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| catmandogal |
Posted
on 25-Jul-02 09:47 PM
The pub culture is thriving in the capital these days. Away from the untold hardship and suffering of a majority of the common populace, a handful of the affluent converge on the city pub every day as soon as dusk settles. The city elite throng the glittering gala and start sipping exotic drinks amidst the erotic aura inside the pub. Taking swigs of alcoholic drink and munching palatable meats of various kinds, derailed lads from well-to-do families enter the bustling milieu. As the pint of liquor starts coursing in their veins, boisterous gossip and high talk come into action.
Most pubs throughout the capital are provided with nubile lasses in their teens and twenties as waitresses. The sole role of these lassies is none other than to entice those youths who start to become regular clientele of a particular pub. Many pubs offer exciting dances to their visitors. Navel-gazing is a commonplace phenomenon in those pubs. As the night wears on, dancers are seen in their flimsy dresses arousing the onlookers. A fracas often erupts, matter of ladies, between various groups within the pub, sometimes even ending in a murder.
Today, society has come to dramatic and drastic change in Kathmandu. The haves have developed a culture of visiting dance restaurants, massage centres and discotheques. Creative youths who should bear the onerous onus of nation-building are leading themselves ashtray. Their extravaganza not only impedes their progress and development, it has a severe impact upon their families. Parents and spouses have nothing to do but repent. Thus, the very delicate family bond eventually leads to a crumbling path.
Ours is a nation where poverty and misery are predominant. Amidst this plight and pathos, going to the pub every day in the outright imitation of alien culture is sheer absurdity. It leads us to nowhere but the abyss of mental perversion. The whole nation is reeling under the poverty, illiteracy and backwardness, and enjoying nights amid the hubbub of the city pub is beyond rationality.
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| wonderer |
Posted
on 26-Jul-02 12:11 AM
It is inevitable. And it's not wrong to go out and drink. But Nepal still needs laws about drinking age, time and place. It's definitely employment for the jobless and a way for the rich to spend their money. I don't have problem with responsible drinkers.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 26-Jul-02 05:23 PM
Hi Catmandogal,
It was a thought-provoking look at the so-called 'pub culture', but to say that the
pub culture leads astray our future generation is oversimplification. Granted
there is disparity between haves and havenots, but it is going to be that way.
By taking away people's right to enjoy, we can't reduce disparity. However, I share
your disapproval of sordid environment and erotic aura if that is really a case.
A lot of people in Nepal think that a 'waitress' in a night club is 'somewhat' unwholesome
and that has a lot to do with our stereotype rather than reality. Why can't we
respect the girls who earn their living by working in restaurant, and why we rush
to accuse them of meretritious life, I don't know.
I for one have enjoyed the newly opened pubs near the bank of Rapti river.
I didn't see any such deplorable aura there. It was purely a place to unwind.
Let's be a little tolerant to those who work there.
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| Junkie. |
Posted
on 26-Jul-02 08:44 PM
Damn ..... now I miss nepal even more. Catmandogal .....you write beautifully. Is it the erotic atmosphere or exotic ......
Nuthing wrong with drinking (ofcourse no driving later on :). Bottomline is one has to enjoy life. As long as one is doing their bit of work ..... be it education or work ...... free time is for one to do as one pleases. I go online, chat and go out ..... act stupid. But when it matters, I do my work. I show up promptly at work and get busy with the slicer chopping vegetables that diners heartily (I hope) munch later on.
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