or
KPub.
GP
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