Why Nepal?

डाकुहरु (looters) are taking turns looting and pillaging a village. The village is getting sucked high and dry repeatedly. A serious fight has broken out between these gangs of looters over the issue of who gets to loot the most and for how long this season!

Meanwhile, the villagers are on their knees, pleading to leave their starving village alone. But No! The looters brush them aside with their “who are you to even talk?” mentality. They are busy negotiating hard on “भाग बन्डा”, who gets what amount of the spoils. The helpless villagers are left muttering yet quiet, frustrated yet with fear, undignified and praying to the million goddesses to come rescue them at once!

The Scene cuts into intense negotiation between the gang  of looters. They never seem to be able to agree until the very very last moment… Even the villagers,their eternal victims, are urging them to agree on SOMETHING.  There is a message written in each of their faces. “यस्तै हो Yestai ho.”

Scene changes again.
Lo! A decision is made. The gangs of looters have finally come to some sort of (soon to be broken) agreement! They jointly come out and read this statement before the village.
“We have decided to let this village live but on ONE condition only. That is we Gang A, B, and C be allowed to rule the village in turn, unconditionally and with impunity, for one more year. (Otherwise we will violently fight with each other to wrest control of the village and make this into a war zone with murder and mayhem).

The villagers look frantically at each other’s helpless faces, their children’s faces too, and agree right there and then! Better slavery than this possible uncertainty and chaos and possible scenes of murder. A sigh of relief is heard everywhere, some are even clapping at this breakthrough! Some are seen thanking their looters for saving  the village from “certain possible” disaster! A large quiet majority sit mute, maybe out of fear or hopelessness or just loss of dignity with “ke garne”  के गर्ने ? on their mouths.

The Final Climatic scene: One gang of Looters are ruling the village again while another gang in the background are soon scheming for their downfall. The villagers look surprised to have just about survived another year?

THE END. (This Film repeats again…and again…and again in a cinema hall near you.) The audience loves the movie.”what a moving tragedy-comedy”, some one shouts! Claps are heard across.

Wait ! Doesn’t this scenario sound like our Nepal right now?

It certainly does! Wouldn’t we all like to change the ending of this movie?
Are you saying, you can’t ? that we 30 Million Nepali’s can’t?
One person is more than enough capable of changing the environment around her. If Gautam Buddha showed us 2500 years ago, what are you waiting for ? If Gandhi and Mother Teressa have shown us this in neighboring India, what are you waiting for in Nepal? If Deng Xiaoping in China showed how to bring millions of Chinese from abject poverty to prosperity, then there you go! If they can do it, we sure can do it!

Right now, we are all afraid, frustrated and it seems our dignity is eternally fading, day by day. But the day we decide to face our fears, we will start winning, each of us.  Start today. Worried on how to get started ? Here are some possible ways to help you to start your own creative initiatives to do it in your own ways)

And If you want to follow, follow only your conscience!

You are unique. Experiment with your own way! We are all capable of leading in our own circles. So lead the way in your own way one step at a time!

Don’t be afraid to take sides but remain true to your own views. If your views change over time, this is fine. It is just natural.  Just don’t ever remain under any obligations that contradict your morals! You are here to lead your community.

Practice convincing your views to your friends and near circle. If you can’t convince your group, you cannot convince the mob that is out there. This is the hardest hurdle ! Start a group based on your views on Facebook to test your ideas out. Experiment now!

Write, Write, Write  (first an anonymous comment in a local news paper or blogs, then a small opinion, an analysis, then write a comprehensive article proposing your solutions to problems. No one was born a writer or a problem solver. Your pen influences more people than you could ever imagine.

All students and researchers out there, do pointed research on the community around you. For example, how the your local authorities respond to citizen complaints? (Do a survey). research on where the money of your local club is spent. Publish them on the Internet so that everyone in the world notices sooner or later. (Even the Nepali media is hungry for materials like this). Aim big, start small.

Start a group or a club in a cause you belief in? If you are worried about our generation’s future, open one, or join an active group who cares about the future. For clean politics? clean neighborhood? clean environment? clean minds ? Find like-minded people around you and build a platform.  Take a stand. Be pro-active (not passive). Any change begins very small! Build it one person at a time. (the mass following will come in time, have patience). In time you will have built a platform for others to come together to change.

So what will you do today to change the ending of our movie?

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