The word “hope” is definitely a very nice word in English language. The word itself arouses in you some sort of hope. For me as a journalist this word has always instructed to continue to hope. For others, I suppose, the word hope and the very materialization of the desired thing should be equally thrilling experiences indeed. However, it is altogether a different matter that not so many people get their hopes being realized. Some perhaps leave for their heavenly abode without enjoying the thing they desired and hoped for.
To hope is not a crime in my modest opinion. What is the harm in hoping? One is free to hope any thing under the sun immaterial of the end results. I think that the Nepal as a nation-state must include this word hope in its constitution that is yet to be drafted by our “august” politicians converged at the Birendra International Convention Center that has been names as the Hal of the “Constituent Assembly”.
I even suggest the government and the leaders of Nepal to make it mandatory in the constitution. One should be forced under the new amended constitution to hope. Failing to disobey the constitutional duties should be considered an “act against the state and humanity”‘. If we could do so will definitely attract the foreign tourists which has definitely gone down over these years. I am told that the foreigners are suffering from a sort of “depression” who could, if they are encouraged to come to Nepal, will begin hoping against hope that one fine morning they will be face to face with “hope”. This could also be a means to earn foreign currency.
There should be banners/hoarding boards hung in Kathmandu’s busy thoroughfares wherein the “benefits” of hope are clearly written. Those who do not read and write Radio Nepal and the Nepal Television must prepare programs so that the illiterate lot could understand the benefits of hope. In the process, the state can seek foreign funding for the effective propagation of hope in new but India managed and institutionalized republican Nepal.. Albeit, an effective and efficient propagation will make Nepal popular abroad. Rest assured.
Since 1950, the year when we the Nepalese freed ourselves from the shackles of the hundred and four years of the Rana oligarchy, we all have been hoping and hoping only that the golden days for Nepal will soon enter into from the back door. During 1950s, we hoped for a better system and indeed a better government. However, things were altogether different. We have had an India government where the Indian ambassador was a must for the so called Nepali cabinet to proceed for its functioning.
We yet again started hoping in the end of the 60s of a democratic and efficient government. The government then died a premature death partly because of its own inherent weaknesses and partly due to high Royal ambitions.
In the early 60s, we the Nepalese again prepared ourselves for yet another round of hoping. We hoped so many good and new things from the Royal regime. We continued to hope for all along the thirty plus years of the Royal rule. In effect we hoped much from the erstwhile regime until its collapse some eighteen years back.
Later a new set of leaders came in the early 90s and gave us further dose of hope. This set told us not to loose our Himalayan patience and keep the practice of hoping ad infinitum. Look the charismatic result: the entire nation is hoping and will continue to do so till the end of this material life.
Now we have begun hoping being fresh. The new Order has encouraged us all not to go against the rule: it says go on hoping. And as obedient students, we are hoping. Let’s hope once again because we have been told to hope by our new leaders.
Each and every drop of the Nepalese blood is accustomed now. It has already become a habit for us now to hope. We will continue to hope. This has already become a Nepali culture to hope. We will continue to hope come what may. In the process of hoping, we may leave for our respective heavenly abode and quit this material world but our sons and daughters will keep the process going. This is what I hope personally.
After all when our leaders have told us to keep on hoping and the new federal system indirectly has given us to understand that “we the people” must continue hoping then it becomes our benign duty to honor the instructions coming from above. After all we are here to elect our “people’s representatives” and when they order us to hope, we can’t dishonor their commands. How can we?
We the Nepalese people also hope that some corrupt officials, ministers, bureaucrats and more so some corrupt leaders are sent to the bars. What is the harm in hoping? Let’s hope that former minister Wagley, Joshi, Chataut and the ones involved in Dhamija and Lauda air scams, and above all the incumbent prime minister who is the real source of all the evils in Nepal are all behind the bars. The court that served penalty on bla…bla and bla is too hoping, as others are, that the accused ones would be sent to the jails time permitting. The entire process of hoping is free. It is toll free.
Finally, I request my Nepali brethren not to panic. Let us continue hoping even if it were hoping against hope.
To recall, the main culprit of the Dhamija air scandal is none less than the one who claims that he is made up of “steel”. Indeed, he is talking of the Tata steel that is an Indian product. No less interesting is that Koirala was born in Bihar where this steel mill is located. What a coincidence?
But will the new republican leaders dare to throw Koirala behind the bars for his countless faults that have caused enormous strain on the national exchequer?
We must collectively keep this extraordinary culture intact.
source : http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=3561
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