Buddha was born in Nepal. So what?

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Buddha was born in Nepal. So what?

Yes, Buddha was born in Lumbini, around 2600 years ago, which is now in Nepal. I am very proud of that he was born here!
But the real question we Nepali should be asking each-other now is:

Would Buddha want to be re-born in Nepal of today?

  1.  Would he approve of our pin-drop silence against injustice and impunity in Nepal?
  2. Would he salute the long lines of young men and women in a hurry to leave their motherland, that our elders turned into a place of dead-ends and despair?
  3. Would he embrace his fellow Nepalis who try to divide themselves along our castes, religions and material wealth?
  4. Would he keep smiling while some of his countrymen kill our own kin in the name of change?
  5. Would he sit idly while we butcher animals in a ritual sacrifice to appease gods or sell girls to prostitution?
  6. Would he help us when we prefer to sit silent like sheep while our rulers rape any dignity that is left

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We are not failing. We have already failed. Lets deal with it.

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Lets accept this fact for Nepal.

“We are not failing. We have already failed. Deal with it.”

Nepal ranks in as 30th Failed state of the world according to this report.

So how do we deal with it? And how do we move on?

Here are 3 important life-choices you will have to make to play a role in turning our country around:

1) Take the political path:  Want to serve your country fore-most? Take the lead and join politics (redefine it, change the whole political culture). Politics is an ultimate sacrifice if you want the change you seek in Nepal now.  If your priority is saving your conscience, your family, your town and your country all in one, you will prepare yourself to lead us all out of this mess! No earlier experience required: you learn as you go. Simplify your life. Try to live a life of example. Beware, Politics is like fire. You can either make it a good servant or a bad master, all up to you. Note: Do not make politics a career. Make sure, you have an alternative livelihood which sustains your family while you lead

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नेपाल आमाको पनि मुख हेर्ने होईन? (आज आमाको मुख हेर्ने दिन)

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Nepal aama

आमाको मुख हेर्ने दिन आज। यस पाली देखि नेपाल आमाको नी मुख हेर्ने होईन ?
आफ्नी आमालाई जे दिनुहुन्छ त्यस्तै भाव नेपाल आमालाई नि दिने होईन ?
माया, स्याहार-सुसार, श्रद्धा, सम्मान आमालाई मात्र होईन नेपाल आमालाई दिलाउने होईन ?

आखिर तपाईकी आमा र नेपाल आमा के छ र भिन्नता?
तपाईको आमा जस्तै तपाईको अस्तित्व दिनुमा नेपाल आमाको पनि देन हो। आमाले जस्तै निस्वार्थ माया-ममता गर्छिन् तपाईलाई। जति उभद्रो गर्दा पनि सहन्छिन्।  छोडी जाँदा पनि आश नमारी कुरी बस्छन्। बर्षौँ पछि फर्कदा पनि अँगाल्छिन् कत्ति पनि कटु बचन नराखीँ। सयौँ बैगुण बोकेका तपाईमा उनले गुणै गुण मात्र देख्छिन्।  हामीले जति नै निराश बनाए पनि फेरि मौका दिन्छिन। हाम्री आमा। हाम्री नेपाल आमा !

यहि भावना र मायाको फाईदा उठाएर होला, हामी मध्य केहिले नेपाल आमालाई अन्धकारको खाडलमा ज्याक्दैँ छौँ। अनि अर्को जमातले आफ्नै मातृभूमिलाई अत्याचार, बेईज्जत अनि नङ्गयाउन कस्सिएका छौँ। अनि बाँकी हामी टुलुटुलु यो दुर्दशा देखेर पनि नदेख्यै जस्तै गरि बसेका छौँ। पचाउन गाह्रो भए पछि मन वरिपरि कठोरता र उदासीनताको पर्खाल बनाई लुक्ने प्रयासमा छौँ। नेपाल आमाको स्थति जति  जति नाजुक हुन्छ पर्खाल त्यति नै अग्लो बनाँउदै जान्छौँ।

तपाई -हामी धेरै छौँ जो  नेपाल आमालाई लागेको दाग मेट्टाउन लागि परेका छौँ। तर बिडम्बना हामीलाई सब थाहा छ तर आँट

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I have a dream…

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I have a dream…

that one day my children, their children and their grandchildren
 shall all embrace this nation as their god-given home
and not some rented shack we choose to leave
when the cracks start appearing …

I have a dream…

that one day, my little boys and girls shall be judged
not by the accent in their voices but by the sparkle in their eyes;
not by the surnames of their forefathers but by the aura of their deeds…
and once again, we shall all be free to accept each other
as divine blessings to complete our beautiful family.

I have a dream…

that one day, every grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter
shall all live within a breath of each other,
weaving monuments of love to leave behind,
just like those temples and the ‘chautaris’,
the gompas and the ‘mithila’ arts of the past

I still have a dream …

that one day, leaders of our nation shall be judged
not by the herds of their followers, but by the virtue of

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The seeds of terror in Boston could be sown in the streets of Kathmandu…

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A letter to the 1st world:

The seeds of terror in #Boston could be sown in deep institutional injustices on a 3rd world mess like Nepal or Chechnya or Syria… If we want to stop it, we have start taking autocracies head-on now. If our 1st world friends want to end terror on their streets, get your governments to stop smiling at 3rd world autocracies.

If the 1st world nations are serious about terror not spreading to their cities, you should start taking the sides of young men and women fighting their rulers on the streets of Kathmandu, Aleppo or Kandahar to fight for their dignity against their own rulers.

I ask, what are the governments in these countries but a syndicate of thugs? In Nepal we now have a syndicate of autocracy. Yet I see our 1st world friends recognizing and working with them while you choose to remain silent about gross injustices done to its citizens in the hopes of avoiding violence. War (violence) is an inevitable outcome of un-attended injustices. I still see you perhaps honestly but ineffectively striking at the branches of evil, rather than the roots.

Every day our young bow down to extremist ideals

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