Hats off Jange!

''It must be a pretty pathetic young generation of politicians if they are simply waiting for the older leaders to die''

It is easier to write, douse your POV[u think its a million dollar one] to others' two cents, dance in the streets or even run-off with the old man's daughter, but alas to the spirit of my generation-something is not right!

You may have put in a sentence all the owes of our nation Jange!---the magnitude of it -is heartbreaking!

Jange, the point is that the old are actively blocking the young  look at how long it took Gagan Thapa to get where he is after not being allowed to run by G.P. Koirala. 

So, to answer your question: "Are the old preventing the new faces from getting elected to the leadership?"

Yes.

We ain't a bit wiser or the better for it. Give me a piggyback, Dad!

Does somebody remember the question of Sphinx when he asks Oedipus, along with the express menace to attempt on his life if he fails to take the challenge in stride to respond correctly as to what is that phenomenon when it takes birth has four legs, when grows up has two legs, and when fades away has three legs? Oedipus retorts, 'My answer is human being, because when he is born he is on four legs, when he grows up he stands on two legs and when he becomes old he takes help of a stick as a third leg to stand up and walk.

Sphinx acquiesces in his prompt response and lets him go free. All this boils down to the fact that human beings are given a limited span of time to stand on their own feet to fare better on assuming a convenient life, and subsequently, asserting the perennial future to their offspring. Otherwise they are all the time left without any concrete concerns to cope with the natural drawbacks for livelihood. In consequence, their life becomes clueless.

In fact, a combo of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot that makes quite a totem of hell's bells! And what about the whopping blooper with which a dork like Arthur is as exotic as it gets to eat our minds? He appears quite at ease with being an eclectic mix of influences and identities varying from Anschluss to gulag passing thru' pogrom, Mao's long march, and Chinese mind-boggling panoply of cultural revolution.

For him, the Maoism in Nepal is just a bit of adventure on the side but morbid enough to match up to his diabolic scheme of a zombie in order to annihilate the very best of human fundamental and ethical values that Nepalese ain't as yet deprived of.

Then, as some occasional Op-Ed contributors of a weekly like NT, what's our take on it? There is no specific plan to get out of this blazing inferno that I know of. Should this guy imperatively go on speaking off the cuff as usual to paint the portraits of Nepalese as the scums of the earth? Where is our self-respect when we are treated as the slumdogs day in and day out?

In a way, the newest entrant, Dev Batsya, (*Are you for sure not on this thread to rewrite another 'Mahabharata' intended to the youth of Nepal who are somewhat lost in translation, for they misinterpreted 'Das Kapital'? BTW, you could have advised, in passing, Balmiki to be not so callous toward Urmila the better-half to Lakshman who was left behind alone without her hubby for 14 tedious years. In her place Sita was much more privileged to accompany Ram to his exile. Furthermore, who did enter into the mind of Urmila to teach the man kind what are the real waves and tides of emotions that traversed across her being as a whole? Why Urmila was a negligent factor in Ramayana?), this newbie appears not groping in the dark of life getaways. Anyway he seems quite footloose and care-free, as first impression is.

However, the way he is smacking sense into the brains of those who think that they possess the Holy Grail of verity, must be convincing enough to be a pointer as well as a good rescue for those stranded Nepalese ewe lambs, as they are stuck in the political gridlock created by first off the Maoists and then the CPN led by Jhala Nath and Makuney.

Great job in perspective. Because our lack of wherewithal, dearth of political dungeons and inspiring figures of the past, hence the lack of connection and penury of ways and bearings, have made the denizens of this country easy prey to the international predators who are in search of easy and at worst ignorant victims to satisfy their hellbent interests on recruiting the new sanguinary foot-soldiers to defend their Machiavellian design and cause.

I figure you guys are mistaken about this dude, Arthur, the 'anonymous European'. Better search his whereabouts in Israel. Only the Jews in majority are polyglots and as Marx was a converted Protestant cum Jew, only some of the Jews are diehard desperadoes to the outdated and defunct Marxism which is upright discarded everywhere as a failed ideology, but some of them want to perpetuate the role of eternal victims of Christianity from the time immemorial, albeit they yearn for legitimate reparation of injustice.

Never any country in the past became as much the docile and consenting victim of the worst ever seen smear campaign against it duly orchestrated by some limbs of Satan exalting the morbidity on garbage theory concocted by the defunct political carcass like Marx, Mao, Lenin, Stalin and Pol Pot who are thrown on the trash heap of man kind history by the whole world but in Nepal they are worshiped like the latest avatars by some of the illuminated Maoists and other commies. See how they decorate their get-together with the memorabilia of their illustrated leaders of the yesteryear.

If you look beneath the trappings you will stop denigration of a few home truths. And some times 'truth is stranger than fiction'.

Ipso facto, truth will out when two branches of Nepalese communism, e.g. one the Maoist led by Prachanda, the awesome, and the other the Marxist-Leninist led by Jhala Nath Khanal will join together to wreak havoc and cause further damage to Nepal's lost prestige of the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha and the hard-earned moniker of the 'bravest of brave soldiers' a k a Gurkhas for the eternity.

The case in point, it is not at all desirable to see the older and younger generations of the Nepal's Congress party (NCP) in clash of interests. The older generation ought to actually make place for the younger generations and inspire them to be ambitious, toned up and finely honed to serve the interests of the nation by means of forwarding their plea to be the smart political strategists to root the Maoism out from the holy soil of Nepal for good. It could be probable only when the peace and prosperity will prevail in this country thanks to no more generation gap with upcoming politicians.

Only grudge is Ram Chandra Poudel looks in the photo more and more like the carved mahogany trio-monkey figures, the so-called Gandhi's gurus. They are sitting together with deafening silence, as if gesticulating and repeating one by one, 'I won't listen to rumors, I won't be foul-mouthed, and I won't see evil.'

Democracy is at that cost, dude. And indeed you need to put a bit of life into it!?!

Excellent....simply excellent !!!

Hats off to the writer for bringing out these issues which normally other journalists in Nepal cannot even feel about.......................................

till then, Nepal keeps on suffering..........!

HI Everyone

Why do we just keep blaming others for failed politics? Why don't we step in and demostrate our competence which we think the present leaders lack in? Politics is everone's busineess if democracy is to be vibrant and meaningful.

Repeating same mistakes and expecting different result is INSANITY... Relative short course of democracy in Nepal has explicitly demonstrated what pathetic mistakes these leaders like  Jhusile Koirala, Kujata Koirala, Ram Chandre  are... We have endured them and given them chances , time and again, to rise to the occasion and drift the nation out of hopeless melancholy.... and yet, we do not learn from mistakes... and we repeat them like some mad guy running after a mirage...

Its quite comical to observe how these "leaders" get slammed down and bite the dust in general election where regular Nepalis get to vote.. yet , when voted by their own cadres, they breeze through blazing with glory... what more can anyone expect from an election, where the voters have been hand-picked by the same corrupt politicians , who vote to further expand their riches and their tyranny... its a sham and we are insane to expect anything else.....

I hope that Commentor No. 14 "Sargam" understands that this place is meant for a "comment".........Not a full article....

Readers will be happy if he jotts down his ideas in his own article from next time onwards.........!!!

Excellent journalistic insights!

A saying goes around �Old is gold� but remember it is only for antique value. After 58 years of age all Nepalese are get retired. Why? Because they cannot think new ideas and take young decision! A retired super retired has become party supreme leader! How the 72 years old man can lead the Party towards the new destination. It is a blunder decision of Nepali Congress choosing such an old man Party Chairman.

Young bloods definitely make society/country young. In Nepal we need young leader with young thoughts. Young generation never got chance to lead the country. They have to wait for the old leader to die. By the time young generation become dam old. Old leader/old vision makes the country old.

Maobadi and Khaobadi are the same.It is like same whiskey pour in the different bottles.Because the regime of Nepal, just love to dance in the tunes of others.

good insightful article, while sometimes it might be that it actually takes that long to climb the political ladder, that you reach that area of aging, I always wished that there were certain criteria for leaders to be leaders, like minimal education, age group, minimal health requirements. I wish the only criteria would not be how long they have been members of a certain party. Hell, we don't get to keep our jobs after retirement age do we? Nor do I get to work indefinitely from my sick bed...Just think, if a leader of a country is not fit enough to be in office 9-5, how productive can he/she be?

The only advantage of being old I can think of are that with time a person starts letting go of temptations and starts thinking of others well being...our leaders seem to be very 'young' in that aspect :-)

Manu smriti ( 1 - 101): " बाहुनले आफ्नो खान्छ, आफ्नो लगाउछ, यदी कसैलाई केहि दिन्छ भने पनि त्यो उसको आफ्नै नै हुन्छ |अरुहरुले जे खान्छन ति सबै बाहुनको कृपाले नै हुन्छ | 

This is the kind of mind set that is paralysing every sphere of Nepalese society. So, it is time to understand what it means by following passage:

"As long as, in the same nation, some people have all the technical advantages of education and science, while others in large numbers exist without even an alphabet, social peace will be but a mocking mirage"

**James Torres Bodet

We need the leader who has got the will and capacity to build the Nation. It's not about age folks.........