A strange thing happened back in 1999 in a South African national park. Someone was killing the rhinos systematically. The rangers were clueless as to the cause of the death (36 altogether) at menacingly regular intervals. Clearly it was not the handiwork of the poachers as the dead rhino bodies were found intact. So what was happening? To their utter surprise, they found out that it was wild elephants that were killing the rhinos. Why, they simply could not understand.
There was an all-round shock among conservationists when a park ranger came forward and said he witnessed an elephant knocking a rhino over, trampling it, and driving a tusk through its chest. That was unheard of, particularly the scale at which it was happening. This sort of behavior when an elephant actively goes out and chases rhinos was totally abnormal. A careful examination brought forward that all these young elephants were orphaned as their parents were killed (they call it culling) during the early 1990s by rangers to control excessive elephant population, and were only recently introduced to the Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park.
The park authorities were under pressure to do something. They decided to do an experiment. They asked Kruger Park, the mother park of the orphaned elephants, to send 10 adult bulls (male elephants) in the hope that their presence will have some calming effect on the young unruly elephants. And to everyone’s delight, the killings completely stopped, almost overnight, once the adults arrived. The young ones’ behavior patterns returned to normal under the influence of adult elephants.
The state of a half of Nepal’s population is similar to the story of the orphaned elephants. The State of Nepal and its elite, their metaphorical parent, abandoned them. Today they stand disillusioned and angry. They are ready to destroy anything in rage. These are the communities and ethnicities that were treated as second-class citizens by the state for centuries.
The state of the other half of Nepal’s population that monopolized Nepalihood is no better. Though the state provided them with all the material support it could, it failed to provide them with the guidance to ‘respect’ siblings and cousins, extended family members, indeed the entire society. Some of them consistently and actively went out just like the young orphaned elephants in the above story to hurt fellow citizens by calling them names, insulting them, assaulting them physically.
Come to think of it- when we proudly and openly call fellow Nepalis who constitute almost half the population of the country, and inhabit some quarter of its land ‘Dhoti’, and declare them foreigners by saying that the defeat of India in a football game that was being celebrated by the entire country is a defeat of Madhesis- we may be thinking we have done a patriotic act to show the love for our country. But the truth is through such utterances and behavior we are doing the biggest disservice to our beloved country- we are further alienating a substantial part of its population that has been abandoned by the state hundreds of years ago, and are already seething with anger.
Come to think of it, when we declare the Nepali football team a‘Gorkhali’ Team, we are belittling them – we are attempting to rob them of their support from the entire Nepal. Gorkhali population is but only a small part of Nepal, and more than 50% of Nepal cannot be called Gorkhalis until one is totally ignorant of the meaning of the term. We do not live in Gorkhaland – we live in Nepal. Shockingly, even the anchors of national TVs, and agencies deeply involved with promotion of football in Nepal, use slogans like ‘Aayo Gorkhali!’ as their taglines. They appear either stupidly ignorant, or a part of the same unruly hooligan mindset that routinely uses inflammatory terms like ‘Dhoti’ and ‘Bhote’ regularly.
There is an equally strong anti-national campaigning going on by the unruly Madhesi population that generally goes unseen by the Kathmandu elites. There are hundreds of vociferous groups on social networks like Facebook that I would suppose are run by disillusioned members among the Madhesi youth who are openly propagating secessionist emotions by bringing up half-baked truths and disastrous prescriptions that are no less anti-national. Their choice of their language is no better than that used by the Kathmandu hooligans. They simply sound angry, but not necessarily having any solution that will help the Madhesi population that has unfortunately been thrown in a complete darkness, making the Madhes a ‘backyard’ of both mainstream Nepal and India.
To disillusioned Madhesi youth, I have this to say: Our future is in United Nepal. We are the sons and daughters of this great country as much as anyone else. We have given to the world the Buddha, hailed as the Light of Asia. The current-day Madhesh and adjoining areas – much of which fall under India today (called Madhyadesh in olden times) – was the fertile ground of proliferation of eastern philosophies and arts. It was central to the coming up of two of the world’s greatest religions – Buddhism and Hinduism. Mind it, these are the same two religions that Nepal follows (barring a miniscule population). Almost entire Nepal respects ‘Maata Sitaa,’ the tallest mythical figure among Hindus who was a princess of Janakpur – the seat of Mithila – one of the most prominent cultures in Madhesh. The shadow of Madhesh, and the wisdom it produced is just not seen all over entire Nepal, it has spread to a large part of the world – billions follow the path shown by the sons and daughters of the Madhya Desh (a part of which we call Madhesh today). Madhyadesh produced great poets like Kabir and Bidhyapati and hundreds of world-class personalities in the past.
Even in the context of modern-day Nepal, Madhesh is where most of our recent political leaders made their careers from – including leaders from the Khas communities – the Koiralas, MadhavNepals, and so many more. The quest for democracy originated from Biratnagar and other significant townships of Madhesh. Madhesh and its leaders played a major role in the recent political changes in Nepal. Their efforts have been recognized, too. Who could have imagined a few decades ago that Nepal’s President and Vice President would be Madhesis, and close to half the Cabinet berths would go to Madhesis? Have confidence in self, friends – the entire Nepal is ours, not just a part of it.
Our problem is not us the people – whether Pahadis, Madhesis or Himalis. Our problem has been our incompetent and dishonest leaders from the past. Our country is endowed with enough to feed each one of us – indeed help other countries. Let’s not waste our energy in insulting each other. We all are fellow Nepalis – we should know more about each other. We should develop respect for each other. We have lived in one country long enough to develop blood relations. We are inseparable.
The silence of the sane majority on both sides of this mindless war of words is seen by the other side as a tacit support to the acts of the unruly minority. The silence, even if it is just for timidity, is criminal at this juncture when the country’s future is at a crossroads. Speak up until it is too late. Let us not make a Syria or Iraq out of us lest foreign powers would be inclined to do exactly what the South African park authorities did to control the unruly elephants that were killing the rhinos. We do not want any foreign interference – we are capable of settling our differences and finding our ways ourselves. To those unruly anti-nationals on both sides of the debate who are threatening the unity of Nepal, here is the challenge. Nepal will remain united. No one dare think otherwise.
Source:-myrepublica.com
भिडिओ हेर्न तलको बक्समा क्लिक गर्नुहोला
There was an all-round shock among conservationists when a park ranger came forward and said he witnessed an elephant knocking a rhino over, trampling it, and driving a tusk through its chest. That was unheard of, particularly the scale at which it was happening. This sort of behavior when an elephant actively goes out and chases rhinos was totally abnormal. A careful examination brought forward that all these young elephants were orphaned as their parents were killed (they call it culling) during the early 1990s by rangers to control excessive elephant population, and were only recently introduced to the Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park.
The park authorities were under pressure to do something. They decided to do an experiment. They asked Kruger Park, the mother park of the orphaned elephants, to send 10 adult bulls (male elephants) in the hope that their presence will have some calming effect on the young unruly elephants. And to everyone’s delight, the killings completely stopped, almost overnight, once the adults arrived. The young ones’ behavior patterns returned to normal under the influence of adult elephants.
The state of a half of Nepal’s population is similar to the story of the orphaned elephants. The State of Nepal and its elite, their metaphorical parent, abandoned them. Today they stand disillusioned and angry. They are ready to destroy anything in rage. These are the communities and ethnicities that were treated as second-class citizens by the state for centuries.
The state of the other half of Nepal’s population that monopolized Nepalihood is no better. Though the state provided them with all the material support it could, it failed to provide them with the guidance to ‘respect’ siblings and cousins, extended family members, indeed the entire society. Some of them consistently and actively went out just like the young orphaned elephants in the above story to hurt fellow citizens by calling them names, insulting them, assaulting them physically.
Come to think of it- when we proudly and openly call fellow Nepalis who constitute almost half the population of the country, and inhabit some quarter of its land ‘Dhoti’, and declare them foreigners by saying that the defeat of India in a football game that was being celebrated by the entire country is a defeat of Madhesis- we may be thinking we have done a patriotic act to show the love for our country. But the truth is through such utterances and behavior we are doing the biggest disservice to our beloved country- we are further alienating a substantial part of its population that has been abandoned by the state hundreds of years ago, and are already seething with anger.
Come to think of it, when we declare the Nepali football team a‘Gorkhali’ Team, we are belittling them – we are attempting to rob them of their support from the entire Nepal. Gorkhali population is but only a small part of Nepal, and more than 50% of Nepal cannot be called Gorkhalis until one is totally ignorant of the meaning of the term. We do not live in Gorkhaland – we live in Nepal. Shockingly, even the anchors of national TVs, and agencies deeply involved with promotion of football in Nepal, use slogans like ‘Aayo Gorkhali!’ as their taglines. They appear either stupidly ignorant, or a part of the same unruly hooligan mindset that routinely uses inflammatory terms like ‘Dhoti’ and ‘Bhote’ regularly.
There is an equally strong anti-national campaigning going on by the unruly Madhesi population that generally goes unseen by the Kathmandu elites. There are hundreds of vociferous groups on social networks like Facebook that I would suppose are run by disillusioned members among the Madhesi youth who are openly propagating secessionist emotions by bringing up half-baked truths and disastrous prescriptions that are no less anti-national. Their choice of their language is no better than that used by the Kathmandu hooligans. They simply sound angry, but not necessarily having any solution that will help the Madhesi population that has unfortunately been thrown in a complete darkness, making the Madhes a ‘backyard’ of both mainstream Nepal and India.
To disillusioned Madhesi youth, I have this to say: Our future is in United Nepal. We are the sons and daughters of this great country as much as anyone else. We have given to the world the Buddha, hailed as the Light of Asia. The current-day Madhesh and adjoining areas – much of which fall under India today (called Madhyadesh in olden times) – was the fertile ground of proliferation of eastern philosophies and arts. It was central to the coming up of two of the world’s greatest religions – Buddhism and Hinduism. Mind it, these are the same two religions that Nepal follows (barring a miniscule population). Almost entire Nepal respects ‘Maata Sitaa,’ the tallest mythical figure among Hindus who was a princess of Janakpur – the seat of Mithila – one of the most prominent cultures in Madhesh. The shadow of Madhesh, and the wisdom it produced is just not seen all over entire Nepal, it has spread to a large part of the world – billions follow the path shown by the sons and daughters of the Madhya Desh (a part of which we call Madhesh today). Madhyadesh produced great poets like Kabir and Bidhyapati and hundreds of world-class personalities in the past.
Even in the context of modern-day Nepal, Madhesh is where most of our recent political leaders made their careers from – including leaders from the Khas communities – the Koiralas, MadhavNepals, and so many more. The quest for democracy originated from Biratnagar and other significant townships of Madhesh. Madhesh and its leaders played a major role in the recent political changes in Nepal. Their efforts have been recognized, too. Who could have imagined a few decades ago that Nepal’s President and Vice President would be Madhesis, and close to half the Cabinet berths would go to Madhesis? Have confidence in self, friends – the entire Nepal is ours, not just a part of it.
Our problem is not us the people – whether Pahadis, Madhesis or Himalis. Our problem has been our incompetent and dishonest leaders from the past. Our country is endowed with enough to feed each one of us – indeed help other countries. Let’s not waste our energy in insulting each other. We all are fellow Nepalis – we should know more about each other. We should develop respect for each other. We have lived in one country long enough to develop blood relations. We are inseparable.
The silence of the sane majority on both sides of this mindless war of words is seen by the other side as a tacit support to the acts of the unruly minority. The silence, even if it is just for timidity, is criminal at this juncture when the country’s future is at a crossroads. Speak up until it is too late. Let us not make a Syria or Iraq out of us lest foreign powers would be inclined to do exactly what the South African park authorities did to control the unruly elephants that were killing the rhinos. We do not want any foreign interference – we are capable of settling our differences and finding our ways ourselves. To those unruly anti-nationals on both sides of the debate who are threatening the unity of Nepal, here is the challenge. Nepal will remain united. No one dare think otherwise.
Source:-myrepublica.com
भिडिओ हेर्न तलको बक्समा क्लिक गर्नुहोला
