Interesting Stuff.

Nepali electoral politics aside, it would be interesting to hear what Ashok Gurung has to say furthur about the global food crisis and its impact on the realationship between India and Nepal, now especially with India witholding exports of staples such as rice.

Interesting also would be to hear Mr. Gurung’s perspective on the newfound tenacity of the Tibetian movement and headaches for the Chinese governments especially concerning India. It would be intersting to hear how the dynamic of the fairly new trade relations between India and China could be affected if India is not able to contain the Tibetian onslaught.

Additional detail on how he thinks Nepal could take advantage of its strategic geo-political position next to the economic giants would be helpful. Mr. Gurung was surely optimistic with his predictions on relations with China but what about the olympic debacle? Couldn’t the Chinese request to shut off Everest and pressures to control Tibetian protests set a precedent for it to meddle within Nepali territory in the future?

Whatever Gurung says, I hope he doesn’t regurgitate the Western observers’ line that “people in India and China have started eating TWO SQUARE MEALS a day hence the damn world is having a food crisis.”

The line of reasoning reminds me of an ancient *joke* that, if all the Chinese lined up along the Himalayas and took a piss standing (had to be standing for maximum effect!) then that would flood both Nepal and India in no time. I don’t know whether the assumption was on snow melting and flooding the countries or simply the overwhelming volume of piss causing the deluge by itself.

Anyway, the point is, it’s fucked up! It’s messed up to think the damn overfed and bloated West get to dump food every day and get away with over consuming pretty much every resource there is, while pointing fingers at developing countries because they can now afford to put some food on the table (or banana leaves) after 200 years of imperialism that pretty much sucked every blood out of its people while fattening the butts of good for nothing British monarchs.