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Showing posts with label Baburam Bhattarai. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Third letter to PM Bhattarai: Please leave alone some institutions



Dear Dr. Bhattarai,

I neither hope you will ever read this letter nor believe you are a man capable of answering to it which obviously needs peering beyond your devastatingly narrow cocoon that stretches merely from Singha Durbar to your party office.
In my second mail to you I had cautioned you of so many traps ahead after seeing your blunders that were unexpected to many. You chose to ignore them and here you are now, a man thoroughly despised and sneered by very people who had placed very high hopes on you. 
It gives me immense pain to realize that, while there are limits of how high one can rise in terms of the accomplishments, there seem to be no such limits on how deep one can fall into disgrace. Of course you are not the only victim and Nepal’s political domain is monopoly of precisely that kind of people. In fact, you have come as a model of how worst to fall in a morass and many generations will now remember you as a man of widely believed capability and integrity ruined so thoroughly and so early by the power that the well-wishers were forced to turn into critics so swiftly. 

Dear Dr. Bhattarai,

We neither expect you to bring an economic miracle in Nepal nor to challenge a powerful neighbor. Neither do we expect you to cleanse the thoroughly corrupt political system in Nepal, nor do we expect you to wipe the poverty in the country with a magic wand. The only thing we want is, now that the impotency of all the politicians has left the country stranded and bewildered in a challenging world without a constitution, you at least spare some of the structures and institutions in the country from the plague of political interference that threatens their existence itself.
I am writing this letter precisely because your latest activities have targeted these institutions with such a criminal zeal that soon the public institutions in the country may be history, just as was the case with Sajha Yatayat. While you are busy with calculations of who will get what by appointing whom in which institution, the institutions meanwhile face a real existential threat. Letting these institutions in the hands of utterly unprofessional sycophants is the perfect recipe for their collapse. 

Thursday, July 19, 2012

A letter to PM Bhattarai


Dear Dr. Bhattarai,

I am no political analyst, nor a consistent critique. I never studied economics and I am very poor at politics. You may label me dumb in many other issues too. Literate I am. Taking advantage of my literacy I wrote you once when you were still in Nayak-style mania to solve people's problem first hand. Naturally you did not respond. If you call me a rightist, reactionary propagandist, not an option at all. Some of my friends still know me as your sympathizer and well-wisher. Yet I am writing this letter, with realization that there is something called 'common sense' in me. I'll never mind if you do not bother to respond to it at all.

Compleicated words do not make a good article. Flowery rhetoric do not make good leaders, not even politicians. Politics is not beyond the jurisdiction of general laws that govern society. Honesty, hard work, consistency and willingness are required for success in any field: not a new thing, even my grandfather used to tell it. Indeed the reverence of honesty and hard work is our cultural heritage, something our ancestors have accumulated over millennia.

On the other hand, hypocrisy, hollow rhetoric and falsehoods never endure. Neither will they do so in future. One day or other they get exposed. This too is not anything new.

Beside the above virtues required for good and harmonious society in general, our ancestors have discovered another virtue called frugality; something that helps us to weather the hard times. This also saves us from the danger of moral degradation that comes from the lust to accumulate and spend more for physical comfort.

Frugal. That was what we dumb people thought of you when you chose to ride a Mustang once in office months back. Regardless of the doubts, many believed that here was someone who was ready to break the trend of placing some crony capitalist with endless lust for wealth in the chair of PM. Your academic credentials were equally impeccable and regardless of the over all system, people were very confident on you: you would be just different from the disgusting persons who had sat in the chair of PM.

Yet now, you have failed those hopefuls. You have trampled their wishes. While emboldening your enemies, you have silenced and demoralized your well-wishers.

विजय कुमारको खुशी पढेपछि

जीवन, खुशी अहंकार

जीवनमा अफ्ठ्यारा घुम्तीहरुमा हिंडिरहँदा मैले कुनै क्षणमा पलायनलाई एउटा विकल्पको रुपमा कल्पना गरेको थिएँ, त्यसलाई यथार्थमा बदल्ने आँट गरिनँ, त्यो बेग्लै कुरा हो त्यसबेला लाग्थ्योः मेरा समग्र दुखहरुको कारण मेरो वरपरको वातावरण हो, यसबाट साहसपूर्वक बाहिरिएँ भने नयाँ दुख आउलान् तर तत्क्षणका दुरुह दुखहरु गायब भएर जानेछन् कति गलत थिएँ !


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