CRISIS CRIES

CRISIS CRIES:                                                                                     Last Friday, I woke up around 8:00 and as a part of a routine, I hurried to the rest room. As I finished my liability in bathroom I opened the tap for water but sadly I was lead to a disappointment. Then, I tried to make a call from the toilet to my room-mate perceiving that he would help me to draw some water by switching the motor ON. But the Nepali network as usual showed its originality; hence I had to make a shout to my friend for the help.  And, despite of his assist, my mission on fetching water still failed, it was load shedding at the same time which frustrated me.                                                                                                                                                                                             This was just the beginning of the extraordinary day. Well, I hook and crook managed some water and finished my bathroom duty. Then I decided to move to the dining hall for my lunch and this time the lunch was different from the normal menu. It was not the “pulaou or any special dish” rather it was “the khichaddi”, mixture of rice, dhal   and vegetable for which I had to substance with. When I asked my warden about this, he said due to lack of gases in the market hostel department was forced to make khichaddi. Well, I had examination that day, so I moved for my destination. Shockingly, it was the day of Nepal Banda, so, I came back to the hostel and requested one of the brothers to take me to the center but again he replied that he could not assist me because, because of the lack of petrol in the market, his bike was out of fuel. Hence, I decided to use my own number eleven vehicles i.e. two legs to move to the center.                                                                                                 This story of mine is just a representative story of what Nepalese people have been getting through most of the time in a year. Well, despite of the so called crisis, we Nepalese people do have resilience that has always helped us to survive in the worst of condition imagined. Sixteen hours of load shedding per day, dry water tap for more than 160 hours a week, no adequate supply of petroleum products in the market and no network coverage signifies how much of toughness do the old faces  in so called “New Nepal” possess.                                                                                                                                    Getting deep into the problem of Nepal, the rural areas people do acquire the difficulty faced by the normal Nepali living in a city. Moreover, the rural side people are also deprive of appropriate diet, proper health facilities, fine education, good sanitation and also the facilities of proper roadways. And if anyone is thinking that the rich people in Nepal are safe from the calamity zone than the question arise that are they really able to breathe fresh in the polluted city. Well, the answer is no and this really shows that every kind of people have been suffering from crisis here in Nepal, no matter of what level they are and what intensity it is.                                                                                                                                                                                  Blame game in Nepal has really lead Nepal into the worst of the condition that was never thought of because nobody is ready to accept the mistakes here. Blaming politicians is just the best way chosen by the citizens to show that they are not the cause for the current situation of Nepal. So, as single drop of water helps to form the ocean, every Nepali should give the best from their side also being loyal towards the state which will help to stabilize the political scenario of the country which then can help to reduce the crisis in the country. Well, I wish no one to suffer from the crisis like I beard in the five by ten (5 by 10) feet of rest room. So, its 1,47,181 square kilometer area where crisis has hit. Oh! Sorry India have captured some part so thanks India, its less than that!. Moreover, getting over the Constitution’s crisis is the most to get rid of other sort of predicament in the nation. Let everyone breathe fresh or should we really wait till May 28!                                                                                Text: Sudesh Thapa                                                                             

Richie and Sudhama

Richie and Sudhama:                                                                                                                                                                                      Human categorization at maximum times gives the outcome in two ways. For instance: good and bad, black and white, male and female and more. Hence, I at the very moment have categorized people of the earth as Sudhama and Richie.                                                                                                                                    Richie and Sudhama, the character of comics and holy book Mahabharata respectively shares the similarity of just being character within the books. Unlike this, they have differences like existing in different place and time and inclining towards the topic Richie by its name is generous and Sudhama in his character, a poor guy.                                                                                                                                                                    Of course, Richie and Sudhama are the character of different times and places but in contrary to that these days the bike has taken a reverse gear and we see both types of people at this place at the same time. For example: Carlos Slim and his precedents listed in the billionaires list by Forbes magazine are today’s Richie and in the next part of the world, the poor who are runaway from the basic needs like food, shelter and clothing, especially in the country like Somalia, Ethiopia, and also in some parts of Nepal are the today’s Sudhama.                                                                                                                                                                               As a comic character Richie is shown wealthier after every episode. Similarly, supportive to this, the data shown by Forbes every year also shows that today’s Richie are getting richer every day. In contrast to Richie’s scenario, I used to see Sudhama getting poor in the episodes of Mahabharata. And talking about the poor of the earth, they have also the same condition of going poorer, as was Sudhama in Mahabharata. Hence, a literal conclusion of poor getting poorer and rich earning more ratifying the truth money attracts money.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Where are the people suffering with hardships found? Yes, South Asia, one of the main region where we find the poor ones. It is the same region where the character Sudhama lived in the times of Mahabharata. And in opposite part of the world i.e. in U.S., people with a lot of wealth are found and in the context it’s the same place where Richie Rich, a fictional cartoon was performed.  So, a coincident of finding same type of people in the region as the characters mentioned.                                                                                                                                                                   But despite observing the poor ones in the country, our government has not generated any idea to uplift them. It is the time that our government should sanctify the poor people as Sudhama was blessed by Lord Krishna to uplift him in Mahabharata. Not only Nepal whole world should focus to get rid of poverty. Otherwise the predicted third world war due to gap of poor and rich is at the doors. So, Sudhama, the character of the war times and Richie, the fictional one, who were the different times and place humans may turn out to be the cause of the predicted war at the present time. So am I the cause for the war since I categorized the people as Richie and Sudhama!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

MRP's Price

MRP’s Price:                                                                                                                                                                              If you spend your whole day in Ratna Park it is certain that you can see people from 75 districts of Nepal, implicitly. But these days Ratna Park is not only the single place where you find the people of all the districts, the next destination where you can fulfill your wish to observe multi ethnic, multi lingual public is Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kathmandu where people gather for the Passport. I am not talking about the newly introduced cigar brand that is sold around the Foreign Ministry  but about the 32 odd pages notebook that permits us to go out of the country i.e. Passport.                                                                                                                                      It has been around six months that people from different parts of the country have gathered in the place every office day just to open a way to get an exit ID from the country through the Machine Readable Passport i.e. M.R.P.  I was also the one who made an appearance there by waiting the whole day in a queue to submit the form for permit. To be honest it was a learning experience.                                                                                                                                                                      I still remember the day when I went to the ministry for authorization. Why won’t I? Because it was the day when I woke up the earliest and suddenly rushed to reach around six. Reaching there I was surprised to see another three hundred people who were there before me in that cold December standing in a queue. Being witness of that I was fragile. But I was compelled to stay because I was there to complete rather small but challenging mission of making the MRP. Similarly, that day I realized the number of people wanting to go the foreign nation either for employment or other reasons.                                                                                                                                                                               In the process in standing in line I made some new friend. Ahead of me was the friend Hari from Khotang .In the process of chatting with him I came to know the difficulty of people coming from that far to this place just to make passport which could have been made in home district before a year ago. This is my second visit to Kathmandu to make passport says Hari. He adds that last time in the process of submitting the form he was denied due to the reason that the letter from the CDO was not formal as asked by Ministry. And also economically speaking there’s around 5000 rupees expenditure every time while coming to Kathmandu, adds Hari. My friend Hari’s situation is just like a trailer of the movie. There are many more people like my friend who have come from far and have been denied in the name of photo, authorized letter and other reasons. Similarly, their money has been in vain due to lack of knowledge they have in the related topic.                                                                                                                                                    So, now it’s the time that our government should do something and not negate that they have been lacking somewhere and do their homework right either by not letting the things to repeat as a result people coming from far will again have to bear trouble in the Ministry. Or it will be better if they distribute the MRPs from the respected CDO office as quickly analyzing that maximum part of Nepal is still lacking proper roadways and citizen like Hari have to walk a single day just to catch the bus. Again if government does not show responsibility, the innocent people have to bear the price and can just say “Atti Bhayo” to government negligence towards this case.                                                                                                                           Text: Sudesh Thapa