The Vedio posted is not complete program.
I hope you guys will post the video segment after the first question to Prachanda. Thanks!

@Dus: Yes, video #3 is being posted shortly.

I am relentlessly waiting video # 3. Though initial quality of part 1 & 2 are so so rest is fine.

Good stuff! He is actually quite impressive it seems. Not as humiliating in public as our past leaders have been.. let’s hope he gets done at least half the things he talked about. That would be a great start..

i don’t know bout you guys, but i have to say he is kinda.. impressive..?

It is wonderful

and Unfortunately
Kulchandra should be the President of Nepal and Baburam should be the Priminister of Nepal it could be more significant for Nepalese

Moreover Prachanda seems good leader of Nepal with some new vision lets wait and see!

Everyone has rights to dream, so does he!

Perhaps I was on the wrong side of history to have strolled by casually to New School at 5:45, hoping to get a seat for a six o’clock show, thinking that there wouldn’t be many interested in hearing this newly baptized prodigal son of New Nepal anyway, thus an easy entry for me. Instead, to my surprise, a full house at the New School to listen to this Stalinesque lunatic?! Surely Marx’s theoretical prognostication began to materialize in practical sense that day. Later, I was told that it was a bunch of radical communists from the New School who had pretty much hijacked the auditorium, leaving no room for casual observers like moi. Funny enough, one such character even tried to sell me some Marxist ‘workers newspaper’ as I stood outside blowing some hot air. I refused to buy, as I do not work to the extent of finding value in ‘means of production’, the newspaper was redundant to me.

Anyway…

The second day, after getting shut out from his previous day’s appearance, I made a deliberate attempt to get to the new venue early and reserve a seat. The event began with members of various organizing groups giving fairly similar speeches which drew upon what the New Nepal should ideally look like, except, none were really clear on how such challenging feats could be accomplished. Typical!

Contrary to popular hype, I personally did not find any ‘WOW’ factor in Prachanda’s speech. Seemed like a standard watered-down rhetoric high on hopeless optimism and helpless self-aggrandization, but low on everything else. Occasional verbal pampering that roused nationalistic sentiment in audience shielded him from any wrathful follow-ups later on. Frequent lighthearted moments of condescending humor served as ways to converge the otherwise divergent and grim ethnic self-interest agenda to a larger nationalistic one. The devil was a shrewd operator and a patronizing orator who seemed to have read his audience well, and just like that, for that good 30-minute, he took them all for a ride into thin air.

Surprising yet, evidenced by thundering ovation every time His Awesomeness divorced himself from reality and sidetracked into his Prachanda-pathist ideals, non-resident Nepalis, many of whom find themselves as multiple jobbers and sub-prime citizens living a life of firm pragmatism, seemed to buy into the delusion of actually being a witting accomplice in creation of New Nepal. Getting mesmerized by the magician who convinced and challenged the audience to accept the new reality – one where he was the force to be reckoned with, His Awesomeness left no doubt that his past was a case of mischaracterization simply because the present has basically accepted him prima facie. Walking back from the event I heard my friend make a critically sharp remark: “the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he did not exist!”

amen pradip. amen.

Without proposing a second ‘amen’ to pradip’s comment, i agree: i doubt prachanda would have received as much applause as he did (which in this case was close to a ridiculous amount, as in after every two lines) if he were speaking to a less “progressive” audience…but i do have to admit i liked hearing about his optimistic five-year vision. as a nepali sick of the war/conflict/violence i’m just glad he’s talking the talk. many are saying what he says is just the opposite to what he does. but, i’m going to keep on hoping if that’s al right. there are rough parts that need to smooth out…YCL, for one, but there’s reason to hope.

pradip: i scanned thru your comment and found no ‘tuk’ whatsoever u wrote. what is your point fella? u make none…theres no POV…rattle u georgie boy…one of those punks who’s trying to shit higher than his arse is what i read between ur lines?. hav u stared to have those doldrum dreams of being an elite…a master of thoughts…grow up boy[i must say the rattle u make is no less than that of a boy Sam, Dick or harry!…n funny u might b shavin ur mouch everyday].

i mean grow up!

what do u want from Prachand and maoists while they speak huh? is it because they have a perspective and u dont?

what do u have? make a point here[read between the years the war broke and the man in the room spoke]…and i’ll c how i can fire up ur high shitting arse!

@baun_baje: please make your points without being rude. follow a simple rule: only say things you would say to someone in person. disagreement and discussion is encouraged, but rude commenters who take away from the discussion rather than add to it will be immediately banned in the future. thanks.

First of all, thanks to samudaya.org for providing the video of the event. I truly enjoyed listening to our prime minister’s thought processes, plans, and vision for the new Nepal. Baburam cited Devkota’s “Udesya ke linu, udi chhunu chandra ek” in his remarks about the budget recently, and PKD has similar lofty ideals for our country. On the contrary, such lofty goals may not be all that bad and they may be exactly what we need at this point in time. Though I sincerely disagree with Maoist’s bloody means of revolution, it may do us no good to dig the past and forget our future. A balanced act of providing justice to the victims of the people’s war and setting a progressive course for Nepal may be a tough one for PKD and his government, but this talk program does give glimmering hope to Nepalis living in faraway lands. Thanks.

where is mystic, dogBoy and et. al. this website been hijacked by sub-prime intellectuals ( i don’t think i can use sub-prime wherever just because everyone else is) Baun_Baje, after squating your arse just high enough to relieve yourself take a print out of your comment and make use of it. The fact that the prime minister of new nepal doesn’t have a clue on environmental impact associated with HP is sad.

Yes, finally someone pointed it out. Have you had a chance to listen to the PM’s interview on In Conversation yet? in that the moderator questions the PM’s logic of HP = environmental conservation.

Its important to find ways to bring in foreign investments and the economy need to reboot clearly, and shoot for the stars and you reach the moon- but hydro power is worrying.

intelloAffaire…myfoot! you shud b wearing a dog tag that’d read: ‘i’m ya bitch’ and wag ur tail and bark: save me mystic!

i guess likes of mystic moved on …n i did too couple of yrs ago…coz of the WUMs like u wagging ur tail waiting for a bone to drop.

c’mon son let me play…..

i’ve neither read nor heard what Mr Prachand had to say about HP & env on the day. and i wudnt buy into believing he’d leave himself to b dumbfounded on the issue that the wise dog like u consider it a bone to stimulate ur intellect.

sure, balancing HP dev with socio/politico/eco/demog/env concerns robust policy worked with the experts, transparent to public and stakeholders, supported by financiers and regulated by the gov. the intricate issues can be said- has never been tried and tested in nepal. mr prachand n the gov has always maintained -they wud make the best of the resources, resources that were and will always be there…what is yet to be seen is the policy,the wealth and the rule that has never before been together as we’d like it. son, behold your intel saliva and tell us in brief what was it that you wanted to hear in the room so u wudnt need a gigantic jab?
tell us how else Mr Prachand cud have fared in the US and in shakin Mr Bush’s hand…tell us how well he cud have maintained himself when u witnessed him…tell us all about it …and lets talk bout New Nepal.

i’ll tell u stories son…c’mon let me play daddy to u!

and oh yes- the popcorn eyes see only tricks when the man came to town and told the world he exists!

Pradip: you are very progressive and can tell you’re an intellectual. I suggest that you integrate with people who are oppressed and exploited to better truly understand their situation and not just theories.

Abduction and murder of business man in Nepal by Maoists. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghSAZ8I4zwrYZtU1xDZcGn4jgAdA

What about justice to the victims and families in the new government??????

Victims from both maobadis and the army…. http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/09/08/nepal19778.htm

quote unquote BaunBaje “i’ve neither read nor heard what Mr Prachanda had to say about HP & env on the day”
erroneous!! erroneous!! My profound apologies for pointing out his ignorance. He is after all the omniscient one. I bow down to thee and his disciples.

‘Prachanda Path’ is visibly the path of Bourgeois in Nepal. Kindly see my article on http://www.marxist.com/nepal/

Prachanda is a dog, oh i am sorry why am i comparing him with a dog. A dog is human’s best friend, but he is a man killer. I don’t know what happened to the Nepalese. After prachanda did so many things, he is appointed as the prime minister. How shameful. This thief, killer,terrorist will sell Nepal to India with the help of the Madise president of Nepal, who took oath in Hindi language. How blind nepalese are. If i have a gun, i swear i will kill both bastards.