Thanks to Keith D Leslie for his excellent write up (Nepali Pan, 'The Little Buddha of Bara', #281) on the meditating boy. We have been hearing so much about Ram Bahadur Bomzon going without food and water for almost eight months that it surprises me that no one has voiced any concern about the dying state of this young, underage Nepali boy nor has there been any discussion on ways to salvage him. What should be the responsibility of the civil and rational society, particularly when the person in question happens to be a minor? I ask: are we to be blinded just like anyone else and ready to sacrifice the budding life of a teenager for the sake of meditating for peace? Who would be responsible if he died? Is he being ignored because the country is in a state of internal conflict and so many young people are dying? I think it is time we thought about saving him while there is still life in the young boy and not when he has reached a point of no return.

JK 'Canchha Hajur',
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