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| La Femme Nikita |
Posted
on 06-Nov-01 07:05 PM
Ultra-royalist Kunda Dixit attempts to glorify Paras (subtly at times, and at times, not-so-subtly) in a recent article in his weekly. For him, the Crown Prince's meaningless poem is a sign that the monster is mending his ways. (...And this is not one of his oh-so-funny "Under My Hat" articles...)
Wake up Mr. Dixit!
...High time we had some masses-oriented editors in the Kathmandu-based English newspapers!
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Is Crown Prince Paras mending his ways?
He's writing poetry, so he must be.
KUNDA DIXIT
"...Already there are signs that he is mending his ways. The Himalaya Times Wednesday printed a front page piece with excerpts of verses penned by Paras after the royal massacre:
Before my eyes, I lost all
What did my helpless eyes have to see.
My luckless eyes,
Their luckless ears,
They believe what they hear
Not what they see."
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| le chef du nuit |
Posted
on 06-Nov-01 08:15 PM
umm, from what ive read of the dude, i think you misjudge sarcasm and take it literally
did i spell that right?
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| La femme Nikita |
Posted
on 06-Nov-01 08:21 PM
It is not one of his so-called sarcastic pieces.
It is a serious piece, and, going by the flow of the article, I am pretty sure that there is no sarcasm in that article.
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 06-Nov-01 08:35 PM
I have great respect for Kunda Dixit the editor. But the last para - where the article drastically changes its course - did throw me off-balance.
As for him being an ultra-royalist, I do feel that the Times at times does make me feel that way too. But let's wait n see. One swallow doesn't make a summer.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 06-Nov-01 09:46 PM
I also thought the same way.
Mr Dixit surely tried to prove something without any substantial backup. After
reading the poem he cites, I was like, 'Gee, is that a poem? Does that prove any
thing? Does that prove that this trigger-happy maniacal prince mended his way?'
Like most of other Nepalis, I also hope that he is changed for good. Because
I have no choice. Say it Stockholm syndrome. This syndrom is sth experienced
by hostages in captivity. After some moments, they want to think that the captors
are their protector.Because it makes them feel happy.We know that this prince
is now a (future)commander-in-chief of our army.Being peaceful citizens, we just
want to avoid any casualty, any other political perturbation.That's why we hope
that this guy is actually reformed, actually a nice one.But let's face it, the road
ahead is bumpy for a lot of us.
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| Sannaataa |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 01:59 AM
A relevant comment from www.sebsonline.org:
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Author: Sans_Frontieres Post date: 11/3/2001 2:14:29 PM EST
News! News! Paras is allegedly following the footsteps of his grandpa Mabibi Shah and aunt Chandni Shah!
A rogue-turned-intellectual! (lol)
Mahakavi Paras! How is that? (lol)
His poem:
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Before my eyes, I lost all
What did my helpless eyes have to see.
My luckless eyes,
Their luckless ears,
They believe what they hear
Not what they see.
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One would never find a better sample of intellectual masturbation! Did Paras think the Nepalese people are so silly and gullible to think that the scoundrel has reformed just because he scribbled a fourth-rate poem and published it on the front-page of Himalayan Times, or what? A futile attempt at image--building! Sorry Paras, we can't let you become the king! These crappy lines will be of little help to you, dude!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 06:37 AM
Intellectual masturbation or not, it's TOO LATE in the game to be criticizing
Paras now. Whether one hates him or love him, King Gyanendra has proved
to be -- as a matter of strategy -- a too clever, too shrewd a king.
Last year, after his fourth or so hit-and-kill accident, 500,000 Nepalis got fed
up with Paras and signed petitions against him.
The result?
Paras got away scot-FREE, in part due to then Dipendra's protecting him.
How could Paras get away free?
He could get away free ALSO because the incredibly stupid members of the Nepali Left -- who spearheded that petition-movement -- believed in and continue to believe in lofty rhetoric and narrow emotionalism than on calm result-oriented strategies that could at least by now given us a new legal process re: how to
deal with such and more hit-and-run accidents.
As things have turned out, the members of the Nepali Left have lost on THREE counts.
1) Paras got away scot free. (so much for all 5 lakh signatures!)
2) There is still NO adequate legal process to deal with such cases. I mean, ANYONE, drunk or not, intentional or not, can get away with such killings after paying something like Rs. 17,000 or so.
3) Paras is now the Crown Prince, and has become all the MORE powerful.
Sure, there may be millions reason to still hate Paras -- openly or anonymously, as some have done here, but NONE of those reasons are going to fly at all. And that's the reality.
Now, the choices are three:
a) continue to criticize Paras for all his past sins, and get nowhere with that.
b) hope that Paras becomes a better person . . . and let that be that.
I am by no way defending Paras or anything like that, it's just that by failing to get a result-oriented return, so to speak, on our collective, justified outrage last year, our abilities to criticize Paras now have grown a lot more weak this time around. This is my point.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
Now
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 08:01 AM
b) hope that Paras becomes a better person . . . and let that be that. >
Ashu, I agree with neither. And pls hear this out: I don't remember being mad at our thoughts so much as these ideas. Of course other than your ways with the sommerville crowd.
Yes, I will continue to cite his past sins. I makes a difference to the world - helluva lot to me in any case. I am angry. I am mad. I have mystified. I am secondguessing King G's intention - and his so called shrewdness you are constantly citing. Ashu, you are getting to be boring - pretty unlike you again - due to constant repetition. What shrewdness are you talking about - taking public opinion for a ride?
Yes, as an optimist, pretty much like you again, I hope he gets better with time. But unlike you, I don't want to "let that be that", but I want to make sure he'd better improve. Or else...It's not a medieval monarchy.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 09:47 AM
Village Voice wrote:
>Yes, I will continue to cite his past sins.
>I makes a difference to the world - helluva
>lot to me in any case. I am angry. I am mad.
>I have mystified. I am secondguessing King G'
>s intention - and his so called shrewdness
>you are constantly citing.
Village Voice,
Look, I live in kathmandu, and I am posting this stuff in my own name.
As a Nepali citizen, I too am mad, mystified and second-guessing King
G's intention. It's not only me, and there are hundreds others here too.
Don't get me wrong about this.
But too much anonymous anger from afar can be counter-productive and ultimately useless. It does NOT add to anything -- and this is where my objection kicks in. I mean, short of leaving the country forever through sheer disgust,
what could we Nepali janata living and breathing in Nepal really do about
Paras now?
NOTHING.
NOTHING, and
NOTHING.
Got that?
And that's the bitter goddamn truth.
Would you, for example, give up your 'nakab' and write a hard-hitting op-ed
against Paras in The Kathmandu Post? No, I don't think so. Why? Well, you know your reasons too well.
When people like you cannot do that as CITIZENS of this democratic country,
then my larger point becomes all the more relevant: Look, it's very easy to rant and rave against Paras from 10,000 miles away, and show him all our righteous anger anonymously -- but UNLESS we have a clear STRATEGY to get the results we want, we are really losers when it comes to discussing Paras, and wee might
as well accept our "losers" status.
Gyanendra wanted his son to be the crown prince. Look at his clear result-oriented strategy. Look at his timing. Look at his PR operations. Look at the language of his speeches. God, this King -- if nothing else -- is a master, master politician.
Sure, you can hate him ten times more for all that, but you can't deny that he is NOT shrewd, that he is not smart. He is all that and more. And Ihave been using the word 'shrewd' grudgingly, the way a chess player says about a smarter
rival.
Look, 500,000 Nepalis signed petitions last year. I was one of them.
You can not even guess how I feel this about this whole thing.
But, unlike you, I am not going to be angry forever about Paras. Why? because, the reality is that compared to him, I, as a citizen, have NO power -- and that's the truth.
And so, short of leaving the country forever, I, as a citizen, am willing to
accept -- very regretfully, very uneasily and very unhappily -- that what was
done was done, and hope that in the future that Paras actually turns out to be
a better man. What else could a person living and breathing in Nepal could do?
So, that' what I have: Hope and optimism for the future, while regretfully letting bygones be bygones.
That said, because of the way the Nepali Left screwed up things without a clear strategy last year, I, as a citizen, still do NOT know what to do about Paras if
he -- now as the crown prince -- say, runs over another citizen tomorrow on Putali Sadak. And, I am more bothered about this CONSISTENT lack of strategy-building than about Paras's repeated "dosh".
Thaks for your views. A very Happy Tihar to you all.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 10:17 AM
Dear Ashu:
Let's not make a big deal about anonymous/open postings, and let's not get too personal. There's a very thin line that separates what's decent and what's not.
If you can't appreciate anyone choosing to remain anonymous for some reasons, (other than jumping to quick conclusions and hinting cowardice), well, I don't have much to say. Well, that's probably your style...:)
Meanwhile, I will continue to voice my reservation against King G ways. He's not shrewd to me - at least not his TIMING. The way he declared Paras heir to the throne. Without consulting people, Parliament. As someone succintly remarked, Nepalis trust monarchy as recent developments have shown, but monarchy doesn't seem to trust Nepali people.
Happy Tihar to you too. I will be missing Bhai Tika for a second straight year.
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 11:38 AM
And here we go at another round of "fires" from all of us anonymous posters. BOY OH BOY!!!
And just when we thought we were all matured!!
kukur ko puchar barha barsa dhungro ma haley pani bango ko bangai bhaney ko yei hola.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 12:00 PM
Ashu:
I am surprised at your anti-resistance posture.
Yes, you are right that there is nothing better than hoping that this wayward
prince actually improved.
That is right.
But What Dixitji had done?
Trying to lionize this prince. What is this reason ,"He is writing poetry, so he is
mending?"
MabibiShaha wrote grand poetry, Niro was good artist in flute, Mao was fond of
poetry, and the list goes on. Nehru, whom I don't consider any better democrat
than our Girija, was master of words.To tell the truth, if those five lines are such
a masterpiece of 'remorse', any autocrat of present world, be it Saddam or
Milosevic or Suharto, can be exonerated because they can pen such lousy poem.
I think there is one thing I need to mention about Dixit. Dixits were traditionally
those who loved to work under the tutulege of power. From Bijaya Raj to the
present ones, they produced good technicians, doctors, but not a man who could
inspire resistance movement. Dixitji, in this case, is probably continuing his own
grand tradition.
Your point about getting away by paying Rs 17,000.00 is equally invalid. You get
away by paying Rs 17,000.00 after confessing your crime. Tell me if Paras
confessed his crime in court or anywhere. Signature collector lefts are not so
culpable, they may have been rash, though.To praise Paras in this juncture is
nothing but intellectual meretriciousness.
To quote Willium Falkner, "The past is not dead. This is not even past." A lot
of us will be visiting this past from time to time.
I understand the desire to elicit better from this bad prince, but I don't understand
the desire to write Gita of him.And as of TKP, I think the article by Kosmos
Bishwakarma was a lot better than Dixit's.
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| NK |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 12:55 PM
Sunakhari,
There is a new version of this nepali ukhan as Village Voice has pointed out a while ago: "kukurko puchar bara barsa dhungro ma rakhe pani... Dhungro nai bango."
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| tirth |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 01:32 PM
So ashu wants us to be in awe with King Gyanendra's result-oriented strategy (that's the keyword) in becoming the new Nepali monarch and the shrewdness with which the Paras came to be a Crown Prince!! Hey, now that Paras is a crown prince, who cares about his murderous and philandering past, right? After all, everyone has had a past that may not be so honorable right? So what even if Diwas K's conspiracy theory were to be true? What can we do about that now anyway, they're king and crown prince now, we have to kiss their ass anyway! Let's just blame the left for wasting those signatures and get on with our lives!! Since we can do NOTHING, let's do just that: nothing. Why? Because I say so!
As someone in this forum rightly pointed out, ashu should go become a netaji, he'd fit right in with the singhadurbar crowd.
Now please don't label me a summervillian and claim to be a victim. We're only discussing ideas here, aren't we?
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| tirtha |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 01:34 PM
So ashu wants us to be in awe with King Gyanendra's result-oriented strategy (that's the keyword) in becoming the new Nepali monarch and the shrewdness with which the Paras came to be a Crown Prince!! Hey, now that Paras is a crown prince, who cares about his murderous and philandering past, right? After all, everyone has had a past that may not be so honorable right? So what even if Diwas K's conspiracy theory were to be true? What can we do about that now anyway, they're king and crown prince now, we have to kiss their ass anyway! Let's just blame the left for wasting those signatures and get on with our lives!! Since we can do NOTHING, let's do just that: nothing. Why? Because I say so!
As someone in this forum rightly pointed out, ashu should go become a netaji, he'd fit right in with the singhadurbar crowd.
Now please don't label me a summervillian and claim to be a victim. We're only discussing ideas here, aren't we?
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| Lady |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 02:01 PM
Dear God, OH Dear God! When will ever this Ashutosh Tiwari Learn to separate issues? He mixes all these issues in one posting, it just leaves me wondering - b
a) to write in own name
b) a good poet and somebody who just wrote a pathetic 7 or 6 line vers
c) king apologist
d)mediocore harvard educated nobody
e)signing a peitition and not seeing the result as he wished thus believing Paras must be good ane Kanak must be right
f)not to know when to be Dixit brothers Loyalist (read chamca) and when to say something non so nonsense
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| tirthajiiswrong |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 04:29 PM
Ashu angered me with his first letter. However, his second letter clarified his position and there is really little room to debate what he said. The rest of you that replied to him simply have not understood his argument. Read it again, rationally this time, without emotion. You will see that his arguments are very coherent. The Nepali people need to determine how badly they want to get rid of Paras's powers. A half-hearted letter signing campaign will not do. I have no doubt that the majority of Nepali people would gladly get rid of Paras if they could. Once the people realize that their feelings are shared by not only them, but also many in the military, change is possible. A leader who can persuade the military to overthrow the monarchy as the only moral choice they have is needed. Who will be that leader?
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| Sangam |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 05:52 PM
This is an interesting topic and the situation itself is very interesting too. There are people who condemn Paras and yet want to preserve monarchy and there are people who are dreaming for a republic. What are the options availabe for people who don't want Paras as a CP? How can people get rid of him? Current constitution doesn't help much. Thus only thing that can be done now is to change the constitution. Make the royalty more transparent. I am not sure it the change will remove Paras from his current title but it certainly won't create a situation like accepting a murderer as a king and a CP. For the time being Nepali janta will have to accept him as a CP and hope for him to change for good. I don't see him losing his title unless of course if maobadi realize their dream. Any other ideas how he can be removed?
Sangam.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 06:24 PM
Key issue in this thread to me is not whether we want to retain monarchy or not.
Key issue is whether Dixitji did right or wrong by so openly praising Paras as a
mending soul, citing his lousy poem.
I am still pro-monarchy, because I want to avoid bloodshed. But, my initial zeal
in supporting Gyanendra has been evaporated.
Yes, Paras is the only candidate left. But why did he declare him CP at this moment? Even if he were not declared CP, he was the one who would be king
anyway. Just to get the beefed up perk from national coffer (Crown prince gets
24 Lakh as a salary, while prince gets 3 lakh as salary annually).
It also shows how our politicians use Dashain (when most of our papers are closed)
to avoid public scrutiny. Sher Bdr expanded his ministry to include all this thugs,
and King proclaimed his son crown prince. These are all afraid of democracy, these
people are afraid of people, they know they are on the wrong side of history, and
they want to avoid their face. This is true. But the worst thing are those papers
and those hacks who write paeans for these villains.
Gyanendra has right to throw his son to us, but we also have right to disdain his
decision, and to express our anger about that decision. To claim a person is
already reformed without any sign is a prime example of mendacity mixed with
obsequiousness .There is no doubt.
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| La Femme Nikita |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 07:32 PM
What a pathetic, fatalistic sense of resignation pervades Ashu's postings on this topic!
Ashu's gist is:
Paras-bashers are powerless, while Paras is very powerful. So, Paras-bashers, you had better embrace the Stockholm Syndrome instead; yes, welcome escapism wholeheartedly, because Paras is here to stay!
It have a feeling that the lowest common denominator betwen Ashu and Kunda Dixit is that both of them seem to be staunch, elitist Narayanhiti loyalists, who are masquerading as neutral intellectuals.
With his preposterous argument "he is writing poetry; so he must be [changing for the better]," Kunda Dixit portrays the diabolical Crown Prince as a
Ratnakar-turned-Balmiki, hoping to trigger a wave of pro-Paras public opinion...
...And in this forum, Ashu tries in vain to vindicate Mr. Dixit's arguments with his equally - if not even more - pseudo-analytical arguments, and preaches a sermon of indifference towards Paras.
And who will be the beneficiary of such indifference? Paras, undoubtedly.
Why does one have to accept the status-quo meekly? Isn't history a product of the tension between pro-status quo and revolutionary forces? If an undeserving figure cannot be displaced from the apex of power under a certain system, the system itself will have to be rooted out; the power-equation will have to be changed drastically.
If Paras is to become the monarch, Nepal does not need a monarch. A Nepal without monarchy is always an option; a grand republican revolution is always an option. And the first step towards such a revolution is to discourage sentiments that are conducive to the maintenance of the undesirable status-quo. Clearly, Ashu and Mr. Dixit are encouraging such sentiments instead of discouraging to them.
So, Ashu and Mr. Dixit, do the Nepalese public a favor, will you? If you do not have the guts to criticise the devil, at least don't attempt to lionize him (and his family-centered daddy); at least, don't try to make his coronation digestible to our conscience.
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| imhsar |
Posted
on 07-Nov-01 09:32 PM
Now that Paras is the only remaining heir (first in line) to the throne, it's high time that the constitution got some changes. My main point being that daughters be allowed to ascend the throne just as they do in the European countries. Although I do not have any hard feelings about Paras being the future King, I wish King G had done this in a better way or situation because being the King of Nepal, he does have some responsibility to his nation and his people. So he should have taken this in mind before making his son the heir to the throne in such a haste.
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| GP |
Posted
on 12-Nov-01 07:26 PM
Most of the people in this internet version of talk, miss the
full hard copy of the Nepali newspapers. These days, all
the news papers and business house are rushing to be more
PARAS Bhakta. You buy TKP or Kantipur or The Nepali Times
or any other news paper, you will find 70-80% of the news
paper surface area covered by congratulation message
to Paras. Those who write from Nepal, like Ashu or
Dixit are more following the current trend of pendulum
journalism of Nepal, that swings according to Royal
interest, public interest and both hinges on MONEY
Packets.
Now everyone is rushing to prove Paras was good
kid, good student, good royal, good husband, ... .
and that might be true, as long as he is not drunk,
and when he is drunk, I am not sure whether he
deviates quite away from those nice characters.
GP
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| La Femme Nikita |
Posted
on 13-Nov-01 03:29 PM
This article blew my mind!
Gosh! Goebbels pales in comparison to the Nepalese Crown Prince's spin-doctors.
I attended BNKS too, and I know that this jerk manhandled a key staff at BNKS and was expelled from BNKS, in fact. And now when the Nepali press with awash with such outrageous propaganda, I sure feel justified in condeming a section of the Fourth Estate itself!
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The Crown Prince A close-up
He loves sports, knows all his long lost school friends’ names by heart and is poetic in nature. He is none other than His Royal Highness Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
"With his common touch during his school days, we never felt he was a Prince," says his former classmate, Chetan Shrestha.
Paras did his Junior High from North Point, Darjeeling and High School from Budhanilkanta School, Kathmandu. Paras, Batch number 292B, was regarded as a helpful friend who shared his joys and sorrows reminisces another classmate, Devendra Shrestha. The school catered to people from all classes of society and he definitely moulded himself to that environment, considering himself one among them.
"He was a pleasant boy, well disciplined and always an enthusiastic student but was in poor health," states the Principal of Budhanilkantha School, Narayan Sharma. V.K. Vaidya, a teacher remembers a gathering where he addressed Paras with the title of Prince and how he was told to refer to him only as Paras.
Given his leadership qualities, he was made a prefect at Annapurna House. This fits in well with his subsequently being conferred the Suprashidda Prabala Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, The Coronation Medal 1975, The Silver Jubilee Medal 1999 and The Bishista Sewa Medal 1998.
After High School, he proceeded towards Schiller International University and The United Kingdom for further studies in Business Administration.
His taste in music runs to the rock and heavy metal of Metallica and Guns and Roses and in sports he’s into swimming and basketball. He’s also a keen player in Chess and Monolpoly.
Rabindra Maharjan another associate says, "Soon after the Royal Massacre, all the people visiting the Royal Palace were supposed to enter with their Dhaka Topi on but when we entered Palace, we were told to take off the Topies. This showed his feeling of respect towards friends."
Before being proclaimed Crown Prince, he had been involved with the Central Zoo for 6 years and recently became Coordinator of the Zoo Development Committee of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC) . With regular visits to the zoo, he gave guidance and directions about the work there, according to the Director of the Central Zoo, R.K. Shrestha. Family visits to the zoo show his ardent love for wildlife and fascination with its almost endless variety. He is a true nature conservationist, adds the Zoo Director.
With his proclamation as Crown Prince, he has definitely changed. He has been working hard to understand the nitty gritty of state affairs whether it meant going over the daily affairs of the country or meeting people from different walks of life. Taking advice from the friends and relatives has always been his prior concern, say close associates.
Apart from his involvement in state affairs, he is also a family man. He was married on January 27,2000 to Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Himani Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah who comes from a princely family in India’s Rajasthan State. They have a daughter, Purnika, who has been conferred the title of as Yubarajkumari. " He is a good husband and a loving father," says Mabindra Regmi, a childhood friend.
Paras rather liked fast cars and night life and this had stamped him with a drunken party animal image. He was accused of killing a popular folk singer after hit and run incident last August. He had the typical profile of a rich spoilt brat without any responsibility on his shoulders. Those who know him say given his new status as future king, he will definitely change and prove himself in the betterment of the country. Kanak Giri, another friend of Paras says with his mission, "to do something good for the country and its people", we will definitely see the country moving towards prosperity.
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 13-Nov-01 04:37 PM
Very interesting and how very amusing
- Our Crown Prince used to play (still does???) monopoly.
This just cannot be for real right? No wonder he behaves like he does! He thinks everything else in real life is up for grabs by just showing a little bit of green.
- Our Crown Prince shows interest in conservation "Family visits to the zoo show his ardent love for wildlife and fascination with its almost endless variety."
How come he learnt NOTHING from the primates - even they are more worthy of praise than our so-called CP.
- "His taste in music runs to the rock and heavy metal of Metallica and Guns and Roses"
With all due respect for TRUE heavy rock fans - when did following heavy rock bands EVER get credit on one's resume?
All this article reminds me of is a saying - LATA ko desh ma gadhu tanneri!
BUT sad to say, all this BS resume might not work with our not-so-lato population anymore. (OR AM I BEING OPTIMISTIC?)
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| Sickofit! |
Posted
on 13-Nov-01 05:15 PM
Oh Christ,
I thought Ashu's comments were right on the nail and he has quite a bit of balls in living in Nepal and voicing those risque comments.
Sick of hearing the f$*%#ing rhetoric of all yo'll good do'ers and savers of the country. I'd luv to see a well-thought out strategy of your globally educated thoughts presented in locally applicable language. Would luv to hear you all knight's of shining armors practical plan of action to oust the CP. Or will you all hide behind the coat-tails of each other, hoping that someone else will do the dirty work that your clean Western educated thoughts are so keen to spout off?
But don't be ashamed of being a fox in Nepal and a lion in America. It is one of the qualities that make people inherently Nepali. To go agains't that grain would be to alter the national image. And altering the national image, my friends, would be a crime punishable by His Majesties government.
So I too live in Nepal and loudly proclaim "Long live King Scar" as I queitly wait for a Simba to have the balls and brains to tackle the shrewed uncle.
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| Sickofit! |
Posted
on 13-Nov-01 05:32 PM
Let me finish that thought:
The shrewed uncle that had a hand in killing Mufasa and blamed it on little Simba. And if you don't understand that analogy, I suggest you watch the movie "The Lion King."
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 13-Nov-01 07:43 PM
Get as sick as you want and keep going on about how those in Nepal have a better grip on Nepal's reality and what will work here business! I agree that being in Nepal and criticising the status quo comes with a great deal more risk than being, say in the US, and doing the same thing. and I laud any who do speak up.
But, the fact of the matter is that non-resident Nepalis have a lot to contribute to any onging debate in Nepal, especially one as important as leadership and the monarchy. And maybe, the very fact that we are not in Nepal means that we have additional responsibiliyt to do the things that those living in Nepal cannot!! So, it is NOT merely rhetoric. If you have noted other threads you will notice that many non-resident Nepalis hope to return to Nepal and live there threafter. So ...
Going back to what Ashu said thre are a couple of choices -
a) continue to criticize Paras for all his past sins, and get nowhere with that.
b) hope that Paras becomes a better person . . . and let that be that.
That is not the case. It is not so an either/or scenario. It is really unfortunate that the petition did not work (who came up with that idea anyhow)... does not mean that people should not continue to critique and bring the leadership to task! Now, before coming up with a concrete plan there has to be room to point of the things that are not working.
If we are to hope that Paras will becoem a better person, believe you me, it is NOT goign to happen in a vaccum. The best thing we can do is criticise him for what he has done wrong in the past and yes, continue to do so, till he and the royals and yes, the lay leaders as well, learn that the Nepali public has its eye on the leadership and will not accept crap. I think we need to remind the top that they are there because WE THE PEOPLE allow it... and yes, we do. Naive? call me what you will. But we have shown it at least a couple times in our history, Nepalis can stand together when it is necessary!
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