Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Second Impression

Some speak to show their presence in the society.

Others speak in order to dominate the existing social order. Yet another section speaks with an objective to indoctrinate others.

Besides this there is yet another section of personalities who prefer not to speak but do marvelous jobs by remaining in a low profile.

This applies to the activities of the diplomats as well.

We have seen how some diplomats posted in Kathmandu poke their nose in our internal affairs. We have also seen how diplomats seated in dark quarters push their views and ideas in such a forceful way that the host country is forced or even compelled to gulp the bitter pill prescribed by those diplomats. This has been a hard truth in our case.

Nevertheless, there are some high level diplomats right now in Kathmandu who speak less but work hard in order to see a developed and a fully democratic Nepal. They have neither ambitions of grabbing Nepali lands nor they can do so. They are here simply to assist this country and have no other job left to them other than that.

To come to the point, I met this Monday morning a diplomat who listened to me first and then suddenly said that "how could India have tolerated the presence of the Maoists in India for so long?"

I got the point. In essence this particular diplomat had the knowledge that the Maoists were under the protection of the Indian establishment for long and that the November 22, 2005 agreements that followed several other similar agreements in between the State and the insurgents were accomplished only at the initiation of India.

This amply means that the diplomats posted in Kathmandu knew from the very beginning the Indian maneuverings but could not speak against Indian establishment for a variety of political reasons.

Should this mean that the entire world by now has come to know as to how India twists the Nepali arms and secures every thing that she wants from this country?

I had reasons to be happy in learning that better late than never the diplomats posted here in Kathmandu knew what India meant to Nepal and what her role were in shaping the country's politics.

Let me hope that this particular diplomat convinces his colleagues in the diplomatic community about his newly found invention.

My professional ethics does not permit me to disclose the diplomats' name whom I met this Monday morning and hence his name has been kept a guarded secret.