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| Biswo |
Posted
on 14-Feb-03 05:06 PM
People fed up with our 'conventional' peace activists felt fresh breath of relief, and ridiculed the established peace activists[Daman, Padma Ratna, Sudip Pathak etc.] when the last truce was announced under the oblique pre-truce procedures under the mediation of two 'newcomers'. Since people are more concerned with 'aam khaane' rather than 'ped ginne', few cared about who was behind the peace. I also didn't care.
But, what I found particularly 'funny' was this comment about one of the 'madhyasthakartas' in one of the newspapers in I read in nepalnews.com last week. Mr Adhikari, the paper wrote, "is not known for hygiene". Hmm. And Mr Jhapali, the owner of a hospital being closely watched by the government, was also another unlikely mediator since he left a communist party to join communist-sounding 'samata party'.Surprises have sprung in the previous years in Nepal in great numbers, and so I don't feel any surprise about this new development.
Is King-Prachanda tete-a-tete an "anti-Communist" thing? I don't think so. It is a real "Maoist" thing. In 1970s, when there were discussions about whether to invite Richard Nixon to China or not, Mao pursuaded his comrades to invite. When Nixon went to China, Mao was bedridden, and blind. Nixon therefore was not supposed to meet Mao. But Mao unexpectedly set a brief meeting. Mao later always emphasized that when dealing with your enemy, one had deal with the top guy.That's how you get more.
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I was standing there in the cold, puffing out white vaporous breath, wearing cheap Chinese sportshoes, wrapping neck with woolen scarf, and comforting my body with warm cardigan when she came out of the nearby shop that her family owned. That was a Valentine day a few years ago, when she definitely didn't know about Valentine day.
Then we started talking, sipping milky tea. I told her how her skin looked, 'like this tea'. She laughed, but her uncomfort with the comment regarding her physical feature was evident. I also saw small hole between her two incisors, and I found them pretty cute. I told her that too.
"I think you praise everybody." She said.
"Who else did I praise?" I asked.She replied a name of her classmate.
"Oh, come on. I haven't seen her since the last time I saw her in Pokhara in a temple long ago."
"But you praised her at the time, didn't you?"
"What's wrong with praising someone, even if I did?"
"It lowers the value of your praise."
"Do you want me to praise you only, then?"
I asked her. She didn't say a single word. It was still the cold morning, morning fog slowly being dispelled by warming sun, yet it was difficult to see more than a hundred feet. Nearby, shopkeepers were sweeping dust from their shop and depositing them in the road. I looked at the inanity of that practice.But again, the whole world, its existence, everything looks silly sometimes.
She didn't reply anything. Coyishly, she sat there, entrapped by verbal mesh, in the crossroad of emotions, between inaninity and invisibility of the world, near a person who is unpredictable. She couldn't even look at me anymore, she looked across the road, sipped tea, finished it, as I taciturnly reproached myself for my way of dealing.
I asked her again, "Do you?" mustering some more courage.
And that is when she stood up, and went inside, where she felt more safe and comfortable.The onus of deciphering all her actions then lied entirely upon me.
[Of course, a fictional account.]
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| noname |
Posted
on 14-Feb-03 10:13 PM
Kya Biswoji pani...kati lukaune! KAHILE ...DHARO DHARMA SATHIKO KATHA re KAHILE fictional account re.......KASLE PATYAYOS!
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>>Mr Adhikari, the paper wrote, "is not known for hygiene".
Yeh...and just few weeks beofre the bolt from the blue - the ceasefire, Mr. Lamichhane changed his attire and was spoted with a mobile -same paper reported. Interesting! Hmm....
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 14-Feb-03 11:24 PM
haina nonameji, dharodharma kathai ho.
Ani, thanks for correcting. I didn't know the fella was Lamichhane or Adhikari. Kinda obscure beatnik he is! Though I hope him success. Any life saved is success.
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 14-Feb-03 11:31 PM
zhen de ma? wo bu xin.
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| deep |
Posted
on 14-Feb-03 11:35 PM
Khai ke ho ke ho...
maile ek choti malta bara ko katha lekheko the yo sajhama...churos bhitra malta bara (pataka) halera deko eutale euta churot magne lai...pahile ta churot dini ni danga churot lini ni danga...pachhi ta churot dini mattai danga churos lini ta suuuui sarko tanda malta bara dyamma padkida aatera ladyo ni parkhal bata..tamasa ko patra bhayo....aba yo maobadi ra na maobadi ko pani tyastai ho ki...ahile sammata churos lini ra churos dini duita samme chhan kun bela malta bara padkini ho?
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 15-Feb-03 12:14 AM
IFji,
Yinggai yao xiangxin, wo ganma yao pian ren ne? BTW, the onus of deciphering her actions repose on you too.she yi she ba.
Deepji,
Haami sabai confused ho hajur. Tapaiko kathaa jasto last time ko baartaa maa bhayeko pakkai ho, sher bdr ko mukhmai padkeko thiyo tyo churot. This time testo nahos.Sometimes, I think baru ek dui barsha desh tinai raakchhes extremists (right and left dubai kaa) le khaaun, maanchhe namaari kana. But there is rarely any instance where a tiger roamed around the jungle without killing weak deers/lambs etc even if they 'allowed' it to roam 'unhindered'. The best strategy for lambs/deers etc has always been to be careful, vigilant in their life. And ,of course, if possible, in attempting to confine the tiger in its own periphery so that it could inflict minimum damage.
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 15-Feb-03 01:58 AM
hah biswoji pani, tyasto action decipher garna sakne xyamata bhako bhaye ta aadha nepal khai dinthe ni ma.. k garnus.. nasakersa hallira..
anyway, my take:
the girl felt insecure because you kept on prasning everyone. of course, everyone feels that others prasie him/her only. Your assurance in the form of a rhetorical question couldn't convince her. She was probably expecting an apology from you and assurance in clear terms that from now on you will only prasie her. However, you didn't want to give up that easily, so you came up with a brilliant diplomatic solution. You showed your willingness to compromise but she didn't get it. and you were left there in that cold thinking how to make this girl your valentine.
Hola nahola thaha chaina.. mero gidi, deemag le bhyaesamma yahi ho...
la bhul-chuk line dine.. E&OE
and she went inside to feel safe and comfortable. khoi yetsi hola.. nahuna ni sakcha..
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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 15-Feb-03 11:08 AM
Biswo ji:
For one moment I thought you were writing about your sanghai days. That would be a real treat.
Hey, you do have this habit of coming up with all these nice tales and happily labeling them as fiction and sathiko katha as noname pointed out? Khai khai. Pokharako reference, or should I say refrain, ghari ghari auchha ni tapaiko romantic story-haruma? Lakeside tira khoob chakkar mareko justo chha.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 15-Feb-03 03:14 PM
IFji,
That was a nice try. Aba fiction nai ho, jasari interpret gareni.
VVji,
No, no more 'good old days'. In fact, I really don't believe in this ubiquitious concept of 'good old days'. A pure fiction, VVji. Pokhara ta mero maawali, Chitwan ra Kathmandu pachhi ali thhahaa bhayeko thaau nai tyai ho.Chitwan ko reference ta tannai aairaakhchha, kahile kaahi Pokhara pani use garchhu, tetti ho.
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