well what i have to say…all the more The Maoist’s 10th year…each day a proof for their presence.Nepal with the army(royal) and the army(red ) is having its days darkening. I,who haven’t been to much of Nepal outside the capital valley hills, think that what the youth(majority os them) here are doing is far less than what they can do.all hail to sarahana… we valley youths think our hands are tied by ropes which is not the case actually cause we are failing to see that only one of our hands are tied and the other is free to untie the other…what is the youth doing?naya nepal sambhab cha but the ones to create th new NEPAL are just stuck…

Illusionary effort by the narrator to highlight the present ongoing situation of NEPAL in her month visit to homeland(which was also due to extent her VISA,if she really loves Nepal so much stay in NEPAL at least from today onwards rather than running away to Black and White men country).

But only taking a month break from busy schedule from Newyork and coming to Nepal…and writing a journey’s experience is very raw mentality.

Sarahana’s and her crew’s field visit is only the outer reality. Like the outer surface of the nut.But the inner reality is totally different.Which she totally fails to address.

Rather than commenting more…..I would strongly recommend her to stay at Khalanga for a year and then comment.Then her comment will not be the same like now.

So dear Miss 5.3’, please stop commenting rawly about serious issues so lightly.

May god bless you with your Graphics Designing and your professinal work.Focus on your studies and start your Masters! Amen.

Well written sarahana and its a good thing you expressed your trip and told us such a fantastic story. And rupak yes I know I am the same as you and I know there is so much hope for nepal and there are so many things for us to do for nepal. I know its hard to go and do something outside the valley and even in the valley there are so many things we can do. I am still studying but my promise to my home nepal is at least I will give some of me some part of my knowledge to this country. I promise from my heart. At least I can give some blankets every year to poor, or I can give food at least once a month to the dendrite smelling all street boys who are heading towards very sad direction. This is my promise to my nepal, I will definately do something for you.

oi sudhir,
timi chai sansar ko kun kuna ma basera bhasan garira ma lai pani bhana na la. tes pachi ma pani timi lai recomendation diula - yeso gara ra yeso nagara bhanera.

again props to sarahana for traveling in such an unknown territory to write this story.

I don’t know what this eSudhir’s problem is. what the hell does he expect? that sarahana should solve all of nepal’s problem? I would strongly recommend you to get off your ass and do something before critisizing others.

It’s far easier being an arm chair politico than it is to actually spring into action, e-sudhir. Perhaps you would be kind enough to let us know of these realities that Sarhana seems to have missed.

As for the youth’s hand in helping to rebuild the nation is concerned, there is much that needs to be done and can be done, the problem though, is that, in general, the youth are either happy in their life of luxury within the KTM valley or so busy trying to stay alive in the hills that the impetus for a movement is hard to generate.

With respect to the burgeoning ranks of Nepalese youth abroad, I get the sense that once you’ve left, most are only too willing to burn bridges and focus on the here and now in foreign lands and leave Nepal to be someone else’s problem to rectify.

For those that want to help, there are things that can be done and have to de done. help raise funds to build health centers; find new sources for clean drinking water in the villages; partial scholarhsip for kids to go to school (all of these are tough on a student budget I know, but, in Nepal’s context even $50 goes a very long way)

I hope that there is a change in attitude if not, rebuilding the nation is going to be a near insurmountable task.

Nationality: Nepali
Age:30
Profession:Investment Analyst
Base:Northern Europe.

Last month I had to travel a lot.
I left London for Frankfurt. Immigration checked my Green Passport curiously. Asian officer was checking on my suit,briefcase,watch and my Berry.After business at Frankfurt I went to Swiss Alps for a skiing trip…burnt my nose. On the weekend I was on my way to Brussels, after a busy day we went to a Posh Nepali restaurant run by a Lahure dai and my boss was impressed. From Brussels we jetted to the Canaries for some fun and tan and back to london the following weekend. a 8 day trip. two weeks later a big fat bonus. lost £305 on online poker rest is bothering me how to spend.
Now, I want to go to Thawang. Do I need 2 Foreign Journalist friends to get in there? Or does my finances buy me a way?
I had never heard of Thwanng while I was a bright student at KU…had travelled quite a bit of remote Nepal.
And could anyone tell me what am I looking for?
Am I brave?
Lucky bastard?
London to Thawang…is it COOL? huh
Is it hip when a Thawangee things im one of them with my FOREIGN friends.
Is it that im trying to make a sense
a statement
an achievement
i cud be a writer with an article?
What is it???
im in for some props huh

cud anyone tell me the moral of my story??? i DO NOT know; honestly!

Just because you added some information about yourself dosen’t validate your point whatever it may be. I don’t why people think that sarhana owes them something, she went on a trip to nepal and she told us about it,I enjoyed it, i got a different perspective on things, I know that there is probably more there that she couldn’t see or do, but why should i hold it against her. At least now i know a little more about a part of Nepal i will probably never go to. If its not intresting to you then go back to slaving over your spreadsheet.

comment edited — passing bob performed an oopsy-daisy. love, samudaya sweeper.

haha, the moral of your story is you want some props. bhudai pundit, come on, give him some.

Like most who visit here, I am also very unaware of the people and their culture at the heart of the matter. It is enlightening to read from this and previous columns by Sarahana how government-Maoists dynamics change, primarily influenced by different geographic conditions of the country. If the plains of Nepalganj blurred distinction between Maoists and soldiers, the remote sanctuary of Khalanga and Thawang apparently pronounced such distinction.

Juxtapositions usually intrigue me as visually and contextually appealing. In the land of intimidating hills and treacherous mountains, it is quite astonishing to think of the ‘revivalism’ of once down and out system that failed even the custodians of primary proletariat experiment. If on one hand hills and mountains subdue one’s ego; it equally provides strength and endurance in the face of odds to carry on. Perhaps, it is this very natural supplement of remote Nepali people who themselves physically negotiate natural obstacle of hills and mountains in everyday life to also remain mentally and psychologically resilient in the face of present political, social and economic challenges.

globetrotter:
you are right you have no clue what you are trying to say and neither do we. I don’t know I just spent a min of my precious time reading through your blabble. Anyway the point is that Sarahana is just telling her what she has been observing in the rural parts of Nepal. I think that makes for an interesting article. As for your back-packing trip through europe and your supposed ski trip - nobody really cares.

Baal says

Baal is new to the forum and to samudaya. But, he will try to enlighten with his immense knowledge of Nepal and the current affair (crisis) from now on. Baal has started liking samudaya and the pseudo-intellectuals that visit and run samudaya and witty catchlines line “who is the (fucking) moron who banned us?”

eSudhir’s comment is felt as a direct attack. He should know better than to take things to personal level. Sarahana’s experience does not reflect what she feels rather how she sees. Neither is she trying to be adamant about things that she thinks is right (at other times, I know she does). This is just her journey’s experience. She is not addressing anything.

Like eSudhir would know, what Khalanga is like, or Thawang, or Mahat, or Tila, or Aachham, or Dolpa, Humla and Jumla or so many other parts of Nepal.

To Prateek, promise didn’t help anyone. You just sound like one of those politicians who promised us “so many things” and what they gave us was a fucking monarch who acts like a CEO. So, instead of “crossing your heart and hoping to die”, do something. You, as a student, can do right from now, is what Baal feels. How about giving the tea you are drinking or the chocolate you are eating to these kids.

Kripa, this might come as a personal attack to you, but why don’t you start giving away $50 as a start. Say to Baal. Hehe. Baal is from Nepal and desperately needs to print some fucking flyers and pullouts to educate the students of HSEB, Medical colleges and KU students, who think they know but don’t bother to do “bhutlobhang” because …… Baal really does not know what these fuckers think.

Baal feels for Globetrotter. Sorry ass big L. And to you goes the same comment as for eSudhir.

Baal also feels that people love Sarahana. Baal loves Sarahana too, but no need to speak up for her, people! She needs to do that on her own. Why do people keep telling how right she has done. This will only make her “naak thulo” and decrease her productivity.

Baal lambasts Sarahana’s unproductive article. Baal had thought, after visiting so many places in Nepal, she would give readers something productive, something that would make them think and want to do something. Not another “Dear Diary… Today I met cdo. He is an asshole. My friends also thinks he is an asshole. Love Britney Spears” in a smarter and maybe witty way. It still is stupid. Baal would be interested to know more about her ideas than her diary. However, Baal is not saying he didn’t like the diary. It was good. Baal likes to hear the “baathe kura” (smartass comments) that people make or do.

Sarahana let baal down. But no need to make him happy, Baal agrees. No need to.

Baal thinks his third person address will capture people by their balls to listen to his self-proclaimed greatness. Baal also thinks he’s a hot shot cause he’s in Nepal and knows who the fuck is kissing whose ass in Kathmandu and can appear damn cool in throwing stuff out in forums like this. Why would that be my fucking concern when I can comfortably sit on my fat leather chair and read the diary ramblings of ‘Come on, lets get the hell out!’

Baal drops bomb when he lumps most commenters as somehow semi-moronic and below his super-intellect level to read average posts and remark on its approval. If Baal’s standard is higher that what he finds here, he can bend around and kiss his own ass good bye. Who the fuck cares. And if Baal likes to elevate Sarahana and her skills to dizzying heights, he’s welcome to worship her; let the commenters remark on their own without his raving-mad accusations flying around.

Why does Baal ask $50 from Kripa for his own misadventure of printing pamphlets when she sincerely brings up proposal for raising funds for legitimate causes? If Baal needs $$ for his self-gratification, he can do his own fund-raising. Print an article on Kantipur about your unfulfilled expectation from Sarahana’s columns.

Baal’s trying to prey on Prateek’s guilt of drinking tea and eating chocolates in America. That shit is not going to fly. If anybody eyes my $$ that I worked my ass off for, they can forget that they even woke up from the last time they went to bed. Baal employs the entire wrong tactic to put his points across. I would have mostly agreed with what Baal is possibly trying to say had it not been for his ravingly-lunatic style of offending the shit out of everybody.

Baal can love Sarahana all he wants, rest will simply decide to read whatever there is out there and throw their 2 cents. People probably admire certain facets of the whole that Baal so cavalierly underrates.

Nobody cares what Baal’s got in his bag. Baal accuses commenters of getting personal, all the while forgetting how he personally targets and preys’s on people’s insufficient knowledge about contemporary crisis or lack of objective perspective vis-à-vis the current crisis.

Baal is probably not happy to read this, but Baal was generally not happy when he entered Samudaya to begin with. But, I hope Baal understands he is welcome to thrash me too.

i’d love one from from Sarahana.

Baal, I have the benefit of being familiar with your sense of humor, but a response anyway:

A place like Khalanga can’t be analyzed (i.e. spoken of with “smartass comments”) after having spent only one blurry night and 2 hours with the CDO in the morning. You do that and I’ll call you a bad journalist.

I obviously think my article is productive (globetrotter already wants to go to thawang!) — the objective is not to make people want to do something, in this case. People already want to do something, and they are smart enough to come up with their own ideas and make their own analysis. I didn’t go to Khalanga to write this story; I’m writing this down now because I happened to have gone there. And because not everyone is going there as we speak, this relaying of experiences itself is the objective, which has of course been met, and hence the article productive from my standpoint.

Also, people are not standing up for me by responding to the likes of globetrotter. Since they are posting their own response to what others have said, they are obviously voicing their own opinion, their own take on things, which amounts to them standing up for themselves. Furthermore, I don’t need to stand up for myself here in this forum to the likes of eSudhir — I could care less about what he has to say and I don’t buy this story to be “fantastic” just because someone says it is.

Spring 2004, I had to go for business to African continent. Business was with oil exploration companies. I met a Nepali Engineer of Terai region…working for Shell. I was surprised to see a fellow Nepali taking on the decision making role…was a good chat. After a couple of business sessions on the region we were taken for a refreshment safari trip to Serengeti which extends from Tanzania to Botswana. I witnessed first degree hunt of an Imphala by a Lioness and her 2 cubs. In Tanzania, I met a nepali civil engineer dai who worked for UN , working on drinking water projects. I was proud of these two people I met because I could boast to my counterparts Nepali’s are not only Sherpas n Gurkhalis.
I run riot among ‘goras’ with my work, they think im some wizard. I do not know what is it but I pull off business always. Im surviving big time in the dog eat dog corporate world and im off to New York. 27th March Monday 10 O’Clock is another big day for me…a challenge.
I was looking for some inspiration…non of the cowboys do inspire me. Obviously they can read…could you between the lines???
I know Sarahana does…in her own ways.

Back on 28/29th march.

maybe baal watches too much seinfld.

So much Bombarding for eSudhir???????

My comment was “SAD BUT TRUE”

And at last,Three cheers for a brave girl like Sarahana for highlighting her journey’s expereince of remote place like Khalanga.

Was this the comment most of the you would like to hear.

Common’ people grow up!!!!

I was just trying to tell that we should not comment on serious issues lightly.That’s all.

As there is a saying” Two men sees out of the bars one sees the stars other the mud.”

So dear friends, since our country’s situation is in last leauge we should just be united and work for the betterment of NEPAL.Try to unite all the forces rather than dividing.”United we stand divided we fall!!!!”

Thank you all for your rude comment to eSudhir.

At last,Sarahana sorry for some so called personal comment via your readers and commenters.If you too also feel so!!! Amen

Baal says

Before Baal says anything, he feels this “sanjaal” has gone too far. He agrees this has gotten quite personal. In addition, Baal was stupid enough to start this. He knows. But everybody does. Let who does not strike first but here in this forum, everyone takes things personally. Everyone has a say to everything, the rights. And IT IS personal. We practice democracy. If you think, you can accuse Baal of “maanhaani”. Why not, start here, now. Baal does not have personal vendetta against anyone. He just has an opinion.

Baal isn’t immature and he respects the audience. But, did Baal say anything wrong?

Baal does not think like anything what Mr. M allegedly accused him of. Baal is not a prolific writer or a remarkable analyst. He is not a hot shot, but cool, he is, most of the times esp. when temperature drops. He is certainly not proud to be a Kathmanduite (who ever the fuck gave that name to residents of Kathmandu, it’s a tragedy). It actually sickens him to his guts, the city. He does not know or claims to know (anywhere in the article or comments btw) whatever the fuck is going on. He writes what he sees, thinks or believes (which could be quite unstable because he really does not know what he believes in or what to believe and what not to).

His English is poor and it takes him forever to write. Nevertheless, he likes to write. “Pseudo intellects” are the people here who claim themselves to be so. Baal is rather quite stupid and stubborn with his most stupid ideas. His perspective to some people seems quite conservative, even though Baal thinks he is progressive or at least he wants to be. Baal does not think his standards are higher than samudaya dot org’s pseudo intellects.

No one cares whatever the fuck one does Mr M. Baal did not want to capture the balls but it looks like he did of some, and boy did it hurt them. Sorry fellas. “Chor ko khutta kaat bhanda khutta lukauna” yaha dekhiyo.

Baal does not elevate Sarahana. He thinks she is what …. 5’1” so could not be elevated so high. Baal has said in his previous comment that Sarahana let him down, and this is not because he thought Sarahana was “someone to be worshipped” but “someone in a position to make a difference” for “Naya Nepal”, just like you Mr M, but only if you would do a little as much you use your mouth.

Kripa thing was a joke. Maybe Baal was not able to put it in right words. Baal’s bad. No offence Ms K.

Baal might have put things the wrong way, but he did not put the wrong things the right way. Again, those who got offended, sorry, Baal’s bad. But, why the fuck would you guys get offended, man. One should seriously learn the language of humor here.

Baal seriously does not understand. Baal says, he might sound lunatic and raving offensive, but Baal did not say anything wrong. Why does it even matter how Baal portrays himself? Why does it even matter how Baal puts it in words? If one cannot handle the lunacy of this one man, one should be here to experience the lunacy of a CEO and his 97,000 Group 4 Falck, soon to be 1 Lakh (one hundred thousand for you in America). Not to forget the 35 of his loyal servants including the two Veeps without any work. A so-called rebel (without any cause) and a media house (the fourth “anga” so called) trying to show its hegemony. The three countries so interested, they might just decide to play monopoly with Nepal. The seven parties aligned and their eight student unions. Last but not least, the 65 families who all think they are fucking CEOs. And like Gagan T says, it has always revolved around these fucking 65 families for the last 250 years and “kasaile bhutlobhang” garnu sakena.

And the best thing is all of them think they are Kings. Like Baal does, sometimes.

Baal thinks he does not need to justify anything to anyone. And he certainly knows that the people really don’t care. One does not need to tell him that. However, they still do care, for some sad reason, read, take things personally and get their balls kicked one more time.

Hell, Baal gives a baal. He heard there were some people who acted “as cool as Baal”, but were chased out because the people did not like the “character”. “Productivity” is something that people should take from the production. Everything is productive; the ratio might be different, as per how much one can take the production out from. It also depends on how much is the production, but this is going nowhere.

Baal can or may not be taken seriously, but what he says will be taken seriously, hopefully. Like Baal said earlier, if anything that he said was wrong, please feel free. Baal could have a cup of coffee and chat, if you are here in Kathmandu and if you are single. Forget the single part, if you are ready to mingle, the hell with the rest. But, you have to be a woman or a girl or a female in that respect. Before anyone accuses, Baal is not a chauvinist pig. He respects women. With pseudo-intellect guys, email is better. And that is as far as it can go. Again, Baal is not a homophobe.

Mr M, Baal was happy to read something that made him think. Baal never entered samudaya dot org unhappy. Baal wants to know the “pseudo-intellectuals”. And tries to understand how it works.

Baal is just expressing what he feels, not trying to exemplify the lack of knowledge in people. If it did that, well, good. People should not be “baatthhe” if they don’t know “bhutlobhaang”. Baal does not need to thrash anyone or neither does he; he just expresses how he feels, or what he thinks. At times, he does not know… he repeats.

Sarahanaji made Baal laugh. Yeah Yeah, Baal knows Mr M you really do not give a rat’s ass. And Baal also knows people don’t give a rat’s ass and that you speak for the people as you seem to represent them.

When Baal said analysis, he did not meant what happened at night in Khalanga or Rukumkot or Mahat or Thawaang or Tila or Dang or Nepalgunj (all of the place you went to perhaps). He thought you would give something more productive as in “what you think is wrong, what changes and how we can make it, some specifics” and stuffs like that. Productivity is something that people should take, but the production was so low, how to take any productivity, keeping it bluntly. How you had once said, you wanted to teach the people of “Thawaang” how to cook other than “namkeen” and “julewi”; some “imperialist” American food names you had taken, including “freedom fries”. Where is that smartass remark now, when we want one? Baal did not want to know your analysis on Khalanga. He wanted to know what you think of “security constantly bullying you” for instance. Changes may be of finding what human rights are doing for that sake. Sarahanaji, you were there for a night and you experienced those. Guess what the people might be doing who live there, under constant fear of so called “security force” on one side and so called “Maoist revolutionaries” on the other. The “permission” that they have to get from Maoists to leave the village and “permission” that they has to get from security forces to enter the town. Why haven’t you spoken of anything of such and why haven’t you strongly lambasted against the Human Rights not speaking. You should hear of the stories that people have to go through to get a fucking “citizenship card” from DOA at DHQ.

Baal is not accusing Sarahanaji or anyone of anything. If it feels like so, Baal’s bad.

Sarahanaji’s article did not produce any productive result because it was an experience based on a journey that happened to take place and not a story on the experience. She did not go for the story but she did the story because she was there. Makes sense? Baal does not know how to express, maybe later.

You can buy or sell whatever you want, but as Baal sees it, you are responsible to tell these people what you see and what you think, from your so called “Red-Fort” experience, not what you experience from what you see and what you saw. Again, unable to express. But Baal hope someone gets it.

And Amen to eSudhir, “Common people grow up”. Enjoy humor.

By the way…Just give a damm BAAL to Mr.BAAL who can’t express his opinion
….What he really wants to say!

SAMUDAYA is not your House’ taperecoder

Hee Com’n BAAL !

Three Cheers for SAMUDAYA!!!!

Youth’s are the building block of the nation.But Nepal’s misfortune….at present(in the year 2006 A.D) more than 59% of Nepal’s youth are abroad for their work,education and for living(NO WORK IN NEPAL DUE TO political conflict,Many Bandhs,NAKABANDH etc etc).This is the result of ongoing political deadlock from the past decade.Which has not yet been solved.

All we need now is a commitment.
A commitment from the NEPALESE YOUTH to come back to their country and develop NEPAL.

Though http://www.SAMUDAYA.org is doing a lot of GOOD WORK via creating platform to SPEAK PEOPLE’S mind which can be referenced for developing small productive community of NEPALESE YOUTH.Who in turn will create a larger community and finally lead to “SAMUDAYA OF ACTIVE,ALERT NEPALESE YOUTH TOTALLY COMMITED FOR DEVELOPING THEIR COUNTRY.”

Like Lao Tzu told,”The journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Hope and Pray that a good portal like
“www.samudaya.org” will be succesful in creating…SAMUDAYA OF ALERT NEPALESE YOUTH WHO ARE COMMITED TO DEVELOP,IMPROVE NEPAL.

Precisely,a NAVANEPAL….where NEPALESE FUTURE WILL BE IN THEIR OWN HAND.

Thankyou …..SAMUDAYA.ORG for creating a nice platform for NEPALESE YOUTH.

yo balak baal ko bla bla dekhi wakka bhaye ma ta…anyway

sarahana,
delighted to see a photo of Rukum. Oh, pls do not remind that chiso pani and dahi… i feel like going back there right now!! i think you have the quality to be the future Indira Gandhi of Nepal!! My wholehearted support for you…for many Nepali, visiting places like Khalanga or is like visiting a jungle where there are many Bagh, Bhalu, Kobra, etc. Well, for me it used to be my fulbari cuz I was grown up in a place like Thabang. I don’t know what it is really like now.

I wonder why you spent just a night and two hours with cdo? why not you visited with janasena sarkar? anything was preventing you?

We were there in Khalanga only for a short time because our intention was to leave for Thawang as quickly as possible — so we were there “in transit.” And there is no one from the janasena in Khalanga right now, but only as you get deeper into Rukum. I’ll post more accounts/videos later.

People can tell Baal is in the profession of writing. Baal is hilarious, and like most people, he is contradictory also. Baal said he did not need to justify anything, yet he went off and poured his heart out. Regardless, I see Baal as having potential to entertain people.

The people now know that Baal is apparently one of the contributing members of this forum, hence his complaints should be genuinly noted, especially in regards to the lack of constructive criticism generating from NRN visitors of this forum. Though Baal has misinterpreted some of my points, I decide to forego my usual contentious habit of trying to dominate debates all the time.

Apart from few unnecessary assumptions, Baal’s creative outpouring was thoroughly enjoyed by the likes of people of samudaya, seriously!

Baal says

Baal was just trying to be funny, people. Please don’t be offended.

Sorry.

And yes, Mr M, you are right about almost everything. And thanks for not letting this “bakamfushey guff” go any longer.

Baal will be contributing whatever he can from wherever he is.

See you in another commentary box, with genuine comments.

Baal will also try not to act so funny that people will get offended.

A genuine apolozy, please accept.

bhudai pundit aceepts baal’s apology. bhudai pundit says stop watching seinfeld all day and refering to yourself in the third person. it gets annoying to read after a while.

oh and eSudir:

“A commitment from the NEPALESE YOUTH to come back to their country and develop NEPAL.”

WELL WHY THE HELL DON’T YOU STOP SKING AROUND EUROPE first and come back to nepal and say this???

Bal,
No offense taken to the comment, although the third person reference is getting to be rather tedious to read :-)

Sarhana,
I look forward to additional articles as you roam the places of Nepal that most of us (Yes, I know I ought not to speak for others)would dare not venture to under the current circumstances.

Dear Bhudai pundit ji,

Mr. eSudhir is not in Europe anymore.He is in Nepal.So eSudhir is not Sking in Europe but he is in Nepal.Floating with the current Nepal’s situation.So i have objection .. Dear Bhu….Pundit ji,Your comment”WELL WHY THE HELL DON’T YOU STOP SKING AROUND EUROPE first and come back to nepal and say this???…!”

About the problem that Nepalese are facing daily…I will very soon post an article in Samudaya.org Thanks!

sorry for the misunderstanding eSudir - look forward to your article.

Hi,
Sorry for late response and since I can see few intelligent minds writing in this discussion let me introduce myself first.
I am doing MA in LINGUISTICS (in TU) and did my graduation in computer science from Sydney. Anyways lets start with bal’s comment on me trying to act like politicians. So now in this current situation of nepal there is nothing to do except talk, only those speak who have guns. You can see where is it coming from . In my view this all 15 yrs of trouble in our country is just The plan for the title “how to make my son king of nepal”. If everything is running preplanned then what the fuck can a politician or u or me or any other diying on the battle field can do. Its just the moment of time and lets think together what can we do to make the direct victims of these situations feel better. Or may be what can be done in different sectors of the society so that the backbone of our country remains strong in future. I am 100% sure by next two yrs this all things are going to end but I am not sure, who will lead the country but I don’t give a shit. that is not my job and I am just the citizen and I only do is watch the news nothing else. But in my sector I am trying my best to create a platform for my country. I thought for a country to be strong there is the strong role of our language, culture and our social structure. If everyone does in their field of work then obviously we will be very strong within 15 yrs from now on. There are so many good things that we got due to this insurgency, people started thinking about nepal as their own. They have the feeling now that no politician or the leaders can change their life, but its the individual that have to work for it. It is a great acheivement for our country isn’t it? Before whole country was divided into parties(political) but now look were are we heading. But the thing we have to do is think about your country first before thinking about yourself. You can easily survive in nepal and if you want fucking luxurious life then forget about nepal and stay aboroad, no one gives a shit, but when the developments start happening then you will realise fuck man what have I done for nepal? ate burgers , drank beer , worked for fucking whites like slaves and later in oldies came to nepal to say sorry, he he..

Thanking you

most nepalis in the united states have a really tough life working full-day jobs, possibly six days a week. i don’t think they come here for the luxury. i think they come here so that they can make some money and take it back to nepal because that’s where the luxury is.

Sarahana its funny you said that.
I know the reality and I know why people are staying there. And you said “some money” I will say “How much?” how much money is enough for you? 1 millon rupees, 10 million rupees or 1000 million rupees and have u ever calculated how many years would it take for you to get your goal? I don’t understand why are you wasting your youth for the country that gives nothing to you at the end and you realise later that oh no ??? all this I have done for this country in the sake of earning money is useless and that money is of no use for nepal. Instead of you guys I respect to those nepali, who go arab countries and send even 10,000- 20,000 to their families and they are working there with the dream that they can have a small house in nepal or may be their family can survive. I salute those nepali who just work and work for their families. Thanks

Sarahana,

nice to read about this web in nepali times. now, eagerly waiting follow up article/video.

Hey Friends!!!

I have a poem in Hindi for you all.

“Beeta huwa kaal accha tha aur bura lootega nahi,Aur Anne wala kal aacha hai aur bura pata nahi.
Jo Baat gaye so beet gaye,Amber ki annan ko dekho kitne iskye pyare chooti,kitne iskye tare toothe,par kaab amber sookh manata hain,Jo Baat gaye so beet Gaye.”

Though This Poem is in Hindi,But has a message…Past is the History and Future is the Mystery.So what we have in our hand is now(Present).Lets us all be united and work for betterment of Nepal.

P.S: An apology poem indeed!!!

Please don’t post multiple copies of same posting. Have patience, the page will EVENTUALLY load up

Cum let’s go n join the daisy chain in Rukum with Sarahana.

props to sarahana for venturing forth to places half of us wouldn’t dare. props to esudhir for expressing him/herself. and yeah yeah yeah..props to everyone else as well.

i don’t understand why we spent 36 comments to complain, bitch, whine and get nothing done. if you have a head and are passionate, that’s all that’s needed. it’s because of things like this that our nation is at the state that is it. we’ve treading a fine line..dipped more into the waters of a “failed state”. i just wrote a paper on that. sure, there intelligent, professional answers. but, the truth is that it hurts and it sucks. too bad “sucks” isn’t academic language. what are we going to do about our country? as 20 year olds w/o uncles in positions and fathers with vast wealth, we’ll work…we’ll study, research, train our minds, read…become knowledgable and in the meantime carry on with productive conversations. right?

let’s not get caught up on useless banter. we are able and have opportunities. let’s not get lost. samuday is a step to the platform we are heading towards. it’s probably best not to waste it then.

jai nepal!

Everyone’s opinion is so f***ing pathetic and stupid that it makes me PUKE:::::::::)))))))))))

What a Waste of time.

Prateek why is it “you guys” why is sarahana or anyone else whos is working abroad different from someone working in a gulf country? what other people don’t send money home? they don’t want to make a small house in nepal? i do. why won’t i get respect from you.

I only have faith in Saharana but hardcore politics is not her thing:o(

However, i believe that she’s making a difference. It’s just that there are too many among us who consider the plight of our country as being a spectator sport.

IN SUPPORT OF ESUDHIR…

Democracy is just a pretense to get back at the King for locking her father up. She is playing us for fools.

I apprecite the woman’s courage but lets not exploit nepal’s plight for one’s personal agendas like many nepali politicians before her.

She is already into “hardcore politics” because she knows the power of propoganda. Isn’t that how she makes a living ? Media and Advertising.

If she wants to be in politics SHE SHOULD BE READY TO HAVE HER LIFE SCRUTINIZED ! Isn’t that democracy ?? because nepalis need to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

That accusation is way off the mark. By your logic, what would you say about millions of others whose fathers were not ‘locked-up’ by the king, yet want to rid him off? Besides, what the fuck, it is a damn valid reason to rid him off when the king goes willy nilly arresting innocent people anyway.

Looks like you are the one ‘exploiting’ the situation by getting personal. Not that this needs any justification from her for your baseless accusation, this site started operating in January of 05 and her father was not arrested until April or May of that year. So, what the fuck do you think her intention was from Jan thru May, other than giving rooms for people to voice their opinion??

Haha! :) This is the first time I laugh this miserable morning. Globetrotter is annoyed, for whatever reason, to the point of desperation. Sigh. Let’s assume you’re right: the king locked up my dad, and so in return I started promoting democracy — so what? That doesn’t prove diddly-squat. I’m not doing anyone a favor; I argue for democracy because it is what I want for myself. Let it be known.

Mystichacker :

In today’s world, Just being the King is a fault.

Its time YOU make up your mind. You are either with the King, or against the King. You are either with Prachanda, or against Prachanda. If you say you are with democracy, I say, think again, analyse 10 years of history, you will have your answers.

If you say, Its a new beginning, I say, What ?? with the same people, the same country, the same economic plight, the same mentality.. We are people willing to carry guns and kill fellow Nepaliz for Communism in todays world, “for Communism”.. that is how bad the situation of Nepali and Nepali is..

“her intention was from Jan thru May”.. you are only providing ammunitions to my logic. Thanks buddy. Look at the evidence yourself, In her life, 911 happened, things changed. Read the rhetoric on samudaya.org after that against the King and you will find your answers.

I know you are a smart dude, you will ponder over it, I am sure.

Sorry to bring up this sexist argument, but ask yourself honestly, and I persume your are a practising heterosexual male, would you have found this site as exciting as you find it now if not for the fact that you smell traces of estrogen here.

I know you are a smart dude, you will not ponder over this question.

All the best..

Kamakazi:
Mystichacker is a smart dude. You on the other hand (by reading your comments) seem to be somewhat of a misguided lunatic.

What is with your “you are with us or against us” bullshit? Unfortunetly it is not that simple. You think just because you know a few catchy phrases you have the sloution to Nepal’s problem?

“Read the rhetoric on samudaya.org after that against the King and you will find your answers.”

Well what the hell is any reasonable person suppose to say about the king?
The Maoist situation is getting worse, the country is heading towards financial collaspe and the security forces are busy arresting visually impaired people from rallies. This king has to be Biggest idiot in the hostory of Nepal. His ministers tell the press that Nepal’s foregin relations and finances have never been better. I too sympathized with the Feb 1 move but things have spriled out of control. In that context what is any reasonable person suppose to say about this King?

Kamikaze,

Would you self-explode if I said I have so much respect for Pundit and Sarahana?

Man, why are you picking on me when she has already answered to your accusation—whatever.

I don’t buy for a second what you’ve said about democracy, communism, Prachanda, King and all the rest, but I’ll ‘ponder’ over it, if that means ridding you from my back.

I mean c’mon man, you ‘sound’ like a reasonable person at times. How could 911 happen to so naturally opposing people—Bush and Sarahana?? That’d be a new height of coincidence.

Oh shit, I might have to stop writing emails to her now that cat’s out of the bag. Hehe ‘practicing heterosexual male’ sounds like I’m watching an ‘animal planet’ where the narrator goes ‘now the hungry king of the jungle is about to pounce on an innocent deer drinking water from the lake’. Thank god, at least you don’t accuse me of being gay.

Look, the estrogen thing is not helping my case, if that’s what you’r worried about. Besides, she’s tough!!

Can I say that I have footage of folks living in/around Khalanga cutting out the inside of a buffalo?, and let me ask you if it would be wrong if I included that in the Khalanga clip I’m about to post. I mean, I’ll put it in anyway, but how many of you are prone to passing out?

Chyaa, fear factor Khalanga! Pundit will pass out. Hehe. Kamikaze will self-explode, again. key garne?

I found a very touching and thought provicating video on Nepal in Youtube.
I never meant to cause you trouble

Am I reading pseudo-intel orgy??? Good Lord! I better keep my virginity.

yes yes anything goes. just keep a disclaimer for light stomached folk. i’m sure its not a gratuitously gory vidoe made for amusement.. it was taken as it was.. its a part of the way of life… so i don’t see why it should be considered unfit for public display…

Hi Moderator, I tried to post this in the appropriate place but wasn’t able to do so. Basically, I wasn’t able to log in. Anyways, there is a conference at Columbia University on Wednesday, March 22nd. Details below, could you possibly post this on your front page?

Event at Columbia

Hey Samudaya Friends!!!

Though Samudaya is banned in Nepal.It cannot be banned in our mind,in our heart. I am commenting this directly isp computer.

Best of Luck for Samudaya’s user group

Conflict Conscious News Management in Nepal’s peace process: Lessons from Sri Lanka

I can clearly see the face of emerging ‘gonzo journalism’ amongst Nepalis these days, perhaps the rise of personal blogs play a major role?? However, what Nepali ‘gonzos’ lack is the ‘in your face’ literal assault without necessarily resorting to a level where reporting becomes a personal vendetta. As an armchair critic, I am far divorced from ‘gonzoing’ myself, but any amount of reporting that involves some inherent expression of ‘hands on’ experience is good enough for me.

Perhaps with little more practice we may have our Nepali Tom Wolf or Hunter Thompson soon.

we won’t have or need our own Wolf or Thompson. nepal is a different context you twerp. foreign education, as brilliant as it might be, seems to be making people think that the path taken by western countries (in particular america) is the only path of ‘progress’, whatever that might be. i hope nepal will never need a hunter s thompson; a writer so disgusted with the world around him that he sets out to crush its every governing rule, vandalises and exploits it at every given opportunity and ultimately shoots himself with a shotgun.

Although you seem to have found a fan for your unnecessary slur, allow me to demonstrate how imbicile you are.

Nepali Wolf and Thompson are used in ‘context’ of their style of writing, not their personage. And if you think you can discredit a writer on his behavioral tendencies without really mentioning ANYTHING about his work, that only shows how much you need to further your own critical skills before coming to open forums and blatently ‘twerping’ people around. Slurs and slangs abound, easily, but let’s keep them within a ‘context — away, before shit hits the fan.

Also, I would be interested to hear your take (and consequently argue) on how Nepal is ‘contextually different’, and further, how ‘western education’ fail to mould people (especially Nepalis) into a more progressive citizen. Additionally, what are the ‘other paths’ that are available for progress besides those taken by America for the wholesome (apparentely) growth of an individual and society.

The reason I am asking you bunch of questions is to sincerely find out if you really have anything offer or if you are simply using cliches to buy yourself into calling someone else twerp.

BTW, to be fair to you, Blog-whore=Mystichacker, just so you know I will be more acknowledging to you as the latter.

“throw someone a twerp and they will fling at you an ‘imbecile’” - ancient chinese saying. very apt, don’t you think?

my ‘twerping’ seems to have produced unforeseen repercussions. taking into account your rebuttal - which makes a firm point or two - i should say it was gratuitous of me to resort to infantile word-slinging. apologies for any hurt sentiments.

i’m cynical of the western path to progress and the economy driven definition of progress itself. i’m sure the pitfalls of capitalism don’t even need elaborating. the abundance of resources in the western countries can come quite useful if an individual can make good use of it. and we have seen that done. but - and i’m not being a pessimist - a good amount of resource in western countries goes to waste, to bluntly put, because of fuckheads and greedy bastards. its been a great big party since oil started propelling the western lifestyle in the 60’s. coming from nepal its easy to see the uneven distribution of opportunities and resource in the world as a whole. a talented sarangi-playing busker scrapes a living off a sidewalk in pokhara while the likes of britney spears and jessica simpson spent thousands on vaginal sprays. there’s something wrong with that.

now if nepal were to aspire, work for and eventually attain the ‘prosperity’ of a western country, would that make it a great achievement? if nepal were to one day fill with planned cities resided by people with credit cards and 3 cars per family then has nepal, its individual and its society grown the wholesome growth? The only reason you can work 20 out of 168 hours in a week and still make a living in a place like america is because their relative ‘growth’, the ‘progress’ has come from pillaging what is someone elses. that is probably the reason i do not condone the western path to progress. and what other paths are there? thats for us young ones to figure out maybe.

nepal is currently a different context because we are not as yet deeply buried in the consumer culture as western countries. and i’m not sure we need to. we are still hovering a foot above ground when the nation is taken in general… still looking for basic needs. western education does not ‘fail to mould people into progressive citizens’, it just moulds people into the definiton of progress it belives in.

i agree that i overlooked the gonzo comment - took it mainly in terms of the authors behaviour without solid regard to their work. That was again in context of the ‘reactionary’ element of gonzo journalism, not wolf or thompson’s specific ideas. but such is the nature of bulletin boards.. short comments fail to unravel sentiments in their entirety. and sorry for offending you with a ‘twerp’. there is much to be learnt indeed. keep posting.

So you type in the Western World’s language, your ideas come across on linguistic tricks all based on how the Western World speaks. You speak of ideals that were first acted out in Western Culture and still, it is feels ever so righteous to mock the Western world.

Pop culture certainly does work in mysterious ways.

Please remember (or bother to look up) that George Bush Jr., Mc Donald’s and Microsoft are not the only components of Western Culture.

You cannot judge the Western world based only on its shortcomings. By that logic, your culture will never progress further beyond civil war and sexual inequity because well, “that is what the world knows you for”.

There is plenty wrong with our world, but no one is wishing our world upon yours apart from our corporations, and that applies to corporations everywhere. I don’t think Sony originated in Wisconsin or Idaho.

I don’t necessarily see what allows a person to criticize how another chooses to spend his/her life. Some people choose to spend their lives in the pursuit of consumption and nothing but. True, one may find it ridiculous, but to condemn it so arbitrarily is blind judgment. Some things just cannot exist without their counterparts. In saying this, I am not acquitting oppression and tyranny, because they fall outside of independent choice. I am speaking of those components of Western Culture that you deem unnecessary and evil, that I call a product of freedom. True freedom which results in a choice.

Consumerism, you see, offers people a choice.

And a choice, people, is what freedom is all about.

Freedom is what allows consumerism to exist. Anytime you rant against consumerism, norbu, you rant against freedom. And as ridiculous as it may seem, people have the choice to make money and spend it in whatever ridiculous manner they choose. Why? Because… well… you have the freedom to whine about it. That’s why.

In this day and age, it should be obvious that “Us Vs. the Western World” is just a rock and roll sentiment, too generalized to carry any substance. Go ahead and disagree, but remember, someone somewhere is calling you a figment of the Western World’s imagination.

Someone.
Somewhere.

Dear God, what will you do now? Maybe it’s time to stop arguing Western Culture while invisibly conforming to it, and find ways to improve what causes it to not work.

And rapping about credit cards… just doesn’t do it homey. That’s MTV’s job.

Norbu,

You make a convincing case, but I beg to differ on some of your claims/assertions about ‘consumerism’ being strictly a western phenomenon. I’d like to think of it as natural human tendency to want more and have ‘better’ options. Of course, you talk about the bi-product of consumerism (excessiveness??) as something that needs to be addressed by every ‘sane’ human beings. I agree, but focusing on Britney Spears’ yet another child and Jessica Simpson’s vaginal sprays is a bit too narrow an observation to reject ‘consumerism’ altogether, I think. But again, generally, your central thesis of ‘western excessiveness’ does make sense to me.

I will comment on the rest when time permits. Enjoy the onset of spring.