Clouds of uncertainty seem to be dogging the country. Hardly anything is going the right way. The head of the caretaker government being totally incapacitated to attend the office, the government has become rudderless. Ministries are without secretaries, corporations without their heads, diplomatic missions abroad without their chiefs and the whole nation without discipline. The interim constitution is still in the limbo and the elections date not yet visualized even in imagination. The country is being run by the dead House of Representatives restored to life by the debatable proclamation of the King, who has been shorn of all powers since. Instead of the King, the House has become despotic as it has assumed all the authoritarian powers of the King and nobody in the country has the guts to challenge it giving birth to democratic authoritarianism. Nobody knows what is the tenure of the House. Such a bizarre situation seldom comes in the history of a nation. And the international community, too, has accepted it without a murmur. Some resident envoys are callously transgressing their diplomatic etiquette and Nepalis are swallowing every thing, lock, stock and barrel. No sense of pride or patriotism bothers them. Even the so called High Level Probe Body seems to be befogged given to witch-hunting, even summoning justices of the Supreme Court or the former Speaker of the House for investigations about repressing the movement for democracy. Perhaps, they are not aware of the famous parable of Jesus when he had said, “Let the one who has not sinned cast the first stone.” Or, could it be possible they have not been able to establish the source from where all the repressions had emanated, or they don’t have the spine even to point their fingers at that source? Why are the Palace officials and all those who led the King astray are being spared from investigations? Get this thing over as soon as possible. Vindictiveness never pays and mercy is twice blessed – the giver and the taker. Since, nobody seems to be bothered about the real trends of the political situation in the country or refuses to see it through, let the civil society come forward and shoulder the responsibility of leading the way. Of course, it too needs a lot of screening of the wolfs in lambs’ skin. Don’t the Maoist leaders see which way the wind is blowing? The country cannot afford any more inhuman violence. The peace must not be broken. It sure is difficult to find the one and only way to save the country but it is not impossible. What we need is sacrifice, integrity and love for the country.

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