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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 01-Apr-02 11:51 AM
By now it's a public secret. That Gyanedra is a pro-active king. The crisis in the country calls for an active leader - not a devoted democrat who's locked in a Hamletian inaction.
But I certainly hope we are not returning to dark days of Panchayat as has been expressed in some quarters. Recent imprisonment of jounrnalists, human rights workers, even a medical doctor, sends a chill down my spine. They were handcuffed, blindfolded, and according to an email I just recieved from one of them, kept in solitary confinements for four days.
As importantly, why not look back at past 11 years of democracy and ask ourselves where did *we* go wrong. You can't just pass the buck onto Deuba, Koirala, Makune, Maoists, Nepal Police, corrupt bureaucracy, etc, for ever. Eveyone else is rotten but me.
Indeed, if anything, it's a collosal collective failure.
But waiit - all's not lost yet.
Our capacity to introspect, reflect, discuss bright, intelligent--and sometimes unpopular-- ideas has increased tremendously. A lot more young and smart people are now publicly expressing their concern over what's happening to our country, politicians, police, bureaucracy, Royal Family, poverty, corruption, what we have done to ourselves. Thanks to the rapid development in mass media - not the least Internet.
Now the major challenge before us is to broaden this Great Dialouge - Nepali Renaissance, if you like - to make it more inclusive, reach the hinterland, the underprivileged, the supressed villlage girl, and the down-trodden.
I hope we can all contribute our bit to this growing body of knowledge, the Great Dialouge.
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| JhismiseBihani |
Posted
on 01-Apr-02 12:58 PM
for years, we have been blaming the politicians, the police force, the beurocrats for all the ills in our country. i think it is about time that we realize that all these corrupt politicians, the beaurocrats are nothing but a refelction of each and every one of us.
i used to say ok maybe not all of us are corrupt but no more. i think we are all directly, indirectly, partially, fully responsible for the acts that these corrupt ones perform.
what i am saying in no way exonerates these people but it is about time we stop secretlyadmiring that certain "bhansar adhikrit" who has just build a new "tin-talle" bungalow after a mere one year of posting there, while publically denouncing what goes in that bhansar office because our secret or not so secret admiration is a sign that we (not working in bhansar) would not have too many second thoughts in participating in the same kind of activites that we wre blasting an hour ago...
before we embark on any nation building journey (which i think we have been on, if i am not mistaken, for quite a while now), we must embark on a character building journey of the citizens of our country
JB
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 01-Apr-02 02:36 PM
Excellent ideas. Add to the list the smuggler, and his flashy cars, (not to talk of his pretty wife!!) nextdoor we secretly admired while comdemning smuggling in general. And the Mantri, MP, sachibjiwu, CDO and DSP saheb we humored to seek favors for ourselves - for our dai, didi, salla, sali, mamma, maiju, vinaju, bhada, bhadai, vatija and vatiji. Isn't silience complicity.
But the moment we were out of their earshot, they became faceless politicos, bureaucrats--corrupt, dirty, and, spineless.
This probably forms the core of a great nation. Strong citizenry. Our netas, honestly, are only reflections of our own selves. So next time we criticize them, let's forget who put them there.
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 01-Apr-02 02:38 PM
Correction: The last sentence above:
So next time we criticize them, let's NOT forget who put them there.
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