Democracy For Nepal

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Dinesh Tripathi: In Person

I got to meet Dinesh Tripathy. He is in town for about a week. He will also show up for the 11 AM Union Square get-together on Sunday. We met up at Yak in Jackson Heights. He lives in Baltimore.

He is an accomplished person. That is so obvious. He is articulate, passionate. He has a presence about him. He sure knows his stuff. He has been taking the lead on one of the projects, the one about legal action. Most of our discussion focused on that. But we also talked about the movement in general.

We have been in regular touch these past few weeks, and I have been impressed. But he really got my attention when he mentioned he had been vice president of the Nepal Students Union at one point in time. He has the academic, intellectual bend of mind, he of course has the legal bonafides, and he also has the political instincts. That is quite a combination. Otherwise the diaspora has quite a few people who have the academic qualifications, but not the political instincts to speed things up, or rise above the petty, or make the diaspora movement more broadly mass based.

He also knows Hridayesh Tripathy who is one of my favorite people. We talked some about him. He told me a story of Daman Nath Dhungana calling Tripathy a "born parliamentarian" in the early 1990s. To that I added the story of Prime Minister Nehru calling Atal Bihari Vajpayee a "future Prime Minister," and that was back in the days when Vajpayee was with some insignificant little party.

Dinesh Tripathi exudes power. His legal expertise gives him an element of fearlessness. He wants his name to be used as widely as possible. I like that. There are others in the diaspora who want their names withheld, which would be a legitimate choice, but then they also proceed to block the work itself, whatever might be at hand.

We had a long conversation. We touched upon all aspects of the movement basically.

His is already the most specific, elaborate piece of writing at the Project Nepal Democracy page. We decided to elaborate on all that much more. That we do by starting a blog for that project: Project Nepal Democracy: Legal Action. We will invite others to join. We will work to paint pictures of all possible forms of legal action that could be taken against the regime should it opt for some kind of a crackdown. Google makes it all so easy to do. Basically it would be a blog presentation. And the work would be ongoing.

But then Dineshji emphasized the importance of pamphleteering in Nepal, and getting articles published in Nepali in Kantipur. I thought there was a message for me right there. My blog is all good, but I should really seek to get into Kantipur. Tripathi offered his contacts for the effort. I intend to use them.

"That way you reach the teashops across the country," he said.

We also discussed the ANTA. Tripthi is the president of the Balitmore-DC chapter of the organization. Both of us feel the need to work on Madhesi solidarity. This is about pride and empowerment, not any sort of exclusion. This is about political equality and communal harmony. Both need to and can go together.

Tripathi was in Nepal when 2/1 happened. He filed over 400 cases on behalf of the democrat politicians.

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SINHAS

(for Kantipur)

February 8 Le Dhrubikaran Nimtyaunchha
Paramendra Bhagat, New York

New York shahar ko duree bata guff phalaknu sajilo jasto dekhiyela, tara internet ko madhyam le Nepal ko samachar sajilai prapta hunchha. Nepal ma sadak ma utranu bahek prabas bata aroo je pani garna sakinchha jasto lagchha malai, ra gariyeko pani chha. February 1, 2005 ko coup ko ek barsha pugna lagyo. Appendix jasto bhayera basnu parne dhara 127 lai raja le singai sambidhan nai banai diye. Manab adhikar ko byapak hanan bhayeko chha. Satta ma Tulsi Giri jasta kukhyat tanashahi prabiti ka manchhe haroo chhan.

Maobadi ko hinsa lai maile kahile pani thik bhanina. Tara Maobadi le communist republic bata democratic republic samma liyeko saidhantik phadko, ra ektarfi yuddha biram jasta kadam lai nadar andaj garera raja ko sarkar le afno sainikikaran ko agenda tersyayeko chha. Shanti ra prajatantra ko path padhaune raja le raktapat ra ektantrikaran ko bato rojeko prashta chha.

Burma ma Aang Sang Su Kyi jail ma chhin. Pakitan ka Benazir Bhutto ra Nawaj Sharif prawas ma chhan. Mahendra ko Nepal ma party haroo pratibandhit thiye. Ahile ko Nepal ma tyo sab chhaina. Tara tyaso bhandai ma desh ma prajatantra chha bhanna mildaina. Yo sarkar gair sambaidhanik ho, ra tyasto sarkar le garaune chunaw loktantra ko pratik na bhayera tanashahi prabriti kai naya roop ho bhanne manna parchha.

Ho, January 2005 ma desh ko sthiti najuk nai thiyo. Tara tyo sthiti sachyaune niyat yadi raja ko hundo ho ta tin le Maobadi ko yuddha biram ra Maobadi ra saat party ko barah sutriya samajhdari lai sakaratmak roop le upayog garne prayas garne thiye. Maile ta teen barsha mangeko ho, ek barsha ma nai shanti ayo bhane ta mero roadmap disturb hunchha bhane jasto prateet hunchha. Tyo tanashahi manasthiti ho. Raja le loktantra ko artha nai na bujheko spashta chha.

Ma saidhantik roop le nai ganatantrabadi hoina. Yadi raja sanchai nai pranatantra ka himayati hundo hun ta, teen le saat party ra Maobadi sanga sena command na garne sambaidhanik rajtantra bahek aroo sabai mudda sambidhan sabha ma laijau bhanera bargain garne prayas garne thiye. Athwa sena lai samyukta rashtra sangha ko matahata ma na laga, baroo antarim pradhan mantri ko matahat ma rakha bhanne thiye. Tara tyasto bargain garne kunai prayas raja bata na hunu le dekhaunchha raja saat party lai gandainan. Yo raja tanashah jasto dekhiye. Tanashahi rajtantra ko bikalp ganatantra nai hunchha. RaPraPa suddha chunaw ladna hichkichai raheko bela ma spashta chha rajtantra afnai karan le kamjor huna pugeko chha. Rajtantra abasan ko bato ma lageko chha.

Saat party le sambidhan sabha ko rat sandhai bhari lagai rakhna thik hundaina. 2046 ko andolan ma euta spashtata thiyo. Bahudaliya prajatantra bhanne sahaj nara thiyo. Ahile tyasto spashtata ai sakeko chhaina. Tyo spashtata na aye samma kranti hundaina. Kranti ka lagi saat party dui shabda ma aunu parchha: loktantrik ganatantra. Dus lakh manchhe le narayanhiti gherne sthiti srijana hunchha tyas pachhi.

Ma ta tyo bhanda pani ek kadam agadi janchhu. Ma chahanchhu saat party ra Maobadi maile lekheko ra mero blog http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com/ ma prakashit prastabit sambidhan lai mannon. Yas kisim ko spashtata na aye samma kranti hundaina. Janata lai sena ko, prahari ko, athwa raja ko dar chhaina. Ra hamro kranti ahimsatmak hunchha. Raja nagrik banchhan, ra unko niji sampatti unkai rahanchha. Narayanhiti rashtrapati ko niwas ra karyalaya banchha.

Yadi raja le ahimsatmak andolan mathi bandook chalayema, tyo raja lai antarrashtriya kanoon lagchha. Tyas ko tayari prabas ma byapak roop le bhai rakheko chha. Tulsi Giri le badmasee gare tyo jail jane machhe ho. BP ko hisab usle chukta garnai chha.

Iraq ma jasto hoina Nepal ma jasto loktantra sthapana garne badhi uttam upaya ho bhanera ma America ko Democratic Party bhitra awaj uthai rakheko chhu. Ahile tyo awaj jhino nai chha. Tara Nepal ko loktantrik andolan le America ko 2006 ra 2008 ko chunaw ma asar parna sakne maile dekheko chhu.

February 8 ko chunaw hamro lagi thulo mauka ho. Tyas lai shantipurna roop le bifal pardine. Saat party, nagrik samaj, ra Maobadi ek dhikka huna parchha. Ghar ghar ma pugna parchha. Rajnitik chetana bhaneko sakchharta jasto ho. Tyo afai aundaina. Tyas ka lagi prayas garnu parchha. Janata ka beech saat party ka karyakarta haroo byapak roop ma jana parchha.

Yo kranti lai dui shabda ko matra khancho chha. Dui shabda ma saat party ek dhikka bhaye pachhi yo kranti lai kasai le rokna sakdaina. Ahimsa anu bomb bhanda bhayanak hatiyar ho, tyo swatantrata senani ka haat ma parchha bhane.

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