NRIs In Nepal
C.K. Lal
The clamber into the hills from the plains below is as old as history. The Mahabharata mentions the Kirat Kings of the Himalayas, and Emperor Ashoka trekked to the birthplace of the Buddha and erected a pillar on the spot. Adi Shankara is believed to have set the tradition that only Keralites Brahmans of a certain sect could be eligible for priesthood in the holy shrine of Pashupatinath. Raja Harisingh, the Tirhut king of Karnataka origin, fled to Kathmandu valley upon pursuit by the invading Muslim army and founded a culture that continues to give the valley its distinctive identity. But all these visitors didn't come in hordes, and were easily assimilated into the local population. The early 20th century clearing of the Tarai forests by the nobles of Kathmandu valley, and an almost simultaneous famine in the neighboring states of Bengal, Bihar and Awadh, forced many Indians to choose a life of considerable difficulty in the plains of Nepal. Over time, they came to be known as Madhesis - people of the Madhes. Never a term of endearment, Madhesi has degenerated into a label of scorn, and can mean anything from being devious, dirty, cruel, uncouth or - a plain Indian.
Not Man, a Madhesi
Old-timers insist that there is no exaggeration to the following anecdote, and that it is based on real life. In the days when there were no toilets, the ladies of noble families also visited the banks of Bagamati to attend to the calls of nature. Some of them had servants. These servants were instructed to shout 'Man' to save the ladies the embarrassment of exposed derriËres. On one misty winter morning, a servant could not recognize a Madhesi and did the shouting as per the instructions. The lady sat up, threw a glance towards the intruder, and resumed her business nonchalantly. The ignorant servant was duly reprimanded, "Didn't you see? He was a Madhesi, not a man." Ladies go to toilet nowadays, but this attitude has not changed much.
Handy Goblin
In the Hindi blockbuster of all times, Ramesh Sippy's 'Sholay,' a mother would instill the fear of Gabbar in her child if it wept at night. The goblin evoked in the Valley of Gods is handier - mothers here simply have to mention a Madhesi, pronounced Madishe. The symbol so taken is often a poor little Bihari with a jute sack on his shoulders, calling from house to house collecting empty beer bottles and old newspapers. Braving the stray dogs, abusive natives, resentful street children and a less than tolerant police force, these hapless scavengers provide a service without which Kathmandu would become one huge refuse dump. Nobody is grateful. The government has already levied a tax on their cargo, and there is clamor for more levies on them.
Onion, Potato and Tomato
Until Biharis came with their cycles, street vendors were almost unknown in the Valley. These days, one can buy anything from carpets to cosmetics, fruits and vegetables, utensils, toys and tin-food from these very enterprising salesmen from across the border. Their Nepali is a joy to hear and lends itself so well to caricature that Nepal Television cannot produce a single soap without them. They do not take offense if haggled with rudely. Even their merchandise compares well in price and quality with the those in the burgeoning departmental stores in Kathmandu. And what do they get in return? Eight to ten people lodging in dingy basements, abuses from anyone with an urge to vent his or her anger, and a small profit at the end of the day to money-order back home to Laloodom.
Moneyed Marwaris
There was a time when Marwaris were respected as sahujees. No more. These days, they are depicted more as practitioners of unfair trade practices. They are assumed to be harmful for the nation's economy, in spite of being one of the largest private sector employers and the largest tax-paying community. If a local smuggler is caught sneaking in goodies, he is dismissed as a misguided person. To turn him into an object of sympathy, associate his name with any manipulative Marwari - real or fictional. The clamor of blood would be astounding. This, despite the fact that no big-time Marwari runs his show entirely on his own - the norm, rather than the exception, is to have a local noble as a sleeping partner, often with a controlling interest. Many Marwaris insist that people of their community who arrived from Burma in the 1970's cheated the government and gave them a bad name. Be that as it may, the fact is that they have become minor players in foodstuff and textiles, lucrative trades that they had dominated for years.
Competitive Craftsmen
Plumbers from Udisa, electricians from UP, carpenters from Bihar, bricklayers from Bengal - one can't build a house without them these days in Kathmandu. Contractors love them - they work longer hours for lower payment. Owners like them too - they hardly need any holidays. But the traditional craftsmen from Kirtipur and Madhyapur are not happy about these aliens who have undercut them out of the market. Hence a call for their ouster can arouse frenzy. At middle class dinner tables, much concern is shown about Indian domination of the Nepalese labor market, but come daylight, these bleeding hearts go to Kopundole, Baneshwar or Kalimati and hire an Indian hand at nearly half the going rate of a comparable Nepali laborer. Free-market and jingoism survive cheek-by-jowl without any contradiction.
Labor and Religion
Even Nepali employers do not like local laborers. Apart from being too easygoing, they are often considered to be potential troublemakers. They prefer Madhesis instead, whose lower salaries, longer working hours and lack of rights to organize make them attractive. This has resulted in a situation where almost all garment workers are Indian. Indian dyers man the Nepali carpet industry and till yesterday, nearly all machine-men were Bengali. A large number of these immigrants are Muslims who take up the whole thoroughfare in front of the Royal Palace for Jumma Nawaz. It does not help the flow of traffic that Fridays are half working days. The Kashi, Kashmir, Ajab, Nepal attraction for the Indian tourists is gone. Earlier they were amazed to see a more beautiful valley than Kashmir peopled by more devout Hindus than in Benares. These days, Muradabadi Muslims dominate the brass-ware market and Kashmiri Muslims enjoy a near monopoly in high-end handicrafts sales. Once again, a case of Hindu Shangri-la gone sour in the only Hindu Kingdom of the world.
Identity Crisis
Having nothing to differentiate them from their temporary immigrant brothers, Madhesis who have made Nepal their home find themselves at the receiving end of much misplaced scorn. Consider the Nepali proverb that a dead Madhesi more cunning than a living Nepali; picture a Pahariya Bahun with his Yadav compatriot from the plains, and one might have to turn the old adage on its head. Any Madhesi is suspect in the valley. They have to keep proving their allegiance to the country, very much like Hindus in Sri Lanka and Muslims in India. This is ironic in a way, because Madhesis have less dependence on India than many Pahariyas who have, for generations, been saluting the tricolor for their livelihood. Madhesis pretend to support Pakistani players in Indo-Pakistan cricket matches to impress their friends, but go home and weep in silence over India's defeat. This would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic. If not for themselves, the Indian team should get into the habit of winning every now and then to keep the morale of the Diaspora high.
Nepal has India's largest diplomatic establishment in the world, barring England, with whom they have an altogether different kind of relationship. What this diplomatic corps does to keep employed is a mystery. The Hindi term for a country bumpkin is "Vadheshi." One thing is for sure, these diplomats do not stoop low enough to associate with local Madhesis - no matter whether resident or immigrant.
(CK Lal is a prolific columnist)
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Dr Brian Cobb
A number of right-wing leaders of civil society have recently declared that a large, very expensive military is necessary for Nepal's survival in the 21st century. They believe that some of the costs can be offset by participation in UN peacekeeping operations, but this would be a small part. Some propose a role as a mercenary provider. They argue that having a hundred thousand soldiers hanging around the barracks is far more important than having an equal number of teachers, health care personnel or infrastructure construction workers. Under their plan perhaps the army could make marginal contributions in these areas, but their major role would be military. The nation's number one priority at present, as demonstrated by that most discerning test, the amount it is willing to spend, is its killing machine.
I disagree. Only a fool would believe that any conceivable Nepalese army could repel an unlikely attack by India or China. These critics gloss over the NA's horrific human rights record and the obvious lack of commitment among its top ranks to democracy. They seem to imagine that Nepal is somehow invulnerable to military coup d'etat. The militarists think that a big army is a mark of prestige; I think it is a mark of disgrace.
With people starving to death in the west and horrifying maternal and infant mortality rates, spending so much on a fighting force is cruel, immoral and shameful. Surely the police forces can be cleansed of their numerous thugs, murderers, rapists, robbers and extortionists, better trained and made more accountable to handle domestic security. The remaining military personnel can be disarmed and assigned to healing, teaching and rebuilding the nation. Nepal's leaders would do well to heed the words attributed to God in the Bible, "I have placed before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that you and your children might live."
I'd like to pose a challenge to the government. Give me the support I need and depute 100 NA and Maoist cadres I select to attend an 18-month Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic training program. This training will be new to Nepal and is intensively focused on care of serious or life-threatening injuries, illnesses or other medical events such as childbirth and its complications. As a career emergency medicine specialist and teacher, and given the number of bright, motivated young people in Nepal, we can turn out world-class personnel who can be posted to district hospitals to save lives in emergencies at no additional cost to the nation.
Let me take the challenge one step further. Nepal's high unemployment, high population growth and low economic growth require that young people work abroad. But instead of working as mercenaries, as envisioned by the pro-military factions, or as laborers or prostitutes, why not train nurses, whose skills are in demand worldwide and whose wages are excellent? Can't Nepal export professionals? Wouldn't their much greater remittances contribute to economic growth at home? Give me some bright young soldiers of both genders and some support and we'll train them for 3 years; during their clinical assignments they will augment staffing in the zonal hospital, and after graduation they can serve a 3 year "payback" term after which they are free to go abroad.
These programs should be conducted in the areas of greatest need and with students drawn primarily from disadvantaged castes. If the country is to achieve political stability it has to get beyond the Kathmandu-centric, high-caste dominated model that has prevailed for the past 237 years. Had projects like this been undertaken after the Jana Andolan I, there likely would never have been a Maoist insurgency. People didn't join the Maoists for the snazzy uniforms or the pithy sayings of Mao, but for a better life, and any government which does not make rapid progress toward delivering it is destined to fail.
Forget its powerful rivers, its majestic peaks or its remarkable biodiversity. Nepal's greatest resource is its sincere, intelligent, hard-working and adaptable people. As my hero Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, said, "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." Give us some support and we'll show you what we can do.
Admittedly this proposal is small in scale, but better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. It can serve as a prototype for other programs for the vocational retraining, psychological rehabilitation and social reintegration of a generation traumatized by war, desensitized to suffering and denied more constructive careers.
Surely Nepal's youth are better utilized by bringing out the best in their nature—compassion, kindness, scientific knowledge and life-saving skill—than the worst—violence, hatred and lust for blood. And as for courage, who needs more of it, the adrenalin-pumped, psychologically manipulated, armed soldier or the paramedic who braves flames and landslides to save strangers' lives? As Dante Aligheiri taught us, "Think of your breed. For brutish ignorance you were not made; you were made human to follow after excellence and knowledge." 
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ट्रुथ आयोग र दिगो शान्ति पहिलो शिखर वार्तापछिको पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा माओवादी अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डले शान्तिका अग्रदूत गौतम बुद्धको नाम लिँदै शान्ति कायम गर्न आफ्ना तर्फबाट जुनसुकै प्रयास बाँकी नराख्ने प्रतिबद्धता व्यक्त गरेका छन् । ........ बदलाको भावनाले भोलि अर्काे द्वन्द्व हुन सक्ने सम्भावना नर्कान सकिँदैन । जसबाट दिगो शान्तिमा बाधा खडा हुनेछ । त्यसकारण विगतका ज्यादती जनसमक्ष ल्याउने र पश्चाताप गरी अब कहिल्यै त्यस्तो नगर्ने सुनिश्चित गर्न ट्रुथ आयोग आवश्यक छ । वाचा तथा प्रतिबद्धतासाथ आम माफी राज्यद्वारा नदिए समाजमा बदलाको भावना सधैं रहिरहनेछ ।....... अर्जेन्टिना, चिली, र दक्षिण अपि|mकामा ट्रुथ कमिसनले सबै अपराधीलाई आम माफी दिई न्यायपूर्ण समाज पुनःस्थापना गर्यो । ........ सन् १९९७ मा ग्वान्टामालानमा तीन जनाको ऐतिहासिक यथार्थ विवरण आयोग संयुक्त राष्ट्र सघंको सहयोगमा गठन भएको थियो । आयोगले नौवटा भोलुममा रिर्पोट दियो । त्यसमा ३७ वर्षको गृहयुद्धमा करिब २ लाख मानिसको हत्या र बेपत्ता तत्कालीन सैनिकले गरेको विवरण थियो । आफ्नो रिर्पोटमा ७ सय २७ आमहत्या सैनिकले गरेको र ३२ विपक्षीले गरेको उल्लेख छ । आयोगले सूक्ष्म अध्ययन गरी आमहत्या प्रमाणित गरे पनि सबैलाई आम माफी दियो र कसैलाई पनि मुद्दा नचलाउने निर्णय गर्यो ।......... नेल्सन मन्डेला राष्ट्रपति भइसकेपछि सन् १९९५ मा आयोग गठन भयो जसको काम रङ्गभेद शासन कालमा भएको काला अपराधका तथ्य पत्ता लगाउने र त्यसको रिर्पोट दक्षिण अपि|mकी जनता र विश्वलाई दिने, अपराधीहरूलाई पश्चाताप गर्न लगाई आवश्यकता अनुसार माफी दिने थियो । यसले रिर्पोट सन् १९९८ मा पेस गरेको थियो । ........ युगान्डा, बोलिभिया, अर्जेन्टिना जिम्बाबे, उरुग्वे, फिलिपिन्स, चिली ....... भनिन्छ दक्षिण अपि|mकाको शन्तिपूर्ण संक्रमण तथा सीमित न्याय प्राप्ति अपराधीहरूलाई आम माफीबाट भएको हो । ....... अहिले माओवादीसँग हतियार छ त्यसैले जनता बोल्न सकेका छैनन् । भोलि हतियारविहीन माओवादी हुँदा बदलाको भावना आउनसक्छ । त्यस अवस्थामा अर्को द्वन्द्व तथा गृहयुद्ध हुन सक्छ । ...... अपवादका रूपमा उद्योग वाणिज्य तथा आपूर्ति मन्त्री हृदयेश त्रिपाठीले केही दिनअघि संविधानसभा चुनावअघि पुनः जनगणनाको विषय उठाएका छन् । ........ माओवादीमात्र होइन, समानुपातिक प्रतिनिधित्वको माग गर्ने, जनजाति महासंघ र दलितका संघ-संस्थाले पनि पुनः जनगणना गरेर वास्तविक तथ्यांक संकलन माग गर्नुको सट्टा आधारहीन तरिकाले आ-आफ्नै तथ्यांक प्रस्तुत गरेर जनसंख्याको सामाजिक, धार्मिक र भाषिक बनावटमाथि धावा बोलिरहेका छन् । ....... त्यतिबेला संकलन गरिएको धार्मिक सूचनामा जसरी पनि हिन्दु संख्या अत्यधिक देखाउने नियत राज्यको थियो । त्यसैगरी मातृभाषिक सूचना लुकाएर नेपालीभाषीको संख्या उच्च देखाउने परम्परालाई निरन्तरता दिनु राज्यको अघोषित नीतिजस्तै थियो । ......... अधिराज्यको संरचनामा धक्का लाग्ला भनेर सरकारले तथ्यांक विभागलाई हिन्दु र नेपालीभाषी बाहेकका तथ्यांक प्रकाशमा ल्याउन सधैं रोक्यो । ....... २०४८ .. त्यतिबेला ५९ जनजातिले आफ्नो उपस्थिति देखाए । १० वर्षपछि २०५८ मा गरिएको जनगणनामा ४१ वटा जनजाति थपिएर १ सय पुगे ।... पछिल्लो जनगणनामा सबैभन्दा बढी ९२ भाषिका सूचना संकलन गरिएको छ । ...... जनजाति समूहमा चेतना विकास र प्रश्नावली वैज्ञानिक बनाउँदै लगेपछि मातृभाषी बढिरहेका छन् भने नेपालीभाषी घटिरहेको तथ्यांक छ ।..... अघिल्लो जनगणनामा हिन्दु लेखाएका पूर्वका राई लिम्बूले २०४८ को जनगणनामा आफूलाई किराँतधर्मी भनेर लेखाए ।...... २०४८ मा कुल जनसंख्याको ८६ दशमलव पाँच प्रतिशतले हिन्दु धर्म मान्छौं भनेका थिए तर एकदशकपछि ०५८ मा अघिल्लो जनगणनामा करिब सात प्रतिशत घटी हिन्दु ८० दशमलव छ प्रतिशतमा झरे ।....
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NC lawmakers criticise party leadership; demand resignation of Home Minister
SWC standoff continues; Employees demand cabinet decision be revoked The strike has affected the work of the 150 international non-governmental organizations and over 20,000 non-governmental organizations that injects over 10 billion rupees for the development of the country.
Nepali women, supporters draft plan for inclusion in peace process drafting of the interim constitution has begun without women’s participation, and none of the newly established committees include women ...... in the areas of process of constitutional and legal reform, transitional justice and reconciliation, post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation, gender-based violence, and monitoring and documentation.
Leadership in transition The topic of 'death' is a taboo in Nepali culture ..... the notorious sniff-dogs of the apparently deceased regime are more active in their nocturnal rounds than ever before......... a permanent dismantling of the reactionary set ups and annihilation of all viable routes of their return to the active political arena. ...... Mr. Koirala is in his mid-eighties. He has proven himself by acting with the grain of popular movements ...... It is time that Nepalis people think of a leap forward from the narrow party-politics and consider someone who has a clear vision of future Nepal and has a proven ability to leadership and thorough knowledge of the intricate procedures in forging partnership with sometime irreconcilable forces....... The matter here is of a leader's retiring from active politics. Let's see what figures we have among us with an equal or even better promises for us and our Nepal.
Thapa ready to take moral responsibility of deaths of pro-democracy activists Thapa however defended the actions saying that such incidents took place in the course of maintaining peace and security in the country........ “Though I did not personally order anyone to kill protesters and suppress the movement ....... he had given directives to police officers to use minimal force and to uphold human rights. ...... Rana accepted that he had distributed tax payers’ money to the journalists and media.......
New constitution will be inclusive: Speaker Nemwang Gurung said that the HoR should be dissolved at the earliest and replaced with a new government that includes representatives of all political parties as well as the Maoists and civil society.
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