Looters as Rulers

March 31, 2011governanceUjwal

नेपालीमा यहाँ पढ्नुहोस्
A movie is playing in the cinema hall near you. The plot goes like this:

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, villagers are on their knees, pleading to the looters to leave their starving village alone. But No! The looters brush them aside with their “who are you to even plead?” mentality. They are busy negotiating hard on “भाग बन्डा” i.e who gets what amount of the spoils. The helpless villagers are left muttering yet quiet, frustrated yet with fear, undignified yet divided and praying to the 330 million gods and goddesses to come rescue them at once!

The movie cuts into another scene where gangs of looters are locked in intense negotiations with each other on how to divide the loot. They never seem to be able to agree until the very last moment… Even the villagers,their eternal victims, are urging them to agree on SOMETHING. There is an message

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Do you believe we (our generation) have a future here in Nepal ?

March 29, 2011positive storiesnepal's future, Nepal's outlook, Nepalis opinions, positive nepal, survey NepalUjwal

I asked,

Do you believe we (our generation) have a future here in Nepal ?

Here is your answer:

556 Nepalis answered in total so far.
416 said Yes. we (our generation) have a future here in Nepal. (74 %)
65 said No, we do not have a future here in Nepal. (11.7 %)
75 said Maybe, we do, maybe we don’t. ( 13.5 %)

What do you think ?

Are we what we are shaped to be?

March 25, 2011change, environment, leadership, thought provokingcareer in nepal, leadership vacum Nepal, mentor in Nepal, Problems in NepalUjwal

20 years ago, our mentors (our teachers, fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts etc) started giving us career guidance from an early age and tell us explicitly or implicitly what they expected us to become. They analyzed what was wrong in Nepal at that time and tried to make us into solutions to the problems they were facing, then.

That is why they told us to become a Professional ( Engineer, Teacher, Banker, Manager etc) or a Doctor or a Scientist.

“डक्टर वा इन्जिनियर है !”

Most frowned upon some of our ideas of making a career in sports, poetry, writing or even acting. Equally No No was Politics or Public Service or even the Army or Police. “After all the education you have got, you are going to be just THAT? !!” was their answer. Arts (Sociology, economics etc) and Commerce (Management, business, finance etc) was only if we were not good enough be a Doctor or a Professional (Engineer was the common name given then). Our mentors also never saw social sector as a viable alternative either. (maybe the concept was not born then).

Lately, I was curious to see whether their advice was effective in shaping our generation’s

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देश भक्ति के होला ?

March 23, 2011leadership, nepali, philosophynepali, Ujwal thapa, अधिनायकवाद, जातिबाद, धर्मवाद, पुजीवाद, मार्कसवाद, मावोवाद, राजावादUjwal

देश भक्ति के होला ?
थाहा भएन मलाई।

तर देश भक्ति के होईन त्यो कुरामा चाहिँ म प्रश्ट छु :

पुर्खाको “बीरताको” आड लिएर आफुलाई बीर ठान्ने।
देशको लागि मर्छु भन्ने।
अन्याय सहँने प्रवृतिलाई धैर्यवान ठान्ने।
दुई पुस्ता पछिको लागि क्रान्ति गर्छु भन्दै हिँडने।
आफ्नो हक-हित खोज्दा अरुको छिन्ने।
मार्कसवाद, पुँजीवाद, राजावाद, मावोवाद ,जातीबाद, धर्मवाद, अधिनायकवाद। अाफ्नै सिद्धान्तले मात्रै देश बनाउँछ भनि जाई लाग्ने।
अरुले गु खायो भन्दैमा आफुले पनि गु खान पाउनु पर्छ भन्ने।
आफ्नो घर आँगन चिटिक्क पार्ने तर टोलको मतलब नराख्ने ।
धन, पद, ठाँऊ कमाउदैँमा देशको सेवा गरेँ ठान्ने।
मैले आफ्ना छोरा छोरीलाई गरेँ। सबैले त्यसै गरे त देश बनिहाल्छ भनि सोच्ने।

देश भक्ति के होला त ?