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on 03-Nov-02 01:56 PM
Posted by MP
Posted on 11-02-02 8:25 AM Reply
Hello,
Does anyone have idea how safe Kathmandu is nowadays? I heard recently that Maoists were using gun with silencer and they killed Mr. Sanjay Singh Dangol at his home using silencer. Do Maoists chase them who go to visit his/her parent in Kathmandu? Is there any incident in Kathmandu that Maoists chase to the visitors (Nepalese living in USA)? Please, share some information, I desperately need to go to see my parents (they are pretty much old), but my parents and I are afraid of possible attack by Maoists. Any inputs, please ????
Thanks
Reaction by Ashu
Posted on 11-02-02 9:22 AM Reply
This is the kind of posting that makes me roll my eyes and shake my head.
Granted, safety should be everyone's concern, but this sort of worry is
way insane . . . the kind of American suburban nose-picking worrying habit
that writers like Bill Bryson make fun of.
Look, Kathmandu may be a lot of things, but this is not exactly your Kabul of
August 2001.
I mean, hundreds of thousands of people are living and working in Kathmandu, without worrying that they'll be blown off to pieces.
I just came back, to give you one example, watching Vin Diesel and Asia Argento in that movie XXX (evening show) in a fairly crowded movie theater . . . the same movie theater where a bomb went off a few days ago. BUT people were there there . . . chomping on popcorn, drinking Coke and with their family members. Now what does this tell you?
I was in Thamel earlier this afternoon, and the area was crowded as hell, even though another bomb had gone off there a few days ago. Ditto for Ason, Indrachowk, Putali Sadak and so on and on.
Given all this, who the hell is ever going to define how safe Kathmandu is FOR YOU and you alone?
Besides, unlss you wave your green card in their face and start singing star-spangled banner, how on earth the Maoists are going to figure out which Nepali is from Amrika and which Nepali is from Burkina Faso, and shoot only the ones from Amrika?
Get real.
If you have to see your parents, then, come, and you'll do fine in this city of lakhs of people.
If this safety thing is your goddamn excuse, then, stay where you are and chat online with your parents or call them.
But don't get insanely worried about the safety factor in Kathmandu as though living
in New York or DC or Boston were any better (that is, going by the US Department of Justice ko homicide rates in cities with 100,000+ population.)
Enough said.
Welcome to Kathmandu.
oohi
"OK, the Vin Diesel effect is wearing off now"
ashu
ktm,Nepal
Encountered by PM
Posted on 11-02-02 9:40 AM Reply
Ashu,
You are so Rude damn Rude !!! How come, you can treat some one like this saying "Given all this, who the hell is ever going to define how safe Kathmandu is FOR YOU and you alone?"
Why don't you keep yourself apart from your bull shit suggestion???? You are the "Great One" who had spent Ten years for accomplishing Undergraduate. What do you think yourself, dude?
Thanks for all the well well-wisher!!!!!!!!!
Arguments by Ashu
Posted on 11-02-02 10:33 AM Reply
MP,
The pleasure is all mine.
Thank you for the compliments.
As I said, welcome to Kathmandu -- the city inhabited by hundreds of
fellow-Nepalis, living and working right here.
A very Happy Tihar to you.
oohi
ashu
ktm,Nepal
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